Privacy Policy of the Pike County Conservation District

This website is owned and operated by the Pike County Conservation District. Our intention is to provide information in support of our conservation mission. The District recognizes visitors to our site may be concerned about the information they provide to us and how we treat that information. The District is committed to honoring our customer’s privacy preferences.

This policy covers www.pikeconservation.org which is owned and operated by the District. We encourage you to take the time to read this policy and the privacy policies of any website you visit.

Information Collected

INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESS

An internet protocol (IP) address is the number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. The District collects an IP address from all visitors to our website. We use the IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our website, analyze usage trends, and gather broad demographic information.

SUBSCRIBING TO ALERTS AND ENEWSLETTERS

To sign up for alerts and eNewsletters you are, in most cases, only required to provide us with your full name and email address. The District uses Constant Contact to manage our eNewsletters. View the Constant Contact Privacy Statement.

OTHER INFORMATION

There are occasions when we will ask for additional information, such as professional specialties, title, or your organizational affiliation. We do this to better understand and respond to your needs and to provide you with services and benefits that may be valuable to you.

MAIL SENT TO US CONTAINING PERSONAL INFORMATION

You may decide to send the District personally identifying information, for example, in an email message requesting additional information. We will use this information to determine how to respond to you, and we may add your information to our database. If you wish to view, modify, or remove your Personal Information from our records, please see the section: How To Access, Modify, Remove Personal Information.

USE OF INFORMATION

Your information will be used to send information to you about the District programs and services. You may opt-out of mailings (both postal and email) at any time if you do not wish to receive non-business critical information from us. The District will not sell your email address for commercial purposes.

HOW TO ACCESS, MODIFY, OR REMOVE PERSONAL INFORMATION (INCLUDING OPTING OUT)

If at any time you wish to stop receiving correspondence from the District, you may opt-out at any time by selecting the unsubscribe link located at the bottom of every electronic communication, or by contacting us at pikecd@pikepa.org or calling 570-226-8220. Please provide enough information for us to be able to identify you.

Written requests may be sent to: Pike County Conservation District, 556 Route 402, Hawley, PA 18428

To request the removal of your personal information from our records, please send a letter to the address above.

SECURITY FOR YOUR INFORMATION

The District will take appropriate steps to protect the security of your personal information. We will also protect your personal information in storage. The District has implemented security policies, rules, and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from unauthorized access; improper disclosure or use; unauthorized modification; and unlawful destruction or accidental loss. All of the District employees who have access to and are associated with processing data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitor’s personal data.

All sensitive information (such as your credit card information) provided to the District through our website is transmitted either to us or to our credit card processor using secure socket layer (SSL) encryption. SSL is proven coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt or scramble data before you send it to us. No credit card information is stored on our site.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can ever be 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information to the fullest extent, we cannot ensure or completely guarantee the security of such information.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

The District provides links to third party websites. Since we do not control those websites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these third party sites.

COOKIES

Cookies are small files sent from a web server to your computer through your browser program. There are two types of cookies: non-persistent and persistent cookies.

A non-persistent cookie enables a website to temporarily keep information on your computer as you travel from one page to another on our site. The cookie is automatically deleted from your machine when you close your browser. Because these cookies are necessary to provide some functions, failure to allow such cookies will make our website unavailable to you.

A persistent cookie is kept even when you close your browser. You can manually delete these cookies using commands specific to your browser and computer system. These cookies store information that would generally not change from session to session. They also contain information that would need to be reentered by you each time you visit the website. For example, a common use of persistent cookies is to allow a registered site visitor to enter the site without having to specify their user-id and password.

USE OF COOKIES

The District uses cookies for various reasons. We only need cookies written by our site. We do not use cookies to obtain information on other websites that you may visit. We may use cookies to store some history about the parts of our site that you have visited to help you navigate our site more easily.

OUR COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL LAW

Children’s Guidelines

The District complies fully with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA).

None of the websites covered by this policy knowingly collect identifiable personal information from children under age 13. If we discover that a person under the age of 13 has provided us with any personally identifiable information, we will delete that information from our systems. We are unable to reply to information requests from children under the age of 13, if so identified. A parent or guardian must initiate any requests for information from children under the age of 13 on their behalf. We encourage parents to supervise children when they browse the internet.

Spam

The District complies fully with the Controlling the Assault of non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM Act). To this end, the District:

Always offers recipients of email marketing and eNewsletter a clear means of opting-out from the receipt of future messages;
Always includes a link to the District’s physical address within the body of all email messages;
Never uses false or misleading header information in any email message;
Never attempts to deceive email recipients by using deceptive email subject lines;
Never uses automated means to harvest email addresses from websites or web services;
Never generates email addresses using programmatic methods.

QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

The District welcomes comments and questions on this policy. We are dedicated to protecting your personal information and will make every reasonable effort to keep that information secure.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT US AT:

Pike County Conservation District
556 Route 402
Hawley, PA 18428

570-226-8220

The information you provide to us will also be covered by this policy.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

The District may change or supplement this policy from time to time. We will post an appropriate notice of change to the Privacy Policy on our website. Privacy Policy changes will apply to the information collected from the date we post the revised Privacy Policy to the website, as well as to existing information held by us.

If we decide to change this Policy in a material way and we seek to collect, use or disclose Personal Information for purposes other than those to which consent has been obtained, we will be in compliance with the applicable privacy laws and provide individuals an opportunity to opt-out.