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Privacy
Policy
This site is owned
and operated by Ashland Area YMCA. Your privacy on
the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At
Ashland Area YMCA, we want to make your experience
online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about
our users, we feel you should fully understand the
terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use
of that information. This privacy statement
discloses what information we gather and how we use
it.
Definition of the Information Ashland Area YMCA
gathers and keeps track of.
Ashland Area YMCA gathers two types of
information about users:
-Information that users provide through optional,
voluntary submissions. These are voluntary
submissions to receive our electronic newsletters,
to participate in our message boards or forums, to
email a friend, and from participation in polls and
surveys:
-Information Ashland Area YMCA gathers through
aggregated tracking information derived mainly by
tallying page views throughout our sites. This
information allows us to better tailor our content
to readers' needs and to help our advertisers and
sponsors better understand the demographics of our
audience. Because Ashland Area YMCA derives its
revenue mainly from sponsorships and advertising,
providing such aggregated demographic data is
essential to keeping our service free to users.
Under no circumstances does Ashland Area YMCA
divulge any information about an individual user to
a third party.
Ashland Area YMCA Gathers User Information In The
Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services, which require
some type of voluntary submission of personal
information by users:
1. Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to
users. Ashland Area YMCA gathers the email
addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users
may remove themselves from this mailing list by
following the link provided in every newsletter that
points users to the subscription management page.
Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the
time of registration.
2. Message boards/forums
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must
register separately for these services (both are
free of charge) in order to post messages, although
they needn't register to visit the site. During
registration the user is required to supply a
username, password, and email address.
3. "E-mail this to a friend" Service
Our site users can choose to electronically forward
a link, page, or documents to someone else by
clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user must
provide their email address, as well as that of the
recipient. This information is used only in the case
of transmission errors and, of course, to let the
recipient know who sent the email. The information
is not used for any other purpose.
4. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can
easily share their opinions with other users and see
what our audience thinks about important issues.
Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated
and are not identifiable to any particular user.
Ashland Area YMCA may use a system to "tag" users
after they have voted, so they can vote only once on
a particular question. This tag is not correlated
with information about individual users.
5. Surveys
Ashland Area YMCA may occasionally conduct user
surveys to better target our content to our
audience. We sometimes share the aggregated
demographic information in these surveys with our
sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share
any of this information about specific individuals
with any third party.
CHILDREN
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will
never knowingly request personally identifiable
information from anyone under the age of 13 without
requesting parental consent.
USAGE TRACKING
Ashland Area YMCA tracks user traffic patterns
throughout all of our sites. However, we do not
correlate this information with data about
individual users. Ashland Area YMCA does break down
overall usage statistics according to a user's
domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading
this information from the browser string
(information contained in every user's browser).
Ashland Area YMCA sometimes tracks and catalogs the
search terms that users enter in our Search
function, but this tracking is never associated with
individual users. We use tracking information to
determine which areas of our sites users like and
don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do
not track what individual users read, but rather how
well each page performs overall. This helps us
continue to build a better service for you.
COOKIES
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the
browser files of your computer. The cookie itself
does not contain Personal Information although it
will enable us to relate your use of this site to
information that you have specifically and knowingly
provided. But the only personal information a cookie
can contain is information you supply yourself. A
cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read
cookie files created by other sites. Ashland Area
YMCA uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as
described above). Our advertising system delivers a
one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and
click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your
browser. If you've set your browser to warn you
before accepting cookies, you will receive the
warning message with each cookie. You do not need to
have cookies turned on to use this site. However,
you do need cookies to participate actively in
message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
USE OF INFORMATION
Ashland Area YMCA uses any information voluntarily
given by our users to enhance their experience in
our network of sites, whether to provide interactive
or personalized elements on the sites or to better
prepare future content based on the interests of our
users.
As stated above, we use information that users
voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic
newsletters and to enable users to participate in
polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send
out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule
(depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send
out special editions when we think subscribers might
be particularly interested in something we are
doing. Ashland Area YMCA never shares newsletter
mailing lists with any third parties, including
advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine which
areas of our sites users like and don't like based
on traffic to those areas. We do not track what
individual users read, but rather how well each page
performs overall. This helps us continue to build a
better service for you. We track search terms
entered in Search function as one of many measures
of what interests our users. But we don't track
which terms a particular user enters.
Ashland Area YMCA creates aggregate reports on user
demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers,
sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers
to advertise more effectively, and allows our users
to receive advertisements that are pertinent to
their needs. Because we don't track the usage
patterns of individual users, an advertiser or
sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked
their ad. We will not disclose any information about
any individual user except to comply with applicable
law or valid legal process or to protect the
personal safety of our users or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
Ashland Area YMCA uses the above-described
information to tailor our content to suit your needs
and help our advertisers better understand our
audience's demographics. This is essential to
keeping our service free. We will not share
information about individual users with any third
party, except to comply with applicable law or valid
legal process or to protect the personal safety of
our users or the public.
SECURITY
Ashland Area YMCA operates secure data networks
protected by industry standard firewall and password
protection systems. Our security and privacy
policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as
necessary and only authorized individuals have
access to the information provided by our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and
practical. Such choices include:
· Opting not to register to receive our electronic
newsletters.
· Opting not to participate in certain interactive
areas, which completely alleviates the need to
gather any personally identifiable information from
our users
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection
and use of this information by Ashland Area YMCA.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will
post those changes on this page so that you are
always aware of what information we collect, how we
use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
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