Griffin Web Development, LLC (DBA mycounty.us)
Website Privacy Statement
This document was last updated on January 24, 2012
1. Acknowledgement and Acceptance of Terms
mycounty.us is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets
forth our current privacy practices with regard to the information we collect when
you or your computer interact with our website. By accessing mycounty.us
/ www.mycounty.us,
you acknowledge and fully understand mycounty.us’s Privacy Statement and freely
consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Website
Privacy Statement.
2. Participating Merchant Policies
Related services and offerings with links from this website, including vendor sites,
have their own privacy statements that can be viewed by clicking on the corresponding
links within each respective website. Online merchants and others who participate
in mycounty.us services are encouraged to participate in industry privacy initiatives
and to take a responsible attitude towards consumer privacy.
However, since we do not have direct control over the policies or practices
of participating merchants and other third parties, we are not responsible for the
privacy practices or contents of those sites.
We recommend and encourage that you always review the privacy policies of
merchants and other third parties before you provide any personal information or
complete any transaction with such parties.
3. Information We Collect and How We Use It
mycounty.us collects certain information from and about its users three ways: directly
from our Web Server logs, the user, and with Cookies.
a. Web Server Logs
When you visit our Website, we may track information to administer the site and
analyze its usage. Examples of information we may track include:
- Your Internet protocol address.
- The kind of browser or computer
you use.
- Number of links you click
within the site.
- State or country from which
you accessed the site.
- Date and time of your visit.
- Name of your Internet service
provider.
- Web page you linked to our
site from.
- Pages you viewed on the site.
b. Use of Cookies
mycounty.us may use cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience.
A cookie is a small 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. For example, if you personalize
a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific
information on subsequent visits. Hence,
this simplifies the process of delivering relevant content and eases site navigation
by providing and saving your preferences and login information as well as providing
personalized functionality.
mycounty.us reserves the right to share aggregated site statistics with partner
companies, but does not allow other companies to place cookies on our website unless
there is a temporary, overriding customer value (such as merging into mycounty.us
a site that relies on third-party cookies).
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 reject cookies by changing your
browser settings then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on
our Website.
c.
Personal Information Users
Visitors to our website can register to purchase services.
When you register, we will request some personal information such as name,
address, email, telephone number or facsimile number, account number and other relevant
information. If you are purchasing
a service, we will request financial information.
Any financial information we collect is used only to bill you for the services
you purchased. If you purchase by credit
card, this information may be forwarded to your credit card provider. For other
types of registrations, we will ask for the relevant information. You may also be
asked to disclose personal information to us so that we can provide assistance and
information to you. For example, such data may be warranted in order to provide
online technical support and troubleshooting.
We will not disclose personally identifiable information we collect from you to
third parties without your permission except to the extent necessary including:
To fulfill your service requests for
services.
To protect ourselves from liability,
To respond to legal process or comply
with law, or
In connection with a merger, acquisition,
or liquidation of the company.
Use
of Web Beacons or GIF files mycounty.us
/ www.mycounty.us Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web
beacons – sometimes also called single-pixel gifs – that allow mycounty.us to count
users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services.
mycounty.us may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters
in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.
Some of these Web beacons may be placed by third party service providers to help
determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email communications.These Web beacons may be used by these
service providers to place a persistent cookie on your computer.
This allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you
visit certain pages or emails and compile anonymous information in relation to those
page views, which in turn enables us and our service providers to learn which advertisements
and emails bring you to our website and how you use the site. mycounty.us
prohibits Web beacons from being used to collect or access your
personal information.
5. Accessing
Web Account Information
We will provide you with the means to ensure that personally identifiable information
in your web account file is correct and current.
You may review this information by contacting us by sending an email to our
support attendant –mycounty@mycounty.us.
6. Changes
to this Statement
mycounty.us has the discretion to occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the
“updated” date at the top of this Privacy page.We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed
about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy
statement and any updates.
7. Contacting
Us
If you have questions regarding our Privacy Statement, its implementation, failure
to adhere to this Privacy Statement and/or our general practices, please contact
us at mycounty@mycounty.us or send your comments to :
Griffin Web Development, LLC (mycounty.us)
Attention:
Privacy Statement Personnel
9864
E. Grand River
Suite
110-324
Brighton,
MI
48116
mycounty.us will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly respond and resolve
any problem or question.
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