Privacy Policy
Poolesville Area Senior Center, Inc. (“Poolesville Seniors”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what types of information may be collected by our website, poolesvilleseniors.org, and how this information is used.
Information that we collect
Individuals who use our website (such as to register for events or to sign up to receive Poolesville Seniors e-communications) voluntarily provide us with contact information (such as name, address, and e-mail address). Our website may also collect your IP address.
Our website uses “cookies” to automatically help provide better services. They remind us who you are and your preferences for our website based on what you’ve done and told us before. The “cookie” is placed in your computer and is read when you come back to our website. Cookies let us take you to the information and features you’re particularly interested in.
Poolesville Seniors uses all of this information to carry out our organization’s activities and to administer our website. This information may also be used for statistical metrics to track website visitor traffic and to better understand the characteristics of our audience.
How your information may be used
We use this information to generally carry out our organization’s activities, such as to provide you with personalized service, to send e-mail alerts to you, to answer your requests, to process your registration application, and to administer our website. We may also use your information to track visits to our website and to collect other statistics. This lets us know which of our features are the most popular so we can better serve the needs of our audience. It also lets us provide aggregate data about our traffic (not identifying you personally, but showing how many visitors used which features, for example) to outside parties.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Email Privacy
Poolesville Seniors’ does not provide, sell, or rent email addresses to anyone outside the organization.
Financial Information
Our website does not collect financial information directly but will direct you to a trusted payment site for completion of your registration. For alternative payment methods, please contact us at [email protected].
Other websites
Our website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) from other websites or links to other websites. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. Such content and links do not fall under our website domain, and Poolesville Seniors is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such external websites.
Modifications
We may amend this privacy policy from time to time; please review it periodically. Your continued use of our website is deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.