Our Policies
This page contains important information regarding how MMUA gathers, stores, uses, and shares your personal information.
GENERAL INFORMATION SHARING AND PRIVACY POLICY
When you join the Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association (MMUA), we collect certain information about you and your utility or company.
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Details of what is collected if you join via our website are discussed in the information that follows on this webpage.
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If you join using a paper application, we collect information including your name, contact details, and basic utility or company data.
We also ask you a series of questions regarding permission to allow us to share this information with other members of MMUA, potential customers or vendors, and MMUA's legislative or mission allies. The administrator of your utility or company's mmua.org account can add or revoke this permission at any time by signing in at mmua.org. Permissions can also be changed by notifying us via email at info@mmua.org. MMUA does not sell its membership list.
We will also share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of mmua.org if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to (1) meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request; (2) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations; (3) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or (4) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of mmua.org, our users or the public as required or permitted by law.
ONLINE DATA PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Statement sets forth the online data collection and usage policies and practices that apply to mmua.org and does not apply to information we collect in any other fashion.
Collection of information by mmua.org
By using mmua.org, we may request that you provide personal information, including your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number and other generalized background information. Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that is or may be collected by us. This information can include without limitation your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses, but is not linked to your personal information. We also get information from your use of our services, including how you use them. Regarding IP address and Clickstream Data, our server automatically collects data about your server's Internet address when you visit us. When you request pages from our web site, our servers may log your IP address and sometimes your domain name. Your IP address is used to help identify you and to gather demographic information about our users as a whole, but does not include personally identifiable information. Our server may also record the referring page that linked you to us (e.g., another web site or a search engine); the portions of mmua.org you visited; any search terms you have entered on mmua.org, or a referral site; and other web usage activity and data logged by our web servers.
Our use of your information
We use the information we gather on mmua.org, whether personal, demographic, collective or technical, for the purpose of operating and improving mmua.org, fostering a positive user experience, and delivering the products and services that we offer. We may use your contact information in order to send you email or other communications regarding updates at MMUA and mmua.org. The nature and frequency of these messages will vary depending upon the information we have about you. We additionally may employ Internet tracking and analytic tools such as Google Analytics to better understand and deliver a user experience. We also use the information that we gather for internal system administration, to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our web site. Such information may also be used to gather demographic information, such as country of origin and Internet Service Provider (ISP). We may link this information with your personal information.
Disclosure of personal information to others
We do not disclose your personal information to third parties, or your combined personal and demographic information or information about your use of mmua.org, except as described in the GENERAL INFORMATION SHARING AND PRIVACY POLICY section above.
Pertaining to mmua.org exclusively, we disclose information to companies and individuals we employ to perform functions on our behalf, including hosting our web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, and providing customer service. These companies and individuals may have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share that information with any other third party. We will also share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of mmua.org if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to (1) meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request; (2) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations (3) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues (4) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of mmua.org, our users or the public as required or permitted by law.
Use of cookies and local storage
The mmua.org website may contain electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited those pages. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information; they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about our web site usage. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides. You may not decline web beacons; however, they can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies or modifying your browser setting to notify you each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.
Access to, opt-out and/or modification of your information
The mmua.org website may provide account holders limited access to or the ability to modify their personal information. Whenever you use our services, we aim to provide you with access to your personal information. If that information is wrong, we strive to give you ways to update it quickly or to delete it – unless we have to keep that information for legitimate business or legal purposes. When updating your personal information, we may ask you to verify your identity before we can act on your request.
If you are receiving newsletters, commercial emails, or other communications from mmua.org, but subsequently change your mind, you may opt-out by selecting an appropriate link in those email communications as indicated for the opt out or by sending an email to info@mmua.org. We retain indefinitely all the information we gather about you in an effort to make your repeat use of mmua.org more efficient, practical, and relevant. To the extent that we utilize the Google Analytics tools available, you have options with respect to some of those tracking tools or features available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
Security of personal information
We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes. We restrict access to personal information to mmua.org employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.
