South Wood County Historical Corp. (“SWCHC“) operates swch-museum.com. It is SWCHC’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, SWCHC collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. SWCHC’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how SWCHC’s visitors use its website. From time to time, SWCHC may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
SWCHC also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on swch-museum.com blogs/sites. SWCHC only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to SWCHC’s websites choose to interact with SWCHC in ways that require SWCHC to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that SWCHC gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at swch-museum.com to provide a username and email address. In each case, SWCHC collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with SWCHC. SWCHC does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
SWCHC may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. SWCHC may display this information publicly. However, SWCHC does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
SWCHC discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on SWCHC’s behalf or to provide services available at SWCHC’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using SWCHC’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. SWCHC will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, SWCHC discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when SWCHC believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of SWCHC, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an SWCHC website and have supplied your email address, SWCHC may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with SWCHC and our projects. If you send us a request (for example via email), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. SWCHC takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. SWCHC uses cookies to help SWCHC identify and track visitors, their usage of SWCHC website, and their website access preferences. SWCHC visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using SWCHC’s website, with the drawback that certain features of SWCHC’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, SWCHC may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in SWCHC’s sole discretion. SWCHC encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a swch-museum.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
