www.mantzm.com

About

WWW.MANTZM.COM was started in March 1997 to provide a free service to schools in the state of Florida with a bridge to a statewide project called the Florida Student Weather Network (FSWN). Initially, the schools submitted daily weather data using a touch tone phone. During the 1998 Florida Explores Workshop www.mantzm.com was introduced as a new method of entering the daily weather observations into FSWN data network provided by the National Weather Service.
The weather data you see on this site come from readings taken at a location in East Newnan, Georgia. I've always been interested in both the weather and computers. Back in 1999, I purchased a Weather Monitor II from Davis Instruments. To display the data on the computer, I also purchased Ambient Software's Virtual Weather Station. This software provides the bridge from my weather station data for the website. In 2001, I started taking advantage of the data provided by the National Weather Service to create the quick forecast on the website, and the hour-by-hour forecast page. In 2004, I upgraded the system to a wireless Davis Instruments Vantage Pro. The advantages of this system are that it is the most precise amateur weather station equipment available, it contains memory to continue to log weather data if the power should fail or the computer locks up.

About This Data

Most all of the data used is from U.S. Government server this server provides current documented information about meteorological and hydrological data generated by the NWS or received from other official sources. It is for use by the national and international meteorological and hydrological community. This server has access to a selection of current
weather observations, forecasts, warnings, graphical charts, and satellite images which are available from official government sources. This server is however not an official source for these products. Some data is provided by third party's and is not official.

Use of Data and Products

The information on government servers are in the public domain, unless specifically annotated otherwise, and may be used freely by the public. This information shall not be modified in content and then presented as official government material. As required by 17 U.S.C. 403, third parties producing works consisting predominantly of the material appearing in NWS Web pages must provide notice with such subsequently produced work(s) identifying such incorporated material and stating that such material is not subject to copyright protection.

Environmental Disclaimer

www.mantzm.com uses information obtained from the Environmental Canada for producing the Canadian forecasts (Current conditions for Canada come from the National Weather Service though). The Environmental Canada disclaimer/copyright in full can be viewed at: http://www.ec.gc.ca/copy_e.html

Copyright

Authorization is hereby provided to you to copy documents published by www.mantzm.com on the World Wide Web provided such copies are used for non-commercial purposes and solely for use within your organization. This authorization is specifically conditioned upon including all legends, copyright, proprietary and other notices which appear herein on all copies you make of such documents whether they pertain to www.mantzm.com or another party.

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The documents furnished herein by www.mantzm.com are subject to change without notice.

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Privacy

EFFECTIVE AS OF October 20, 2008

www.mantzm.com is strongly committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy discloses how we collect, use and share information we gather about you on the www.mantzm.com web site and the choices you have regarding our use of and your ability to correct the information. This Privacy Policy applies only to the www.mantzm.com web site and www.mantzm.com internet-enabled services. We hope that this disclosure will enhance your experience on the Internet and reinforce the trust that you place in www.mantzm.com.

Information Collected Online
Most of the information provided by www.mantzm.com is offered without our collecting any personally identifiable information from you. For instance, you can view weather conditions in your hometown or anywhere in the world without giving out any personally identifiable information. In order to maximize your experience and to provide you with enhanced products and services, however, www.mantzm.com collects personally identifiable information (e.g., name, e-mail address, etc.) and demographic data (e.g., zip code, gender, birth date, interests, etc.) that you voluntarily supply to us. When you make a purchase or sign up for one of our premium services, we will also collect your billing address, phone number, and credit card information. Some examples of instances when we collect personally identifiable information include when you:

Subscribe to our premium or enhanced services. (Not Currently Available)
Complete a survey
Send us an e-mail message
Participate in an online forum or community, or
Customize www.mantzm.com.

Thus, you have a choice as to whether to provide your personally identifiable information. Although you are not required to disclose any personally identifiable information to us, portions of our web site and other specialized services may be unavailable to you without such information.

How We Use Your Information
We use the information you provide in a limited number of ways. We may use the information to service your account, conduct a transaction that you have requested, display information and advertisements that match your interests and profile, notify you if you've won a contest or sweepstakes and compile demographic statistics about our users. We may on occasion combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from other parties to enhance our ability to market to you those products or services that may be of interest to you.

