More Info About this Website - This website was conceived and designed by its author to foster awarness of Flag Day in general and the local Kiwanis-Sunnyside Flag Day Parade in particular which has become a long standing tradition in the Sunnyside Queens community of New York City. While this website features the local Kiwanis Club of Sunnyside sponsored Flag Day parade, this website is not an official website of the Kiwanis Club of Sunnyside, nor of Kiwanis International. To contact the sponsors of this parade, the parade chairman, or the author/designer-developer of this website use the contact page and make the appropriate selection (webmaster or parade chairman) when subnmitting an email, or use the link to the official Kiwanis-Sunnyside website for contacting kiwanis-Sunnyside directly.
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This website highlights the annual Kiwanis-Sunnyside Flag Day Parade event, the prime sponsor being the Kiwanis-Sunnyside Club of Sunnyside Queens, NYC (for information about the local Kiwanis-Sunnyside Club of Sunnyside Queens NYC; contact Kiwanis-Sunnyside at the telephone and address, or official website indicated on the Contact page. Please note that this website is not an official website of Kiwanis-Sunnyside, or Kiwanis International and makes no representations as such. Information on activities or content shown within this website pertaining to Kiwanis or any local Kiwanis Club(s), including other organizations or individuals shown or referred to in this website, has either been provided by those organizations or individuals, or has been obtained from publicly available material and is included within this website with or without their knowledge as a courtesy because of their participation or association with the annual Kiwanis-Sunnyside Flag Day Parade, and for informational purposes to the general public and the local community at large.
Use of the site - Information provided within this website is provided "as-is" and without warranty or applicability for any particular purpose. It is up to you to determine the applicability of the information provided. While reasonable care has been excercised in the collection of the information provided in this website, the author cannot be held liable for inaccuracies of any information provided herein. If you find inaccuracies with any information on this website you are encouraged to provide updated information to the author who will review it and at the author's sole discretion provide updated information. In all cases, your sole recourse is to stop using this site. You can contact the author via this website's Contact page and select "Webmaster" as the recipient of your email and be certain to include your email address within the comments section if you require a response back to you. Privacy - This website does not collect personally identifiable information: This website, as do all websites, does collect non-personally identifiable information: Non-personally identifiable information is information that does not identify a specific individual: When a visitor arrives at the site, the web servers collect the IP address, operating system and browser software used, date and time, what pages were visited, what sites were linked from, etc. An IP address (which is not the same as an e-mail address) can identify the user's internet service provider (but not the user's email address or any other personally identifiable information) and, based on that, can suggest the geographic location of the connection. The web servers also collect information about which pages are visited, the order in which they were visited, and which hyperlinks are "clicked".
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Contact Page - For convenience, this website provides a contact form to submit your comments or questions about the parade to the Parade Chairman or questions about the website to the website's creator and webmaster. When submitting your question or comments, as an option, you may select to have a copy of your submission sent back to you: If you select this option your will be required to provide the email address to send the copy to. Similarly, if you ask a question and expect a reply you will need to provide a contact email in the comments section of the form. Failure by you to provide an email address to receive a response to a question shall not consititute a liability for this website or its author/webmaster of any sponsors of this parade or any participants. This website does not collect, store, or compile, or sell email addresses when an email is entered into the contact page either for copy-back purposes or to provide an answer to a question and is only used for the purpose intended. By using the contact form and providing an email address you automatically provide permission to use the email address for the intended purpose. When an email address is submitted through this website for the purposes of being contacted or to respond to a question, either the Parade Chairman, Webmaster, or other indiividual may keep the email for reference purposes. In addition, a submitted email may be forwarded or shared with one or more 3rd parties as necessary to provide a response back to the submitter. External Links - Certain parts of this website will provide links to other websites. This website makes no representations regarding the pirvacy policies and terms of use for sites linked to from this website. Privacy Policies and Terms of Use at sites linked to from this website are governed by the privacy and terms of use policy at the linked to sites. As a user of this site you automatically agree that you acknowledge the privacy policy and terms of use of sites linked to from this website and will not hold the author of this website liable for any breachs of privacy, or any other breaches, by sites linked to from this site that you may visit or utilize any commercial products or services of. |
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This page was last updated on June 14th, 2012
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