ABOUT
This page includes the following:
• Donations
• Legal and Financial Information
• About Off Site Reference Links
• Privacy Statement - Informal Summary
• Privacy Statement - Full Policy Text
• Donations
• Legal and Financial Information
• About Off Site Reference Links
• Privacy Statement - Informal Summary
• Privacy Statement - Full Policy Text
Donations
This web site is primarily supported by donations from anyone, in any amount.
This web site is primarily supported by donations from anyone, in any amount.
• To donate online, please click on the yellow "Donate" button, above. This opens a PayPal page where you may specify either a one-time or monthly contribution, in any amount, using a credit card or a PayPal transfer. If you change your mind, just click cancel; you will not be charged. Please also see our Off Site Links policy, below.
• If you wish be recognized as a donor, please explicitly add a comment that it's OK to have your name listed.
• NOTE: If you are donating to the "Field Guide to Manynard" project, please put the words FIELD GUIDE in the comments on the PayPal page, when making your donation. Likewise, if you are donating to the Community Guide, please put the words COMMUNITY GUIDE in the comments.
• To donate by mail, please make checks or money orders payable to Message Rain, and send them to:
Message Rain, 10 Charles St., Maynard, MA 01754
• If you wish be recognized as a donor, please explicitly add a comment that it's OK to have your name listed.
• NOTE: If you are donating to the "Field Guide to Manynard" project, please put the words FIELD GUIDE in the comments on the PayPal page, when making your donation. Likewise, if you are donating to the Community Guide, please put the words COMMUNITY GUIDE in the comments.
• To donate by mail, please make checks or money orders payable to Message Rain, and send them to:
Message Rain, 10 Charles St., Maynard, MA 01754
Thank you for any support that you are willing to provide!
Note: Town Wide Mall will always be available to everyone, free of advertising and free of charge, regardless.
Legal and Financial Information
Glenn C. Koenig is the creator and webmaster of Town Wide Mall. He started Town Wide Mall on 13 April 2023.
Please see the Opinion page for details on its origin and development since then.
Please see the Opinion page for details on its origin and development since then.
Glenn C. Koenig (herein "He" or "Him" or "His") is a self employed person, residing in the town of Maynard.
townwidemall.com is a domain name registered by him, and is a free service offered to the public by him as an individual. He holds complete and ultimate responsibility for the content of this and the other web sites he maintains.
Message Rain is a d/b/a ("doing business as") name, registered by him with the Town of Maynard, as required by law.
Message Rain is not a corporation nor is it a registered non-profit organization, so donations are not tax-deductible by the donor.
All donations received by him are considered to be his self employment income by the I.R.S., according to their rules and regulations; he is bound to report donations on his tax returns as income, as required.
In addition to donations, he may apply for and accept grant funding from either private or public granting organizations, at his discretion, some of which he may choose to identify on this site or elsewhere, with permission of the donor or grantor. He reserves the right to use any and all donations or grants at his sole discretion, including compensation for his own time and labor, as well as for expenses he may incur in operating this site, except that he may specify donations that are to be dedicated exclusively to specific projects, or as may be required by any agreements with any pertinent granting organization.
townwidemall.com is a domain name registered by him, and is a free service offered to the public by him as an individual. He holds complete and ultimate responsibility for the content of this and the other web sites he maintains.
Message Rain is a d/b/a ("doing business as") name, registered by him with the Town of Maynard, as required by law.
Message Rain is not a corporation nor is it a registered non-profit organization, so donations are not tax-deductible by the donor.
All donations received by him are considered to be his self employment income by the I.R.S., according to their rules and regulations; he is bound to report donations on his tax returns as income, as required.
In addition to donations, he may apply for and accept grant funding from either private or public granting organizations, at his discretion, some of which he may choose to identify on this site or elsewhere, with permission of the donor or grantor. He reserves the right to use any and all donations or grants at his sole discretion, including compensation for his own time and labor, as well as for expenses he may incur in operating this site, except that he may specify donations that are to be dedicated exclusively to specific projects, or as may be required by any agreements with any pertinent granting organization.
Off Site Links
Some links provided on this site or (other web sites I manage) may direct you to web sites that carry advertising or other material that I may or may not agree with and over which I have no control, responsibility, or authority. You, the reader, are responsible for your own decisions as to whether to follow those links, and how to proceed if you choose to do so. I do not employ embedded warning alerts triggered by accessing such links at this time; this and other statements on this page constitute my only warning to you as you continue to use this site.
