Terms of Use

These Terms of Use apply to brkcycle.org and all information, pages, forms, features, and services made available through the Breaking the Cycle website, including the Breaking the Cycle Community Resource Map.

By accessing or using this website, you agree to these Terms of Use. Please discontinue use of the website if you do not agree with these terms.

Acceptance of Terms

The website is operated by Breaking the Cycle. By visiting, browsing, submitting information through, or otherwise using brkcycle.org, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to follow these Terms of Use and all applicable laws.

These terms apply to all visitors and users of the website.

Purpose of the Website

The Breaking the Cycle website provides community information, organizational news and updates, event announcements, public resources, contact options, and access to an interactive Community Resource Map serving communities across Southern Illinois.

The website is intended to help connect residents, community organizations, nonprofit organizations, churches, public agencies, emergency planners, and other local partners with useful information and resources.

Website Content

Content on this website is provided for general informational and community-support purposes.

Breaking the Cycle may add, update, correct, reorganize, or remove website content at any time. The availability of particular pages, features, forms, or resources is not guaranteed.

Website content should not be treated as professional legal, medical, financial, engineering, emergency-management, or other specialized advice.

Community Resource Map

The Breaking the Cycle Community Resource Map provides information about emergency services, food assistance, public facilities, churches, community organizations, medical facilities, shelters, and other community resources.

The map is intended as a general planning and informational tool. A location’s appearance on the map does not guarantee that it:

• Is currently open or staffed.

• Offers a specific service.

• Has available space, supplies, or personnel.

• Is accessible during an emergency.

• Serves every individual or geographic area.

• Has agreed to operate as an emergency shelter or response facility.

Users should contact the listed organization directly to confirm its hours, services, eligibility requirements, accessibility, and current availability.

Not an Emergency Service

Breaking the Cycle does not provide emergency dispatch, emergency medical care, law-enforcement response, fire response, or emergency shelter placement through this website.

The website and Community Resource Map do not replace 911, emergency responders, official public warnings, evacuation orders, or instructions issued by local authorities.

For an immediate threat to life, health, property, or safety, call 911 and follow the directions of emergency officials.

Accuracy and Availability of Information

Breaking the Cycle works to provide useful and reasonably current information. However, information may be incomplete, incorrect, outdated, unavailable, or subject to change without notice.

This may include:

• Addresses and map locations.

• Telephone numbers and website links.

• Business or operating hours.

• Available programs and services.

• Eligibility requirements.

• Facility accessibility.

• Emergency availability.

• Event information.

Users are responsible for confirming important information directly with the appropriate organization before relying on it, traveling to a location, attending an event, or making plans based on website content.

Events and Announcements

The website may provide information about community events, meetings, programs, public notices, and other activities.

Event dates, times, locations, admission requirements, schedules, participating organizations, and other details may change or be canceled without notice.

Users should verify current event information with the event organizer before attending.

Submitted Information

Users may submit questions, corrections, resource information, event information, updates, and other material through website forms or other contact methods.

By submitting information, you confirm that:

• The information is accurate to the best of your knowledge.

• You have the right to provide the information.

• The submission does not knowingly contain false, misleading, unlawful, defamatory, confidential, or infringing material.

• The submission does not contain malicious code, spam, or unauthorized advertising.

Breaking the Cycle may review, verify, edit, summarize, publish, decline, retain, or remove submitted information at its discretion.

Submission does not guarantee that information will be published, added to the Community Resource Map, or acted upon. Breaking the Cycle may contact the submitting person or the organization identified in the submission to verify details.

Do not submit Social Security numbers, financial account information, passwords, medical records, or other sensitive personal information through the website.

Personal Information

When users complete a contact or resource-submission form, Breaking the Cycle may collect information such as a name, email address, organization name, and the contents of the submission.

Personal information should be collected and handled as described in the website’s separate Privacy Policy. The Federal Trade Commission recommends that organizations understand the personal information they retain and use reasonable measures to safeguard it. (Federal Trade Commission)

By submitting information, you acknowledge that it may be reviewed by authorized representatives of Breaking the Cycle and used to respond to your request, verify information, improve the website, or update community resources.

