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YOUR USE OF THIS SITE, OR YOUR PROVISION TO US OF ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THESE TERMS AND ANY SUBSEQUENT CHANGES TO THESE TERMS; DO NOT USE THE SITE OR PROVIDE INFORMATION IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THE TERMS.

AboutCambria.com is a community news and information site open to anyone in the community who wants to participate. We value accuracy and fairness and transparency. In order to make sure that we provide a welcoming atmosphere to our users (and neighbors), as well as a trusted resource for accurate information, we require that all users who submit words and pictures to the site abide by the following terms and conditions:

Contributing Content

Contributed content should be relevant to Cambria and its residents. Content may not be illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or otherwise injurious or objectionable.

AboutCambria.com does not pre-screen or regularly review contributed content for registered users, but we reserve the right (though not the obligation) to remove, without notice, any content posted which we consider, for any reason, to violate these Terms or to be outside the subject scope of the Site.

Do Not Plagiarize

AboutCambria.com encourages original writing and photos. Do not submit others work as your own. Please attribute all information you get from other sources, including people, tv shows, websites, blogs, or traditional publications. If you need help with an attribution, contact us at amanda@aboutcambria.com

Respect Copyrights

Your original work in your own words is your best submission. If you want to tell others about an article found elsewhere on the web, please provide an excerpt and a link rather than copying and pasting the entire article. You may not republish someone else’s copyrighted material on AboutCambria without permission of the copyright holder.

A note about government documents: publications of any federal government agency and documents subject to the Brown Act are considered “public domain” and are not copyright protected and AboutCambria encourages posting with links to these documents. Just be sure to indicate where you found the document or what agency or department was responsible for its publication, so anyone wanting to get more information knows where to start looking.

Disclosures

If you have a personal or business relationship with the subject of an article you are writing, please mention it so readers will know.

Write With Civility And Respect

An important purpose of AboutCambria is to provide all users with a forum for information-sharing, discussion and debate in a respectful and friendly atmosphere. Personal attacks and mean-spirited postings discourage and ultimately kill useful communication. Submissions that appear to be primarily for the purpose of defamation, libel, or maligning and impugning others may be deleted.

About Cambria is concerned with building community. Community is built on goodwill, respect and trust.

Disagreement need not be synonymous with anger, bitterness, loathing, intolerance or other non-productive negativity. Discussion is encouraged; fighting is not. Users who are found to repeatedly violate minimal standards of respect and decorum may, following multiple warnings sent to the email address used to sign up, be suspended or banned from the site.

Agree To Editing

By contributing to AboutCambria.com, you agree to allow possible editing of your story for capitalization, spelling, punctuation, and/or length. Your story will never be edited to change you intended content or substance. We may try to contact you for further information.

By submitting a comment to AboutCambria.com , you agree to allow possible deletion of your entire comment if a portion breaks the rules. We cannot edit comments; they are all or nothing. (Keep copies of your submissions so you can submit a new, edited version if necessary.) We are willing will help you find a way to get your point across without violating the site’s terms and conditions.

With regard to categories, when submitting a story you may suggest a category. However AboutCambria.com reserves the right to re-categorize it more appropriately.

Posts by unregistered users and basic registered users are reviewed by the site administrator (s) before posting. This means your post will not appear instantly and if it is considered inappropriate or unrelated, it might not be published. If you are concerned your voice is being unfairly silenced, call Amanda at 4191 or email amanda@ aboutcambria.com.

Please Leave Site Policing To The Moderators

It’s not necessary for site users to police each other’s comments by adding comments about other’s use of the site. If you would like to report a possible violation of site policy, please email us at amanda@aboutcambria.com and refer us to the offending url/comment. We’ll take care of it so you don’t have to.

Our Disclaimers

Registering as a user on AboutCambria.com constitutes acceptance of this site’s policies and agreement to abide by the terms and conditions of the site.

• AboutCambria.com is not responsible for content, links or comments posted on this site. Information posted on the site is the responsibility of the individual posters and not AboutCambria.com or any other organization.
• AboutCambria reserves the right to refuse publication of any post or comment, for any reason.
• AboutCambria.com does not necessarily pre-screen all links to other sites on the internet and is not responsible for the content of other websites.
• AboutCambria reserves the right to ban or suspend any user at any time, with or without warning, for activities that put the site at risk.

