Prince William County Park Authority is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Prince William County Park Authority Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Prince William County Park Authority website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Prince William County Park Authority collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Prince William County Park Authority also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Prince William County Park Authority. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Prince William County Park Authority for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Prince William County Park Authority Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Prince William County Park Authority public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Prince William County Park Authority does not read any of your private online communications.
Prince William County Park Authority encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Prince William County Park Authority so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Prince William County Park Authority is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Prince William County Park Authority and Prince William County Park Authority family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Prince William County Park Authority collects and uses your personal information to operate the Prince William County Park Authority Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Prince William County Park Authority also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Prince William County Park Authority and its affiliates. Prince William County Park Authority may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Prince William County Park Authority does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Prince William County Park Authority may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Prince William County Park Authority may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Prince William County Park Authority, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Prince William County Park Authority does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Prince William County Park Authority keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Prince William County Park Authority, in order to determine what Prince William County Park Authority services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Prince William County Park Authority to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Prince William County Park Authority Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Prince William County Park Authority or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Prince William County Park Authority; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Prince William County Park Authority, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Prince William County Park Authority Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Prince William County Park Authority pages, or register with Prince William County Park Authority site or services, a cookie helps Prince William County Park Authority to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Prince William County Park Authority Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Prince William County Park Authority features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Prince William County Park Authority services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Prince William County Park Authority secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Prince William County Park Authority secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Links to other Web Sites
The Site contains links to other Web sites. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions express in such Web sites, and such Web sites are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by us. Inclusion of any linked Web site on our Site does not imply approval or endorsement of the linked Web site by us. If you decide to leave our Site and access these third-party sites, you do so at your own risk.
Changes to this Statement
Prince William County Park Authority will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Prince William County Park Authority encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Prince William County Park Authority is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Prince William County Park Authority welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Prince William County Park Authority has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Prince William County Park Authority at
jbowen@pwcparks.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
