TERMS OF USE POLICY

Usage of the Trans-American Alliance for a National Consensus (TANC) Web pages is subject to the terms and conditions set forth below.  Any use of these Web pages constitutes the user’s agreement to abide by the following terms and conditions.

TANC has the right to use all material entered into these Web pages (other than third-party material transmitted through private electronic mail) in any of TANC’s print or electronic publications.  Except for making one hard copy print of limited portions of TANC information on an ad hoc basis, or downloading as authorized by TANC, information may not be reproduced, transmitted or distributed without the expressed written consent from TANC.

Users entering information on any of these Web pages are responsible for the content of that material.  TANC has no responsibility for the content of any messages or information posted by users, or for the content of information of third parties on the Internet, even if accessed through TANC’s Web pages.  However, TANC retains the right, which it may or may not exercise, in its sole discretion, to review, edit and/or delete from the service any material which TANC deems to be illegal, offensive or otherwise inappropriate.

Users may through hypertext or other computer “links” gain access to other sites on the Internet which are not part of TANC’s Web pages.  TANC assumes no responsibility for any material outside of TANC’s Web pages which may be accessed through any such “link.”

The user agrees to indemnify TANC from any damages, losses, costs, or expenses which TANC, its affiliates, their respective employees and authorized representatives may incur as a result of material entered into these Web pages by the user.

In addition, user may not:

• Use these Web pages for any purpose that is prohibited by any law or regulation, or to facilitate the violation of any law or regulation;
• Use or attempt to use any “deep-link,” “scraper,” “robot,” “bot,” “spider,” “data mining,” “computer code,” or any other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, process, or methodology or manual process having similar processes or functionality, to access, acquire, copy, or monitor any portion of these Web pages, any data or content found on or accessed through these Web pages, or any other TANC information without the expressed written consent from TANC;
• Obtain or attempt to obtain through any means, any materials or information on these Web pages that have not been intentionally made publicly available either by their public display on these Web pages or through their accessibility by a visible link on these Web pages;
• Violate any measure employed to limit or prevent access to these Web pages or their content;
• Violate the security of these Web pages or attempt to gain unauthorized access to these Web pages, data, materials, information, computer systems, or networks connected to any server of these Web pages, through hacking, password mining or any other means;
• Interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of these Web pages or any activities conducted on or through these Web pages, including accessing any data, content or other information prior to the time that it is intended to be available to the public on these Web pages;
• Take or attempt any action that, in the sole discretion of the TANC organization, imposes or may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load or burden on these Web pages or the infrastructure of these Web pages.

USAGE TRACKING

TANC tracks user traffic patterns throughout all Web pages.  However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. TANC does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).

TANC uses tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas.  We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall.  This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

COOKIES

We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer.  The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided.  But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself.  A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. TANC uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above).  Our advertising system delivers cookies to better track ad impressions and click rates.

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser.  If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie.  You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site.  However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.

USE OF INFORMATION

TANC uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.

As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out Electronic Newsletters to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums.  We send out Electronic Newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule, and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing.

We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas.  We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall.  This helps us continue to build a better service for you.  We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users.  But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.

TANC creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners.  This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs.  Because we don't track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad.  We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SHARING OF THE INFORMATION

TANC uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's demographics.  This is essential to keeping our service free.  We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SECURITY

TANC operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems.  Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

YOUR CONSENT

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by TANC.  If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this Web site so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.