Lakeland.net is Lakeland and Polk County’s Premier Community Portal and serves to create an online community through its internet web site. Lakeland.net allows visitor(s) to signup and create a unique personal profile thus becoming members. Members describe their personal interest, view other members’ profiles, communicate with one another, review businesses, share personal photos and manage their own personal or business blog as well as contribute to forum topics. Lakeland.net as part of serving as a community portal will display some information entered by members in their profiles to other members and visitors in an effort to contribute to the growth and benefit of the online community. In addition, Lakeland.net provides members with tools to allow them to change their information in their profiles at their own discretion as we as control how other members and Lakeland.net service communicate with them directly.

Lakeland.net appreciates the need for online privacy and will work with our members to maintain their privacy. Should you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at privacy@lakeland.net.

Lakeland.net information submitted by members and visitors such as name and email address to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the Lakeland.net service. In addition, Lakeland.net also collects other profile information including but not limited to: location, personal interests, ethnicity, birth date, etc. in an effort to assist members and visitors in finding and communicating with other members.

Lakeland.net logs non-personal and unidentifiable information including but not limited to IP address, profile information, aggregated user data, operating system and browser type from members and visitors to Lakeland.net web site. Lakeland.net uses this non-personal and unidentifiable information to manage the website and track usage and to plan, develop, improve website services. Lakeland.net may choose to share this non-personal and unidentifiable information with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members and visitors. IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.

Lakeland.net may use a Member’s Profile information including members’ avatars, first name and usernames for display to contribute to the growth and benefit of the online community. Lakeland.net uses email addresses for the purpose of sending invitations to potential new members to join Lakeland.net, to invite members’ to join another member’s network and to send notifications related to Lakeland.net services. With the exception of inviting friends, adding friends and notifications a member’s email address is not shared or displayed to members or visitors. Lakeland.net provides a private message system to allow members to communicate with other members without exposing a member’s email address. Members’ full names are not directly revealed to other members. Lakeland.net does provide searching on member’s usernames and email addresses. These searches require exact matches.

Lakeland.net may also use a member’s email address to send updates, newsletters or news regarding services. Members may choose not to receive emails of this type by contacting Lakeland.net at remove@Lakeland.net.

Lakeland.net at its discretion may from time to time sponsor or partner with others to offer a promotion, a sweepstakes or content on Lakeland.net. Members and visitors may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. Lakeland.net may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. During collection of personal information it will be clear who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.

Lakeland.net member may invite friends to join the Lakeland.net service by sending invitation emails via Lakeland.net’s automated invitation system. Lakeland.net will store the email addresses entered by the member so the respondents may be added to the friend’s list of the inviting member as well as to send reminders of the invitations. Lakeland.net does not sell these email addresses or use them for any purpose other than to send the initial invitations or invitation reminders (up to a maximum of (3) per email address). Invitation recipients may contact Lakeland.net to request removal of their information from our database.

You may prevent Lakeland.net email invitations and other messages from being sent to any email address you control by sending a single email with the subject “BLOCK” to privacy@lakeland.net. Please note that the email must come from the account you wish to block.

Lakeland.net uses cookies to store members’ or visitors’ preferences and to record session information, for purposes including ensuring that members or visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising, and web page content based on browser type and member profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. Browsers can be configured to accept or reject cookies as well as whether or not to notify you when cookies are set. Each browser is different so please review your help documentation to change your settings. However, Lakeland.net requires the use of cookies for many functions on the site and Lakeland.net may allow 3rd party advertisers that may be currently presenting advertisements on pages to set and or access their cookies. The privacy policy related to an Advertisers’ use of cookies is their own privacy policy and not that of Lakeland.net.

Lakeland.net contains likes to other sites and is not responsible for the privacy policies and or practices of the sites Lakeland.net links too. Lakeland.net advises members or visitors linking to other sites review the privacy policy provided by the site the member or visitor linked too. Lakeland.net’s privacy policies only govern the information collected on Lakeland.net.

As a member of Lakeland.net if you voluntarily post public information to Blogs, Forums, Classifieds, Job Listings, Photo Galleries or any other Public Forums that Lakeland.net provides, please be aware that the information you supply can be accessed by the public and could in turn be used by the public to send unsolicited communications.

Lakeland.net members may modify or remove any of their personal information at their leisure by logging in to their account on Lakeland.net and accessing the Edit Profile and Edit Settings features available.

Members may choose to or not to receive email notification from Lakeland.net by sending an email to remove@lakeland.net.

Lakeland.net may choose to deliver ads to members or visitors directly or through partners. Lakeland.net and or our advertising partners may set cookies and these cookies allow ad servers to recognize your computer each time they send you online advertisements. Ad servers may compile information about where you, or other using your computer, saw advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows Lakeland.net and or our advertising partners to deliver targeted advertisements that we or they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies on Lakeland.net and does not cover the use of cookies by any of our advertising partners.

Lakeland.net member accounts are secured by member created passwords and Lakeland.net takes extreme caution to insure member account information is kept private. Lakeland.net uses all possible reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database and we restrict access to member information to employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as customer service personnel and technical staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time.

This privacy policy outlines the collection, disclosure and sharing of information collected on Lakeland.net. Lakeland.net will not disclose personal information to any third party unless Lakeland.net believes a disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by Lakeland.net, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the Lakeland.net Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of Lakeland.net. Lakeland.net reserves the right to transfer personal information to any successor in interest that acquires the rights to that information as result of the sale of Lakeland.net or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest.

Lakeland.net may make changes to our privacy polices from time to time. If changes are made to the privacy policy they will be posted on the Lakeland.net website to educate members and visitors to the Lakeland.net website how information is collected, used and when it may be disclosed. Members and visitors are bound by any minor changes to the policy when they use the site after those changes have been posted. If Lakeland.net plans to use a members’ personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on Lakeland.net for 30 days.

Should you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this site or your dealings with Lakeland.net, please contact us at: privacy@lakeland.net (3730 Cleveland Heights Blvd. Suite 2 Lakeland, Florida 33803)