We respect your privacy and take the protection of your information very seriously. We have compiled this privacy policy so that you know how this website uses personal information, sometimes called “personally identifiable information” – data that can be used to identify an individual website user. Following is a description of how we collect, protect, and utilize personally identifiable information.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://umrcc.org.
What personal information does the website collect?
When you voluntarily provide us with information about yourself, you are consenting to our collection, use, disclosure, and storage of the personal information you provide. This information may be stored with our third-party vendors (example: MailChimp) so that we may utilize their services.
When do we collect personal information?
We collected information from you when you fill out a form, subscribe to a newsletter, or otherwise put information on our website.
For example, if you sign up for our newsletter, we will create an email list through our third-party email management vendors and send you our newsletter. The information collected for this purpose may include your email address and your name. You can stop receiving our email newsletters by following the unsubscribe instructions included in every email (usually at the bottom of each email). You will not receive spam from us by signing up for our email newsletter.
How do we use personal information?
We may use the information we collect from you in the following ways:
- To improve our website and communications;
- To follow up with you after correspondence (live chat, email, or phone inquiries);
Cookies
This service utilizes cookies to collect anonymous data about visitors to our website. Cookies are small files that, if you give permission, our website sends to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser that allow our web service to recognize your web browser and capture and remember certain information. While cookies from our website may collect information about the browser you use or the device you use to reach our website, the cookies do not collect or store personally identifiable information.
Information collected by cookies may include:
- Internet domain through which you accessed the Website;
- Type of web browser and operating system you use;
- Date and time you accessed the website;
- Pages viewed on our website; and/or
- How often you visit the website.
Cookies help us do the following:
- Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since each browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, some of the features that make your site experience more efficient may not function properly.
By using or accessing our website with web browser settings allowing the use of cookies, you are consenting to the use of cookies. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by using this browser add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/. Find out more about the information collected by Google Analytics here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can disable cookies in your browser to prevent this service from collecting information about your visits.
We have implemented the following applications:
- Demographics and Interests Reporting
We, along with third-party vendors such as Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website. This website may also allow third-party behavioral tracking.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
We do not sell or trade personal information to third parties, except for our website hosting / operational partners and other parties who assist us in serving our users, as long as these other parties have agreed to keep the information confidential. We may also release information when lawful and by a court order.
However, non-personally identifiable information may be provided to other parties for marketing or other uses.
We use MailChimp as our marketing automation platform. If you fill out our newsletter subscription form on the website, you acknowledge that the information you provide will be transferred to MailChimp for processing in accordance with their Privacy Policy and Terms.
How long we retain your data
For users that fill out forms on our website, we store the personal information they provide for 12 months. This data is then automatically deleted.
What rights you have over your data
If you have have filled out a form on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the following information:
Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee
292 San Diego Road
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
