Online Privacy Policy

At Erie County ARES/RACES/SKYWARN, our mission is to meet the expectancies of our members, served agencies, and any other party we may be involved with. In an effort to achieve our goal, we would like to clearly define our position with regard to the Internet, our web site and your identity. The following outlines our information gathering and disbursement procedures for our site located at ECEmComm.org.

To improve our services to our online viewers, we gather information about your activity within our website to help troubleshoot problems with various technology services including but not limited to our web and email servers, and to deploy user accessible applications. Certain functionality on our site, including registration forms require you to give us contact information. This contact information is used only for the benefit of communicating important information about our services. Below is a list of various information that we collect:

 

• your Internet protocol (IP) address
• the name of your Internet service provider
• the type of browser and computer you use
• the state & country from which you accessed our website
• the pages you viewed on our website
• the date and time of your visit to each page
• the web page from which you linked or gained access to our website, or that referred you to our website

 

Some areas of our website may include forums or discussion boards that are available to members and general users. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas is public. You should exercise caution when disclosing personal information in these areas. Don't disclose information in these public forums that might be considered confidential – such as financial information, social security numbers, passwords or email addresses. Users should be aware that when they voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information on the forums and boards, any substantive information disclosed in the communication can be collected and used by third parties. This could result in unsolicited messages from others who post on such sites. We would like to inform you that these potential incidents are beyond our control, and not our responsibility to moderate.

 

We will never contact you to request personal information unless you have first requested information from us, in which a ARES/RACES/SKYWARN leadership member will contact you for verification. We never ask you for usernames and/or passwords for our online services as we already have record of this information. If you are contacted in an attempt to retrieve this type of information, do not respond, but instead contact us immediately to determine if any action is required. Please be aware that if you do respond to such attempts, we cannot further guarantee the security of your information.

From time to time we distribute informational mailings to our members and online guests. Individual users may opt-out of receiving specific mailings by selecting appropriate boxes throughout our web site. Unless otherwise agreed to by electronic signature, information about you is not shared with outside organizations or sold to any other third parties.

 

Although we do deploy leading technology to protect against misuse this website and of your information, and encourage our online affiliates to maintain the same high standards, we do not have control over information not directly relating to our site.

 

We reserve the right to fully cooperate with legal authorities and/or involved third parties in the investigation of any suspected crime or civil wrongdoing. We also reserve the right to terminate an account upon confirming such actions, as well as in regard to violations of our Terms of Use.