Bennington Township 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
Bennington Township Web site and governs
data collection and usage. By using the
Bennington Township website, you consent to
the data practices described in this
statement.
Collection
of your Personal Information
Bennington Township collects personally
identifiable information, such as your
e-mail address, name, home or work address
or telephone number. Bennington Township
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 Bennington
Township. This information can include: your
IP address, browser type, domain names,
access times and referring Web site
addresses. This information is used by
Bennington Township for the operation of the
service, to maintain quality of the service,
and to provide general statistics regarding
use of the Bennington Township Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly
disclose personally identifiable information
or personally sensitive data through
Bennington Township public message boards,
this information may be collected and used
by others. Note: Bennington Township
does not read any of your private on-line
communications.
Bennington Township encourages you to review
the privacy statements of Web sites you
choose to link to from Bennington Township
so that you can understand how those Web
sites collect, use and share your
information. Bennington Township is
not responsible for the privacy statements
or other content on Web sites outside of the
Bennington Township Web site.
Use of your
Personal Information
Bennington Township collects and uses your
personal information to operate the
Bennington Township Web site and deliver the
services you have requested.
Bennington Township also uses your
personally identifiable information to
inform you of other products or services
available from Bennington Township and its
affiliates. Bennington Township may
also contact you via surveys to conduct
research about your opinion of current
services or of potential new services that
may be offered.
Bennington Township keeps track of the Web
sites and pages visited within Bennington
Township, in order to determine what
Bennington Township services are the most
popular. This data may be used to
deliver customized content and advertising
within Bennington Township to customers
whose behavior indicates that they may be
interested in a particular subject area.
Bennington Township 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
Bennington Township or the Web site; (b)
protect and defend the rights or property of
Bennington Township; and, (c) act under
exigent circumstances to protect the
personal safety of users of Bennington
Township, or the public.
Use of
Cookies
The Bennington Township Web site uses
"cookies" to personalize your on-line
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 Bennington Township pages,
or register with Bennington Township site or
services, a cookie helps Bennington Township
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 Bennington Township
Web site, the information you previously
provided can be retrieved, so you can easily
use the Bennington Township Web site
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 Bennington Township services
or Web site that you visit.
Security of
your Personal Information
Bennington Township secures your personal
information from unauthorized access, use,
or disclosure. Bennington Township
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.
Bennington Township is
a Michigan municipal corporation and that
virtually all information in it's control is
open to the public for their use.
Changes to
this Statement
Bennington Township will occasionally update
this Statement of Privacy to reflect
business, legal, and customer feedback.
Bennington Township encourages you to
periodically review this Statement to be
informed of how Bennington Township is
protecting your information.
Contact
Information
Bennington Township welcomes your comments
regarding this Statement of Privacy.
If you believe that Bennington Township has
not adhered to this Statement, please
contact Bennington Township at the address
listed in the Contacts page. We will
use commercially reasonable efforts to
promptly determine and remedy the privacy
issue.