Terms of Service – Privacy Policy

BY USE OF FLAGSCANNER, YOU AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF SERVICE

You agree that you will not use Flagscanner, our feeds, alerts, and any other information from our site while committing a crime.  It is illegal and if you get caught, you will be charged with a felony offense. Flagscanner cooperates fully with all Law Enforcement Agencies. Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner maintains this service to engage and interact with the community, providing relevant and timely community news, information, events, distribution of crime prevention and public safety tips, traffic information, investigative requests for information, urgent notification of critical incidents which may affect residents,  for the people having an interest in the Flagstaff region emergency services. Any violation of these Terms of Service will result in immediate removal of your account from our site. If your account is terminated due to a violation, a refund will NOT be given. We reserve the right to update these Terms of Service at any time. Continued use of the service constitutes agreement to the new and existing terms.

Our service should never be used to report a crime or suspicious activity.  To report a crime or suspicious activity, please call 9-1-1 for emergencies or (928) 774-1414 for non-emergencies. 

Flagscanner does not have traditional business hours.  Our staff and volunteers work on an as-available basis which provides coverage through most office hours and late evenings.

SUBSCRIPTION AND COMMUNICATION

By becoming a subscriber, you consent to receive SMS messages and emails from Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner.

PAYMENT AND REFUND POLICY

Once your subscription starts, refunds for payments already made are not possible. If you wish to cancel, please follow the cancellation policy outlined below.

CANCELLATION POLICY

To cancel your subscription, visit your account page and cancel the membership from there. Account cancellations are not accepted via telephone or email. Access to the site will terminate on your renewal date.

CONTENT GUIDELINES

Flagscanner reserves the right to remove any comments that include, but are not limited to containing:

  1. Profane, obscene, or sexually explicit content and/or language;
  2. Content that promotes, fosters, or perpetuates discrimination based on race, creed, color, age, religion, gender, or national origin;
  3. Defamatory or information asserted as fact for which the poster does not have a reasonable basis to believe is accurate;
  4. Treats to any person or organization;
  5. Comments in support of, or opposition to, any political candidate or ballot measures
  6. Solicitation of outside commerce, including but not limited to advertising of any business or product for sale or other personal uses;
  7. Conduct in violation of any federal, state, or local law;
  8. Encouragement of illegal activity or violence;
  9. Suggestions that a person(s) self-inflict personal injury or death or receive the same by others;
  10. Information that may tend to compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems;
  11. Content that violates a local ownership interest, such as a copyright, of any party;
  12. Harassment or content that constitutes and/or facilitates stalking;
  13. Content that violates the right to privacy;
  14. Repetitive content;
  15. Comments that may reasonably interfere with, inhibit, or compromise law enforcement investigations, police tactics, police responses to incidents and/or the safety of police staff and officers, firefighters, or medical personnel;
  16. Posts or comments that contain any external links; and
  17. Personally identifiable information of another person such as an address, dates of birth, personal phone numbers or personal email addresses, other information protected by law or medical information.

A comment posted by a member of the public on Flagscanner website or social media sites is the opinion of the commentator or poster only, and publication of a comment, or no response to a negative comment, does not imply endorsement of, or agreement by Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner, nor do such comments necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner.

DISCLAIMERS

Flagscanner receives information through the use of digital and analog scanners. Although every effort will be made to provide accuracy, totality, appropriateness, and validity of the information contained on our site, Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner is not liable for any errors, omissions, or delays in the presented information or any losses, injuries, or damages arising out of the information posted. At times, stories may be copied over from press releases sent by agencies under the fair use doctrine of the US Copyright Laws, as they are used for news reporting.

CLAIMS

All claims must be filed within one year. You must bring any claim against Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner within one year of the date you could first bring the claim. If you fail to file your claim against Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner within one year, the claim is permanently barred. Any legal actions taken against Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner will result in the plaintiff bearing all legal fees. This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the state of Arizona.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

You can recover from Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner and its affiliates, resellers, distributors, and vendors only direct damages up to an amount equal to the amount you pay for your subscription for one month. You cannot recover any other damages, including consequential, lost profits, special, indirect, incidental, or punitive damages. The limitations and exclusions apply to anything related to all claims against Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner, including but not limited to claims related to this agreement, Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner. The limitations and exclusions also apply if this remedy does not fully compensate you for any losses or failure of its essential purpose or if Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner knew or should have known about the possibility of the damages. This provision applies to all claims that arise under, in connection with, or relate to this agreement or your subscription; that arose under, in connection with, or relate to any previous agreement or subscription or that otherwise arose before these terms went into effect, or that may arise in connection with or after or otherwise relating to the termination of this agreement or your subscription.