Children
The mmua.org website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18.
Changes to privacy statement
If we decide to materially change our Privacy Policy for mmua.org, we will post those changes through a prominent notice on the web site so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it. If at any time, you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or believe that we have not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please feel free to email us at info@ mmua.org.
Contact information
The mmua.org website operates under the control of the Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association (MMUA), a Minnesota nonprofit organization with its principal place of business at 3131 Fernbrook Ln N, Ste 200, Plymouth, MN 55447.
TERMS OF SERVICE
This page states the Terms of Use ("Terms") under which you may use the Minnesota Municipal Utility Association’s (MMUA) website at mmua.org ("mmua.org"), an online association management services portal and guide. Please read these Terms carefully. If you do not accept the Terms stated here, do not use mmua.org and its services. By using mmua.org, you agree to be bound by these Terms, including the mmua.org Privacy Statement.
Eligibility
You must be 18 years of age or older, or the age of majority as that is defined in your jurisdiction, whichever is older, to visit or use mmua.org in any manner. By visiting mmua.org or accepting these Terms, you represent and warrant to mmua.org that you have reached the age of majority in your jurisdiction, and that you have the right, authority, and capacity to agree to and abide by these Terms. You also represent and warrant to mmua.org that you will use mmua.org in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
Use of mmua.org content
MMUA, through mmua.org, authorizes you to view and access a single copy of the content available on or from mmua.org solely for your personal use. The contents of mmua.org, and of all other web sites under mmua.org's control, whether partial or otherwise (mmua.org and such other web sites are sometimes collectively referred to as "social media") such as text, graphics, images, logos, button icons, software and other mmua.org content (collectively, "mmua.org content"), are protected under both United States and foreign copyright, trademark and other laws. All mmua.org content is the property of the MMUA or its content suppliers or clients.
You further agree to in no other way misuse mmua.org content that appears on this site, other than those uses specifically permitted herein or by written agreement with mmua.org. Unless specifically permitted herein or in writing by mmua.org, the use of the mmua.org content on any other web site or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited.
MMUA’s ownership rights
MMUA, through mmua.org and its licensors, own all right, title and interest, including without limitation all worldwide intellectual property rights in mmua.org products and services, and all such rights to all derivative works or enhancements of, in and to, or relating to, mmua.org products and services. By entering into this Agreement or by using mmua.org, you will not acquire any intellectual property or similar rights in mmua.org products or services other than a limited right to use the products or services for your personal benefit.
Site restrictions
You may not use any mmua.org site in order to transmit, post, distribute, store or destroy material, including without limitation, mmua.org content, (a) in violation of any applicable law or regulation, (b) in a manner that will infringe the copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights of others or violate the privacy, publicity or other personal rights of others, or (c) that is defamatory, obscene, threatening, abusive or hateful.
You agree that you will not use the mmua.org site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the mmua.org site or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the mmua.org site. You may not obtain, use, or access, or attempt to obtain, use, or access, any materials or information through any means not intentionally made publicly available or provided for through the mmua.org site.
Advertisers
If you participate as an advertiser, you are solely responsible for all advertising content you transmit or submit to mmua.org, whether created by or for you, including but not limited to: (i) artwork, written content, images, photos, graphics, music, animation, data, text, information, URLs, hypertext links, scripts and the content and material included in such components; and (ii) websites and content proximately reachable from such advertising content (collectively, “ads”). Prior to providing any ads and participating as an advertiser, you may be required to read and accept additional written terms and conditions governing your submission of ads to mmua.org (the "advertiser agreement") as described in MMUA’s most recently published visibility materials. MMUA disclaims all liability relating to your ads and you agree to indemnify mmua.org for all losses mmua.org incurs associated with the ads.
