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Website Linkage Policy

Policy
The Judicial Branch website was created to educate the public about the duties and responsibilities of the Judicial Branch, to save critical staff resources and to enhance customer service. With these goals in mind, the Judicial Branch website contains links to and from other websites that are designed to facilitate free web-based legal research and to inform users of Judicial Branch services. This policy delineates the procedures for linking to and from the Judicial Branch website located at www.jud.ct.gov and for removing links.

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The Connecticut Judicial Branch exercises no control over the views, accuracy, copyright or trademark compliance or the legality of the material contained on third party sites and does not sponsor, endorse or approve the information, content, products, materials, opinions or services contained on such external sites. The visitor proceeds to these external sites at their own risk. The Connecticut Judicial Branch specifically disclaims any and all liability from damages which may result from the accessing of a third party site which is linked to the Connecticut Judicial Branch website, or from reliance upon any such information.
 

Procedure to link to the Judicial Branch website:
 1. The Judicial Branch website is copyrighted; therefore, entities wishing to link to the website at www.jud.ct.gov must request to do so in writing by contacting the webmaster at judicial.webmaster@jud.ct.gov.

The request shall contain:

  • The name of the organization;

  • Its website address; and

  • The purpose for which the link would be used.

2. Reviewing Process:

  • The webmaster will forward the request to the members of the Judicial Branch Web Planning Board for review;

  • The Web Planning Board reserves the right to deny any request if the aforementioned information is not provided and/or the requesting entity is deemed not to represent the best interests of the Connecticut Judicial Branch website; and

  • The webmaster shall notify the requesting entity of approval or disapproval.

3. Entities which have received permission to link to the Judicial Branch website at www.jud.ct.gov:

  • Shall not represent the content contained within the website as its own;

  • Shall not capture the pages within frames;

  • Shall not misinform users about the origin or ownership of the content; and

  • Must provide a forward link that passes the client browser directly to www.jud.ct.gov or a subpage within the website.

4. Please be aware that subpages within the Judicial Branch website may change from time to time; therefore, the linking entity may want to check the links periodically.

Procedure to provide a link from the Judicial Branch website:

Criteria - Links contained throughout the Judicial Branch website are selected according to the following evaluation criteria:
 1. The external website provides free information that is helpful to Judicial Branch website users in a secure and user-friendly format and is ADA compliant.

2. The site's content does not:

  • Exhibit hate, bias, discrimination, pornography; insulting or otherwise offensive language;

  • Contain support for candidates for office, political parties and referenda except that sites of news organizations are not automatically excluded from consideration because the news organization endorses a candidate for political office;

  • Promote a particular religion; or

  • Reasonably depict or describe violence or nudity and/or sexual activities.

3. The external website contains a privacy policy, accessible from the home page, which provides information as to how information is obtained and used.

4. The external website provides the user with contact information if there are problems with format, accuracy, timeliness, or payment processing.

5. The external site provides easy access back to www.jud.ct.gov

Review Process
1. All requests to link the Judicial Branch website at www.jud.ct.gov to another website must be submitted to the webmaster at judicial.webmaster@jud.ct.gov and must contain the following information:

  • General information about the website being requested;

  • Reasons why the link will be beneficial to users of the Judicial Branch site; and

  • Current address of requested link (eg. < www.jud.ct.gov.>);

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    2. When a request for an external link is received, the webmaster will submit the request to the other members of the Judicial Branch Web Planning Board. The Board will then review the request and verify that the request is in compliance with the Judicial Branch Website Linkage Policy. The Board will then come to a decision by a majority vote.

    3. The webmaster will notify the requestor of approval or disapproval and will make arrangements to have the link added to the Judicial Branch website, if the link was approved.

    Removal Process
    Links from www.jud.ct.gov. will be reviewed regularly and may be removed for any of the following reasons:

    1. The link no longer connects to the original information or resource to which it was intended to point;

    2. The link is inaccurate or misleading;

    3. The link or information within the link has become difficult to access due to non-standard formatting, lengthy download times, or intrusive advertising;

    4. The link is permanently unreachable or remains unavailable for a lengthy period;

    5. The link no longer confirms with this linkage policy;

    6. Users of the externally linked site excessively burden the Judicial Branch technical support staff;

    7. The link is to a website that contains known copyright infringements; or

    8. The Web Planning Board finds, by a majority vote, that the content of the linked site is inconsistent with the goals of the Judicial Branch.