Privacy Policy
INTRODUCTION
The Brevard Indian River Lagoon Coalition, Inc. (the “Company”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information that you share with us while browsing the website located at https://helpthelagoon.org/ (the "Site"). Thus, we have prepared this policy, which governs data collection and usage for the Site, to inform you of the guidelines that we follow to ensure that the information you choose to share with us is private and safeguarded. By using the Site, you consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy.
GENERAL BROWSING
Generally, you can browse through our Site without giving us any information about yourself. This means that, unless you voluntarily and knowingly provide us with personal data, we will not know your name, your e-mail address, or any other information identifiable to you.
PROVIDING US WITH YOUR PERSONAL DATA
In order to better provide you with the services offered on the Site, we may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, mailing address and email address. For example, you might be asked to provide your email address in order to be placed on our mailing list, or to send us an email message. Providing us with this information is voluntary and is only recommended if you wish to have access to those features. We may also gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback or other information about the Sites, provided by you to the Company are non-confidential and the Company will be entitled to the unrestricted use and dissemination of the foregoing for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you.
PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The Company treats your personal data that you voluntarily provide to us as confidential. We store your data on servers provided by third-party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted. The Company uses the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Protocol for these purposes. When personal information is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the SSL Protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchange between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.
SHARING INFORMATION WITH PARTIES
We do not allow third parties to access any of your personal data that we have on store. The Company does not sell, rent or lease their mailing lists to third parties.
The Company may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of law or comply with legal process served on the Company or the Site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Company; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site, or the public.
TRACKING USER BEHAVIOR
The Company may keep track of the web pages our users visit within the Site, in order to determine which of the Company’s web pages are the most popular. This data is used to provide more website content on topics most popular with our users.
LINKS
The Site may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by the Company.
Technical Information
IP ADDRESSES
Computers, which browse the Internet, are given an IP Address that identifies them throughout their browsing session. When you browse our Site, our servers log an entry for each page you visit with your IP Address. Information about your computer hardware and software may automatically be collected by the Site. This information can include: your IP Address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. We use this information to gather anonymous information about which pages of our site are most popular, most frequently visited, for operation of the Site, to maintain quality of the Site, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Site, etc. However, we do not use this information to attempt to gather any personal information about our visitors.
COOKIES
This Site uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help the Site analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Site (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on Google servers. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Site, compiling reports on Site activity for Site operators and providing other services relating to Site activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, or by enabling the Do Not Track settings in your browser. By using this Site, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
POLICY CHANGES
The Company reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be made available within this Privacy Policy and we will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on this Site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. Your continued use of the Company’s Site and/or the services available on the Site will be subject to the then-current Privacy Policy and will constitute your acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy and your agreement to abide and be bound by that Privacy Policy.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns related to this Privacy Policy or privacy concerns in general, please visit our Contact Us page.
Effective as of January 1, 2021.