By submitting content for advertising to any public area of any mmua.org site, you automatically grant to mmua.org and its affiliates an irrevocable, royalty-free, perpetual, fully paid non-exclusive right (including moral rights) and worldwide license to use, copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, communicate to the public, perform, display, and distribute such content (in whole or in part) and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works such content in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses thereof.
MMUA and mmua.org do not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of advertiser content.
Copyright agent
We respect the intellectual property rights of others, and require the people who use the site do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please forward the following information to mmua.org, designated as such pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2), named below:
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Your address, telephone number, and email address;
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A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
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A description of where the alleged infringing material is located;
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A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
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An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; and
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A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association
Attn: Chief Executive Officer
3131 Fernbrook Ln N., Ste 200
Plymouth, MN 55447
Email info@mmua.org
MMUA’s liability
MMUA, through mmua.org, acts as a venue for on-line association management services. MMUA may take any action with respect to content it deems necessary or appropriate in its sole discretion if it believes that such content could create liability for mmua.org, damage mmua.org's brand or public image, or cause mmua.org to lose (in whole or in part) the services of its internet service provider(s), or other suppliers. While mmua.org reserves the right in its sole discretion to remove content or other material from mmua.org from time to time, mmua.org does not assume any obligation to do so and disclaims any liability for failing to take any such action.
The mmua.org sites and mmua.org content may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. MMUA makes no representations about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of any mmua.org content. The use of all mmua.org content is at your own risk. Changes are periodically made to mmua.org sites and may be made at any time. MMUA cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of mmua.org or any mmua.org site or resource. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from mmua.org or through or from mmua.org or any other mmua.org site shall create any warranty not expressly stated herein.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
THE SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL SERVICES, CONTENT, FUNCTIONS AND MATERIALS, IS PROVIDED "AS IS," "AS AVAILABLE," AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED BY STATUTE, COMMON LAW OR OTHERWISE, FOR INFORMATION, DATA, DATA PROCESSING SERVICES, UPTIME OR UNINTERRUPTED ACCESS. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE AVAILABILITY, ACCURACY, USEFULNESS, OR CONTENT OF INFORMATION, NOR DO WE MAKE ANY WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY ARISING FROM THE COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE, WE HEREBY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL SUCH WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED AND/OR IMPLIED. WE DO NOT WARRANT, REPRESENT, OR COVENANT THAT THE WEB SITE OR THE SERVICES, CONTENT, FUNCTIONS OR MATERIALS CONTAINED THEREIN WILL BE TIMELY, SECURE, UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT THE WEB SITE WILL MEET USERS' REQUIREMENTS. NO ADVICE, RESULTS, OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM US OR THROUGH THE SITE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY MADE HEREIN. MMUA ALSO ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY, AND SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR, ANY DAMAGES TO, OR VIRUSES THAT MAY INFECT, YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT OR OTHER PROPERTY ON ACCOUNT OF YOUR ACCESS TO, USE OF, OR BROWSING IN THE SITE OR YOUR DOWNLOADING OF ANY MATERIALS, DATA, TEXT, IMAGES, VIDEO, AUDIO OR SOFTWARE FROM THE SITE. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THE SITE, YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
IN NO EVENT SHALL MMUA, ITS AFFILIATES OR ANY OF THEIR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS OR CONTENT OR SERVICE PROVIDERS (COLLECTIVELY, THE "PROTECTED ENTITIES") BE LIABLE, WHETHER IN AN ACTION BASED ON A CONTRACT INDEMNIFICATION, OBLIGATION, TORT (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION NEGLIGENCE), COLLATERALLY OR ARISING FROM ANY STATUTORY DUTY, PRE-CONTRACT OR OTHER REPRESENTATIONS, OR OTHERWISE, HOWEVER ARISING, FOR ANY ECONOMIC LOSSES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF REVENUES, PROFITS, CONTRACTS, BUSINESS, GOODWILL OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS) OR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM, OR DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY RELATED TO, THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE OR THE CONTENT, MATERIALS AND FUNCTIONS RELATED THERETO, YOUR PROVISION OF INFORMATION VIA THE WEB SITE, LOST BUSINESS OR LOST SALES, EVEN IF SUCH PROTECTED ENTITY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
Local standards
We do not represent that materials on the mmua.org site are appropriate for use in all locations. Persons who choose to access the mmua.org site do so on their own initiative, and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.
