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Purpose
This policy
describes privacy practices regarding information
collected from the
Town of Oakboro web site. It contains
information about what data are collected and how that
information is used. This policy may be updated
periodically, so please check back from time to time.
This
policy applies only to the
Town of Oakboro web site (www.oakboro.com). When
you follow a link to another web site you are subject to
the privacy policy of that site. You should check the
privacy policies of each of these sites if you have any
questions regarding how each specific site handles
personally identifiable information.
Automatic Collection of
Certain Information
No
personally identifiable information is collected from
visitors who simply browse this site or who download
information from it. While our web servers maintain
logs of user activity to help us manage the web site,
information stored in these logs does not identify you
personally. The logs store things such the domain name
and IP address from which you access our site, the type
of browser and operating system you used, the date and
time you accessed our site, the pages visited and the
address of the site that you linked to us from (if you
linked to our web site from another web site).
We use
this information to learn how many visitors we have,
where they are coming from, which parts of our web site
are of most interest to visitors, and other facts that
will help us improve the web site and the services we
offer.
If You Send Us Personal
Information
Visitors who request services through this site may be
required to furnish additional information in order for
us to provide the service requested. The additional
information collected will be no more specific than if
the visitor were requesting the service by any other
means, including by telephone or an in-person visit with
The Town of Oakboro.
If you participate in a survey, send us an email or
submit an online form, your email address and the other
information you volunteered will be collected. We may
share this information with specific governmental
agencies or organizations in order to provide the help
and/or assistance you are requesting. We may also use
that information to help assess user needs and analyze
trends. Certain types of personal information may
constitute public records, which means that we must
provide it to persons making public records requests.
However, this does not include the account numbers you
use for electronic payments, public enterprise billing
information and certain other types of protected
information.
If you
use this web site for electronic commerce, we may
collect, process and disclose your name, address and
payment information (if applicable) to the extent
necessary to complete the online transaction and for our
own record-keeping activities such as billing, permits
and licenses.
Privacy of Email Lists
The
Town of Oakboro may maintain e-mail lists, but
only of those individuals or organizations that have
specifically opted to receive updates and other
information from the
Town of Oakboro. These lists include members of
the media and interested members of the general public
who have specifically requested to be kept informed
about the
Town of Oakboro’s affairs. Under current North
Carolina law, these email lists are public records and
we must provide them to anyone who makes a public
records request, except to the extent that they contain
public enterprise billing information or other
information protected from disclosure by law.
Length of Time Data Will Be
Stored / How to Unsubscribe:
Unless you request
that we delete any of the information that you submit
via any method we may offer within this website, we may
store such information indefinitely. You can
“unsubscribe" to any newsletters, notices, schedules,
etc., sent to you automatically by sending an email to
townofoakboro@oakboro.com,
and including "unsubscribe" in the subject or message
field.
Security
Some information
that you submit to us through this web site may be
protected by encryption technology, whereas other
information may not. Unless a particular web page on
this site indicates that encryption technology is being
used, you should not assume that information you submit
through that web page will be secure. If you submit
information to our server through a web page containing
visible indicators of active encryption technology, we
will take reasonable precautions to safeguard the
confidentiality of such information. However, no web
site can protect itself against all eventualities. The
Town of Oakboro will not be held liable for any injury
caused by the disclosure of your information, whether by
security breach, accident, inadvertence, or any other
act resulting in disclosure.
Use of Cookies
Cookies or other
technology may transfer information from this web site
to your hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies
or similar technology can make the Internet more useful
by storing information about your preferences on a
particular site. The use of cookies or similar
technology is an industry standard, and this web site,
like many other web sites, may make use of them to
provide useful features for our users. Cookies in and
of themselves do not personally identify you, although
they do identify your computer. Most browsers are
initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you
can set your browser to refuse cookies. However, you
may not be able to take full advantage of this web site
if you do so.
Public Records
The Town of Oakboro
is governed by the North Carolina public records laws.
This means that the information we receive online might
be disclosed to any person making a public records
request. Certain types of information (such as public
enterprise billing information and the account numbers
you use for electronic payments) are exempt from
disclosure as public records. If you have questions
about the North Carolina public records laws, refer to
N.C. G.S.§132.1 et. seq. For purposes of determining
whether information is a public record, information sent
to us through this web site is treated the same as
information sent to us by mail or delivered to us in
person.
Children
No applications on
this web site specifically solicit information from
minors or seek to determine whether the visitor is a
minor. Consequently, visitors should be aware that the
collection of personal information requested from or
volunteered by children online or by e-mail will be
treated in the same manner as information given by an
adult. Among other things, this means that it may
become a public record and therefore may be subject to
public access. We ask that parents guide their children
when children are asked to provide personal information
online. We ask that children get their parents'
permission before providing any information to us.
Opting Out
While accessing our
site, you may decline participation in any activity that
asks for information (i.e. survey or e-mail). Your
choice not to participate will in no way affect your
ability to use any other feature on our site. |