Privacy Statement & Information
=== Informal Summary ===
This web site, Town Wide Mall, is hosted by Weebly which has their own privacy statement here: https://termsandprivacy.weebly.com/privacy-en1.html
If you use the PayPal "Donate" button, above, what you enter there is governed by their privacy statement here:
https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/privacy-full?locale.x=en_US
Town Wide Mall has two main purposes. For each purpose, we have our own commitment to your privacy, here:
1. To provide information about non-profit organizations, community groups, key individuals, and certain other entities that serve the town or other towns in the area on a volunteer, non-profit, or beneficial basis. To provide this information, we collect data from a variety of sources, including from individuals involved in such organizations, their web sites, social media posts, or other publications, signs, events, or similar. However, when publishing our list of this information, we endeavor to publish only general information about each organization, including its name, web site URL, town in which it is located, and type of organization, unless the organization wishes to be omitted completely. We will only publish more detailed information about an organization or entity, such as names of people, their phone numbers, addresses, e-mail addresses, their roles in the organization, or detailed descriptions of the organization, and the like, if they "opt in" for any of these specific kinds information to be published. That is, if they give us their express permission to do so. Otherwise it will not be shown in our list. If anyone's personal or detailed information, as described above, is published by us in error, and they do not wish it to be made public, we will remove said information as soon as possible, upon receipt of the request to remove it. Please use our Contact page for such requests. We will not use or share this information in any other way, except to contact said organizations directly, to gather, confirm, edit, or otherwise maintain the information on this list.
2. To provide a news feed of selected stories and information to inform residents of the town or anyone who resides elsewhere, posted and updated on a regular or occasional frequency. Any personal information included with any news story or article that's published here is done so only with express permission of the person so named.
This web site, Town Wide Mall, is not designed to take any orders for merchandise or services, and therefore, we have no need to collect any information from users, except as voluntarily entered on our Contact page, by posting comments to our individual news stories, or as by virtue of this web site being hosted by Weebly, the web site hosting company with which we construct the pages on this site using their site building software, which may contain provisions not under our control. Because of this arrangement, and for overall clarity, we are providing a standard Full Privacy Statement, shown below.
If you use the PayPal "Donate" button, above, what you enter there is governed by their privacy statement here:
https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/privacy-full?locale.x=en_US
Town Wide Mall has two main purposes. For each purpose, we have our own commitment to your privacy, here:
1. To provide information about non-profit organizations, community groups, key individuals, and certain other entities that serve the town or other towns in the area on a volunteer, non-profit, or beneficial basis. To provide this information, we collect data from a variety of sources, including from individuals involved in such organizations, their web sites, social media posts, or other publications, signs, events, or similar. However, when publishing our list of this information, we endeavor to publish only general information about each organization, including its name, web site URL, town in which it is located, and type of organization, unless the organization wishes to be omitted completely. We will only publish more detailed information about an organization or entity, such as names of people, their phone numbers, addresses, e-mail addresses, their roles in the organization, or detailed descriptions of the organization, and the like, if they "opt in" for any of these specific kinds information to be published. That is, if they give us their express permission to do so. Otherwise it will not be shown in our list. If anyone's personal or detailed information, as described above, is published by us in error, and they do not wish it to be made public, we will remove said information as soon as possible, upon receipt of the request to remove it. Please use our Contact page for such requests. We will not use or share this information in any other way, except to contact said organizations directly, to gather, confirm, edit, or otherwise maintain the information on this list.
2. To provide a news feed of selected stories and information to inform residents of the town or anyone who resides elsewhere, posted and updated on a regular or occasional frequency. Any personal information included with any news story or article that's published here is done so only with express permission of the person so named.
This web site, Town Wide Mall, is not designed to take any orders for merchandise or services, and therefore, we have no need to collect any information from users, except as voluntarily entered on our Contact page, by posting comments to our individual news stories, or as by virtue of this web site being hosted by Weebly, the web site hosting company with which we construct the pages on this site using their site building software, which may contain provisions not under our control. Because of this arrangement, and for overall clarity, we are providing a standard Full Privacy Statement, shown below.