External Links and Third-Party Services

This website may link to or incorporate third-party websites and services, including:

• ArcGIS and other mapping services.

• Social-media platforms.

• Government websites.

• Community organizations.

• Event-registration services.

• External resource providers.

Breaking the Cycle does not control third-party websites or services and is not responsible for their content, availability, accuracy, security, accessibility, or privacy practices.

A link to an external website does not necessarily indicate endorsement, sponsorship, affiliation, or approval.

Users access third-party websites and services at their own discretion and are subject to the terms and privacy policies of those third parties.

Acceptable Use

You may use this website for lawful personal, educational, governmental, nonprofit, community-planning, and informational purposes.

You may not:

• Attempt to damage, disable, overload, disrupt, or interfere with the website or its supporting systems.

• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to accounts, servers, forms, databases, maps, or administrative tools.

• Submit malicious code, automated spam, fraudulent information, or abusive content.

• Use automated tools to excessively scrape, copy, or download website or map content.

• Misrepresent website or map information as an official emergency order or guaranteed source of assistance.

• Impersonate another person or organization.

• Use the website to harass, threaten, defame, exploit, or harm another person.

• Use the website for an unlawful or fraudulent purpose.

• Remove copyright, ownership, licensing, attribution, or other notices from website content.

Breaking the Cycle may restrict or block access when it reasonably believes these terms have been violated.

Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise identified, the original written content, website design, graphics, branding, photographs, and map materials available through brkcycle.org are owned by or licensed to Breaking the Cycle.

Third-party maps, basemaps, datasets, logos, photographs, software, and platform components remain the property of their respective owners and may be subject to separate terms, licenses, and attribution requirements.

Users may view and share links to publicly available website pages for lawful, noncommercial purposes. Website content may not be republished, sold, misrepresented, or presented as the user’s own work without permission or an applicable legal right.

No Endorsement

The appearance of an organization, agency, church, facility, business, event, program, or other resource on the website or map does not constitute an endorsement, certification, recommendation, or guarantee by Breaking the Cycle.

Likewise, the omission of an organization or resource does not indicate that it is unavailable, unqualified, or not recommended.

References to products, services, organizations, or external websites are provided for informational purposes.

Disclaimer of Warranties

The website, Community Resource Map, forms, links, content, and related services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Breaking the Cycle makes no express or implied warranties concerning:

• Accuracy.

• Completeness.

• Reliability.

• Availability.

• Timeliness.

• Suitability for a particular purpose.

• Security.

• Error-free operation.

• Continued website or map access.

Breaking the Cycle does not guarantee that website content will meet every user’s needs or that errors will always be identified or corrected.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Breaking the Cycle and its officers, employees, volunteers, representatives, contractors, and partners will not be liable for losses, injuries, damages, delays, costs, or other consequences arising from or related to:

• Reliance on website or map information.

• Incorrect, incomplete, or outdated information.

• An unavailable or unsuitable resource.

• Changes to events, services, hours, or eligibility.

• Website, internet, mapping-platform, or technical interruptions.

• User submissions.

• External websites or third-party services.

• Unauthorized access or security incidents beyond reasonable control.

Users assume responsibility for independently verifying information and determining whether a resource or service is appropriate for their circumstances.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.

Accessibility

Breaking the Cycle aims to make its website and community information accessible to as many people as reasonably possible.

Users who experience difficulty accessing website content may contact Breaking the Cycle and describe the page, information, or feature they are attempting to access.

The U.S. Department of Justice advises organizations serving the public to consider accessibility across their online content and services. (ADA.gov)

Changes to These Terms

Breaking the Cycle may revise these Terms of Use as the organization, website, Community Resource Map, or applicable requirements change.

Updated terms will be posted on this page with a revised Last Updated date. Continued use of the website after updated terms are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

Contact

Questions about these Terms of Use may be submitted through the contact options available at brkcycle.org.

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This is a practical website draft rather than legal advice. Because it governs an Illinois organization and includes emergency-resource information, it should be reviewed by qualified legal counsel before final publication. The Illinois Attorney General also cautions that general nonprofit guidance is not a substitute for legal advice. (illinoisattorneygeneral.gov)

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