Your privacy is extremely important to us. This Privacy Policy describes how The Economic Development Corporation and its affiliates (collectively “we”, “our”, and/or “us”) collect, use, and disclose personal information we collect from you and about you. It applies to all of the interactions we may have with you including your use of our website, telephone calls, email exchanges, etc. By using our Site, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Term of Service which are incorporated by reference herein.
Except as explained in this Privacy Policy, we do not disclose personal information to any companies not part of Economic Development Corporation or its parent, subsidiaries, or related entities. We may provide some personal information to certain service providers and other third parties, but in no event will we sell your personal information as part of a customer list or similar transaction for unrelated parties to independently market to you.
If you have a disability that makes it difficult for you to read or use this Privacy Policy in its current format, please reach out to us at the contact information below so that we may provide you with assistance.
1. CATEGORIES OF INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT
The information we may collect about you includes information such as your internet browser, browsing history on our website, search history on our website, information about the device you are using to access our website, and information regarding your interaction with our website or advertisements. We may also collect information about visitors to our website such as browser settings, operating systems, referring/exit pages and clickstream data.
2. SOURCES FROM WHICH INFORMATION IS COLLECTED
At The Economic Development Corporation, it is sometimes important for us to collect user information. The majority of information that we collect will come directly from you. We may also collect information indirectly about you when you interact with our website, through the use of cookies and other tracking technologies as described below.
3. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use information we collect to help us personalize and continually improve your experience with our Site. We collect information for use in performing various types of analytics. For example, we use information to analyze how visitors interact with our Site, where visitors to our Site arrive from and exit to, pages visited, links clicked, text entered and mouse movements to understand Site usage, to detect fraud and potential threats, and to improve our Site.
4. HOW WE USE COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Our Site uses “cookies” to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your device by a web server. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. A cookie allows us to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This facilitates the process of recalling your personal information, if any, so that when you return to our Site, the information you previously provided can be easily retrieved. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can typically modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you want to.
We also employ a technology called web beacons or “clear gifs” that help us track referrals from our partners and affiliates and better manage content on our Site. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track online movements of web users.
Our partners and affiliates may use cookies and web beacons to collect information about your activities on our Site. The use of tracing technologies by our service providers, technology providers, or other third parties is not covered by our Privacy Policy.
5. WHO WE SHARE INFORMATION WITH
Except as disclosed in this Privacy Policy, we do not disclose personal information to any companies not part of The Economic Development Corporation, its parent, subsidiaries or related entities. Although, as discussed below, we may provide some personal information to certain service providers and other third parties, in no event will we sell your personal information as part of a customer list or similar transaction for unrelated parties to independently market to you.
6. WHAT STEPS WE TAKE TO KEEP PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE
One of our primary goals at The Economic Development Corporation is to keep our users’ and clients’ personal information protected and secure. In general, personal information collected by the Site is stored in operating environments that are not available to the public. While we try our best to safeguard your personal information once we receive it, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network is guaranteed to be 100% secure. We periodically review our security procedures to consider appropriate technology and methods to secure information.
7. RETENTION PERIOD
At a minimum, we will retain your information for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We may maintain some or all of this information in our archives even after it has been removed from the site.
8. CHILDREN UNDER THIRTEEN
Our Site is not intended for use by children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
9. INFORMATION FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
We do not, and will not, sell your information to third parties.
California law allows California residents to submit a verifiable request for us to provide them with certain information including: i) specific pieces and categories of personal information that we have collected about them; ii) the categories of sources for that information; iii) the business or commercial purposes for collecting their information; and iv) the categories of third parties with which their information is shared.
California residents also have the right to submit a request for deletion of their information under certain circumstances. This is not an absolute right, and we may decline to delete information when retention is allowed by law, for example, when we have an on-going business relationship with the person, we have a continued need to use the information, or we need to retain the information in order to comply with a legal obligation.
If you exercise your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, we will not discriminate against you.
After you submit the request, you will be asked to verify your email address and you may also be asked to provide additional information in order to verify your identity. We will attempt to verify your identity by asking for information that matches any information that we have previously collected about you. Where this is not possible, we may request that you submit additional documentation for verification. Please note that, in accordance with California law, we will not be able to satisfy your request until we have verified your identity.
You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. In order to designate an authorized agent to make a request, you must provide us with your written permission for the agent to make the request on your behalf, or provide us with a signed power of attorney. We will also need to verify valid government issued identification for both you and the agent.
GOVERNING LAW / NOTICE TO NON U.S. USERS
This site is intended for use in the United States of America. We attempt to protect the personal information of all users of our Site and we attempt to comply with local data protection laws. If you are located outside of the United States of America, you should be aware that your personal information and user information will be transferred to the United States of America, the laws of which may differ from the laws of your country. If you are located in a country outside of the United States of America and use this website or voluntarily submit personal information to us, you thereby consent to the general use of such information as provided in this Privacy Policy and to the transfer of that information to, and/or storage or processing of that information in, the United States of America and you understand that your information may be available to government authorities under lawful orders and laws applicable there. This site is target to United States citizens and our policies are directed at compliance with the laws of the United States.