Legal Information
The Tawas Area Chamber of Commerce (www.tawas.com) maintains this website to allow public access to Tawas and Iosco County information.
While we strive to provide accurate information we reserve the right at our discretion to modify, make improvements, revise, delete, amend or correct information contained on this website. Information on this Web site may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors.
The Tawas Area Chamber of Commerce reserves the right to update and amend this privacy policy as deemed appropriate and timely. The Tawas Area Chamber of Commerce encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Tawas Area Chamber of Commerce is protecting your information.

Legal Disclaimer
Nothing contained in this web site is to be considered as the rendering of legal, financial, professional, or other advice for specific cases. Users are responsible for obtaining such advice from their own legal, financial, or other counsel. The information contained on this site is intended for educational, background and informational purposes only.

Data Gathered
* Data gathered from individuals and businesses are to build and present a Member Database for the proliferation of business and individual visibility for community services, the arts, recreation maintaining its mission to promote business, economic growth, and civic development in the Tawas Bay area.
* Our database will provide member’s names, business and individual addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, website addresses and internet email addresses.
* Propriety, Personal, or Sensitive information such as credit card numbers, social security numbers are not requested nor stored for later retrieval by anyone or any entity.
* The database will not be sold, rented or given to any third party.
* No other demographics or personal information is stored or solicited.
* This database is available to all internet users without exclusion twenty-four hours per day.

Email Abuse
To reduce email abuse, individual and business email addresses are suppressed but will be available for internal email generation.

Correction/Updating/Reviewing Individual Information
* Changes may be made to the information contained on this Web site.
* Members may change or review their stored account information such as street address or e-mail address, etc. by contacting the Tawas Area Chamber of Commerce via any normal means of communication including email at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Web Servers
* All www.tawas.com servers, including web servers and database servers are housed and maintained in secure locations. Backups are maintained of the entire www.tawas.com website to protect program and data integrity.
* These files are maintained in a secure – private location and can be retrieved only by authorized personnel. Data backups are not shared with individuals, corporations, other entities, or any third party.
* Access to the database is strictly monitored and protected from outside access. 
* The servers on which data is stored are kept in a secured environment. All backups are stored and locked.
* All employees and volunteers are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices.

Disclaimers – Photos – Graphics – Logo’s
* Photos, Artwork, whether given, acquired via gifts, etc. will be given credits when known.
* Reasonable trace-ability will be given to photos or artwork produced by unidentified individuals offered to the Tawas Area Chamber of Commerce via any media to the extent possible.
* Photos, copies of photos of the yester-years without trace-ability will be used to enhance and promote the mission of the Tawas Area Chamber of Commerce. These photos will not be sold for profit but available to internet users for their historical or cultural enjoyment.
* Specific requests will be made from the author, creator, or business prior to the use of media through the use of consent forms.
* If the source of the media becomes later known an attempt to secure proper use will be made. 
* Issue’s arising from questionable use of any artwork will be immediately removed by the webmaster for www.tawas.com.
* Logos, business photos, or any graphics offered to the Tawas Area Chamber of Commerce by the chamber member will be used within the member or business listing with full approvals and free from royalties. These logos, specific or proprietary artwork will not be used for any other purpose.

Disclaimer for External Links
Web-links used within the www.tawas.com web site may lead to resources located on servers or Web sites maintained by third parties with whom we have no control. Accordingly, we accept no responsibility or liability for any of the material contained on those servers or the accuracy or legality of information contained on other Web sites.
It is the responsibility of the user to evaluate the content and usefulness of information obtained from other Web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Tawas Area Chamber of Commerce Web site.
The privacy practices set forth in this privacy policy are for this web site only. If you link to other web sites, please review the privacy policies posted at those sites.
Links to other Web sites do not constitute an endorsement by the Tawas Area Chamber of Commerce. These links are provided as an information source for users of www.tawas.com only.

Children using this site?
There is no content at www.tawas.com that is unsuitable for children. Therefore information posted by the webmaster within the confines of the website will be suitable for all ages.  

The Privacy Policy has been approved by the Board of Directors on July 9, 2008 for use and publication and release to www.tawas.com 

For question or comments relating to this policy, please send an email to   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   or contact the Chamber Manager at 989 362-8643