About Placerville Info:
Placerville Info was created in 2001 by World Wide Business Services as a public service and currently serves more than 8,500 pages of content every day.
Since 2001 the Placerville Info web site has been developed, authored, maintained, and supported by
Cris Alarcon as a non-commercial, geo-centric, educational public service. Permission is granted to freely copy, adapt, and distribute individual
stories in print format in non-commercial educational settings that benefit
public users. Please be aware that the Placerville Info web content is continuous reviewed and
revised. For that reason, reproduction of all content on the Internet can only be with permission through a licensed agreement. No request to link to the Web site is necessary.
There is no standard definition of what a public benefit website is exactly, although a number of
key characteristics define our goals & purposes. Placerville Info generally
develops & deploys content that aims to improve society by informing viewers. In contrast, the aim of commercial outlets,
such as a local newspaper or paid ad supported website, is to provide popular
content that leads to higher prices when advertising is sold. For this reason, the ideals of
a not-for-profit public service website are often hard to reconcile with commercial goals.
The Placerville Info business model is an alternative model for implementing public service media, known as Citizen Media.
Placerville Info lists the following as major goals or characteristics:
- Detachment from vested interests and government — in other words, content should be impartial, and the content should not be subject to control by advertisers or government. By removing the Profit motive from Placerville Info, no undue influence from advertisers, NGO's, or Governments are placed upon our staff or the content that they provide.
- Geographic universality — The content of the Placerville Info website is available nationwide, with no exception. Anyone with Internet Access can use the content without any service or subscription fee. Additionally, any user supplied content suitable for a minor, may be placed on the site without any charge, regardless of commercial or non-commercial application, as long as it is geographically targeted to the user base of Placerville and the surrounding area including all of El Dorado County. The goal of Placerville Info is to develop a repository of the greatest depth and variety of local information that can be accessed by anyone, anywhere, at any time, and free of charge.
- Concern for community identity — this essentially means that the website should, in the most part, develop and deploy content from within, and related to, the county of El Dorado.
- Catering for all interests and tastes — a wide verity of interest and perspectives are expressed on Placerville Info but there is a common thread, they are are expressed by local resident or enterprises within the county.
- Directly funded by the corpus of users — No advertising dollars support the Placerville Info website.
- Competition in good content rather than numbers — quality is the prime concern Placerville Info. Without advertising, or anything else, to sell there is no incentive to inflate our user numbers. Placerville Info does not have an advertising budget. All users arrive at Placerville Info word of mouth, or by un-adulterated search engine results. It is the quality of the content alone that drives traffic at Placerville Info.
- Guidelines to liberate local content makers and not restrict them — At Placerville Info, the guidelines that govern what a content maker can and cannot do, are basic and allows for a wide range of ideas and activities: No "Adult Only" content, wine & beer events excepted; no "Hate Mongering"; no "personal attacks."
Information on this site has been posted with the intent that it be readily available for personal and public non-commercial use and may be reproduced, in part or in whole and by any means, without charge or further permission from the Placerville Info. We ask only that:
- Users exercise due diligence in ensuring the accuracy of the materials reproduced;
- The Placerville Info be identified as the source; and
- The reproduction is not represented as an official version of the materials reproduced, nor as having been made, in affiliation with or with the endorsement of the Placerville Info.
Placerville Info & Online Privacy
Placerville Info is sensitive to the privacy concerns of visitors to our website, www.placerville.info. As a general policy, no personal information is automatically collected from visitors to the site. However, certain non-personal information is recorded through the regular operation of Placerville Info’s Internet servers. This information is primarily used to enhance visitor experience. The type of information collected typically includes (but is not to) the type of operating system in use (e.g. Macintosh, Windows) and the type of browser being used by the visitor (e.g. Netscape, Internet Explorer).
This information may also be used to record and review traffic volume to the website, but only in an aggregate and non-personally identifiable form. eMail addresses and other data that may personally identify visitors to this site are collected and/or held only when voluntarily submitted (e.g. where a visitor registers). Personally identifiable information that may be collected from visitors or registered users is retained solely by Placerville Info and is not sold or otherwise transferred to third parties outside its domain. This information is collected to help us better understand visitors’ use of www.placerville.info and provide more appropriate services to prospective and existing clients, registered users and subscribers to our newsletters and other services.
