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Terms of Use

By using this site, you agree to the following terms and conditions.

 

Information Policy

Information on the Muskoka Water Web (MWW) site is provided "as is" without any warranty of any kind. Changes may periodically be made to the information. Although The District Municipality of Muskoka (DMM) tries to ensure the accuracy of all information presented here, you should confirm all information before making any decisions based upon it. Where links to other sites are provided, DMM accepts no responsibility for the content of those other sites.

 

Disclaimer

While an effort is made to post only accurate information, DMM does not guarantee that the information posted is always current or correct. DMM does not warrant or make any representations as to the quality, content, accuracy or completeness of the information, text, maps, graphics, links and other items contained on its web pages.

DMM makes no warranties, expressed or implied, as to the fitness of the information for any purpose, or to results obtained by individuals using the information and is not responsible for any action taken in reliance on the information contained herein.

DMM expressly disclaims liability for any damages or losses, whether direct, indirect, incidental, special, economic, consequential or otherwise, arising from or in any way related to the use of this website, any of its content, or any web browser, including without limitation damage to any computer, software or data by any virus that might be transmitted or activated by means of this website or access to this website, any breach of copyright or other intellectual property right, and contravention of any restriction on the publication or transmission of information.

This website contains links to external websites. DMM does not endorse, approve, certify or control external websites and does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficiency, currency or correctness of any information contained in those sites. A reference in this website to a specific commercial product, process or service by trade name, trademark, service mark, manufacturer or anything else does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the DMM.

Communications made through this website's email and messaging system are for convenience only and are not considered to constitute legal notice to the DMM or any of its elected or appointed officials, officers, employees or members with respect to any existing or potential claim or cause of action or for any other purpose.

 

Information Collection and Use

DMM is the sole owner of any information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. DMM may collect information from our users at several different points on our website. DMM may transfer the information collected to any relevant department within DMM.

 

General Inquiries

If a user contacts DMM with a general inquiry, the user may provide DMM with personal information (for example contact details). DMM will use this personal information to respond to the inquiry and track further correspondence. Information is also used to compile statistics on response handling, etc. This is done in aggregate, and no individual names or other personal information are retained. Personal information collected is not used for any other purpose.

 

Browsing

Cookies are small text files that a website transfers to a site visitor's hard disk or browser for added functionality, or for tracking website usage. We do not use cookies to gather personal information such as a person's name or email address. In order to measure the effectiveness of our online presence, DMM may use cookies to identify repeat visitors to our website, and to determine the path visitors take on our site. Any information gathered by the use of cookies is compiled on an aggregate, anonymous basis.

 

Web Analytics

In order to serve you better, we use Google Analytics to help analyse the use of this website. This tool uses cookies to collect and generate information about your visit to our site (including your IP address) that is transmitted to their servers in an anonymous form for processing. The use of this tool does not allow us or our analytics service provider to identify individuals.

You can opt-out of analytics activity by setting your browser to notify you when a cookie is sent and block analytics cookies if desired. Please consult your browser's Help Menu for instructions. Visiting our website with analytics cookies disabled will have no significant impact on your browsing experience.

Google currently offers a free Google Analytics opt-out tool for Internet Explorer (versions 7 and 8), Google Chrome (4.x and higher), and Mozilla Firefox (3.5 and higher): http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

 

External Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that DMM is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

Relevant organisations may create links to information on the Muskoka Water Web (MWW) site as appropriate. However, any links to a MWW page should forward the user directly to the MWW site. MWW pages should not be opened within a frame in your own website, or otherwise present the information as being a part of your site.

 

Changes to Terms of Use

DMM may, from time to time, make changes to this terms of use. We recommend that visitors to this site re-visit the Terms of Use page on occasion to learn of new privacy practices or changes to our policy.

 

Terms of Use Contact Information

It is important to us at DMM to hear what visitors have to say about our services and our policies. If site visitors have any questions, concerns, or complaints about the terms of use, or want to let us know what they think about our website, they can email us at rebecca.willison@muskoka.on.ca.

Last published January 2012.