Privacy Policy Statement
What This Privacy Policy Covers
This policy covers how Dahlonega Network treats personal information that
Dahlonega Network collects and receives in connection with its public Web
site as well as its membership Web site, Dahlonega Network View. Personal
information is information about you that is personally identifiable
like your name, address, e-mail address, or phone number, and that is
not otherwise publicly available.
Information Collection and Use
Dahlonega Network collects
personal information when you register with Dahlonega Network View, our
membership Web site, and when you visit Dahlonega Network’s public Web
site.
When you register with Dahlonega Network View we ask for information
such as your name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, zip code,
occupation, industry, and personal interests. Once you register with
Dahlonega Network View and sign in to Dahlonega Network View, you are not
anonymous to us.
Dahlonega Network automatically receives and records information on our
server logs from your browser, including your IP address,
Dahlonega Network cookie information, and the page you request.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Dahlonega Network does not
rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people
or nonaffiliated companies except when we have your permission, or
under the following circumstances:
- When we respond to subpoenas, court
orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights
or defend against legal claims; or
- When we believe it is
necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or
take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations
involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person,
violations of Dahlonega Network's terms of use, confidentiality pledge and
standards or as otherwise required by law.
Cookies
Dahlonega Network may set and access cookies on your computer.
Cookies are files or pieces of information that may be stored in
your computer’s hard drive when you visit a Web site. This file or
piece of information allows a user to move quickly and easily around
our Web site and is used to identify returning users. We also use a
cookie to track a user’s sessions. We use this information to find out
what site features are most popular so we can develop our Web site and
content in light of our analysis of people’s usage.
The use of cookies is an industry standard and done on most Web sites.
We do not, however, use cookies to retrieve involuntary information about your computer.
Accordingly, if you would prefer, you can set up your browser to
refuse cookies or to alert you to their presence and thereby allow you
to remove them from your computer.
Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal
information about you to staff who we believe reasonably need to come
into contact with that information to provide services to you or in
order to do their jobs.
We take all reasonable precautions to keep your personal information
secure and we have put in place physical, electronic, and procedural
safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal
information about you.
Links to other Web sites
The Dahlonega Network public Web site
and our membership Web site, Dahlonega Network View, contain links to
other Web sites; however, we are not responsible for the privacy
practices or the content of such Web sites and do not make any
representation as to the existence, sufficiency, accuracy or
completeness of their Web sites or privacy policies.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Due to changes in legislation
and best practice or enhancements to functionality and content on
Dahlonega Network’s public Web site, Dahlonega Network may update this
privacy policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way
we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary e-mail
address or by placing a prominent notice on our public Web site and
Dahlonega Network View, and accordingly you should check here from time to
time.
Questions and Suggestions
If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us at Dahlonega Network. Attention: Privacy Officer, <Client Address>.
