RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an Internet standard for making headlines available from web sites to users and other sites. If you look at our RSS feeds, they’re not going to seem very interesting, because they are designed to be read by computers.

Our Local Headlines section has local coastside news from other Web sites.

On this page, you’ll get the most recent stories featuring coastside communities from the Mercury News, San Mateo Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and a lot of other sources. We use Google News, which is entirely automated, so sometimes the stories may not be on-target, but it’s amazing how many interesting local stories it turns up. This page also contains a link to our RSS feed of local headlines.

We also link directly to Google news from our navigation bar on the left side of every page.

Welcome to Coastsider, a new web site for the San Mateo county coastside community. Our goal is to create a place where you can go to find out what’s happening now in this amazing community, dig deeper into topics that interest you, and discuss these things with your fellow residents.

The site is very open and it costs nothing to become a member. And you don’t have to join to use the site.

We’ll be releasing an entirely new advertising program shortly.

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• We don’t run pop ups, pop unders, or any other kind of intrusive ads.
• We don’t share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
• We don’t engage in cross-marketing or link-referral programs with other sites.
• We don’t send you unsolicited communications for marketing purposes.
• We offer email anonymization & relay, to reduce 3rd party harvesting & spam.
• Account information is password-protected. Keep your password safe.
• Forums use basic webserver authentication. Close your browser to log out.
• Coastsider, or people who post on Coastsider, may provide links to third party websites, which may have different privacy practices. We are not responsible for, nor have any control over, the privacy policies of those third party websites, and encourage all users to read the privacy policies of each and every website visited.

• We sometimes collect your email address, for purposes such as sending confirmation emails, authenticating user accounts, providing subscription email services, registering for forums, etc.
• For paid postings, we collect contact information, such as name(s), phone/fax number(s), and address for billing purposes. You may need to provide additional information about your organization if you wish to qualify for a non-profit job posting account.
Coastsider has established this privacy policy to explain to you how your information is protected, collected and used, which may be updated by Coastsider from time to time. Coastsider will provide notice of materially significant changes to this privacy policy by posting notice on the Coastsider site.

• We may collect personal information if you provide it in feedback or comments, post it on our classifieds or interactive forums, or if you contact us directly. Please do not post any personal information on Coastsider’s forums or classifieds that you expect to keep private.
• Our web logs collect standard web log entries for each page served, including your IP address, page URL, and timestamp. Web logs help us to diagnose problems with our server, to administer the Coastsider site, and to otherwise provide our service to you.

• All classified and forum postings are stored in our database, even after "deletion," and may be archived elsewhere.
• Our web logs and other records are stored indefinitely.
• Registered job posters can access and update their account information.
• Although we make good faith efforts to store the information in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security.

Search engines and other sites not affiliated with Coastsider - including archive.org, google.com, andgroups.yahoo.com - archive or otherwise make available Coastsider postings.

• Coastsider may disclose information about its users if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process.
• Coastsider may also disclose information about its users to law enforcement officers or others, in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce our Terms of Use; respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights of third-parties; or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Coastsider, its users or the general public.

By visiting our web site and providing us with data, you acknowledge and agree that due to the international dimension of Coastsider we may use the data collected in the course of our relationship for the purposes identified in this policy or in our other communications with you, including the transmission of information outside your resident jurisdiction. In addition, please understand that such data may be stored on servers located in the United States. By providing us with your data, you consent to the transfer of such data.

We welcome your feedback on this document.

By using Coastsider, you agree to the following terms of service. We’ve tried to make them as simple as possible, while protecting our rights and those of our users.

1. Coastsider has made available to the community a web site featuring news, bulletin boards, classifieds, advertising, and a lot of other information. This site is the property of Coastsider, and Coastsider may determine its own editorial policy for the site.

2. Anything you post on Coastsider is your responsibility.

3. You acknowledge and agree to the Coastsider Privacy Policy.

4. Coastsider has sole discretion on interpreting these rules and determining compliance.

5. We can’t be responsible for the contents of any site that is linked from Coastsider.

6.  You agree that you will treat other Coastsider readers with civility.  You agree not to post content that is illegal, threatening, abusive, defamatory, pornographic, deceptive, false, misleading, or disruptive. These terms are defined at Coastsider’s discretion.

7. You agree not to send unsolicited commercial email to addresses on Coastsider or through our computers. You agree not to post advertising or commercial messages except in areas reserved for ads. The definition of advertising and commercial is at our discretion.

8. Coastsider can set limits on what you can do on our system, how much you can post to it, and how often you can use it. We can deactivate your account, block your address, or otherwise keep you off the system at our discretion. We don’t take any responsibility for information that is lost or deleted from the system.

9. You agree to accept responsibility for your dealings with other users and not to hold Coastsider responsible for the conduct of people you’ve met through our site.

10. You agree to give us the right to reproduce on Coastsider any content you post on the site. You agree for your postings to be covered by our Creative Commons License.

11. Please report any violations of the Terms, by flagging the posting(s) for review, or by emailing abuse[at]coastsider[dot]com.  Our failure to act on a particular breach does not waive our right to act on subsequent or similar breaches.

12. We welcome your feedback on this document.

13. Coastsider may change these rules at any time.

Coastsider Classifieds are intended to be a service to the community. By using Coastsider Classifieds, you agree to Coastsider’s Terms of Use.

The following guidelines give you some idea of the criteria we apply before approving an ad. We may apply other critera, and all ads must meet our Terms of Use. All ads will be reviewed and all recommended changes will be shown to the advertiser before the insertion order is executed.