UPDATE (6/24/08, 10:30 am CDT): Live data is back up, with the exception of wind and rain data. Those are down for repair. We have re-enabled the WXSIM forecasts and the NWR feed. We have also enabled publishing to other websites on a temporary basis. However, this data is still subject to corruption, so use at your own risk.

Our new Contact page is up, and we are currently working on our new Mobile/WAP site. More details to come soon!

Terms of Use

The germantownwx.com site is (the "Site") is owned and operated by Jake Hughes. ("Owner"). Listed below are the terms and conditions of use (the "Terms") for this Site. By using, accessing and/or viewing information on the Site, you (the "Participant") agree to be bound by these Terms. If you violate these Terms, Owner has the right to terminate your use of the Site and/or take appropriate legal actions against you. We reserve the right to change these Terms at any time by posting on the Site. Participant understands and agrees that its use of this Site is a benefit voluntarily given by Owner and that Owner may withdraw that benefit and rescind your participation at any time for any reason in its sole discretion. If you do not agree to the Terms you cannot use this Site or the services and information offered herein.

  1. PERMITTED USE. You may use the Site and the features, information, pictures and other data contained therein (collectively, the "Data") only for personal, non-commercial purposes. You may access, view and make copies of the Data in the Site for your personal, non-commercial use and will not publish or otherwise distribute the Data for any other purpose, except for purposes described in the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 (United States) license by Creative Commons, viewable at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not utilize the Site to sell a product or service, to advertise or direct activity to other websites or for similar commercial activities without our express written consent. You may not modify, publish, transmit, display, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit, any of the Data, in whole or in part. Additionally, the Site is bound by the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 (United States) license by Creative Commons, viewable at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/.
  2. OWNERSHIP/TRADEMARKS. Participant does not acquire or have any ownership, license or other proprietary interest in the Site or the Data. You understand that the Site and the Data are protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents and other proprietary rights and laws. You cannot use any protected material without the express written consent of the owner of such material except as permitted by law. Specifically, some of Data on this Site, including all data derived from the personal weather station, is unique and proprietary to Owner, is not part of the National Weather Service data network and is not available for commercial use without the advance written consent from Owner. ANY USE OF THIS DATA SHALL ACKNOWLEDGE germantownwx.com AS THE SOURCE. Owner will take appropriate legal action to protect and safeguard any unauthorized use of this Data.
  3. PRIVACY POLICY. The use of personal information for this Site is governed by our Privacy Policy, viewable below.
  4. MONITORING. Owner shall have the right in its sole discretion to refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on the site. Without limiting the foregoing, Owner shall have the right, but not the obligation, to remove any material we in our sole discretion, find to be in violation of the provisions hereof or otherwise objectionable. However, any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including information providers and users, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not that of Owner.
  5. LINKS. The Site includes links and advertisements to other websites, products or services. You acknowledge that these links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by Owner or by any of its third-party providers regarding the content of those other websites. Neither Owner nor its third-party providers are responsible for or will have any liability with respect to the information contained in any websites that you may access as a result of such links including any objectionable or offensive content. If you decide to visit any other website or forum for any reason, you do so at your own risk.
  6. ADVERTISERS/VENDORS/SERVICE PROVIDERS. The Site may contain advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for insuring that materials submitted for inclusion on the Site are accurate and comply with applicable laws. Owner will not be responsible for the illegality of or any error in accuracy in any advertisers. or sponsors. materials. Participant understands and agrees that, in order to provide for the use of this Site, Owner contracts with certain vendors and service providers, which have certain rights, limitations of warranties, and limitations of liability in those contracts. Participant understands and agrees that it is not a third party beneficiary under any such agreements, that it has no rights whatsoever pursuant to such agreements, and that it has no contractual or other relationship with any advertiser, business affiliate, vendor or service provider by reason of the use or information provided on this Site or any agreement relating to the Site. To the extent that Participant has any such rights or claims by operation of law or otherwise, Participant hereby waives any and all rights and claims whatsoever against those vendors and service providers whether resulting from the exercise of any right by such vendors or service providers pursuant to such agreements, the any error or omission in the services provided, not provided, withdrawn or terminated, or the use of this Site.