WAIVER OF CLASS ACTIONS

You and Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner agree that each party may bring disputes against the other party only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding, including, without limitation, a federal or state class action lawsuit. However, nothing in this limits your right or Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner’s right to bring a lawsuit against each other as an individual plaintiff. This provision applies to all claims that arise under, in connection with, or relate to this agreement or your subscription; that arose under, in connection with, or relate to any previous agreement or subscription or that otherwise arose before these terms went into effect, or that may arise in connection with or after or otherwise relating to the termination of this agreement or your subscription.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

You agree to not copy text or screenshots from our site to be shared publicly via social media or other.

DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY

Best efforts have been expended to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of information posted to this website, however, Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner provides the information “as is.” Neither Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner nor any of its employees/volunteers makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed by any documents available from this web site, and does not represent that the use of any information, apparatus, product, or process available from this web site will not infringe privately owned rights.

Flagscanner provides external links as a service to users of its website. External links are not affiliated in any manner with Flagscanner. Flagscanner does not accept responsibility for or endorse the content or condition of any linked site. Flagscanner has no control over and is not affiliated with any of the websites linked from this site, has no control over these sites or their activities, and shall not be liable to you or anyone else in connection with any information or services provided.

DISCLAIMER OF ENDORSEMENT

Reference within this site to any specific commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner. The views and opinions of authors expressed here do not necessarily state or reflect those of Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.

ACCOUNT DELETION

To request we remove all data related to your account from our servers, please write to sales@flagscanner.com

DATA RETENTION

We shall retain certain records of the information collected about you for five (5) years after the termination of your account. Otherwise, we reserve the right to delete and destroy all of the information collected about you upon termination of your account unless you request otherwise.

Notwithstanding the above, you have the right to request the deletion of your data. Depending on the Services that we have provided to you, we may be required to hold certain data for five (5) years from the date of request of deletion of data, for legal purposes. We cannot continue to provide our Service to you if you request the deletion of your data.

You can request the deletion of your data as described above by emailing sales@flagscanner.com. All requests for data deletion must be made in writing.

PRIVACY NOTICE

We collect no personal information about you when you visit this Web site, unless otherwise stated or unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, we collect and store certain information automatically. What we collect and store automatically is:

  • The Internet Protocol (IP) address of the domain from which you access the Internet (whether yours individually or provided as a proxy by your Internet Service Provider (ISP))
  • The date and time you access our site
  • The pages you peruse (recorded by the text and graphics files that compose that page)
  • And the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our site

We use the summary statistics to help us make our site more useful to visitors, such as assessing what information is of most and least interest to visitors, and for other purposes such as determining the site’s technical design specifications and identifying system performance or problem areas.

This information is NOT shared with anyone beyond the support staff on this website, except when required by law enforcement investigation or public record disclosure laws, and is used only as a source of anonymous statistical information.

From time to time, we may obtain information about you or your contacts from third-party sources, such as public databases, social media platforms, third-party data providers, and our joint marketing partners. We take steps to ensure that such third parties are legally or contractually permitted to disclose such information to us.

  • Examples of the information we receive from other sources include demographic information (such as age and gender,) device information (such as IP addresses,) location (such as city and state.) We may use this information, alone or in combination with other information, to enhance our ability to provide relevant marketing and content to you and to develop and provide you with more relevant products, features, and services.
COMMENTS SENT BY EMAIL

You may choose to provide us with personal information, as in an e-mail message containing your comments or questions. We use this information to improve our service to you or to respond to your request. There are times when your message is forwarded, as e-mail, to other Scanner Log USA LLC dba Flagscanner employees/volunteers who may be better able to help you. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations or public record disclosure laws, we do not share your e-mail with any other outside individuals or organizations. However, since police, fire, EMS, sheriff, and DPS are public institutions, it should be assumed that your email to us may at some point become part of the public record.