Privacy
& Security Statement
Thank you for visiting
the Ferndale Downtown Development Association (DDA) Website and reviewing
our privacy and security statement. The Ferndale DDA is strongly committed
to maintaining the privacy of your personal information and the security
of our computer systems. With respect to the collection, use and disclosure
of personal information, the Ferndale DDA makes every effort to ensure
the privacy of site visitors.
As a general
rule, the Ferndale DDA does not collect personally-identifying information
about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide
such information to us. The information we receive depends upon
what you do when visiting our site.
If you visit
our site to read or download information, we collect and store the
following information:
- The name
of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example,
dol.gov, if you are connecting from a government computer account).
- The date
and time you access our site.
- The Internet
address of the website from which you linked directly to our site.
The above information
is used by software programs on our website to create summary statistics
which allow us to assess the number of visitors to the different
sections of our site, identify what information is of most and least
interest, determine technical design specifications, monitor system
performance, and help us make our site more useful to visitors.
If
you identify yourself by sending an E-mail containing personal information:
You also may
decide to send us personally-identifying information, for example
your mailing address, in an electronic mail message requesting that
information be mailed to you. Information collected in this manner
is used solely for responding to requests for information or records.
We may forward your e-mail to others who are better able to respond
to you.
If
you link to other sites outside the Ferndale DDA site:
Our website
has many links to other sites. When you link to any of these sites,
you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy policy
of the new site.
For security
purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all
users, our website also employs software programs to monitor network
traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information,
or otherwise cause damage.
Unauthorized
attempts to upload information or change information on this service
are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and other state and federal laws.
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