Terms and Conditions of Use
This website is owned and provided by Placerville Info . Your use of this website or any other websites owned or provided by Placerville Info and/or any of its related companies is subject to the terms and conditions of Placerville Info ’s Legal Policy. Your use of the Website(s) constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions and your agreement to be bound by them. Please review Placerville Info ’s Legal Policy regularly. The terms and conditions may change at any time without notice.
Intellectual Property
All that you see or hear on Placerville Info ’s website(s) is protected intellectual property of Placerville Info and/or its affiliates. This includes the entire content of the website(s), copyrighted and protected as a collective work. This incorporates (but is not to) all trademarks, service marks, brand identities, characters, trade names, graphics, designs, copyrights, trade dress, and all other intellectual property (”Content”). All rights are reserved.
Your use of the Placerville Info website(s) is to personal and non-commercial use only, unless other uses are expressly granted to you. You may download or make a single copy of material from the website(s) for your personal and non-commercial use, provided that the Placerville Info copyright notice (”©Copyright 2007 Placerville Info ”) and the World Wide Web Address (http://www.placerville.info) are prominently displayed with the material.
You may not copy, distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post or otherwise display the website(s) content for public or commercial purposes without the express written permission of Placerville Info . Such permission must state the specific purpose, context and format for which you wish to use the content.
Disclaimer of Warranties
While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of information on this website, the content of the Placerville Info website(s) may contain errors and inaccuracies. Changes to the content of the website(s) are made periodically and without notice. Your use of the website(s) and any information contained therein is at your risk. Neither Placerville Info nor any of its affiliates will be liable for any damages arising from your access to, or use of, the website(s). This includes (but is not to) direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the website(s) is provided to you “as is”, without warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, including (but not to) the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or title and non-infringement. Additionally, Placerville Info does not guarantee that the website(s) or the servers making the site(s) available are virus free.
Links
This website(s) may contain links allowing you to leave Placerville Info ’s site(s) to access sites that are not under our control. Placerville Info does not necessarily endorse any such linked sites. Placerville Info is not responsible for the contents or transmission of any linked site (or any further link contained within a site outside our control). Nor do we guarantee that the linked sites are error and virus free.
Choice of Law and Enforcement
Your access to the website(s) as well as the terms and conditions and the agreement they create are governed and interpreted by the laws of
United States of America only, without regard for conflict of legal provisions.
Data Protection
We will treat any information you provide, including personal information (i.e. data from which you can be identified, including your name, address, eMail address), in accordance with the terms and the provisions of the United States Civil Code, or any amendment to it. The Placerville Info web server may automatically recognise the domain name and eMail address of users of its website. Such information, if obtained, will be held in accordance with these terms. All such information will be held by Placerville Info and/or its duly authorised agents or contractors, for the purposes of enhancing and managing Placerville Info ’s customer relationships.
You agree that any information provided by you to us may be transferred outside
the United States to other countries which may have less stringent data protection regulations. Subject to the following clause, such information will not however be passed to any third party outside Placerville Info , its group companies or affiliates. In the event of the sale or transfer of any of the assets or business of Placerville Info to a third party, and notwithstanding any other provision of these terms and conditions, Placerville Info reserves the right, and users give their consent, to the transfer to such third party of such information referred to above. To remove your personal information from www.placerville.info database or for any other queries in relation to the content data protection policy, please
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To access certain services on the web site, participate in Placerville Info ’s various promotions or receive a newsletter, you must complete a registration form. During registration you are required to provide contact information. This includes first name, family name, geographical address, and email.
Email
We will not send you any unsolicited information, including email, except as stated below:We may send periodic letters to existing clients and/or subscribed/registered users to announce important changes, new features, and news about other Placerville Info information, products and services. You may opt-out of this service at any time.
We may contact existing clients and/or subscribed/registered users to conduct research about your opinion of current and prospective services and events via email surveys. Participation in these surveys is entirely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction rating of this site. You may opt-out of this service at any time.
We may from time to time contact existing clients and/or subscribed/registered users, on behalf of Placerville Info or our affiliates and partners, about a particular offering that may be of interest to you, according to information you have provided to us. You may opt-out of this service at any time.
We may from time to time contact existing clients and/or subscribed/registered users about games and/or contests organized through www.placerville.info. Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. You may opt-out of this service at any time
