Safety
All links and advertisements are subject to immediate removal upon request!
It is my intention to do everything I can to keep visitors as safe as reasonably possible when using Cruiz2.com. But how do you keep a website ‘safe’ when it is a local website, within a global structure and not everyone agrees on what safe actually is? Indeed different communities have different ideas about safety, never mind countries or their political representations.
Yet, safety remains my ‘top priority’. A website that is safe has more potential to be popular than one that isn’t. I can’t expect to get the support of local communities, organisations or businesses if it isn’t safe. When you need help you should ask for it, so in order to keep Cruiz2.com ‘safe’, I am asking for your help. It is not my job to make my website safe, it is my job to have in place a means of making and keeping my website safe.
Example: A store manager might be responsible for keeping frozen food frozen, but if the freezer broke down, you wouldn’t expect them to get their own spanner and screwdriver out. You would expect them to follow the correct procedures to ensure the health and welfare of all concerned.
To keep Cruiz2.com as safe ‘as reasonably possible’, I need local communities to help ensure that all clubs, organisations and businesses promoting their goods and services on the website are of the highest possible, reasonable standard. It is up to each community to decide what that standard should be.
In the case of Northern Ireland, where a community considers that any particular link to a club, organisation or business is putting their community at ‘unreasonable risk’, they should contact their ‘local council’. Should a ‘local council’ ask Cruiz2.com to remove any link or ‘advertisement’ due to ‘unreasonable safety’ concerns - the link or advertisement will be removed with immediate effect.
If it’s a choice of having the support of one club, organisation or business or the support of a local community – I prefer to bow to the concerns of the local community. It is not up to me to dictate to them what is or isn’t safe – it is for them to come to their own conclusions and tell me. But one local community has no ‘right’ to decide what is or isn’t safe for those outside of that community.
However, in the case of Northern Ireland, where a local community believes that a link or advertisement elsewhere on the website is putting their community at risk, if the Northern Ireland Assembly requests me to remove any link or advertisement, it will be removed with immediate effect – unless, of course, it comes under the jurisdiction of another ‘country, state or province’.
They could, however, request the removal of a link to that 'country, state or province’. Naturally, the 'country, state or province' concerned is likely to retaliate in a similar fashion, but look on the bright side – it’s just links and ads, not nuclear missiles!
Will this work? I don’t know, to my knowledge it has never been tried before, but it is the best way I can think of to keep my website as safe as reasonably possible. I cannot dictate to people even within my own community what is or isn’t safe, never mind people outside my community. It is for each community to decide for themselves and ‘evolve’, however slow and painful that might be.
The aim of my website is to make the world a better place for all. If you are not part of the solution, then perhaps that’s because you are part of the problem. If we want a better future, the more we work together, the easier it will be to get there.
The children’s story ‘Stone Soup’ is the best way I can think of to describe my website. It tells the story of hard working villagers who learn that - by working together - they can all be better off!
I don't use cookies, spiders or robots. The hosting company wix collects some user information such as page visits which is essential to the development of the website, but I don't collect personal information so it can't be lost, hacked or stolen.
This is a simple click and go website. I have no interest in collecting or 'selling' your information. The more you visit, the more money the site should generate from it's popularity. 'Advertising revenues' will be re-directed to local communities assisting in the promotion of the website so more people can get more help (as a safety precaution politicians/health authorities will be asked to witness any hand-over of funds and what those funds will be used for).
Local Communities:
Any Link/ad may be removed with immediate effect upon request by a local community organisation assisting in the promotion of the website provided it is on a page relevant to that community.
Local Councils
Any Link/ad may be removed with immediate effect upon request by a local Council if they consider it to be damaging to residents/local area, provided it is within the relevant jurisdiction.
Northern Ireland Assembly
Any link/ad may be removed with immediate effect if the Northern Ireland Assembly (equivalent body) consider it to be harmful to the general public in Northern Ireland. This may include links to specific countries, states or provinces/territories.
The only way to make the internet safe is if we each play our part and work TOGETHER for the benefit of my children, your children and THEIR children.