=== Full Privacy Statement ===
The following standard privacy policy statement was generated by a feature of Weebly, customized for this web site. Although it refers to Message Rain as a "Company," it is in fact merely a "doing/business/as" name, registered by me, Glenn C. Koenig, with the Town of Maynard, as described above.
Message Rain PRIVACY POLICY
Message Rain (the “Company”) is committed to protecting the privacy of its users. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) is designed to help you understand what information we gather, how we use it, what we do to protect it, and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Service. Unless otherwise indicated below, this Privacy Policy applies to any website that references this Privacy Policy, any Company website, as well as any data the Company may collect across partnered and unaffiliated sites. For purposes of this Agreement, “Service” refers to the Company’s service which can be accessed via our website at townwidemall.com or through our mobile application. The terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the Company. “You” refers to you, as a user of Service.
I. CONSENT By accessing our Service, you accept our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, and you consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. In addition, by using our Service, or services across partnered and unaffiliated sites, you are accepting the policies and practices described in this Privacy Policy. Each time you visit our website, or use the Service, and any time you voluntarily provide us with information, you agree that you are consenting to our collection, use and disclosure of the information that you provide, and you are consenting to receive emails or otherwise be contacted, as described in this Privacy Policy. Whether or not you register or create any kind of account with us, this Privacy Policy applies to all users of the website and the Service.
II. INFORMATION WE COLLECT We may collect both “Non-Personal Information” and “Personal Information” about you. “Non-Personal Information” includes information that cannot be used to personally identify you, such as anonymous usage data, general demographic information we may collect, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, preferences you submit and preferences that are generated based on the data you submit and number of clicks. “Personal Information” includes information that can be used to personally identify you, such as your name, address and email address. In addition, we may also track information provided to us by your browser or by our mobile application when you view or use the Service, such as the website you came from (known as the “referring URL”), the type of browser you use, the device from which you connected to the Service, the time and date of access, and other information that does not personally identify you. We use this information for, among other things, the operation of the Service, to maintain the quality of the Service, to provide general statistics regarding use of the Service and for other business purposes. We track this information using cookies, or small text files which include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to a user’s browser from our servers and are stored on the user’s computer hard drive. Sending a cookie to a user’s browser enables us to collect Non-Personal Information about that user and keep a record of the user’s preferences when utilizing our services, both on an individual and aggregate basis. The Company may use both persistent and session cookies; persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your session and until you delete them, while session cookies expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your Internet browser help file directions. If you choose to disable cookies, some areas of the Service may not work properly.
III. HOW WE USE AND SHARE INFORMATION Personal Information: In general, we do not sell, trade, rent or otherwise share your Personal Information with third parties without your consent. We may share your Personal Information with vendors and other third-party providers who are performing services for the Company. In general, the vendors and third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide for the Company. For example, when you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery, or return a purchase, you consent to our collecting and using such personal information for that specific purpose, including by transmitting such information to our vendors (and their service providers) performing these services for the Company. However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment processors, have their own privacy policies in respect of the information that we are required to provide to them in order to use their services. For these third-party service providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so that you can understand the manner in which your Personal Information will be handled by such providers. In addition, we may disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or if you violate our Terms of Use. Non-Personal Information: In general, we use Non-Personal Information to help us improve the Service and customize the user experience. We also aggregate Non-Personal Information in order to track trends and analyze use patterns of the Service. This Privacy Policy does not limit in any way our use or disclosure of Non-Personal Information and we reserve the right to use and disclose such Non-Personal Information to our partners, advertisers and other third parties at our sole discretion.
IV. HOW WE PROTECT INFORMATION We implement reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices in order to protect your Personal Information and ensure that such Personal Information is not accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. However, these measures do not guarantee that your information will not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of such precautions. By using our Service, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to assume these risks.
V. YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING THE USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION You have the right at any time to prevent us from contacting you for marketing purposes. When we send a promotional communication to a user via Weebly, the user can opt out of further promotional communications by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in each promotional e-mail. Please note that notwithstanding the promotional preferences you indicate by either unsubscribing or opting out in the Settings section of the Site, we may continue to send you administrative emails including, for example, periodic updates to our Privacy Policy.
