Town of Crested Butte 

                   Website Policy 
PURPOSE 
The purpose of this Policy is to establish regulations for the development, 
operation, and administration of the Town website and to ensure that the 
Town website remains a non-public forum subject to the Town’s exclusive 
use and control.   
 
The purposes of the Town’s website are as follows: 
  1.  To provide a convenient and information-rich resource for 
  residents, officials, visitors, businesses, and non-profit organizations. 
  2.  To provide information and resources that contributes to the 
  health, safety, welfare and wellbeing of the citizens of, and visitors to, 
  the Crested Butte Area. 
  3.  To contribute to the improvement of Town services, foster 
  economic development, and enhance the sense of community within 
  the Town. 
  4.  To promote the Town of Crested Butte’s economic, social, and 
  cultural quality of life. 
  5.  Efficiency of offering Town information and services.  
 
DEFINITIONS 
“Town Website”-Official website available at www.crestedbutte-co.gov  or 
www.townofcrestedbutte.com   
 
“Recreation Website”-crestedbutterec.com  
 
“External Link or Website”- A hyperlink from the Town’s website to a 
website maintained by third party.  The Town is not responsible for, does not 
endorse, and cannot ensure the accuracy of information on these outside 
websites. 
 
Cookies-files on the user’s computer than enables a website to recognize the 
user on subsequent visits and possibly track the user’s internet use between 
visits. 
 
NON-PUBLIC FORUM STATUS 
The Town website is a non-public forum.  While the Town encourages the 
public to use the Town website to access information, resources and 
services, the Town expressly reserves the right to impose  restrictions on the 
use of its website.  The Town website is reserved for the exclusive control by 
the Town for the purposes of one-way communication to users of the Town 

website.  The Town website shall not be used to facilitate a general debate, 
public discourse or the free exchange of ideas. 
 
PRIVACY STATEMENT 
The protection of individual privacy is a concern to the Town of Crested 
Butte, and is governed by local, state, and federal laws.   The Town does not 
use its website to collect personal information for any purpose other than to 
respond to requests for information, services, or to complete online 
transactions, nor does it voluntarily provide such personal information to 
third parties or private organizations. 
 
The Town of Crested Butte does not collect information for commercial 
marketing from this website, nor will one be sent an unsolicited e-mail.  One 
may choose to subscribe to a Town notification service so that an e-mail 
regarding Town affairs will be sent to you automatically.  One will always 
have the option of canceling their subscription or changing their preferences. 
 
Should one provide the Town of Crested Butte with personal information, 
such as sending an e-mail or by filling out and submitting an online form 
located on the Town’s website, the information may be used to respond to 
that person and provide that person with the information or service 
requested. 
 
As a governmental agency, the Town of Crested Butte is governed by open 
records laws.  A person’s e-mail address and other identifying information 
may be subject to open records laws if requested.  In addition, certain e-
mails may constitute a public record and are subject to disclosure under 
state law.  Otherwise, we do not share personal identifying information with 
any third party without your permission.    
 
We protect against disclosure of all information declared by law to be 
confidential. This includes:  
    •  Personal medical records  
    •   Criminal history records  
    •   Gross revenue data submitted by our sales tax licensees  
    •   Communications between citizens and law offices  
 
HYPERLINKS 
The purpose of the Town’s website is to provide information about the 
Town’s government, services and attractions.  The Town’s website may 
provide hyperlinks to websites outside the Town’s website that also serve 
this purpose.  The Town of Crested Butte is not responsible for, and does not 
endorse, the information on any hyperlinked website unless the Town’s 
website specially states otherwise.  The following criteria will be used by the 

Town to decide whether to grant requests for hyperlinks from the Town’s 
website.  A linked website must contribute to the quality of life and further 
the positive image of the Town of Crested Butte.  The Town reserves the 
right to refuse linkage to any website. 
 The Town may, at its discretion, provide hyperlinks to websites related 
 to: 
 • Governmental and educational institutions; 
 • Approved special events; 
 • Recognized community or civic organizations; 
 Town of Crested Butte service providers or franchise agreements;  
 The Town website will not provide hyperlinks to websites for: 
 • Candidates for elected office; 
 • Political organizations; 
 • Corporate or other for-profit organizations unless they fit the 
   criteria stated above; or 
 • Individual or personal home pages. 
 •  
 
 Hyperlinks will not be considered or approved by the Town if the 
 exhibition of the content within the browser would also exhibit one or 
 more of the following categories: 
 • Content which a reasonable Town resident would find graphically 
   depicts or describes violence, or nudity and/or sexual activities in a 
   way designed to evoke prurient interest or discrimination in any 
   form; 
 • Content which facilitates or incites crime; 
 • A hyperlink that directly links to other content that when perceived 
   within a browser is in violation of any of the prohibited content 
   stated above; and/or 
 • Discussion groups, chat rooms, bulletin boards, and other largely 
   unedited content created by individuals who are not owners, 
   operators, or agents of a Town of Crested Butte website. 
  
