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The following explains the City of San Fernando’s (“City”) policy regarding information provided to the public by, and through, the City’s official website, including external links, and information the public may supply to the City when visiting the City’s official website.

Purpose:

The purpose of the City’s official website is to provide information about the operation of the City, clarify the functions of various City departments and services and provide guidance to members of the public who may desire or require City services. Information on the website is intended in every respect to be informational in nature. The City’s official website is a non-public forum and is not intended to directly or indirectly create a public forum or limited public forum, or to in any way invite discussion, discourse or dialogue.

General Disclaimer:

In preparation of the City’s official website, every effort has been made to offer the most current, correct and clearly expressed information possible. However, inadvertent errors, omissions or inaccuracies may occur. Therefore, the City, without limitation, disclaims the following: responsibility for typographical errors, interrupted or slow services, computer viruses or other harmful components affecting operation of hardware or software, and other defects that may be found on the City’s official website.

Moreover, the information, services, and data included on the City’s official website have been compiled by staff from a variety of sources and are subject to change without notice. The information, services and data are provided on an “as-is” basis. The City makes no warranties or representations whatsoever regarding the quality, content, completeness, or adequacy of such information, service and data and expressly disclaims all representations and warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to such information, services and data, including without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and implied warranties arising from course of dealing or course of performance.

Lastly, the City is not responsible for any special, indirect, incidental or consequential damages that may arise from the use, or the inability to use, the City’s official website and/or the materials contained on the City’s official website, whether the materials are provided by the City or by a third party.

Disclaimer of Endorsement:

References on the City’s official website to any specific commercial product, process, or service, by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply City endorsement, recommendation, promotion, or favoring by the City.

Moreover, consistent with this website policy, the City may establish links to pages outside the City’s official website (“external links”). The presence of these external links should not be construed as an endorsement, recommendation, promotion or favoring by the City of these sites or their content.

External Links:

The City may, from time to time, establish external links to other Web resources. The City’s sole purpose in establishing these external links is to provide information of a factual nature to visitors of the City’s official website. The City continues to maintain its official website as a non-public forum, does not intend to directly or indirectly create a public forum or limited public forum, and does not intend to invite public discourse, discussion or dialogue by establishing said external links, regardless of the nature of the external link.

To avoid any perception that the City endorses or provides favorable treatment to any private person or business enterprise, no corporate or commercial logos or direct links to vendor sites will be allowed on the City’s official website. Consistent with this policy, only links to the following will be permitted by the City:

• Chamber of Commerce, or Visitor’s Bureau;
• Other governmental agencies;
• Hospitals;
• Museums, libraries, historical organizations and similar kinds of established, bona fide organizations that provide cultural resources to residents and visitors of the City;
• Public and private, bona fide educational institutions as defined in the Education Code, located within Los Angeles County;
• Entities and organizations whose primary purpose is to provide the location, telephone and/or description of City hotels, restaurants, tourist attractions and similar kinds of activities; and
• Webpages that contain the live-streaming of City meetings that are open to the public, or contain recorded versions of the same, but excluding homepages for such entities and organizations providing and/or sponsoring these webpages.

Entities and organizations wishing to establish external links on the City’s official website must seek prior approval. The City reserves the right to deny an external link application as to any entity or organization that, upon complete review of the application, (1) does not meet the criteria set forth in this policy, (2) fails to provide all required information in the application, and/or (3) fails to provide truthful information in the application. Moreover, City reserves the right to remove an external link if the nature of the entity or organization to which the link relates no longer complies with this policy. This policy may be revised without prior written notice when to do so will be in the best interests of the City.

Security:

Every reasonable effort will be made to maintain the privacy of information provided to the City through its official website. Unless information provided to the City through the City’s official website is disclosable or required to be disclosed pursuant to federal, State or other legal authority, such information will not be disseminated to third parties.

Use of the City’s official website shall be construed as acceptance of these website policies.