VI. WEEBLY Our Service is hosted by Weebly, Inc. (“Weebly”). Weebly provides us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to provide the Service to you. Your information, including Personal Information, may be stored through Weebly’s servers. By using the Service, you consent to Weebly’s collection, disclosure, storage, and use of your Personal Information in accordance with Weebly’s privacy policy available at https://www.weebly.com/privacy.
VII. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES As part of the Service, we may provide links to or compatibility with other websites or applications. However, we are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by those websites or the information or content they contain. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by us through the Service. Therefore, this Privacy Policy does not apply to your use of a third-party website accessed by selecting a link via our Service. To the extent that you access or use the Service through or on another website or application, then the privacy policy of that other website or application will apply to your access or use of that site or application. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of other websites before proceeding to use them.
VIII. AGE OF CONSENT By using the Service, you represent that you are at least 18 years of age.
IX. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY The Company reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post these changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. Any such modifications become effective upon your continued access to and/or use of the Service five (5) days after we first post the changes on the website or otherwise provide you with notice of such modifications. It is your sole responsibility to check this website from time to time to view any such changes to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to any changes, if and when such changes may be made to this Privacy Policy, you must cease access to this website. If you have provided your email address to us, you give us permission to email you for the purpose of notification as described in this Privacy Policy. X. MERGER OR ACQUISITION In the event we (or Weebly) undergo a business transaction such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your Personal Information may be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge and consent that such transfers may occur and are permitted by this Privacy Policy, and that any acquirer of our (or Weebly’s) assets may continue to process your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. If our information practices change at any time in the future, we will post the policy changes here so that you may opt out of the new information practices. We suggest that you check this Privacy Policy periodically if you are concerned about how your information is used.
XI. EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS & OPTING OUT We will send you Service-related announcements on occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our Service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, or a new enhancement is released, which will affect the way you use our Service, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. Based upon the Personal Information that you provide us, we may communicate with you in response to your inquiries to provide the services you request and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes. We may also use your Personal Information to send you updates and other promotional communications. If you no longer wish to receive those email updates, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each update or communication.
XII. CONTACT US & WITHDRAWING CONSENT If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or the practices of this Site, or wish to withdraw your consent for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Information, please contact us by sending an email to [email protected]. Last Updated: This Privacy Policy was last updated on Sun May 28 2023.
Message Rain PRIVACY POLICY
Message Rain (the “Company”) is committed to protecting the privacy of its users. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) is designed to help you understand what information we gather, how we use it, what we do to protect it, and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Service. Unless otherwise indicated below, this Privacy Policy applies to any website that references this Privacy Policy, any Company website, as well as any data the Company may collect across partnered and unaffiliated sites. For purposes of this Agreement, “Service” refers to the Company’s service which can be accessed via our website at townwidemall.com or through our mobile application. The terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the Company. “You” refers to you, as a user of Service.
I. CONSENT By accessing our Service, you accept our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, and you consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. In addition, by using our Service, or services across partnered and unaffiliated sites, you are accepting the policies and practices described in this Privacy Policy. Each time you visit our website, or use the Service, and any time you voluntarily provide us with information, you agree that you are consenting to our collection, use and disclosure of the information that you provide, and you are consenting to receive emails or otherwise be contacted, as described in this Privacy Policy. Whether or not you register or create any kind of account with us, this Privacy Policy applies to all users of the website and the Service.
II. INFORMATION WE COLLECT We may collect both “Non-Personal Information” and “Personal Information” about you. “Non-Personal Information” includes information that cannot be used to personally identify you, such as anonymous usage data, general demographic information we may collect, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, preferences you submit and preferences that are generated based on the data you submit and number of clicks. “Personal Information” includes information that can be used to personally identify you, such as your name, address and email address. In addition, we may also track information provided to us by your browser or by our mobile application when you view or use the Service, such as the website you came from (known as the “referring URL”), the type of browser you use, the device from which you connected to the Service, the time and date of access, and other information that does not personally identify you. We use this information for, among other things, the operation of the Service, to maintain the quality of the Service, to provide general statistics regarding use of the Service and for other business purposes. We track this information using cookies, or small text files which include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to a user’s browser from our servers and are stored on the user’s computer hard drive. Sending a cookie to a user’s browser enables us to collect Non-Personal Information about that user and keep a record of the user’s preferences when utilizing our services, both on an individual and aggregate basis. The Company may use both persistent and session cookies; persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your session and until you delete them, while session cookies expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your Internet browser help file directions. If you choose to disable cookies, some areas of the Service may not work properly.
