Lake City Talks is an online location for conversation between users about topics concerning Lake City SC.  It is a specific web presence for users, so that they may share information, exchange ideas and participate in discussions about accomplishments, achievements, issues, and concerns regarding the Lake City area.  It is a place of healthy conversation and debate, it is not intended to divide or ridicule any one person or group.  It is intended to be a place of facts and discussions of serious ideas and concerns by its participants.

By registering and logging into our forums, you are agreeing to the rules listed below.

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Forum Code of Conduct

First, welcome to our forums! We hope that you’ll find them enjoyable, and you’ll have many fruitful discussions here. Before you start posting (or if you’ve been posting for a while but feel like you need to refresh the basics), please take a moment to read through our rules of conduct, which are applicable to all forums on www.lakecitytalks.com.

The LakeCityTalks.com forums are safe online spaces for holding civil, lively discussions. Please do not ever post with the sole purpose and intention of upsetting other forum users. Negative comments and minority opinions are absolutely welcome, but forum users are expected to be able to substantiate their position without resorting to name-calling and offensive language.

GENERAL RULES:

• Always treat others with kindness and respect, even if you don’t agree with them.
• Stay on topic, don’t intentionally derail threads, don’t troll, don’t spam.
• Use appropriate language.
• Do not intentionally insult or offend others.
• We don’t tolerate hate speech, intimidation, harassment, sexual, racial, or ethnic slurs, and discrimination.

WE DON’T TOLERATE:

• Posting your own as well as other people’s personally identifiable information (i.e., name, address, email, phone number, place of work, etc.).
• Posting links to phishing sites, malware, or spyware.
• Impersonating forum moderators or other users.
• Spamming, bashing, flaming, or trolling.
• Any kind of encouragement towards taking drugs or drinking alcohol.
• Creating multiple accounts.
• Posting something that is knowingly false.
• Thread bumping, hijacking, or posting comments that are unrelated to the original topic and make it difficult for others to follow the discussion.
• Posting pornography, inappropriate or offensive content, warez, unreleased game content, and things that are generally considered not suitable for work.
• Linking to cracks, key generators, pirated content and promoting piracy overall. However, discussions about piracy are generally acceptable.
• Threats of violence, harassment, or privacy breach – even as a joke.
• Using a third party’s intellectual property (full or partial scans of articles, books, full transcriptions of articles, etc.) unless you have permission to do so.
• Selling (including real-life or online), advertising, referrals, links to other stores.
• Use of language that is abusive, vulgar, hateful, defamatory, obscene, profane, threatening, privacy-invasive, or law-violating.
• Encouraging anyone else to break these rules.
• Taking any other actions that are deemed inappropriate by LakeCityTalks.com at our sole discretion.

HOW WE MODERATE:

• If you see a person breaking the rules, don’t attempt to moderate – let LakeCityTalks.com Staff or LakeCityTalks.com Community Moderators know and ignore the post(s), threads, etc.
• Violations of our rules may be met with removal of a message, a written warning, or a temporary or permanent ban from the server. If your offense violates the law, your account may be suspended, and relevant authorities may be notified of your misconduct.
• All decisions with regards to post moderation (edits and deleting) and user warnings are made by LakeCityTalks.com Staff or LakeCityTalks.com Community Moderators, whereas thread locking, temporary and permanent bans are made by LakeCityTalks.com Staff. In both cases they are final and not up for discussion. However, constructive criticism and suggestions are welcome, provided they are directed to the forum moderators and not disputed within the forum itself.
• We don’t warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any posts published on the forums.
• We reserve the right to edit or delete any post that we feel breaks any of the rules stated within the hereby Forum Code of Conduct.
• If you are confused about any particular action taken that involves you, please contact us.
• Official communication with any member of LakeCityTalks.com Staff should be considered as valid as correspondence with all moderating authorities. Abusive and/or aggressive attitude towards LakeCityTalks.com Staff may constitute grounds for further penalties.

These Forum Rules are subject to change at any time, but we will try and inform you via the forum when they do.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or Forum Code of Conduct, you can contact us by email: [email protected]

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by You when You:

• make a complaint or enquiry.
• make an information request.

 For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.

Personal Data

While using Our Service, we may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. What we collect about you and how we do this depends on:

• What LakeCityTalks.com Policy Forum services you use.
• How much personal data we need to provide these services.

Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.

To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.

To contact You: To contact You by email, regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, and your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.
• With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
• With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation.
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company.
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service.
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public.
• Protect against legal liability.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

 Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.