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Frequently Asked Questions

  1. Why do you do this?
  2. Why would a company want to be a sponsor?
  3. Can there be more than one sponsor per site?
  4. Can I deduct my sponsorship as a donation?
  5. Why not just donate directly to an agency?
  6. Can I put my organization on this site?
  7. How do I get started as a sponsor?
  8. How do I make payment?
  9. What will bring visitors to this site?
  10. Do I have to be a company to be a sponsor?
  11. What are the guidelines for your site?
  12. What can be included in a web page?
  13. How do I include graphic images?
  14. How can I get information on the missing persons page?
  15. What if I want additional web pages?
  16. Will you make money from this site?
  17. As a sponsor, how will my free pages get promoted?
  18. Do you expect more activity from your free site offer?
  19. What do you expect in return from the organizations you support?
  20. Do I get a discount for renewing my sponsorsship?

1. Why Do You Do This?

Frankly, because we really do care. The activity on the internet is growing at an immense rate with more and more business and individuals utilizing it as a means of locating and distributing information. We strongly believe that providing an internet presence for supporting the organizations we believe in, far outweighs what we can do as individuals. We hope that this site will provide a reference to resources that can possibly help in saving the lives of humans and animals.

Speak to someone whose loved one or friend has been abducted and see their despair, or visit an animal shelter or humane society and see the many, many animals desperate for a loving home - and most of which will ultimately have to be destroyed. Then, you will understand why we are here, and why we do this.

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2. Why would a company want to be a sponsor?

Many companies are sympathetic with the causes supported here and often make donations to help support them. This site not only helps support these causes, but gives the sponsor something in return in the form of global recognition and an advertisement link.. It might be noteworthy that an advertisement also offers tax advantages not present for pure donations.

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3. Can there be more than one sponsor per site?

Yes, but within reason. We feel that the more sponsors there are, the more impact the site will have in encouraging visitors to support the agencies, however we will not permit the sponsor ads to overwhelm the purpose of this site and may have to impose some sort of limitations on the number of sponsors.

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4. Can I deduct my sponsorship as a donation?

Unfortunately you cannot since this web site does not constitute a non-profit organization (at least not intentionally!). You can use a sponsorship as an advertising expense which offers better tax advantages than a donation.

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5. Why not just donate directly to an agency?

We hope you do, and if you do not, we encourage you to do so. This site, however is to provide a global awareness of the purpose of these agencies and assist them in obtaining support from the community, and at the same time provide a service to the people in our communities by providing them with a variety of information sources they might not otherwise be aware of. As a sponsor, your support will be recognized by visitors to this site.

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6. Can I put my organization on this site?

If your organization offers safe shelter for humans or animals, or is directly related to a similar purpose, and your organization is non-profit, you can email us with information about your purpose, and we will consider it for inclusion.

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7. How do I get started as a sponsor?

First, you must decide whether you want to sponsor the site in general (Major), or sponsor an agency or page. Determine the level of sponsorship you prefer within that group, then complete and submit our sponsor contact form. We will contact you to discuss your preferences for your selection.

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8. How do I make payment?

Payment is made in advance of placing your sponsorship by check or money order. We will gladly submit an advance invoice if you like. Once payment is received, we will begin working directly with you to get you established to your satisfaction on our site.

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9. What will bring visitors to this site?

By initially announcing our site and its purpose to various media all around the North Florida Area. This will include television and radio stations, newspapers, organizations and agencies that are sympathetic with our cause. Our site location will have been submitted to the major internet search engines, and if there is funding available, we will do further submissions through commercial internet sources.

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10. Do I have to be a company to be a sponsor?

No you do not. You may not have the same tax advantage as a company, however you will be provided with the same benefits and consideration as a business sponsor. If you become a sponsor that is provided with web pages, your page content must not conflict with our site philosophies and cannot contain any content we do not find acceptable.

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11. What are the guidelines for your site?

Our current site guidelines are limited to hosting information regarding organizations that provide or complement safe shelters for the protection and well-being of humans and animals, and an area that we hope will assist in the safe recovery of persons missing in or from the Northeast Florida area. The missing persons area will be strictly limited to situations that can be validated as a reported incident of actual or suspected criminal activities to one of our local law enforcement agencies. We will include a link to other internet sources that are available for locating missing friends, relatives, etc.

We will not allow or provide any links to any source that contains any offensive, pornographic, sexual, political solicitation, radical, demeaning or racial content.

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12. What can be included in a sponsors web page?

Web page content must be within our site guidelines regarding unacceptable content. Otherwise, the content can include any material that can promote your business or personal issues (no complaining or slam-dunking please). Page content size should be limited to approximately the equivalent of what can be placed on one or two letter size pieces of paper. Graphics and graphic images can be included, however should be kept to a reasonable size.

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13. How do I include graphic images?

Images you already have must be in one of the following formats: bmp, gif, jpg, pcx, psd, tif, cvs, cgm, pcs, gem, dfx, wmf, or wpg. Images can be scanned from documents or photographs for a small fee either by us or by some printing services. We can also acquire images from vhs video tape if necessary. We can accept images on IBM format diskettes, attached to email, or we can download them from your system.

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14. How can I get information on the missing persons page?

First, a reminder that the situation must be able to be validated as a reported incident of actual or suspected criminal activities to one of our law enforcement agencies. If it qualifies, complete the Missing Persons Submit Form in it's entirety. Be sure to provide the law enforcement agency the indicent has been reported to. We cannot include the incident without verification. If you want the missing persons picture (image) included we will need an image source.

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15. What if I want additional web pages?

If your sponsorship includes web pages we can link additional pages through our commercial division of Casnet Web Services. As a sponsor of this site, you will be offered discount pricing which will be quoted based on their pricing schedule.

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16. Will you make money from this site?

We'd really like to think so! However, we'll be content to have enough sponsors to cover our costs for producing and maintaining these pages. With this site, we'll support what we can with or without sponsors. If we do manage to make a little from our time and efforts, we don't think that's anything we should be ashamed of since we're not only supporting the agencies we believe in, but we're providing our sponsors with advertising and exposure to the internet.

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17. As a sponsor, how will my free pages get promoted?

Promoting a web site is a very time consuming process. Some visitors will be attracted to your web pages as a result of visiting this site. There are a number of places on the internet where you can promote your own web pages, and where you can find a commercial source to do the promotion for you. We recommend that if you choose to promote your own site, you should first visit Site Promoter which can be linked to from our commercial site links page..

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18. Do you expect more activity from your free site offer?

We certainly hope so. The more information sources we can provide, the more successful our site will be for all concerned. For new supported agencies joining us, it's an excellent opportunity to literally get something for nothing..

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19. What do you expect in return from the organizations you support?

We obviously need much of their support in initially planning their pages. In those instances where we might occasionally update images or text, we need their ongoing efforts to assist us in gathering the materials. Other than that, just a little appreciation goes a long way....

20. Do I get a discount for renewing my sponsorship?

If your sponsorship included web pages, graphics or banners, and you don't feel you need any changes, then you can be renewed at a discount of 25% (twenty five percent).

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Have any questions to add? Send them to us by email, ...and thanks.

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