Links to content and other sites
The mmua.org site and certain other mmua.org sites contain links to third party websites and content. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by mmua.org of the content on such third-party web sites. MMUA is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites and does not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third party websites. If you decide to access linked third-party websites, you do so at your own risk.
MMUA materials, emails, content on mmua.org, and certain other mmua.org-linked sites may contain links to social media sites, including but not limited to testimonials. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by mmua.org of the content on such social media sites. MMUA and mmua.org are not responsible for the content, accuracy of such content, or manner in which such content is provided to these third-party social media sites. You specifically agree that the use of these social media sites in conjunction with mmua.org is at your own risk.
Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless MMUA, mmua.org, its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any claims, actions or demands, including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, alleging or resulting from (i) any content or other material you provide to any mmua.org site, or (ii) your breach of these Terms. MMUA shall provide notice to you promptly of any such claim, suit, or proceeding.
Miscellaneous
The Terms of Service and the relationship between you and us shall be governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree that any cause of action that may arise under the Terms of Service shall be commenced and be heard in the appropriate court in the State of Minnesota, Hennepin County. You agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within Hennepin County in the State of Minnesota. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. Any waiver of any provision of these Terms of Service by MMUA must be made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of mmua.org specifically referencing these Terms of Service and the provision to be waived. Headings used in these Terms of Service are for convenience only and are not to be relied upon. If any provision of the Terms of Service is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms of Service remain in full force and effect. These Terms of Service will inure to the benefit of, and are intended to be enforceable by, mmua.org's successors, assigns and licensees.
Legal disputes
If any dispute arises between you, another member or advertiser, and/or mmua.org or any combination thereof, as it relates to mmua.org and this Agreement, such dispute shall be submitted and settled in accordance with the Rules of the American Arbitration Association, in Hennepin County, Minnesota and the decision of a single English-speaking arbitrator shall be final and binding.
These Terms constitute a binding agreement between you and mmua.org, and it is accepted by you upon your use of the mmua.org website.
This page contains important information regarding how MMUA gathers, stores, uses, and shares your personal information.
GENERAL INFORMATION SHARING AND PRIVACY POLICY
When you join the Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association (MMUA), we collect certain information about you and your utility or company.
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Details of what is collected if you join via our website are discussed in the information that follows on this webpage.
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If you join using a paper application, we collect information including your name, contact details, and basic utility or company data.
We also ask you a series of questions regarding permission to allow us to share this information with other members of MMUA, potential customers or vendors, and MMUA's legislative or mission allies. The administrator of your utility or company's mmua.org account can add or revoke this permission at any time by signing in at mmua.org. Permissions can also be changed by notifying us via email at info@mmua.org. MMUA does not sell its membership list.
We will also share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of mmua.org if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to (1) meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request; (2) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations; (3) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or (4) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of mmua.org, our users or the public as required or permitted by law.
ONLINE DATA PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Statement sets forth the online data collection and usage policies and practices that apply to mmua.org and does not apply to information we collect in any other fashion.
Collection of information by mmua.org
By using mmua.org, we may request that you provide personal information, including your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number and other generalized background information. Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that is or may be collected by us. This information can include without limitation your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses, but is not linked to your personal information. We also get information from your use of our services, including how you use them. Regarding IP address and Clickstream Data, our server automatically collects data about your server's Internet address when you visit us. When you request pages from our web site, our servers may log your IP address and sometimes your domain name. Your IP address is used to help identify you and to gather demographic information about our users as a whole, but does not include personally identifiable information. Our server may also record the referring page that linked you to us (e.g., another web site or a search engine); the portions of mmua.org you visited; any search terms you have entered on mmua.org, or a referral site; and other web usage activity and data logged by our web servers.
