Privacy Notice
Overview
When visiting www.columbusneighborhoods.org (“Website”), the Columbus Metropolitan Library (“CML”), as the operator of the Website, may request and/or otherwise collect certain personal information. This Privacy Notice describes what personal information may be collected by CML and how such information is used by CML. This Privacy Notice applies only to information collected online through the Website.
Information We Collect
Non-Personal Information
CML may gather navigational information during each user’s visit to the Website. In the process of gathering navigational information, non-personally identifiable information (i.e. domain type, browser version, service provider and IP address) may be collected. Such information may be gathered by CML to learn more about the technical efficiencies of the Website (such as the time it takes a visitor to connect to the Website or download pages) and the use of the Website, including the areas of the Website that are most visited or the time of a last visit to a page on the Website. CML uses this information to better understand and improve its users’ experience at the Website.
Additionally, the Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc ("Google"). Google Analytics uses javascript to help analyze how visitors use our site. The information generated by the javascript about the use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for the CML and providing other services relating to website 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 the javascript by selecting the appropriate settings on your Web browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to make full use of our website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
- When you register as a user of the Website, CML will collect your name and email address.
- At registration, you are also given the option to provide a “description” which may include whatever other information you choose to provide. This description information is not required to register.
Updates or Corrections
You may update, correct or verify any information you provided to CML through the Website by logging in to your account on the Website and editing the information on your profile page. If you would like to close your account, use the commands on the website to do so.
How We Use and Disclose Your Information
Any personally identifiable information you provide to CML is used to enable us to deliver services you requested, respond to your questions about our offerings or contact you about the Website or your postings on the Website. Your user name, any description information you enter, and your submissions (what you have submitted and your history of submission) is viewable and made available to all users of the Website. CML does not sell, rent or trade any of the personal information collected from you to third parties. However, CML may use third parties to provide specific services, such as fulfilling your requests and maintaining the Website. These third parties may have access to and use of the information collected from you in order to perform services for CML.
You should also be aware that we may disclose specific information about you if necessary to do so by law or based on our good faith belief that it is necessary to conform or comply with the law or is necessary to protect the users of our Website and/or related services, the Website or the public.
Cookies
CML uses a browser feature known as a cookie, which assigns a unique identification to your computer. The cookies are typically stored on your computer's hard drive. Information collected from cookies is used by CML to validate your session as a registered user, to evaluate the effectiveness of our Website, analyze trends and administer the Website. The information collected from cookies allows us to determine such things as which parts of our Website are most visited and difficulties our visitors may experience in accessing our Website. With this knowledge, we can improve the quality of your experience on our Website by recognizing and delivering more of the most desired features and information, as well as by resolving access difficulties. Additionally, cookies will recognize whether you have visited our Website before and will allow personal features or access privileges to be offered to you.
To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, the Website does not knowingly collect or maintain information provided by children under the age of 13.
For your convenience, the Website may contain links to other sites. This Privacy Notice addresses only the privacy practices of the Website. You should review the applicable privacy policies and notices on such linked sites to determine the privacy practices or the content of such sites.
If you are visiting the Website from a location outside of the United States, your connection will be through and to servers located in the United States and all information you provide will be processed and maintained in our Web servers and internal systems located within the United States.
Changes to This Privacy Notice
CML reserves the right to revise this notice at any time. If we materially change the categories of information collected at our Website or how we use and/or disclose information collected at the Website such changes will be applied only to information collected on a going forward basis and we will update the privacy notice as follows: we will note deletions with a strike-out and additions in italics type for a thirty (30) day period after the change. For this same period, we will note [Revised] at the end of each revised sentence and update the effective date at the bottom of the Privacy Notice.
We limit access to personal information collected on the Website and utilize other technological and procedural safeguards when maintaining the Website. While we implement the above security measures on the Website, you should be aware that 100% security is not always possible.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or about CML’s operation of the Website, please contact us here.