III. HOW WE USE AND SHARE INFORMATION Personal Information: In general, we do not sell, trade, rent or otherwise share your Personal Information with third parties without your consent. We may share your Personal Information with vendors and other third-party providers who are performing services for the Company. In general, the vendors and third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide for the Company. For example, when you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery, or return a purchase, you consent to our collecting and using such personal information for that specific purpose, including by transmitting such information to our vendors (and their service providers) performing these services for the Company. However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment processors, have their own privacy policies in respect of the information that we are required to provide to them in order to use their services. For these third-party service providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so that you can understand the manner in which your Personal Information will be handled by such providers. In addition, we may disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or if you violate our Terms of Use. Non-Personal Information: In general, we use Non-Personal Information to help us improve the Service and customize the user experience. We also aggregate Non-Personal Information in order to track trends and analyze use patterns of the Service. This Privacy Policy does not limit in any way our use or disclosure of Non-Personal Information and we reserve the right to use and disclose such Non-Personal Information to our partners, advertisers and other third parties at our sole discretion.
IV. HOW WE PROTECT INFORMATION We implement reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices in order to protect your Personal Information and ensure that such Personal Information is not accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. However, these measures do not guarantee that your information will not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of such precautions. By using our Service, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to assume these risks.
V. YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING THE USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION You have the right at any time to prevent us from contacting you for marketing purposes. When we send a promotional communication to a user via Weebly, the user can opt out of further promotional communications by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in each promotional e-mail. Please note that notwithstanding the promotional preferences you indicate by either unsubscribing or opting out in the Settings section of the Site, we may continue to send you administrative emails including, for example, periodic updates to our Privacy Policy.
VI. WEEBLY Our Service is hosted by Weebly, Inc. (“Weebly”). Weebly provides us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to provide the Service to you. Your information, including Personal Information, may be stored through Weebly’s servers. By using the Service, you consent to Weebly’s collection, disclosure, storage, and use of your Personal Information in accordance with Weebly’s privacy policy available at https://www.weebly.com/privacy.
VII. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES As part of the Service, we may provide links to or compatibility with other websites or applications. However, we are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by those websites or the information or content they contain. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by us through the Service. Therefore, this Privacy Policy does not apply to your use of a third-party website accessed by selecting a link via our Service. To the extent that you access or use the Service through or on another website or application, then the privacy policy of that other website or application will apply to your access or use of that site or application. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of other websites before proceeding to use them.
VIII. AGE OF CONSENT By using the Service, you represent that you are at least 18 years of age.
IX. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY The Company reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post these changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. Any such modifications become effective upon your continued access to and/or use of the Service five (5) days after we first post the changes on the website or otherwise provide you with notice of such modifications. It is your sole responsibility to check this website from time to time to view any such changes to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to any changes, if and when such changes may be made to this Privacy Policy, you must cease access to this website. If you have provided your email address to us, you give us permission to email you for the purpose of notification as described in this Privacy Policy. X. MERGER OR ACQUISITION In the event we (or Weebly) undergo a business transaction such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your Personal Information may be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge and consent that such transfers may occur and are permitted by this Privacy Policy, and that any acquirer of our (or Weebly’s) assets may continue to process your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. If our information practices change at any time in the future, we will post the policy changes here so that you may opt out of the new information practices. We suggest that you check this Privacy Policy periodically if you are concerned about how your information is used.
XI. EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS & OPTING OUT We will send you Service-related announcements on occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our Service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, or a new enhancement is released, which will affect the way you use our Service, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. Based upon the Personal Information that you provide us, we may communicate with you in response to your inquiries to provide the services you request and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes. We may also use your Personal Information to send you updates and other promotional communications. If you no longer wish to receive those email updates, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each update or communication.
XII. CONTACT US & WITHDRAWING CONSENT If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or the practices of this Site, or wish to withdraw your consent for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Information, please contact us by sending an email to [email protected]. Last Updated: This Privacy Policy was last updated on Sun May 28 2023.
The information on this page is subject to change without notice.
For all questions or comments, please use the Contact Us page.
For all questions or comments, please use the Contact Us page.