The CONNECTICUT AG FAIRS is
committed to respecting and protecting your privacy rights when visiting any
page of our Website, www.WWW.CTAGFAIRS.ORG.com. To protect your Personal
Information, the CONNECTICUT AG FAIRS has created the guidelines outlined
below, which explain the kinds of information the website collects, how it is
used, the conditions under which it is made available to third parties, how
information is maintained and our compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy
Act. Your use of the website indicates your acceptance of and agreement with
the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
Information
Collected
While visiting the website, we may
ask you to provide information that personally identifies you ("personal
information") for purposes of interacting with the website. Such personal
information may include, but is not limited to, your name, phone number, street
address and e-mail address, age and gender. On any page that collects personal
information, we will specifically describe what information is required in
order to provide you with the product or service or enter you in the promotion
you have requested, as well as respond to your inquiry or comment. This
personally identifiable data is collected by means of form interfaces on our
website, into which the user must voluntarily enter the information requested.
If you place an online order or enter a commercial transaction at this website,
we will collect additional personally identifiable information, including
billing address and credit card information. We may also collect personally
identifiable information through purchase forms, surveys, contests, emails we
receive from you and your other interactions with our website. You may browse
the website without registering or providing any personally identifying
information.
IP
Addresses
This website also collects anonymous
data that is not indicative of and cannot be traced to an individual without
the cooperation of their Internet Service Provider. This data includes
information about the user's remote IP address, referral data (which page
"linked" to the present request) and the browser software's
user-agent string. This information is accepted passively from the HTTP headers
that are sent from the user when requesting any file from the server. CONNECTICUT
AG FAIRS does log IP addresses for systems administration, troubleshooting
purposes and to determine website usage.
Cookies
The website uses
"cookies", which are elements of data that a website can send to your
browser, which may then be stored on your system. This element of data is a
piece of text, not a program. The website can only access the information from
a cookie sent by the website. We cannot access other cookies sent by other
websites or the information contained therein. Additionally, we cannot learn
your e-mail address or any other information about you through the use of a
cookie. The only way we would learn such information is if you specifically and
voluntarily submit that information to us, for example, through a registration
system, by entering a sweepstakes or promotion, etc.
Why
does the Site use cookies?
CONNECTICUT AG FAIRS uses cookies to
track usage of the website and further personalize your experience when you are
visiting the Website. By tracking usage, we can best determine what features of
the website best serve the users. Overall, the use of cookies helps to give you
a more personalized experience at the website. The information is used to keep
our website fresh and relevant to you, the user. Cookies also allow you to
avoid retyping your e-mail address on the website. The information stored in a
cookie is used to allow us to personalize your experience on the website.
May
I decline to accept a cookie?
You may decline to accept cookies
sent by the website by selecting an option on your browser to reject cookies.
However, some portions of the website may require cookies in order to provide
you with the full set of features offered. Cookies enable our server to know
that you are a registered user. In addition, our registration system may
require that you accept the cookies from the website in order to access that
portion of the website.
Use
of Personal Information
We believe in protecting your
privacy and will not share personal information with third parties outside of CONNECTICUT
AG FAIRS, except as described in this Privacy Policy. We believe that we can
enhance your experience on our Website with the information you share with us.
We use personal information about you to improve our advertising and marketing
efforts, to statistically analyze website usage, to improve our content and
product offerings and to personalize the website's content, layout, and
services. We also may use your personal information, such as your e-mail
address or mailing address, to contact you regarding products and/or services
that may be of interest to you, to respond to an inquiry from you regarding the
information that we have collected, to respond to your comments and suggestions
and to fill orders and complete commercial transactions that you initiate with
this website.
CONNECTICUT AG FAIRS may match
specific and/or aggregated personal information with third party data to
provide you with product and content offerings that interest you and improve
our advertising and marketing efforts. CONNECTICUT AG FAIRS also may disclose
aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to potential
advertisers, partners, other third parties, our affiliate companies and for
other lawful purposes. For example, we provide our advertisers with aggregate information
about our users, such as statistics regarding the number of website users that
view their advertisements.
As part of your experience on our
website, you may receive communications from us related to products and
services that might interest you. While we believe these services will enhance
your experience at our website, you will at all times be able to opt out from
receiving these communications, either by specifically opting out of these
services or by deleting your profile from our database.
We have today, and will in the
future, have arrangements with third party service providers, such as credit
card processors, shipping companies, and fulfillment services, other
third-party vendors, or any partner who assists in the operations and/or administration
of this website.
When you sign up for a service we
offer on the Website, we may be required to share personal information with
that service provider in order to provide the service. These third party
providers are not permitted to retain or use personal information for any
purpose unrelated to providing the service.