 Websites that have been approved and linked to from the Town’s 
 website, but subsequently demonstrate any of the above categories of 
 content, or for other reasons deemed unacceptable to the Town will be 
 unlinked from the Town’s website without notice. 
 
ADA CAPABILITIES 
The Town of Crested Butte is committed to compliance with the Americans 
with Disabilities Act (ADA).  Any software upgrades will be ADA compliant. 
Upon request, the Town of Crested Butte will make reasonable 
accommodations to provide individuals who have disabilities access to 

information regarding Town services, programs, or activities set forth on the 
Town’s website. 
 
DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY 
The Town of Crested Butte shall not be held liable for any improper or 
incorrect use of the materials or information contained on this website and 
assumes no responsibility for any use thereof.  Under no circumstances shall 
the Town of Crested Butte be liable for any damages, whether direct, 
indirect, incidental, special, exemplary or consequential (including, but not 
limited to, business interruption or loss of use, or data) regardless of cause, 
and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, statute, strict liability, or 
tort including negligence or otherwise arising in any way out of the use of 
this website or the materials and information contained on this website, 
even if advised of the possibility of such damage.  This disclaimer of liability 
applies to any damages or injury, including but not limited to those caused 
by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, 
delay, computer virus, communication line failure, theft, or destruction of 
data, whether for breach of contract, tortuous behavior, statutory liability 
negligence, or under any other cause of action. 

WEBSITE STANDARDS 
 General Information 
  Font: Verdana 
  Contact Information Layout:  
  First Name Last Name 
  Title 
  Phone Number 
  e-mail address 
  Mailing Address: P.O. Box 
  Physical Address: 507 Maroon Avenue 
  Crested Butte, CO  81224 
  Hyperlinks to For-Profit entities: Not allowed unless approved 
  by the Town Manager. 
  Hyperlink: Will be set to open in a new window unless 
  hyperlink is to a page within our website, based upon the 
  policy above. 
  Email Hyperlinks:  Individual email addresses will be used, 
  use mail to: links for email addresses, the name of the person 
  will be the link. 
  Underlining:  Only use for hyperlinks 
  All Caps:  Only use for acronyms 
  Use “&” in headlines and subheads on department pages, but 
  NEVER in category names, on Agendas. 
   

 Grammar 
        Capitalize the word Town when referring to the Town of 
        Crested Butte 
        Website:  Should be one word 
         
 Dates & Ordinals 
        December 13, 2012 
        First Monday of the month 
  
 Time 
        1:00 pm 
        Monday-Friday, 8:00 am-5:00 pm 
        Using “through” is okay, never use “thru” 
  
 Phone Numbers 
        Ph: (555) 555-5555 
        Fx: (555) 555-5555 
        Always include phone number when there is a also a fax 
        number 
 Forms 
        Forms are defined as documents that may be filled in. 
        All forms posted shall be fill-able forms when appropriate. 
        All forms shall be submitted electronically when appropriate. 
        All forms will be posted on the “Forms Page” under the 
        appropriate department. 
        Forms may also be posted on other pages or linked to other 
        pages on the site. 
  
 Documents 
          All documents should be PDF’s, not work, excel, jpg, etc… 
 Addresses 
        Abbreviate all street identifiers (example-Ave. St.) 
        Use address blocks like envelopes and add breaks between 
        addresses 
        Spell out and capitalize First through Ninth, use figures with 
                            th
        two letters for 10  and above 
  
 Currency 
        $0.25 
        $5 
        $5.45 
  
 Numerals vs. Text:  Spell out numbers less than 10.  Use numerals for 
 10 and above, or if it is: 

         Ages 
         Grades 
         Lists of numbers 
         Measurements 
         Money 
         Phone Numbers 
         Time 
   
  Images   
         No clip art 
         All graphics should be .jpg, .gif, .tif, or.png.  Resolution 
         should be 72 dpi or low-quality or web-quality. 
         The Town must own the rights to the posted photos.  Any 
          photos of persons must be with their written permission. 
         When using images for the site they should be no larger than 
         the following in these instances: 
         ▪  Right contact with image-200x150 for landscape and 
          150x200 for portrait 
         ▪  Staff Directory-144x216 (using standard options) 150x200 
          (when using basic HTML) 
         ▪  Resource/Business Directory-160x120 
   
  Individual Departments can have: 
         Calendar 
         News Flash 
         FAQ 
         Forms 
         Email Lists (Notify Me subscription lists-example: Parks and 
         Recreation Activities) 
          
  Do Not Use the following: 
         Click Here:  Under Construction:   
         Serial commas:    No comma before the “and” 
         Exclamation points: