Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 12/14/2020

Center for Civic Information is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how Center for Civic Information (“CCI”, “we” or “us”) collects, uses and discloses information about you when you access or use the centerforcivic.info website or otherwise interact with us. This Privacy Policy collectively refers to these touchpoints as the “Services.”

Types of Information We May Collect:

Information you provide directly to us: We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information when you register for the Services, access various content or features, fill out a form, or otherwise communicate with us. The types of information we may collect includes your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide. 

Information we collect automatically: When you access or use our Services, we may collect certain information automatically, including:

  • Your browser type and operating system

  • Your Internet Protocol (IP) address, which is the number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet

  • Websites you visited before and after visiting our website

  • Web pages you view and links you click on within our website

  • Standard server log information

Information collected through cookies, Web beacons and similar technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies for purposes including to authenticate you and tailor your experience on our website according to the preferences you specified.

Cookies are small text files that websites and other online services use to store information about users on the users’ own computers. For example, cookies can be used to store your sign-in credentials so that you do not have to enter them each time you return to a website. Cookies also may be used to store a unique identification number tied to your computer so that a website can recognize you as the same user across different visits to the website.

Web beacons communicate information from your Internet browser to a web server and can be embedded in web pages, videos, or emails, and can allow a web server to read certain types of information from your browser, check whether you have viewed a particular web page or email message, and determine, among other things, the time and date on which you viewed the Web beacon, the IP address of your computer, and the URL of the web page from which the Web beacon was viewed.

We, along with third-party partners, also use other kinds of local storage, such as Local Shared Objects (also referred to as “Flash cookies”) and HTML5 local storage, in connection with the Services. These technologies are similar to the cookies in that they are stored on your computer and can be used to store certain information about your activities and preferences, but are stored in different parts of your computer from ordinary browser cookies.

How We Use the Information We Collect

We generally use other information we collect about you to:

  • Fulfill your requests for services, and information, including to send you news and information about CCI

  • Enable you to participate in interactive features on our website, such as leaving comments

  • Analyze the use of our Services and information about visitors to the website to understand and improve our website and Services

  • Systems administration and troubleshooting

  • Prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities and otherwise

  • For any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your information or pursuant to your consent 

How We Disclose the Information We Collect

We are committed to maintaining your trust, and we want you to understand when and with whom we may share information collected about you. We may disclose information we collect in the following circumstances:

Third-party service providers. We share your information with third-party vendors who help us with specialized services, such as customer support, email message deployment, analytics, marketing, and data processing. These third parties are allowed to use your information to help us provide our Services and not for any other purposes.

Legal requirements. We may disclose information about our users if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We may also disclose information in response to a request for cooperation by a government entity, whether or not legally required.

Protection of our Services and users. We may disclose information as we believe is necessary to protect and defend the legal rights, interests, and safety of CCI, our employees, agents, and contractors; to protect the safety and security of our website users and members of the public; and as otherwise disclosed in our Terms of Use.

Otherwise with your consent. We may also share your information in any other manner which you consent to.

Your Choices

You may choose to enjoy certain content and features of the Services without directly providing us with any information about you. You can configure your Internet browser to warn you each time a cookie is being sent or to refuse cookies completely.

Children’s Privacy Statement

The Services are directed at a general audience and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are the parent of a child under the age of 13 who provided personal information to us, you can contact us at info@centerforcivic.info to request that we delete it.

Links

The Services may provide links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of these sites. When you access another website through the links on our website or Services, the use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting, so please be sure to read the privacy statements for each website you visit.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the scope of the Services or for other reasons. If we change the Privacy Policy, we will post the new version on our website and update the effective date at the top of the Privacy Policy to reflect the date of the changes. Therefore, it is important to check the effective date of the Privacy Policy posted here each time you use our Services.

Questions

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, the information we have collected from you online, the practices of CCI or your interaction with our website, please contact us at info@centerforcivic.info.