Legal Notice and Privacy Policy
User Agreement
The User Agreement for utilizing this website is located here.
Copyright
All materials posted on this site are subject to copyrights owned by the Reef Aquarium Society of Charlotte (RASOC) and other individuals or entities. Reproduction, retransmission or reprinting is prohibited without prior written permission from RASOC or the other copyright owner.
Trademark
The RASOC name and logos, and all related product and service names, are the RASOC’s proprietary trademarks and service marks, and may not be used by any other party without the prior express written permission of RASOC.
Website Content
All information provided is given “as is” and RASOC does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or fitness for a particular purpose of the information contained therein. In no event shall the RASOC club be liable for any decision made or action taken in reliance on the information contained therein.
Disclaimer of Liability
The user assumes all responsibility for the use of this Web site. Under no circumstances, including negligence, shall RASOC or anyone else involved in creating or maintaining this Web site be liable for any DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL or CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, or LOST PROFITS that result from the use or inability to use the Web site and/or any other Web sites which are linked to this site, including, but not limited to, reliance by a member or visitor on any information obtained via the Web site; or that result from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files, viruses, errors, defects, or any failure of performance, communications failure, theft, destruction or unauthorized access.
Privacy Policy
Links
This site contains links to other websites. RASOC is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. The user will know when he is leaving RASOC because a different browser window will open.
How your personal information is used
Personal information is never sold or or given to third party solicitors. The club uses the information that users provide to conduct normal club business in communicating with its members and website guests.
In addition to notifying you of activity on our site which might be applicable to you, every once in a while we may wish to communicate with all members with any important information such as newsletters or announcements by email. You can opt-in to or opt-out of such emails in your profile.
We may gather non-by and by recognizable data about you over the span of your interaction with our site. This data may incorporate specialized data about the program or sort of gadget you’re utilizing. This data will be utilized only for the motivations behind investigation and following the quantity of guests to our site.
Keeping your information secure
We are focused on ensuring that any data you give to us is secure. So as to forestall unapproved access or exposure, we have set up appropriate measures and systems to shield and secure the data that we gather.
Cookie policy
Cookie are little content records which are set by us on your PC which permit us to give certain usefulness on our site, for example, having the option to sign in, or recalling certain inclinations.
Cookie usage
This site uses cookies for numerous things, including:
- Registration and maintaining your preferences. This includes ensuring that you can stay logged in and keeping the site in the language or appearance that you requested.
- Analytics. This allows us to determine how people are using the site and improve it.
- Advertising cookies (possibly third-party). If this site displays advertising, cookies may be set by the advertisers to determine who has viewed an ad or similar things. These cookies may be set by third parties, in which case this site has no ability to read or write these cookies.
- Other third-party cookies for things like Facebook or Twitter sharing. These cookies will generally be set by the third-party independently, so this site will have no ability to access them.
Standard cookies we set
These are the main cookies we set during normal operation of the software.
- vbrasoc_sessionhash
- Stores the current ID of your session.
- vbrasoc_timestamp
- Stores a token, unique to you, which is used to verify that the actions you perform on this site were intended to be performed by you.
- vbrasoc_userid
- Stores a key, unique to you, which allows us to keep you logged in to the software as you navigate from page to page.
Additional cookies and those set by third parties
Additional cookies may be set during the use of the site to remember information as certain actions are being performed, or remembering certain preferences.
Other cookies may be set by third party service providers which may provide information such as tracking anonymously which users are visiting the site, or set by content embedded into some pages, such as YouTube or other media service providers.
Removing/disabling cookies
Managing your cookies and cookie preferences must be done from within your browser’s options/preferences. Here is a list of guides on how to do this for popular browser software:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Microsoft Edge
- Mozilla Firefox
- Google Chrome
- Safari for macOS
- Safari for iOS
Your Rights
You reserve an option to get to the individual information we hold about you or acquire a duplicate of it. To do so please get in touch with us. In the event that you accept that the data we hold for you is fragmented or mistaken, you may get in touch with us to request that we complete or correct that data.
You likewise reserve the option to demand the deletion of your own information. It would be ideal if you get in touch with us in the event that you might want us to expel your own information.
Acknowledgment of this privacy policy
Proceeded with utilization of our site means your acknowledgment of this arrangement. On the off chance that you don’t acknowledge the strategy, at that point kindly don’t utilize this site. While enrolling we will additionally demand your express acknowledgment of the privacy policy.
Changes to this policy
We may make changes to this arrangement whenever. You might be approached to audit and re-acknowledge the data in this arrangement in the event that it changes later on.