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Our Privacy and Copyright Policy

The personal information provided by you to Leadership Asheville will only be used for the purposes for which it was collected and for any other authorized use. Personal information and email addresses will not be disclosed to other organizations and measures will be taken to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure.

Copyright

You may not reproduce, distribute (in any form including over any local area or other network or service), display, perform, create derivative works of, sell, license, extract for use in a database, or otherwise use any materials (including computer programs and other code) on this site, except that you may use site material in the form of one machine readable copy that you will use only for personal, non-commercial or community leadership development purposes. Otherwise, you should not alter it or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice displayed on the site material.

Links, Frames and Metatags

You may link to the public pages of the site, as long as the link does not cast us in a false or misleading light. You may not frame the content of our site. You may not use metatags or any other "hidden text" that incorporates our name without our express written consent.

Links to Other Websites

The site contains links to other websites that we think may be of interest to you. We have no control over these other sites or their content. Except for information, products or services clearly identified as being supplied by Leadership Asheville, we do not in any way review, operate, or control any material, information, products or services on other sites.

Forums

The site may include various forums that allow you to communicate with us and other users. We do not control the messages, information or files delivered to bulletin boards. Messages placed on a forum represent the views of our visitors and not those of UNC at Asheville or Leadership Asheville. You should be aware that messages you post to the site are not private or confidential. You grant us irrevocably the unrestricted right to use, reproduce, modify, translate, transmit, or distribute any message, file, data or other communication you post on our bulletin boards in any form, now known or later developed.

You agree not to:

• upload, post, display, distribute or otherwise publish on the bulletin boards any material that is libelous, obscene, pornographic, harassing or abusive;
• infringe any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary right; violates any right of publicity or privacy; or is otherwise illegal
• use the site to distribute chain letters, junk mail, "spamming" solicitations or other bulk communications of any kind
• impersonate any other person or entity while using the site
• upload any information, files, code or other materials that contain viruses or are able to disrupt or damage the site, software, hardware or equipment

We have the right, but not the obligation, to remove any content that in our judgment does not comply with the rules on the site or is otherwise objectionable or inaccurate.

Website Accessibility Statement

The majority of pages on this website are accessible to individuals with disabilities in accordance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. If you have accessibility problems, please let us know.

Information for Users with Visual Disabilities

Images on our website are accompanied by alternative text describing graphics if your browser supports the alt-text function. Documents on our website are presented in many formats. These formats are generally accessible to users using screen reading software. Some files are posted as Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format) files. Users with visual disabilities click here for free access to software from Adobe which will make reading PDF files easier Adobe Acrobat Accessibility Link. If you have any difficulty viewing any page with adaptive technology, click here to let us know.

Feedback and Assistance

If you cannot fully access the information on a particular page, please send an email to us with the web address (URL) of the page. We may be able to assist you by providing the information to you in an alternate format. If you notice any errors or have suggestions on how we can improve the accessibility of this website please contact us.

Translation Requests

In accordance with the Executive Order 13166, we are pursuing alternative methods for translating a majority of the pages on this website for individuals with limited English proficiency. If you have difficulty reading the information on this website in English, please let us know and we will attempt to find a solution for your translation request.

Acknowledgements

The work of Leadership Asheville would not be complete without the collaboration, vision, and expertise of talented individuals in the community who are dedicated to working with us as we strive to reach our goals. We would like to thank the following individuals for their hard work and contribution to our various website projects.

Donna Carter Koger
Carter Computer Services, Asheville NC
Mrs. Koger has 12 years experience related to the integration of technology and education. she created and taught numerous technology workshops to university faculty and staff, supervised instructional technology labs, and created websites for university colleges, departments and programs. Donna also managed university projects in technology based corporate training and curriculum development for U.S. military and law enforcement agencies. Currently, Mrs. Koger is working as a web developer and consultant for small businesses and individuals in the greater Asheville area.

Dr. Joe Brownsmith, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at UNC Asheville and Marlene Roden, Business Computer Technologies Instructor at AB Tech Community College, were instrumental in helping us to conceptualize, design and update our graduate database.

During the year long creation of our website there were two people whose dedication to the project helped to make it a reality.

Lorraine Walsh, the Director of Multimedia Arts & Sciences at UNC Asheville, served as the faculty liaison as we created our website.

The site was created by Shawn Peters, a student at UNC Asheville. His commitment, creativity and artistic design were an integral part of our website development.

We began work on this website in the summer of 2005. While it has always been on our minds, we've only been able to work on it on a part-time basis. In many ways, we have looked to and relied on community leadership websites around the world for ideas and direction. In many cases, we have borrowed heavily from other sites. In that regard, many people have assisted us in this effort and have provided important content for us so that we could offer this site to our community in a timely manner. We thank the entire community leadership programming network for their good work and generous spirit. We certainly intend to do our part in "paying it forward." If there is any content which would benefit other community leadership organizations, please feel free to use it. We hope that continued sharing will allow all ships and communities to rise with the tide.