Site Policies

Terms of Use

This web site with its home page in the domain “fauquier-mha.org” (the “Website”) is a complimentary information service offered by Mental Health Association of Fauquier County at no charge to users of the World Wide Web, with the express condition that these users agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth in this User Agreement. Mental Health Association of Fauquier County reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time, and you must consult the most recent version of this User Agreement (not an older cached version) each time you view the Website. Use of this Website constitutes your acceptance of all of the following terms and conditions.

Disclaimer Statement

Mental Health Association of Fauquier County’s website & Online Community is for informational purposes only and is not meant to serve as medical advice or to replace consultation with your physician or mental health professional.

Use of Mental Health Association of Fauquier County’s website constitutes an agreement by the users not to hold Mental Health Association of Fauquier County or any of its employees, agents, officers or directors liable or responsible for information posted to discussion boards and other forums by persons or entities not associated with Mental Health Association of Fauquier County.

You acknowledge that the information on the Website is provided “as is” for general information only. It is not intended as medical advice, and should not be relied upon, as a substitute for consultations with qualified health professionals who are familiar with your individual medical needs.

Limitation of Liability

You agree that you will hold harmless Mental Health Association of Fauquier County and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from all claims arising out of or related to your access or use of, or your inability to access or use, this Website or the information contained in this Website or other websites to which it is linked. This includes, but is not limited to, information or materials viewed or downloaded from this Website or another website to which it is linked that appear to you or are construed by you to be obscene, offensive, defamatory, or that infringe upon your intellectual property rights. In no event will Mental Health Association of Fauquier County or the contributors of information to this Website be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken by you in reliance on such information or for any consequential, special or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Endorsements

You acknowledge that the opinions and recommendations contained in this Website are not necessarily those of Mental Health Association of Fauquier County or endorsed by Mental Health Association of Fauquier County . Mental Health Association of Fauquier County may provide links on the Website to other websites which are not under the control of Mental Health Association of Fauquier County . In general, any website which has an address (or URL) which does not contain “Mental Health Association of Fauquier County ” is such a website. These links are provided for convenience of reference only and are not intended as an endorsement by Mental Health Association of Fauquier County of the organization or individual operating the website or a warranty of any type regarding the website or the information on the website.

Content Usage Policy

Unless otherwise indicated, all information contained on our website www. fauquier-mha.org or in written form including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, button icons, video or audio clips is copyrighted by and proprietary to Mental Health Association of Fauquier County and may not be copied, reproduced, transmitted, displayed, performed, distributed, sublicensed, altered, stored for subsequent use or otherwise used in whole or in part any manner without Mental Health Association of Fauquier County’s prior written consent, except that the user may make such temporary copies in a single computer’s RAM and hard drive cache as are necessary to browse the website, and the user may make one permanent copy of each page of the website, brochure or booklet to be used by the user for personal and noncommercial uses which do not harm the reputation of Mental Health Association of Fauquier County . To obtain written consent see our permissions agreement.

Once written consent is given in the form of a signed permission agreement, the following restrictions apply:

The content may be used for informational, non-commercial purposes only

Any copy of content or portion thereof must include Mental Health Association of Fauquier County cite line as “copyrighted and published by Mental Health Association of Fauquier County, no part of this document may be reproduced without written consent”

Mental Health Association of Fauquier County has the right to revoke such authorization at any time, and any such use must be discontinued upon notice from Mental Health Association of Fauquier County

Linking Your Website to Mental Health Association of Fauquier County

Mental Health Association of Fauquier County is dedicated to promoting mental health, preventing mental disorders and achieving victory over mental illness through advocacy, education, research and service. Mental Health Association of Fauquier County therefore encourages and permits links to Mental Health Association of Fauquier County ’s website that support this mission. As such, Mental Health Association of Fauquier County allows external, hyper-text links to websites, provided:

(a) any text-only link must clearly be marked “Mental Health Association of Fauquier County “;

(b) the appearance, position and other aspects of either the link or the host website may not be such as to damage or dilute the goodwill associated with Mental Health Association of Fauquier County ’s name and trademarks;

(c) the appearance, position and other aspects of either the link or the host website may not create the false appearance that an entity other than Mental Health Association of Fauquier County is associated with or sponsored by Mental Health Association of Fauquier County ;

(d) the link, when activated by a user, must display this Website full-screen and not with a “frame” on the linked website. Mental Health Association of Fauquier County considers framing, the practice of intact reproduction of a page or pages of one website to another website, to be deceptive and a violation of Mental Health Association of Fauquier County ’s copyright rights. No authorization or permission is given for framing our content, whether in whole or in part;

(e) Mental Health Association of Fauquier County reserves the right to revoke its consent to external links at any time at its sole discretion and require that said links are abolished; and

(f) Mental Health Association of Fauquier County reserves the right to require a reciprocal link to the linking site.

Mental Health Association of Fauquier County Website Linking to External Websites

Mental Health Association of Fauquier County is a nonprofit, broad-based, citizens’ movement; however, Mental Health Association of Fauquier County is also committed to presenting material in a nonpartisan, noncommercial manner. Thus, links to Mental Health Association of Fauquier County ’s website should not be used for inappropriate, political or commercial purposes, or suggest that Mental Health Association of Fauquier County promotes, endorses or sponsors any third party’s causes, ideas, products or services. Additionally, Mental Health Association of Fauquier County is not responsible for the information or materials contained on the host website. Links to external websites are provided for convenience of reference only and are not intended as an endorsement by Mental Health Association of Fauquier County of the organization or individual operating the host website or a warranty of any type regarding the host website or the information on the host website.

Privacy Policy Statement

Cookies: To help make our sites more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we invoke a standard feature found in browser software, called a “cookie”, to assign each visitor a unique, random number, a sort of anonymous user ID that resides on your computer. The cookie doesn’t actually identify the visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to access our site. A cookie can’t read data off your hard drive. We do not link cookie data with personally identifiable information, nor do we store personal information in our cookies. You can disable cookies at any time by changing the preferences in your browser.

For our internal purposes, we gather date, time, browser type, navigation history and IP address of all visitors to our site. This information does not contain anything that can identify users personally. We use this information for our internal security audit log, trend analysis and system administration, and to gather broad demographic information about our user base for aggregate use.

With respect to ad servers: We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

If our information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.