Lake County-Michigan 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 Lake County-Michigan site and governs data collection and usage.
By using the Lake County-Michigan site, you consent to the data practices described
in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Lake County-Michigan collects personally identifiable information, such as your email
address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Lake County-Michigan 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 Lake County-Michigan. This information can include: your IP address,
browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This
information is used by Lake County-Michigan for the operation of the service, to
maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use
of the Lake County-Michigan site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information
or personally sensitive data through Lake County-Michigan public message boards,
this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Lake County-Michigan
does not read any of your private online communications.
Lake County-Michigan encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites
you choose to link to from Lake County-Michigan so that you can understand how those
Web sites collect, use and share your information. Lake County-Michigan is not responsible
for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Lake County-Michigan
and Lake County-Michigan family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Lake County-Michigan collects and uses your personal information to operate the Lake County-Michigan
Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Lake County-Michigan also uses
your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services
available from Lake County-Michigan and its affiliates. Lake County-Michigan may also
contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services
or of potential new services that may be offered.
Lake County-Michigan does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Lake County-Michigan 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, Lake County-Michigan
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 Lake County-Michigan, and they are required to maintain
the confidentiality of your information.
Lake County-Michigan does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such
as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Lake County-Michigan keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within
Lake County-Michigan, in order to determine what Lake County-Michigan services are
the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising
within Lake County-Michigan to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested
in a particular subject area.
Lake County-Michigan 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 Lake County-Michigan or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or
property of Lake County-Michigan; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect
the personal safety of users of Lake County-Michigan, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Lake County-Michigan 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 Lake County-Michigan pages, or
register with Lake County-Michigan site or services, a cookie helps Lake County-Michigan
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 Lake County-Michigan Web site, the information
you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Lake County-Michigan
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 Lake County-Michigan services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Lake County-Michigan secures your personal information from unauthorized access,
use or disclosure. Lake County-Michigan 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.
Changes to this Statement
Lake County-Michigan will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect
company and customer feedback. Lake County-Michigan encourages you to periodically
review this Statement to be informed of how Lake County-Michigan is protecting your
information.
Contact Information
Lake County-Michigan welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy.
If you believe that Lake County-Michigan has not adhered to this Statement, please
contact Lake County-Michigan at host@change.me.
We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the
problem.