Black El Paso Democrats: El Paso's Premier Democratic Organization
Effective Date: Revised 01/15/2008

Black El Paso Democrats Sites/Blogs/Community Platforms, etc.

Privacy Notice

• Our Commitment To Privacy
• The Information We Collect
• How We Use Information
• Our Commitment To Data Security
• Our Commitment To Children's Privacy
• How To Access Or Correct Your Information
• How To Contact Us
• Terms of Use

Our Commitment to Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.


The Information We Collect:
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Black El Paso Democrats’ website. On some pages, you can order products, make requests, and register to receive materials. The types of personal information collected at these pages are:

Name
Address
Email address
Phone number
(etc.)

On some pages, you can submit information about other people. For example, if you nominate someone for a community award, etc.  The information we collect includes:
Name
Address
Phone Number
(etc.)


The Way We Use Information:

We use the information you provide about yourself when placing an order or signing up for a particular service such as the mailing list and/or the forums/message boards, only to complete that order or service requests. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.

We use the information you provide about someone else when placing an order only to ship the product and to confirm delivery. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.


We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

You can register with our website if you would like to receive information news and updates as well as updates on our new products and services. Information you submit on our website will not be used for this purpose unless you fill out the registration form.

We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

Our Commitment to Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Our Commitment to Children's Privacy:
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.

How You Can Access or Correct Your Information

You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by emailing us at info@bepd.org and requesting a copy of any personal information you may have provided to us. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.

You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error.

To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.


How to Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please call us at 915.757.8662 or send us an email at info@bepd.org

Copyright 2008 Terms of Service/Privacy Policy
Terms of Service: Revised as of January 15, 2008
Some information listed here may be repeated from the Privacy Policy Information.  Should you have any questions, please contact us at info@bepd.org or call 915.757.8662


TERMS OF USE
Please read.  By utilizing this website, you agree to accept all terms and conditions of this agreement.  This site is owned and operated by Black El Paso Democrats.  If you choose and/or do not agree to be bound by the terms set forth by Black El Paso Democrats, please discontinue use of the site.  Black El Paso Democrats reserves the right to change these terms in its sole discretion.

The site is for your personal education and enjoyment.  Though the site was created for your personal enjoyment, you agree not to abuse the use of the website. 

The online content is solely for your personal, non-commercial use, and you may download or print a copy of any portion of the Content for your personal, non-commercial use, provided you do not remove any trademark, copyright or other notice contained in or on such Content.

Unless otherwise expressly authorized in these Terms or on the Web Site, you may not modify, frame, reproduce, sell, publish, perform, reuse, repost and/or display any portion of the Content. In addition, you may not decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble any software or other products or processes accessible through the Web Site, nor insert any code or product or manipulate the Content in any way that affects any user's experience.

Any questions or comments regarding, or problems with, this Site should be sent to the Site Administrator at info@bepd.org


If you know of any person that may be misusing any of our sites, please contact us as soon as possible at info@bepd.org

Black El Paso Democrats may change or discontinue any part of the site at any time.  

If you choose to use our forums, you agree to be bound by the same terms and agreements.  You will refrain using any vulgarity, nudity, racially degrading or any other defamatory language or concepts.  We reserve the right to discontinue your use of the forum site. 

You agree that you will post messages to any part of any of our forums that are unlawful, threatening, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent including any communication that constitutes (or encourages conduct that would constitute) a criminal offense including racial degradation or any other act/words that may cause civil unrest.  Doing so may violate local, state, national or international laws.  Violating the copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights of any other person would constitute that you are not abiding by the terms set forth above.  If you submit messages to any of our forums, you represent to Black El Paso Democrats and any of our sites that you are the rightful owner of such material or that you have obtained permission to submit the material from the rightful owner prior to posting. 

You agree not to assume the identity, characteristics or qualifications of another person.  You agree not to use our forums for spamming, to distribute harmful or malicious materials including viruses.  You agree not to be libelous or invade the privacy or publicity rights of others.  You agree not to use our forums for your commercial gain including advertising or to solicit to our members your services and/or products.  To do so would be a violation of our terms of service.


Our COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN'S PRIVACY: You must be 13 years or older to subscribe to the mailing list and/or forums

Protecting the privacy of children is of utmost importance to us.  No part of our website is directed to any child under the age of 13.  We will not knowingly collect or maintain information on our website from any child under the age of 13.



UNSOLICITED SUBMISSIONS
Black El Paso Democrats does not knowingly accept unsolicited submissions including, without limitation, submissions of scripts, story lines, articles, fan fiction, characters, drawings, information, suggestions, ideas or concepts. Our policy is to delete any such submission without reading it or forwarding it to other Black El Paso Democrats staff. Therefore, any similarity between an unsolicited submission and any elements in any Black El Paso Democrats creative work including, without limitation, a film, series, story, title or concept would be purely coincidental.  

If you do choose to send unsolicited submissions to us, the submissions become the property of Black El Paso Democrats.  We reserve the right to use, copy, sublicense, adapt, transmit, distribute, publicly perform, publish, display or delete such material at our discretion.  You agree that you are not entitled to any compensation, credit or notice whatsoever and that by sending an unsolicited submission you waive the right to make any claim against Black El Paso Democrats or affiliates relating to unsolicited submissions, including, without limitation, unfair competition, breach of implied contract or breach of confidentiality.   Should Black El Paso Democrats find an interest in an article that you have submitted (unsolicited), we will contact you.  You may query (via phone/email) to gain information as to whether or not we have changed our policy on unsolicited submissions.  You may also visit the website for changes in this TOS agreement pertaining to unsolicited submissions.