Our use of your information
We use the information we gather on mmua.org, whether personal, demographic, collective or technical, for the purpose of operating and improving mmua.org, fostering a positive user experience, and delivering the products and services that we offer. We may use your contact information in order to send you email or other communications regarding updates at MMUA and mmua.org. The nature and frequency of these messages will vary depending upon the information we have about you. We additionally may employ Internet tracking and analytic tools such as Google Analytics to better understand and deliver a user experience. We also use the information that we gather for internal system administration, to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our web site. Such information may also be used to gather demographic information, such as country of origin and Internet Service Provider (ISP). We may link this information with your personal information.
Disclosure of personal information to others
We do not disclose your personal information to third parties, or your combined personal and demographic information or information about your use of mmua.org, except as described in the GENERAL INFORMATION SHARING AND PRIVACY POLICY section above.
Pertaining to mmua.org exclusively, we disclose information to companies and individuals we employ to perform functions on our behalf, including hosting our web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, and providing customer service. These companies and individuals may have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share that information with any other third party. We will also share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of mmua.org if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to (1) meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request; (2) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations (3) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues (4) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of mmua.org, our users or the public as required or permitted by law.
Use of cookies and local storage
The mmua.org website may contain electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited those pages. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information; they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about our web site usage. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides. You may not decline web beacons; however, they can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies or modifying your browser setting to notify you each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.
Access to, opt-out and/or modification of your information
The mmua.org website may provide account holders limited access to or the ability to modify their personal information. Whenever you use our services, we aim to provide you with access to your personal information. If that information is wrong, we strive to give you ways to update it quickly or to delete it – unless we have to keep that information for legitimate business or legal purposes. When updating your personal information, we may ask you to verify your identity before we can act on your request.
If you are receiving newsletters, commercial emails, or other communications from mmua.org, but subsequently change your mind, you may opt-out by selecting an appropriate link in those email communications as indicated for the opt out or by sending an email to info@mmua.org. We retain indefinitely all the information we gather about you in an effort to make your repeat use of mmua.org more efficient, practical, and relevant. To the extent that we utilize the Google Analytics tools available, you have options with respect to some of those tracking tools or features available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
Security of personal information
We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes. We restrict access to personal information to mmua.org employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.
Children
The mmua.org website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18.
Changes to privacy statement
If we decide to materially change our Privacy Policy for mmua.org, we will post those changes through a prominent notice on the web site so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it. If at any time, you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or believe that we have not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please feel free to email us at info@ mmua.org.
Contact information
The mmua.org website operates under the control of the Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association (MMUA), a Minnesota nonprofit organization with its principal place of business at 3131 Fernbrook Ln N, Ste 200, Plymouth, MN 55447.
TERMS OF SERVICE
This page states the Terms of Use ("Terms") under which you may use the Minnesota Municipal Utility Association’s (MMUA) website at mmua.org ("mmua.org"), an online association management services portal and guide. Please read these Terms carefully. If you do not accept the Terms stated here, do not use mmua.org and its services. By using mmua.org, you agree to be bound by these Terms, including the mmua.org Privacy Statement.
Eligibility
You must be 18 years of age or older, or the age of majority as that is defined in your jurisdiction, whichever is older, to visit or use mmua.org in any manner. By visiting mmua.org or accepting these Terms, you represent and warrant to mmua.org that you have reached the age of majority in your jurisdiction, and that you have the right, authority, and capacity to agree to and abide by these Terms. You also represent and warrant to mmua.org that you will use mmua.org in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
Use of mmua.org content
MMUA, through mmua.org, authorizes you to view and access a single copy of the content available on or from mmua.org solely for your personal use. The contents of mmua.org, and of all other web sites under mmua.org's control, whether partial or otherwise (mmua.org and such other web sites are sometimes collectively referred to as "social media") such as text, graphics, images, logos, button icons, software and other mmua.org content (collectively, "mmua.org content"), are protected under both United States and foreign copyright, trademark and other laws. All mmua.org content is the property of the MMUA or its content suppliers or clients.