Your Privacy

AboutCambria.com has adopted a Privacy Policy that spells out what information we may collect about you and how we may use it.

At AboutCambria.com we appreciate your readership, and value your personal privacy. We respect the personal nature of the information you provide us on our web site and acknowledge the importance of protecting this information. In adopting this privacy policy, our intent is to balance our legitimate business interests in collecting and using your personal information with your reasonable expectations of privacy. The policy may be revised or updated at any time and we encourage you to check back often to ensure that you are familiar with the most recent version and the terms of our policy.

When does AboutCambria.com collect my personal information?

You may provide personal information to AboutCambria.com in one of four ways: (1) by sharing your e-mail address and subscribing to email newsletters or requesting site updates, (2) by sharing personal information when you post comments on our posts or stories, (4) by registering as an AboutCambria.com user and contributor.

In addition to personal information—such as name, street and e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers—we may also collect information that is in no way personally identifiable. This may include the operating system you are working on, the internet browser you are using, the domain name of your internet service provider, and the web sites you visit directly before and after your visit to AboutCambria.com.

How does AboutCambria.com use my personal information?

The more we know about you, the better we are able to customize our web site to suit your personal preferences and interests. The e-mail address you provide may be used by AboutCambria.com for any reason, such as contacting you for editorial purposes or to advise you of any changes to our site.

To maintain a site that is free of charge, we reserve the right to display advertisements on our web site. We may use the information you give us to help our advertisers target the audience they want to reach. At no time does any party other than AboutCambria.com have access to your personally identifiable information, and you will never be contacted by any party other than AboutCambria.com. The only exceptions to the foregoing are that we may disclose personally identifiable information (i) in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or subpoena, (ii) in response to a law enforcement agency’s request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take actions regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of another person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law, or (iii) in the event we are acquired by or merged with another company.

When you sign up for our updates or receive e-mail messages from AboutCambria.com, you will always be given the chance to opt-out of special offers and site updates. You may change your preferences at any time and will only be contacted in manners consistent with your stated preferences.

Who else has access to my personal information?

Email newsletters received by subscribers are delivered to you by Feedblitz, our Emarketing solutions provider. Under no circumstances will Feedblitz make any personal information about an individual user available to anyone else. For more information, please see Feedblitz’s privacy policy at www.feedblitz.com. http://www.feedblitz.com/privacy.asp

Third parties and web sites that have links on our site may also collect or use information about you. The information practices of other companies or people that AboutCambria.com does not employ or manage are not covered by this privacy statement.

Is there anything else I should know about my privacy and AboutCambria.com?

Any information you disclose voluntarily on AboutCambria.com, including comments, posts and in any forums we may develop in the future becomes public information. We cannot control the actions of our site users and advise you to use your discretion in sharing information about yourself on the internet. All information sharing is optional and done so at your own risk. Privacy is a very personal matter and we encourage you to be careful and responsible when disclosing personal information online.

These policies may be updated at any time.

More AboutCambria.com

Amanda Rice is the main administrator for aboutcambria.com. She has lived in Cambria, California for eight years and started AboutCambria.com in November 2007. You can send questions, comments, complaints by email anytime to amanda (AT@) aboutcambria.com (I won’t spam you if you don’t spam me). Registered users can click to email and get phone contact details, so register today!

AboutCambria.com is currently mostly ad-free and I’d like to keep it that way. If you’d like to keep it that way too, please consider a small donation , whatever this site is worth to you ($10, $18, $50, or more -whatever works for you.) All money paid goes to help Amanda cover costs for hosting, then goes toward her CCSD bill, her mortgage, etc. My income goal is modest – I’m not looking to buy a yacht, just cover my CCSD bill, a couple bottles of wine and a new dress now and then. For more information about keeping AboutCambria.com ad-free, contact Amanda.

If you would like to report a possible violation of site policy, please email us at info@aboutcambria.com and refer us to the offending url/comment.

If you feel you have been wronged somehow by this policy, you may argue your case to us by sending an e-mail to info@aboutcambria.com.

Thanks for reading this page. It is official as of September 22, 2008.