MARK Rail Legal Notices

© 2025 MARK Rail. This website ("site") is published and maintained by the City of Racine ("City") on behalf of the MARK Rail Study Partners¹. Unless otherwise indicated, all text and other information on this site are the intellectual property of MARK Rail. All site design, text, graphics, interfaces, and selection and arrangements thereof are copyright of MARK Rail. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, except as otherwise noted. Permission is granted to download information from this site, so long as such information is not used for commercial, fraudulent, or defamatory purposes.

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MARK Rail Study Website Policies and Terms and Conditions of Use

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE AND DISCLAIMER CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE. BY USING THIS SITE, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO THESE, THE CITY RESERVES THE RIGHT, AT ANY TIME, TO MODIFY, ALTER, OR UPDATE THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, AND YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY SUCH MODIFICATIONS, ALTERATIONS, OR UPDATES.

Disclaimer

The City believes the information on this website is current, true, and accurate. The materials on this website are provided “as is.” The City makes no warranties, express or implied, and hereby disclaims all other warranties, including without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights. Further, the City does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on this site or otherwise relating to such materials on any sites linked to this site.

Provisions

• A. Accuracy
• Changes are made periodically to Study documents and these changes may or may not be reflected in the materials of information present on this site. In the event of a difference between the information on this site and official information available at City offices, the official information should prevail. Additionally, because this site is frequently under development, materials and information may be deleted, modified, or moved to a different part of this site without advance notice.
• B. Notices of Public Meetings
• When notices of items are placed on this site, including schedules for upcoming public meetings, they are done so only to facilitate public access to such information, as a supplement to the legally required methods of posting notices.
• C. Emails to Study Partners
• Persons submitting email comments or questions to the MARK Rail Study Partners should be aware that the City cannot guarantee, nor does it represent that such communications will remain private or confidential. Similar to mailed or delivered comments, comments received via email may become subject to public disclosure under the Wisconsin Public Records Law and/or part of the discovery procedure in a civil lawsuit. Personal contact information supplied by a member of the public as part of such comments, such as mailing/home address or email address, may be subject to disclosure pursuant to the Public Records Act.
• D. Email Comments on Public Meetings
• Comments on public meeting items which are submitted by email will NOT automatically become part of the official record of such events, unless required by law. Persons wishing to comment on public meeting items should attend the public meeting(s) and express themselves in person at the meeting, or if the notice of a particular meeting allows written comments, then comments may be submitted in that manner.
• E. Links to Other Websites
• Links from the MARK Rail Study’s site to other websites on the internet do not constitute an endorsement of the MARK Rail Study. When users select a link to an outside website, they are leaving the MARK Rail Study site and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners/sponsors of the external linked-to website. The City is not responsible for the content, quality, or accuracy of any off-site materials referenced or linked through the MARK Rail Study’s site. By using the MARK Rail Study’s site, the user acknowledges and accepts that the MARK Rail Study is not responsible for any materials stored on other internet sites, nor is liable for any inaccurate, defamatory, offensive, or illegal materials found on other internet sites, and that the risk of injury from viewing, hearing, downloading, or storing such materials rests entirely with the user. The City does not exercise any editorial control over the information users may find at these locations, and disclaims any and all liability for and knowledge of their contents. The City does not endorse or recommend any third-party website, product, or services, unless otherwise noted.
• F. Links to the MARK Rail Study’s Site
• Advance permission to link to the MARK Rail Study’s site is not necessary. The party linking to the MARK Rail Study’s site, however, should be aware that the Study’s site may change at any time without notice. Entities and individuals linking to the MARK Rail Study’s site shall not capture pages within frames the City won’t be using, present the Study’s site content as its own, or otherwise misrepresent this site’s content or misinform users about the origin or ownership of its content. Any link to the Study’s site should be a full forward link that passes the user’s browser to the Study’s site unencumbered. The web browser’s “back” button should return the visitor to the originating site if the visitor wishes to back out of this site.

External Website Link Policy

The establishment of links to external websites on this site is solely permitted in conformance with the purpose of this site and this policy. The City imposes reasonable restrictions on the establishment of links to external websites and will not provide links to websites: containing corporate or commercial logos unless otherwise noted below; associated with or sponsored by or serving a candidate for elective office or a lobbying group; of home pages of individuals; promoting hate or exhibiting hate, bias, discrimination on any basis, obscenity or otherwise defamatory content.

Entities and organizations wishing to establish external links on this site must submit a written request (email is acceptable) containing all information necessary to verify the facts stated and as may be necessary to establish that the proposed link is in compliance with this policy. The City reserves the right to 1) deny an external link application as to any person, business, or organization when it is determined, following review of a request, that the entity or organization for which the application is made does not meet the criteria set forth in this policy; 2) deny an external link application as to any person, business, or organization which fails to provide all required information, or fails to provide truthful information; 3) remove any external link if the nature of the organization or business to which the link relates no longer complies with this site’s external link policy; or 4) to revise this policy without prior notice when to do so is deemed to be in the best interests of the Study; and 5) remove any external link without prior notice.

Notice to Study

Communications made through this site shall in no way be deemed to constitute legal or official notice to the MARK Rail Study Partners or associated agencies, officers, employees, representatives, or agents with respect to any existing, pending, or future claim or cause of action against the MARK Rail Study Partners or any associated agencies, officers, employees, representatives, or agents where notice is required by federal, state, or local law. No communication to the MARK Rail Study Partners made through this site shall be deemed to constitute legal or official notice for any purpose. Materials and information on this site are provided as a public service and intended to afford general guidelines on matters of public interest. Accordingly, the information on this site is not intended to serve as legal, accounting, or tax advice. Except for external website materials, the materials and information on this site were generated, compiled, or assembled at public expense and are freely available for non-commercial, non-profit making use, provided the user keeps intact all associated copyright, trademark, and other proprietary notices.

Prohibitions

You may view, download, and print copyrighted artwork, electronic publications, music, photos, text, videos (“Content”) from this site for your own personal and non-commercial purposes, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these Terms of Use. Hence, you may not:

• Post Content from this site on the Internet (any website, file-sharing site, or social network);
• Republish Content from this site with or as part of any software application;
• Reproduce, duplicate, copy, or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose or for money (even if no profit is involved), including the distribution of computer applications based on, connected, or linked (whether static or dynamic) to this site;
• Access this site for the purpose of creating and distributing source code, tools, or techniques for conducting any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction, and data harvesting) on or in relation to this site;
• Misuse this site or its services, such as interfering with or accessing this site or its services using a method other than what is explicitly provided;
• Use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to this site or impairment of the availability or accessibility of this site; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful purpose or activity; or
• Use this website for any purposes related to marketing.

Breach Terms of Use

Without prejudice to the other rights under these Terms of Use, if you breach these Terms of Use in any way, the City may take such action as it deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to this site, prohibiting you from accessing this site, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing this site, contacting your Internet service provider to request that they block your access to this site, and/or bringing legal action against you.

Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, by using this site, the user agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless, the MARK Rail Study Partners and associated agencies, officers, employees, representatives, and agents from and against all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of the user’s use of this site or materials and information contained on this site.