You further agree to in no other way misuse mmua.org content that appears on this site, other than those uses specifically permitted herein or by written agreement with mmua.org. Unless specifically permitted herein or in writing by mmua.org, the use of the mmua.org content on any other web site or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited.
MMUA’s ownership rights
MMUA, through mmua.org and its licensors, own all right, title and interest, including without limitation all worldwide intellectual property rights in mmua.org products and services, and all such rights to all derivative works or enhancements of, in and to, or relating to, mmua.org products and services. By entering into this Agreement or by using mmua.org, you will not acquire any intellectual property or similar rights in mmua.org products or services other than a limited right to use the products or services for your personal benefit.
Site restrictions
You may not use any mmua.org site in order to transmit, post, distribute, store or destroy material, including without limitation, mmua.org content, (a) in violation of any applicable law or regulation, (b) in a manner that will infringe the copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights of others or violate the privacy, publicity or other personal rights of others, or (c) that is defamatory, obscene, threatening, abusive or hateful.
You agree that you will not use the mmua.org site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the mmua.org site or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the mmua.org site. You may not obtain, use, or access, or attempt to obtain, use, or access, any materials or information through any means not intentionally made publicly available or provided for through the mmua.org site.
Advertisers
If you participate as an advertiser, you are solely responsible for all advertising content you transmit or submit to mmua.org, whether created by or for you, including but not limited to: (i) artwork, written content, images, photos, graphics, music, animation, data, text, information, URLs, hypertext links, scripts and the content and material included in such components; and (ii) websites and content proximately reachable from such advertising content (collectively, “ads”). Prior to providing any ads and participating as an advertiser, you may be required to read and accept additional written terms and conditions governing your submission of ads to mmua.org (the "advertiser agreement") as described in MMUA’s most recently published visibility materials. MMUA disclaims all liability relating to your ads and you agree to indemnify mmua.org for all losses mmua.org incurs associated with the ads.
By submitting content for advertising to any public area of any mmua.org site, you automatically grant to mmua.org and its affiliates an irrevocable, royalty-free, perpetual, fully paid non-exclusive right (including moral rights) and worldwide license to use, copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, communicate to the public, perform, display, and distribute such content (in whole or in part) and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works such content in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses thereof.
MMUA and mmua.org do not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of advertiser content.
Copyright agent
We respect the intellectual property rights of others, and require the people who use the site do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please forward the following information to mmua.org, designated as such pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2), named below:
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Your address, telephone number, and email address;
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A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
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A description of where the alleged infringing material is located;
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A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
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An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; and
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A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association
Attn: Chief Executive Officer
3131 Fernbrook Ln N., Ste 200
Plymouth, MN 55447
Email info@mmua.org
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LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
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Indemnity
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Miscellaneous
The Terms of Service and the relationship between you and us shall be governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree that any cause of action that may arise under the Terms of Service shall be commenced and be heard in the appropriate court in the State of Minnesota, Hennepin County. You agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within Hennepin County in the State of Minnesota. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. Any waiver of any provision of these Terms of Service by MMUA must be made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of mmua.org specifically referencing these Terms of Service and the provision to be waived. Headings used in these Terms of Service are for convenience only and are not to be relied upon. If any provision of the Terms of Service is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms of Service remain in full force and effect. These Terms of Service will inure to the benefit of, and are intended to be enforceable by, mmua.org's successors, assigns and licensees.
Legal disputes
If any dispute arises between you, another member or advertiser, and/or mmua.org or any combination thereof, as it relates to mmua.org and this Agreement, such dispute shall be submitted and settled in accordance with the Rules of the American Arbitration Association, in Hennepin County, Minnesota and the decision of a single English-speaking arbitrator shall be final and binding.
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