LINKED SITES AND ADVERTISING
We are not responsible for third party content or advertisements that are posted to our site.  We do not take ANY responsibility for the goods and/or services provided by the advertisers.   You agree that you will use linked sites at your own risk.



DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY AND WARRANTIES
You agree to use this site at your own risk and agree to hold us harmless in case of damage to you or others. 

You acknowledge that BLACK EL PASO DEMOCRATS is not liable for any damages, including, without limitation, direct, incidental, special, and consequential or punitive damages, in connection with or arising from your use or from your inability to use the Site.



Privacy policy

Black El Paso Democrats is committed to protecting your privacy. 

BLACK EL PASO DEMOCRATS will make every effort to ensure that information submitted to this site is correct.  However, in the event that any information on this site is incorrect or not current, BLACK EL PASO DEMOCRATS assumes no liability for damages incurred directly or indirectly as a result of incorrect or incomplete information.  If, by chance you find information that is not correct, please let me know. 

Though WE collect site information, WE will not collect personal information unless a user voluntarily submits such information.  WE will not share any personal information collected with any outside companies or sources.  Commitment to confidentiality is of utmost importance to US and WE will abide by that.  



User Information

Our Web site will only obtain personal information about you only if you provide it to our company.   We will from time to time obtain general information about all of our users as a whole.  For example, we collect information on which part of the site most readers visit.  This information allows us to cater to the needs of our readers so that their visits are frequent and beneficial.   We do share information with our advertisers as to the number of visitors.   When submitting information to us for a reply or to receive further information, you give us the right to contact you via email.  For example: mailing lists for newsletters, calendar information submissions, etc.



Personal Information

If you enter a contest, some personal information is required to verify the validity of entries. 



General Information Disclosure

Unless stated otherwise, we will use our best efforts not to disclose information about your individual visits to monitor you online, or personal information that you provide, such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, or credit card number to any outside parties unless otherwise required by law. But, we may record and share aggregated information with our partners as indicated above. Please be aware that any information submitted on a co-branded page with a third party may result in that third party using your information according to its privacy policy.


INDEMNITY

You agree to indemnify AND hold harmless Black El Paso Democrats and its affiliates, employees, agents and representatives, and to hold them harmless, from any and all claims and liabilities to include attorneys fees which may arise from your submissions, from your unauthorized use of material obtained through the Black El Paso Democrats, or from your breach of this Agreement, or from any such acts through your use of the Black El Paso Democrats website services

You agree that this Agreement, for all purposes, shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas applicable to contracts to be wholly performed therein, and any action based on or alleging a breach of this Agreement must be brought in a state or federal court in Texas. In addition, you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction and venue of such courts.


Black El Paso Democrats or Owner/Founder is not responsible for material submitted to us via the chat rooms or message boards.  However, by communicating with Black El Paso Democrats, users grant us permission to use any ideas or information posted by you in any way we choose without users expecting or requiring compensation.


THE MATERIALS IN THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, BLACK EL PASO DEMOCRATS/OWNERS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. BLACKELPASO.COM/BLACK EL PASO DEMOCRATS/OWNERS DOES NOT WARRANT OR REPRESENT THAT THE INFORMATION IS ACCURATE OR RELIABLE OR THAT THE SITE WILL BE FREE OF ERRORS OR VIRUSES.

Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, will BLACK EL PASO DEMOCRATS/OWNERS be liable for special or consequential damages that result from the use or inability to use the materials in this site. In no event shall BLACK EL PASO DEMOCRATS/OWNERS liability to a user for any loss, damage or claim exceed the amount paid by the user for accessing this site. Under no circumstances shall BLACK EL PASO DEMOCRATS/OWNERS be liable for the injury, damage or expense arising from any materials contained in any site linked to or from this site.


Cookies

We do utilize cookies to help keep track of when a computer uses contacts our site.  We will also use this information for editorial purposes for example determining what particular segment is most intriguing to our readers. 



Feedback
We do a have a feedback for available on our website.  Any feedback that is submitted through these forms or through e-mail is the property of Black El Paso Democrats. We may use this feedback for marketing purposes, or to contact you for additional feedback.

If there is a change in this policy it will be posted.  For questions please call (915) 757-8662 M


Linked Sites
Once you link to another site from our site, the privacy notice no longer applies and you become subject to the privacy and security policies of that site. Linked sites are not under OUR control and WE WILL not be responsible for the contents of any linked site or link contained in a linked site.  WE are providing the links as a convenience for our web viewers and any link that WE include is not an endorsement by US or our affiliates.



ENTIRE AGREEMENT
This agreement is the complete and entire agreement between users of BLACK EL PASO DEMOCRATS and replaces any prior agreement whether oral or written. 

If you do not agree with the Terms of Service (TOS) Agreement of Black El Paso Democrats, thank you for visiting but please leave the site.


This communication is not authorized by any candidate or any candidates committee