Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

The information and services included in or available through the City of Sugar Land’s Web pages may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. The City endeavors to make regular changes to the online information that may occur at any time.

The City of Sugar Land does not guarantee that the Web site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected or that the Web pages or the server that makes it available, are free of viruses or other harmful components.

The Web pages and online information are provided "As Is" without warranty of any kind.

Links to Non-City of Sugar Land Sites

The City of Sugar Land views the provision of links to external Web sites as a public service. Overall, the City's Web site attempts to provide useful information and reflect a positive and inspiring image of Sugar Land to citizens, businesses and visitors. The City will only select links to external Web sites to the extent the links help support these goals.

Links on the City's Web site attempt to also satisfy a governmental purpose. In particular, the City will consider providing links to sites that promote and protect the public heath, safety and welfare.

The City reserves the right to refuse to post any Web site links or to delete links posted at any time in conformance with this policy, without notice. The Web site will not provide links to:

• Sites promoting illegal activities.
• Sexually oriented and/or explicit sites.
• Sites containing information that violates any of the City's equal opportunity or anti-discrimination/harassment policies.
• Individual and/or personal home pages.

Linking to the City of Sugar Land Web Sites:

It is not necessary to get advance permission to link to the City of Sugar Land Web site if you are making a simple link to the home page. Please only link to the City of Sugar Land Web home page.

We reserve the right to change URL’s and sub-page paths at any time without notice; it is the responsibility of linking sites to maintain links.

You should not capture our pages within your frames or otherwise present our content as your own. Any link to our site should be a full forward link that passes the client browser to our site unencumbered. The back button should return the visitor to your site if the visitor clicks on it. Although all content on our site is public information, the City of Sugar Land maintains and will defend a copyright interest in these pages.

You should not link to individual graphics or tables within our pages, especially in an effort to place the downloading burden on our servers. Such an action may be considered a misuse of City resources.

Further Copyright Information

No information and material contained in this website may be copied or published / distributed in any way without our written permission. Certainly you may have a copy on your computer for strictly personal use, which means you cannot use any of the information or the content in connection with any commercial purpose or use. 

Members of the press

Accredited members of the press may use text content or images and multimedia content from our website for strictly editorial purposes as long as they publish the content along with the appropriate credit line, which reads: "credit: City of Sugar Land | www.sugarlandtx.gov " or "Courtesy of City of Sugar Land | www.sugarlandtx.gov ". 

By using our material you do not inherit a right to grant any rights of use regarding this material to others.

Please be also advised that we might have used also material from third parties and individuals which might be copyrighted by them, so please observe strictly any credits we have given to third parties/individuals. We cannot grant rights of use in any way regarding such foreign material.

Please send us a short notice, when and where our material is used and published. Should you write for a print magazine, please send us a copy. 

We have marked third party copyrights with high diligence, anyhow there remains always the possibility that a third party copyright has been forgotten to be mentioned or was not recognized by us. In case you feel that we did not use an appropriate credit line please notify us and provide us with detailled information about the circumstances, so that we are able to either add the copyright information or remove the material in question.

Photos within our Sugar Land Snapshots Gallery

All photos are owned by the City of Sugar Land except when otherwise stated. Terms of use apply accordingly to above mentioned rules.

To get permission to use a copy of our graphics within your pages, please email the Public Communications Department outlining your intended use(s).

Please contact us at:
PUBINFO@
(to avoid spam and confuse spam-robots we don't show the entire address:
please put after the @-symbol our domain name: sugarlandtx.gov)

Streaming Video on the Sugar Land Web Site

Sugar Land provides several options for viewing Sugar Land City Council meetings online. Live webcasting and pre-recorded videos of numerous government meetings and programs are posted on the Web site.

System Requirements
Streaming video posted on the Web site is encoded in Windows Media Format. A sound card, an Internet connection and Windows Media Player (a free download from Microsoft) are needed to view online videos.

**Note**
The latest version of Windows Media Player (Version 11) may not play live streams or pre-recorded streaming videos. Microsoft is aware of this issue and is working to resolve it.