  7. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. Owner assumes no responsibility for, and shall not be liable for, any damages or expenses you may incur as a result of any inaccuracy, incompleteness or obsolescence of any Data contained in the Site. THE SERVICES OF THE SITE ARE PROVIDED .AS IS., WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER. Without limiting the generality of the forgoing, you agree that neither Owner nor any of its affiliates, employees or agents will be liable to you or to any other party for any direct or indirect damages, or for any special, exemplary, punitive, incidental, consequential or other damages (including, but not limited to, lost profits or lost time), whether based on contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise, which arise out of or are in any way connected with any access to the Site or any viewing or use of any information on the Site. You acknowledge that the limitations in this Section are reasonable and appropriate. Owner DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES REGARDING THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, CURRENCY OR RELIABILITY OF THE DATA IN THE SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OR OTHERWISE ARISING BY LAW OR STATUTE. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF, OR RELIANCE UPON, ALL DATA OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK.
  8. UNAUTHORIZED USE/NO INTERFERENCE. You agree that you will not use or attempt to use any method, device, software or routine to harm others or interfere with functioning of the Site or use and/or monitor any information in or related to the Site for any unauthorized purpose. Specifically, each Participant, whether authorized or unauthorized, agrees that it will not (and will not permit any of its employees, agents, and any other third party) do any of the following:
    • Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Data or content on the Site as to which you do not possess all of the patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, license or other rights to do so;
    • Violate any applicable laws and regulations, whether federal, state, local, foreign or international, applicable to the Site, its Data and/or your use of either, including without limitation U.S. export and re-export control laws and regulations, and you will not otherwise engage in any illegal, manipulative or misleading activity through use of this Site or its Data;
    • Use this Site or the Data or provide, link, or otherwise make available, any information on the Site that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another.s privacy, hateful, harmful to minors or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
    • Impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation;
    • Manipulate, forge, or otherwise modify information or identifiers in a manner which may hide or disguise the origin of any information;
    • Upload, post, email, transmit, link to or otherwise make available any information on the Site that infringes any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights of others, or that contains any virus, computer code, file, or other material which has as its intended purpose, the interruption, destruction, or loss of functionality of any computer software, Data, hardware, telecommunications equipment, or communications ability;
    • Attempt to gain access to confidential information to which you are not entitled;
    • Modify, reverse engineer, reverse assemble, decompile or hack into any of the software applications or related tools or utilities used by this Site;
    • Alter or delete information not provided by you, or interfere with the operation of this Site including, but not limited to, by distribution of unsolicited advertising or mail messages or propagation of worms, viruses and the like.
    • By providing Data or material, you also agree to be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such a submission. Subject to Owner's policies regarding privacy, all e-mails, messages, postings, ideas, suggestions, concepts or other ideas or materials submitted will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary and may be used freely thereafter by Owner for any purposes it deems appropriate including commercial gain. By submitting information to Owner, you automatically grant, or warrant that the owner of such material has expressly granted Owner a royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, display, translate and distribute such material (in whole or in part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed. You also agree to permit any other user of the Site to access, view, download or reproduce the material for any use permitted by the Site. You grant Owner the right to edit, copy, display, publish and distribute any information or material made available on the Site by you.
  9. INDEMNIFICATION. You agree to indemnify and to hold Owner, its subsidiaries, affiliates, business partners, officers, employers and other agents, harmless from and against any loss, liability, damage or expense (including reasonable attorneys fees) arising out of your use of the Site, including, without limitation, any violations by you in the terms and conditions for your use of the Site.
  10. VIRUSES. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the Site free of viruses and other harmful components. However, as the Site is accessible by third parties, we cannot assume any responsibility for any viruses or other harmful components that may affect your computer equipment or other property as a result of your access to, viewing of or downloading any Data from the Site. We do not warrant that the Site, its servers or any Data downloaded from the Site is free from viruses, bugs or other harmful components.
  11. MODIFICATIONS/TERMINATION. Without limiting its other remedies, Owner may immediately discontinue, suspend, terminate or block your and any user's access to this Site at any time in its sole discretion. Owner may amend or modify these terms and conditions at any time. Any such changes will become effective immediately upon the date they are first posted to this Site. You agree to be bound by these revised terms and conditions. It is your responsibility to return to this page from time to time to review the most current terms and conditions. Owner does not assume any obligation to notify you of changes to these terms and conditions.
  12. GOVERNING LAW/JURISDICTION. These terms and conditions and your access to and use of information from the Site are governed by the laws of the State of Tennessee. In the event of any dispute regarding the interpretation or compliance with these terms and conditions, you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Shelby County, Tennessee.
  13. ENTIRE AGREEMENT. These terms and conditions of use for this website constitute the entire agreement between you and Owner regarding your access to the Site and your reproduction and use of any information in the Site. Any waiver of any term or condition shall not be effective unless in a written document signed by an authorized representative of Germantown Weather.


