About the site, www.WestfieldToday.com

A Communication Hub

The site www.westfieldtoday.com is sponsored by the Downtown Westfield Corporation with the intent to provide a communication hub for the people of Westfield as well as for the people who work and shop in Westfield, and others who are interested in the town.  The site is a tapestry of contributions from people throughout the town. 

To this end, any business, non-profit organization, sports team, or children’s group located in Westfield New Jersey may create a listing on the site by becoming a member. There are currently over 286 member listings on the site.

Home Page Content

The WestfieldToday Home Page is also the result of contributions of a number of editors. The current Home Page editors are:

What’s Up Downtown?
Schools
 
Arts & Entertainment
Events
News
History
Sports
 
Town of Westfield
Public Works
Parks & Recreation

Beth Brenner, DWC
Beth Brenner, DWC
Beth Brenner, DWC
Beth Brenner, DWC
Beth Brenner, DWC
Karrie Hanson
Beth Brenner, DWC
Claire Gray
Paul Horta
Tracy Kastner

webmaster@WestfieldToday.com
webmaster@WestfieldToday.com
webmaster@WestfieldToday.com
webmaster@WestfieldToday.com 
webmaster@WestfieldToday.com

webmaster@WestfieldToday.com
cgray@westfieldnj.net
dpw@westfieldnj.net
recreation@westfieldnj.net

If you have comments or announcements for these sections on the home page, please contact the editor directly.

Getting Information from WestfieldToday

In addition to providing a framework for sharing information, the site also provides a number of ways of getting information from the site in a timely fashion.  Each listing owner has the option to include a link called “Add Me to Your Mailing List” on their site.  If visitors would like to receive more information from the owners of a particular listing, they may opt to become a subscriber to the WestfieldToday site, and their email address will be added to the mailing list of that member only. 

Subscribers may choose one or more sites of interest, allowing them to tailor their requests to suit their needs.  Subscriptions can be changed or deleted at any time using the Subscriber portion of the website. For more details, see the Subscriber Site Page.

Member Sites

These member sites may use the Member Update portion of this site to create and maintain their listing.  Listings can be changed at any time by the members and members are responsible for the contents of their own site.

The listings include the name, location, a description and relevant reach information for the listing, as well as the option to provide a photo or image.  Members may also upload images, documents, menus, coupons, and other files as needed by their readership.  For more details, see the Member Site Page.

Privacy Policy

We want our users to always be aware of any information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

Information Collection and Use

We respect each site visitor’s right to personal privacy. To that end, we collect and use information throughout our website only as disclosed in this privacy policy.  

The information we collect is:

·   Used to improve the content of our website.

·   Used to notify visitors about updates to our website.

·   Never shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.

In order to view this website, visitors and/or members are not required to complete our registration form.  However, in order to create and maintain a listing or become an email subscriber, visitors must register.

During registration a user must give certain contact information, but we never sell or give away this information. It is only gathered to contact the user about services on our site for which s/he has expressed interest.

Indeed email address are collected from subscribers only for the purpose of adding their names to mailing lists of member listing, as per the user’s request.  User’s names are added only to the mailing lists they specifically request and the user may remove themselves from one or more member mailing lists using the same form at any time. A user’s email address is provided only to the listing as requested and not shared with other listing members.

There are two exceptions to this rule:

·   When a user becomes a subscriber (so they can add their name to the mailing lists of listings), they are automatically added to the subscriber mailing list, for the purpose of alerting subscribers to changes in the site, and messages from the webmaster.

·   When a user becomes a member (so they can create and maintain a listing on the site), they are automatically added to the member mailing list, for the purpose of communicating new services, announcements and changes in the site to all the members.

Contact Information

If site users have any questions or suggestions regarding this site, please contact us at webmaster@WestfieldToday.com or by mail:  Downtown Westfield Corporation, 105 Elm Street,Westfield, NJ 07090.