We reserve the right to disclose
personal information when needed to comply with the law or a legal process,
cooperate with investigations of purported unlawful activities, to identify persons
violating the law, to investigate or assist in investigations incident to
misuse or abuse of this website, or in connection with the sale of part or all
of CONNECTICUT AG FAIRS.
Party
Collecting the Information
Information entered by website
visitors is retrieved directly by the CONNECTICUT AG FAIRS.
This Privacy Policy only addresses
the use and dissemination of information that the website collects from you. To
the extent that you disclose any information to other parties, whether through,
for example, online auctions, chat rooms, personal ads, or the like, through
third party services or promotions offered on or through the website or through
other websites throughout the internet, different policies may apply and CONNECTICUT
AG FAIRS shall not be responsible for the use or dissemination of such
information.
Links
to Other Materials
Third party sites linked to and from
the site are not necessarily under the control of CONNECTICUT AG FAIRS. CONNECTICUT
AG FAIRS shall have no responsibilities or liabilities whatsoever for the
content or privacy practices of any such linked site or any link or linking
program at any time. CONNECTICUT AG FAIRS does not necessarily endorse
companies (or related products or services) to or from which the website is
linked. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to the
website, you do so entirely at your own risk. CONNECTICUT AG FAIRS hereby
disclaims any rights to trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos,
copyrights, patents, domain names or other intellectual property interests of
third parties.
Children's
Privacy
The Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”) applies only to websites of a commercial
nature, and while CONNECTICUT AG FAIRS is a nonprofit organization, it
considers COPPA to provide sound advice for any website that is intended for
use by children. For this reason, CONNECTICUT AG FAIRS does not knowingly
collect or solicit any personally identifiable information from children under
13 years of age without verifiable parental consent.
In the event that we receive actual
knowledge that we have collected such personal information without the
requisite and verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information from
our database as quickly as is practicable. With respect to any form interface
that appears on a webpage at our website, no information will be knowingly
collected from any user under the age of 13. Where “age” or “date of birth” is
requested on the form interface, no information will be stored or transmitted
unless the response indicates that the user is 13 years of age or older.
Providing personal information is
never a prerequisite for accessing the basic content or resources on this
website.
Maintenance
of Personal Information
The personally identifiable
information collected at this website may be indefinitely retained and
electronically archived. Please keep in mind that information collected at this
website may be different than that collected at or through other activities,
events, or functions related to CONNECTICUT AG FAIRS and the use and
disclosure, if any, of such information may vary and are not covered under this
policy.
Opting-Out
We respect your privacy and ability
to choose whether to share information with us and any third party. You may
choose to "opt-out" of sharing personal information in several ways.
When choosing to use certain features or services on the website, you can
choose whether to share optional personal information in connection with the
feature or service. If you receive communications from us that you prefer not
to receive, you may opt-out from receiving these communications, either by
specifically indicating this preference in a communication to us via the
Unsubscribe link or by deleting your registration profile from our database.
You may also opt-out altogether from providing personal information to us by
not registering on the website and thereby not providing personal information.
You may also choose at a later date to have your name removed from our
database. To do so, please follow the process described below. Certain portions
of the website and certain services provided on the website, however, do
require registration in order to access or use these areas and services. If you
choose not to register or provide certain information, these areas will not be
accessible to you.
Reviewing,
Changing and Deleting Your Personal Information
You may access all of the personal
information that we collect from you online and maintain by e-mailing us at INFO@CTAGFAIRS.ORG.
To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to
verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
Security
CONNECTICUT AG FAIRS maintains
industry standard encryption technologies to ensure the security, integrity and
privacy of the personal information that you provide through the website.
Please keep in mind, however, that no data transmission over the Internet or
any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot
guarantee the security of any information you transmit using our website, and
therefore, it is important to remember that you transmit such information at
your own risk. CONNECTICUT AG FAIRS does not assume responsibility for use or
disclosure of your information that are the result of unauthorized or illegal
access to our systems or to those of our vendors or partners.
Contacting
Us
If you have any questions or
comments about our Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at INFO@CTAGFAIRS.ORG.
Effective
Date and Changes
Understanding that Internet
technologies are rapidly evolving, any changes to this policy will be promptly
posted on this page, with an updated "effective date" posted below. CONNECTICUT
AG FAIRS reserves the right to modify the terms of this policy at any time and
in our sole discretion, by posting a change notice to this page. Your continued
use of the website following our posting of a change notice will constitute
binding acceptance of those changes.
This Privacy Policy was last
modified on July 12, 2013.