LINKS TO OTHER SITES

The City of Mason has created web sites at www.imaginemason.org and www.masonoh.org. This policy specifically addresses links created on these sites.

The City of Mason web sites are designed to provide residents with access to community information and to government departments, services, and programs. From time to time, links may be provided to other sites that provide state or federal government information or additional information about the community, including festivals, cultural events, and local news.

Links may be made to websites that meet the following criteria:

• Maintained by a non-profit charitable, educational, hospital, scientific, or cultural organization serving the City of Mason.
• Maintained by a state, local or federal agency, or local school or library.
• Maintained by an organization that receives direct financial support from the city.
• Provides a unique online tool to assist residents in accessing information on the site or in communicating with each other, e.g., Yahoo.

GROUPS
In order to avoid the appearance of city endorsement of political content, links shall not be made to sites that are associated with, sponsored by, or serving a candidate for elected office or any political party or organization supporting or seeking to defeat any candidate for elective office or ballot proposal.

NOTE: Some of the links made available to you through the City of Mason's website will allow you to leave the city's site. Please be aware that the Internet sites available through these links, and the materials that you may find there, are not under control of the city.

Therefore, the City of Mason cannot and does not make any guarantee to you about these sites or the materials available there. The fact that the city has made these links available to you is not an endorsement or recommendation to you by the city of any of these sites or any material found there. The city is providing these links only as a convenience to you.

** The City of Mason reserves the right to deny posting links that, in the city's judgment, do not coincide with the mission of the city's web site to provide valuable information to residents.