Link Policy

The purpose of our web site is to provide information that is helpful, easy to find and use, providing relevant content about the Mason Youth Football Organization and its seasonal activities. To achieve this purpose, links to and from our web site are generally encouraged. However, because we are a non-profit youth-oriented website, some restrictions and disclaimers are appropriate.

This document outlines the policies for linking to and from the web site.

All links from our web site must contain information that is relevant and related to our mission. The mission of the website is to provide a contemporary informational service to the players, parents, community residents and administrative members of Mason Youth Football.

From time to time, links may be provided to other sites that provide additional information about youth football, physical conditioning, or community support for the youth program.

Links may be made to websites that meet the following criteria:

• Maintained by a non-profit charitable, educational, hospital, or cultural organization serving the subject of youth sports.
• Maintained by an organization that provides direct sponsorship to Mason Youth Football or masonyouthfootball.com.
• Provides a unique online tool to assist site visitors in accessing information on the site or in communicating with each other, e.g., Yahoo.
• Is an origin site providing content for masonyouthfootball.com.

The Website will only link to two kinds of providers of commercial products or services:

1. Youth sports training schools or camps, and
2. League sponsors.

If you believe that your product or service falls under one of the two categories above and you wish to be linked from our web site, please contact our webmaster.

Offering a link does not imply recommendation or approval from the Mason Youth Football Organization and the fact that we offer a link shall not be used for advertising or promotional purposes.

Link priority:

1. Youth Football website.
2. Non-profit organization website.
3. Commercial websites as supplementary information to youth sports.

The Mason Youth Football Organization and Website respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that your work has been copied on a linked site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please notify our webmaster.

Links from the website will be reviewed regularly and may be removed for the following reasons:

• The link no longer points to the original information or resource to which it was intended to point.
• The information pointed to by the link is inaccurate, misleading or otherwise violates the criteria and requirements set forth above in the section entitled "Criteria."
• Access to the information has become difficult due to non-standard formatting, lengthy download times, or intrusive advertising.
• The link is permanently unreachable or remains unavailable for a lengthy period, especially if we are unable to contact the site manager about the site's status.
• The external web site fails to comply with the written linking agreement, if any.
• Customers of the externally linked site excessively burden the Mason Youth Football site support system.

NOTE: Some of the links made available to you through this website will allow you to leave the site. Please be aware that the Internet sites available through these links, and the materials that you may find there, are not under control of the Mason Youth Football Organization. Therefore, the Mason Youth Football Organization cannot and does not make any guarantee to you about these sites or the materials available there. The fact that the Organization has made these links available to you is not an endorsement or recommendation to you by the Organization of any of these sites or any material found there. The Organization is providing these links only as a convenience to you.

** The Mason Youth Football Organization reserves the right to deny posting links that, in the Organization’s judgment, do not coincide with the mission of the Organization’s web site.

When choosing linked resources, the following eight criteria are considered:

• Authority: Who created the site and what are their credentials?
• Affiliation: Who provided the information? Can I link to the homepage? Is the information biased by the provider affiliation?
• Content: Is there content or is it an advertisement? Is the information objective? Is it helpful? Is it easy to follow or navigate?
• Purpose: Is it a personal homepage, an advocacy site, a business/marketing site, a news site, or an informational site?
• Audience: Who is this resource geared toward? Is the information appropriate for its intended audience?
• Currency: How old is the information? When was the page created or last updated?
• Comparisons: How does the information compare to other electronic and print sources? Is it accurate and well written?
• Cost: Is the information freely accessible? Or, must the user pay a fee before viewing the content?

It is not technologically feasible to restrict links to our web site. Furthermore, since our site contains information which we want the public to know, we do not discourage links to our web site. If you have come to our web site from a link, no endorsement, recommendation or relationship of any kind should be implied.

Fees or Commissions Not Authorized

This organization does not accept fees or commissions of any kind for links or "hits" from or to our web site.