How We Share Your Information
One of the most valuable assets of our business is you. www.mantzm.com does not rent, sell or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except as described below.

www.mantzm.com and its Affiliates
We provide you with the opportunity to opt-in to receive special offers from www.mantzm.com and it affiliates. If you opt-in, www.mantzm.com and its affiliates will use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from www.mantzm.com and its affiliates, including www.mantzm.com Corporation.

Links to Other Web Sites
Like many Web sites on the Internet, www.mantzm.com links to pages located on web sites maintained by various other entities not bound by our Privacy Policy. In some cases you may link to pages of other web sites that are framed with elements of www.mantzm.com such as in the header or footer. The URL will identify the site you are visiting. We are not responsible for the information collection practices of other Web sites. The Privacy Policies of other organizations may differ from ours, for example, with respect to the level of security, use of cookies, and collection, use and disclosure of personally identifiable information.

Other Limitations on Privacy
We may provide personally identifiable information without your permission (i) pursuant to judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants, or orders; (ii) where www.mantzm.com believes our property or an individual's safety or security is at risk; iii) if we find that your actions violate our Legal Restrictions and Terms of Use; or iv) where otherwise required by law.

E-mail a Friend
If you choose to use a service that allows you to e-mail a page of our site to a friend, we do not have access to and do not collect any personally identifiable information regarding you or your friend.

IP Addresses, Cookies, Web Beacons and Gifs www.mantzm.com and Third Party Processors acting on our behalf uses various Internet technologies which help us to manage our site operations and track usage behavior so that we can tailor information and advertisements to make your visits more enjoyable and meaningful. These Internet technologies include:

IP Addresses: random numbers assigned to individual computers which www.mantzm.com uses to administer our Web site and help diagnose problems with our servers.
Cookies: small electronic files transferred from our Web site to your hard drive. Cookies enable www.mantzm.com to recognize repeat visitors, track usage behavior and facilitate your access to and use of our site. If you wish, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a Cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all Cookies. You can do this by resetting your browser (such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your Cookies. If you turn Cookies off, however, you won't have access to many of the features which make your experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.
Web Beacons (sometimes called single-pixel Gifs): electronic images that allow www.mantzm.com to count users who have visited certain Web pages we wish to track. For example, www.mantzm.com may include Web Beacons in promotional e-mail messages in order to count how many messages have been opened and acted upon. Web Beacons may also be placed by our advertising partners on www.mantzm.com Web pages to help determine the effectiveness of Internet advertising campaigns.

Information that is collected via IP Address, Cookie and Web Beacon technologies is not personally identifiable. However, if you choose to provide www.mantzm.com with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in these technologies. In addition, we currently do not share aggregate (not individual) site usage statistics and demographic information with advertisers and other third parties, but this information does not include any personally identifiable information. Personal information about you as an individual will not be provided to any third party without your consent, except under the circumstances described above in the "Other Limitations on Privacy" section. To obtain information about the privacy and security practices of Google AdSense, a Third Party Processor with which www.mantzm.com contracts to assist it in tracking site usage and advertising using these Internet technologies, view Google's Privacy Policy.

www.mantzm.com works with Google AdSense to serve ads on this site. Some of these ads contain Cookies and/or Web Beacons that are used to track user behavior. This privacy policy does not cover the use of Cookies or Web Beacons set by Google or any other third party advertisers. www.mantzm.com does not have control over, or even access to, the information contained in these third party Cookies or Web Beacons. For more information about how Google uses the information collected by these Cookies and Web Beacons, please review Google's Privacy Policy.

Children's Privacy
www.mantzm.com is committed to protecting the safety and privacy of young people using the Internet. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 and believe that children should get their parents' or guardians' consent before giving out any personal information. On occasion www.mantzm.com may contain links to third party web sites geared to children. The linked sites are not under the control of www.mantzm.com. We are not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, nor are we responsible for the privacy practices of the operators of those sites with respect to children. We strongly encourage parents and guardians to review the Privacy Policies of all linked sites.

Our Commitment to Security
Keeping the information you provide to www.mantzm.com secure is important to us. We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to protect and safeguard your data. Of course, although www.mantzm.com uses standard industry practices to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee that your communications with our site will never be unlawfully intercepted, or that your personal information will never be unlawfully accessed by third parties.

Changes to the Privacy Policy
www.mantzm.com reserves the right to alter our Privacy Policy as business needs require. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to anyone. All changes to this policy will be posted on our web site prior to the time they take effect. In the event that we make material changes to the way we use personally identifiable information, affected consumers will be notified via e-mail and will be given the opportunity to opt-out.