Terms of service
How this website may be used — and, just as important, the rights every owner keeps whether they use it or not.
What this page is: the house rules for using the Association's website.
What it is not: it is not an agreement to receive legal notices by email or on the website (that is a separate, voluntary election with its own form), it is not a waiver of anything you are entitled to by law, and it is not a condition on any right you have as an Owner.
You can ignore this page entirely and still get every notice, every record, and every vote you are entitled to. If you never visit the website, nothing changes for you.
Terms of use — thepierstansbury.com
1. Who runs this site
This website is operated by The Pier at Stansbury Park HOA, Inc. (the "Association"). Questions: board@thepierstansbury.com.
2. What these terms cover
These terms cover how you use this website. They are about the website only.
Reading the site does not sign you up for anything. The Association's governing documents are open on this site to read and download with no login and no charge, and as the other records Utah law directs an association with an active website to publish — the most recent minutes, the budget, and financial statements — are added, they will be equally open.[2] That read-only access is provided outside these terms. Using it is not acceptance of these terms.
3. Your rights as an Owner do not depend on this page
Nothing on this page limits, waives, delays, or conditions any right you have under Utah law or under the Association's recorded governing documents.[1] Specifically:
- You do not have to accept these terms to receive Association notices.
- You do not have to accept these terms, create an account, or log in to inspect or receive Association records. You may request records by mail or email and the Association will respond the same way it would for any other Owner.[2]
- You do not have to accept these terms to attend a meeting, speak at a meeting, or vote.
- You may demand that the Association send you notices by U.S. mail, at any time, in writing, for free, with no conditions attached.[3]
If anything on this page ever appears to conflict with that, the governing documents and Utah law win, and this page loses.
4. Accepting notices by email is a separate, optional choice
Choosing to receive Association notices by email is a separate form with its own plain-language explanation. Using this website — including creating an account or clicking through any prompt on this website — is not that choice and will never be treated as that choice.[4] You can make, change, or cancel that choice at any time, and it costs nothing either way.
5. Accounts and sign-in
- Some pages may ask you to sign in. Sign-in uses a one-time link sent to your email address; there is no password to remember.
- A sign-in link proves that someone can read that email inbox. It is not proof of ownership of a Lot. The Association determines ownership from its own records and the county records.
- Do not share your sign-in link. Tell the Association promptly if you think someone else has used your account.
- The Association may suspend an account it reasonably believes is being misused, and will tell the account holder why. Suspending a website account never suspends any right described in Section 3.
6. Acceptable use
Please do not:
- post or submit anything unlawful, harassing, threatening, defamatory, or obscene;
- post other people's private information;
- impersonate anyone;
- attempt to break into, scrape at scale, overload, or interfere with the site;
- use the site to advertise or solicit, unless the Association has said it's fine.
The Association may remove content that breaks these rules and may restrict site access for repeated or serious violations, subject to Section 3.
7. Content you submit
If you submit content through the site (for example a comment, a form, or a document), you keep ownership of it. You give the Association permission to store it, display it where the site is designed to display it, and keep it as an Association record. Do not submit anything you are not free to share.
Some things you submit are Association records and may be subject to inspection by other Owners under Utah law. Assume anything you send the Association can be seen by other Owners unless the law protects it.
8. Information about you
In short: the Association collects what it needs to run the Association, does not sell it, and shares it only with service providers and where the law requires.
One rule worth stating here: notices about you are never posted publicly. Violation notices, hearing notices and decisions, architectural decisions about your lot, and anything about your assessment account go to you directly. They are not put on the public website. Community-wide items — meeting notices, budgets, rule changes, elections — are posted publicly, because they are about the community, not about any one owner.[5]
9. Accuracy
The Association tries to keep the site current and correct, but content can be out of date or contain errors. The recorded governing documents and the Association's official records are the authority. If the site and an official record disagree, the official record controls.
10. Availability
The site may be unavailable at times. The Association does not guarantee uninterrupted access.
Important: if the site is down or you cannot access a notice, that does not shorten any deadline you have, and it does not eliminate the Association's obligation to notify you properly. Tell the Association and ask for the item by mail.
11. Links to other sites
Links to other websites are provided for convenience. The Association does not control them and is not responsible for them.
12. Limits on responsibility
To the extent the law allows, the Association provides the website "as is," and is not responsible for indirect or consequential losses arising from your use of the website.
This section is about the website. It does not waive any claim you may have relating to the Association's governance, the common areas, or anything else, and it does not waive any right that cannot be waived by law.
It also does not limit any duty, right, or remedy created by statute — including anything about notices, records, or the documents state law requires the Association to publish.
13. Changes to these terms
The Association may update these terms. If a change is significant, the Association will post the updated terms with a new "last updated" date and will note the change on the site's home page for at least 30 days. Significant changes apply going forward, not backward.
14. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Utah.
15. Questions or complaints
Contact the Association at board@thepierstansbury.com. You may also raise concerns at a Management Committee meeting.
- A homeowners association's rules and board-adopted terms sit below the recorded declaration in the governing-document hierarchy. Utah Code § 57-8a-228; § 57-8a-217(1)(b)(ii) (board rulemaking is subject to limits the declaration imposes). ↩
- Utah Code § 57-8a-227 (records available for examination; the association may not charge for transmitting records electronically; an association with an active website must make specified documents available through it free of charge). ↩
- Utah Code § 57-8a-214(3)(b) ("Notwithstanding Subsection (3)(a), a lot owner may, by written demand, require an association to provide notice to the lot owner by mail."). ↩
- Consent to conduct business electronically under Utah's Uniform Electronic Transactions Act is a separate matter from using a website, and Utah Code § 46-4-105(2)–(3) limits when such consent may be inferred or required. The Association therefore uses a stand-alone election form rather than a click-through. ↩
- This is the Association's own practice; Utah law does not require public posting of owner-specific notices, and Utah Code § 57-8a-227's website-publication mandate reaches only the document categories that section lists. ↩