PRIVACY POLICY
www.cityofcottondale.net
GENERAL INFORMATION
The City of Cottondale, Florida website is for informational purposes only and is offered as a convenience for our customers. We make no warranty or guarantee regarding the accuracy or reliability of the content on this site. City of Cottondale, Florida’s office shall not be liable for errors or for any damages in connection with the use of the information appearing on this or other referenced websites.
By using the information, and services available through this website, you agree to be bound by all of the terms and conditions of use as set forth herein.
City of Cottondale (“COC,” “we,” “us” or “our”) values its customers and respects their right to privacy. We are committed to protecting our users’ information and to making our users aware of our online practices regarding the privacy of their information. That includes meeting or exceeding requirements under data protection acts and regulations (including the General Data Protection Regulation Act).
By accessing this web site (the “Site”), you expressly consent and agree to the terms and conditions of this privacy policy, including our use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, then please do not use or access our Site.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
City of Cottondale, Florida recognizes and appreciates the importance of responsible use of information collected on this site. Information may be saved for a designated period of time in order to comply with the State of Florida’s archiving policies. However, information will not be disclosed to third parties or other government agencies, unless required by state or federal law.
Visitors to our Site can access the Site’s home page and browse the Site without disclosing any personally identifiable information. We may track information provided to us by your browser, including the web site you came from (known as the “referring URL”), the type of browser you use, the time and date of access, and other information that does not personally identify you.
COC may also collect personal information when you provide it to City of Cottondale, such as by submitting to the Site content to the Site, requesting e-mail updates. Booking our Community Center and other forms used and emailed to the City of Cottondale. We collect name and email addresses for the purpose of communicating with residents via a newsletter. Other ways include responding to a survey or questionnaire from us, or when you provide comments, suggestions and submissions to us via the Site or otherwise. COC may collect personal information in connection there with such as your name, address, e-mail address, phone numbers and other relevant information. Depending upon the services you elect to use or receive, we may also collect device-specific information, mobile network information, including your mobile device number.
Information we collect from you, when you choose to provide it to us (e.g. when you set up an account with us), may include your name, your mailing address. your email address and other contact information you may provide when book an event or submit a form. When paying utility bills online you are using a third party to provide to process credit card payments; we do not maintain and/or store any credit card information. Please see the privacy policy of that third party when purchasing products or services from our Site.
We may also maintain a record of your online history on the Site, and the aforementioned information in connection there with.
How the Information Is Used
By using this website, you agree that City of Cottondale may use the information you give it to provide services to you or provide information, notices, and reminders that COC thinks you may find interesting or useful, or that you specifically requested. We may from time-to-time provide your name and email address. COC may also use the information for other actions you take or other services you request on our Site.
We may also use information we collect from you to:
-communicate with you by e-mail, postal mail, facsimile, telephone and/or mobile devices about services that may be of interest to you, and/or about content that you have submitted to the Site.
-use your email to communicate with you if you forget your password;
-enforce our terms and conditions;
-manage our business; and
-perform functions in connection with providing information and services to you, including without limitation, reviewing and posting your content to the Site.
Accordingly, you should not submit to Cityofcottondale.net any information that you do not want shared with others. Further you will not submit any information or content regarding a third party unless you are expressly authorized to do so.
Personal Information of Minors
Cityofcottondale.net does not knowingly solicit or collect personally identifiable information online from minors. If City of Cottondale learns that a minor has submitted personally identifiable information online, in contravention of these measures, it will take all reasonable measures to delete such information from its databases and to not use such information for any purpose (except where necessary to protect the safety of the minor or others as required by law).
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External Distribution of Personally Identifiable Information and of Confidential Information.
City of Cottondale does not externally distribute personally-identifiable information of a user of the Site, except if a user specifically opts-in that certain of its personally-identifiable information be distributed to a third party, or if necessary to protect the rights of City of Cottondale or others. External distribution does not include certain limited distributions such as sharing personally-identifiable information with a third party working on behalf of City of Cottondale transfer of personally-identifiable information in connection with the sale of COC assets or the merger.
Third-Party Service Providers
We may employ other companies and individuals, including third party metrics and analytic tools, to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), and providing customer service. These service providers have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but such service providers are not authorized to use personal information for other purposes.
Use of Your Information to Protect City of Cottondale and Others
We may release your personal information if we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Terms of Use; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of City of Cottondale, our other users, or third parties. This includes exchanging information with other companies and entities for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. We do not, however, sell, rent, share, or otherwise disclose personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Use of Cookies
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
-Email newsletters related cookies This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
Forms related cookies When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Site preferences cookies – In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
From time to time, we may test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.
ensure that we provide you with the most relevant adverts where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest.
How Long We Keep Your Personally-Identifiable Information
The City of Cottondale Newsletter retains the personally-identifiable information you provide to us as reasonably necessary in connection with City of Cottondale’s operation of its business and for you to use the Site, or for us to provide customer support or other services described herein in connection with the Site. Information is kept to comply with the State of Florida’s archiving policies.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow reasonable standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
ALTHOUGH CITY OF COTTONDALE USES REASONABLE SECURITY PRECAUTIONS WITH RESPECT TO YOUR PERSONALLY-IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM AND STORED ON OUR SERVERS, CITY OF COTTONDALE CANNOT GUARANTEE THAT ANY OF YOUR PERSONALLY-IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION STORED ON OUR SERVERS, OR TRANSMITTED TO OR FROM THE SITE, WILL BE FREE FROM UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY LAW, CITY OF COTTONDALE DISCLAIMS AND SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS OF, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS OR DAMAGE TO, OR INTERCEPTION OF ANY OF YOUR PERSONALLY-IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION BEING STORED ON OUR SERVERS OR ON THE SITE, OR TRANSMITTED TO OR FROM THE SITE OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES.
Binding Agreement; Changes
Any user that accesses all or any part of this Site, or subscribes for newsletters or e-mail notifications and other information, or submits content to our Site for posting on the Site agrees and represents that such user is at least eighteen (18) years old and that such user has consented to this Privacy Policy. Each time a user accesses this Site, this Privacy Policy should be reviewed because City of Cottondale, Florida reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time without prior notice. Your use of our Site constitutes your acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Links
This Site may provide links to other web sites that City of Cottondale thinks you will find interesting or useful. You may also link to these other web sites for a product or service featured on this Site. City of Cottondale is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites, and you should review those policies.