Privacy Policy

Site: GermantownWx.com
URL: http://www.germantownwx.com

Germantown Weather has created this privacy statement in order demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this web site.

GermantownWx.com complies with all statutory and legal requirements with respect to access to information.

Information Automatically Logged

This site uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our site.

This site records the browser type to monitor market penetration of various web browsers so we can better determine the Internet technologies we may utilize in the design of our pages.

This site uses page referrer data - that is, information about the page that linked you to this page - to determine to what extent our page is referenced by other resources on the Web.

Such data is logged when you visit virtually any Internet web site as a basic function of the World Wide Web. On GermantownWx.com, the data is restricted to administrative viewing only.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file sent by a web server to a web browser to be read back from that browser. Cookies are a way to have the browser 'remember' specific bits of information. In other words, a cookie is a file on your hard drive that web sites use to store information about you and your preferences for the site.

GermantownWx.com does not use any cookies at this time.

Personal Information

This site does not request any personal information or collect any information that personally identifies you or allows you to be personally contacted.

Since we do not collect any personal information on this site, we do not share any personal information with any third parties nor do we use any personal information for any purposes.

If you email us, your email address will be kept in the strictest of confidence and will be shared with other related sites ONLY if you specifically permit us to share this information. Otherwise, it will not be shared with anyone, for any reason.

Links to External Sites

This site contains links to other sites. GermantownWx.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. Generally, such links open in a new window to let visitors know they are now visiting a different site's content.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please do not hesitate to contact us at webmaster AT germantownwx.com (remove "AT" and replace with "@").



Copyright Information

All original material on this website, including, but not limited to, live weather data, WXSIM forecasts, and radar images, is protected by international copyright laws. However, this material is offered for use in your non-commercial work under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. I do request that you inform me of the data usage using the Contact page.

Also, I use data and information from the National Weather Service. This data is in the public domain, and thus, is freely available. For more information about the NWS's data, click here.

Occasionally, data from Weather Underground may be used, even though at this time no proprietary material from WU is used on this site. Any info from WU that is used on this site is acceptable because of this message obtained by Ken True at Saratoga-Weather.org:

Hello,

My name is John Celenza and I am the Director of Weather Technology at Wunderground.

Please let me explain.

It is not Weather Underground's intention to disallow folks to use our graphics and data on their personal/non-commercial web sites.

Please feel free to use Wunderground images and data on personal sites, as long as you link those images to Wunderground or give direct credit. Something like "This image courtesy of Weather Underground" is appropriate.

We sincerely appreciate the contributions folks have made to our community. And, we are in no way an organization trying to take...take...take and not give. Our philosophy couldn't be farther from that.

Hopefully we can make the Terms of Service more clear soon.

Thank you!

-John

So, in order to use any WU data, our site must:

  1. Have your weather station submit data to WeatherUnderground as a WU member. (We do: we are member KTNGERMA3)
  2. Use this script ONLY on your personal, non-commercial weather station website. (We do: This is a personal, non-commercial website)
  3. Leave attribution (and hotlink) to WeatherUnderground as the source of the data. (We do: We attribute all outside data to their respective sources)

As a result, we may use WU data. If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us using the Contact form.

We strive to make sure that we do not violate any copyright laws and credit everyone from which we use information or data. If we do not properly credit a source on this website or you have any questions about attribution, please notify us immediately using the Contact form.



Source of format of Terms of Use: Weather Underground

Source of format for Privacy Policy: CarterLake.org

Last modified: June 23, 2008


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