The concept of online privacy includes the right to decide what personal information you choose to submit online and how that information will be used, if at all. To protect user privacy, the Village of Saugerties website follows federal government recommendations and other suggestions regarding Internet privacy policy for websites. In doing so, we strive here to make users aware of the kinds of information we collect from them, explaining why we collect that information, how we use it, and whether it will be shared with others.
Information Collection
When a user visits the Village of Saugerties website, we collect the following data for statistical purposes only:
- the IP address from which users access our website;
- the browser user agent;
- the date and time of their visits; and
- the URLs of the pages that they view.
We use these statistics to make improvements, not to identify individual users or their searches. For example, user agent data is aggregated to provide information about which browser versions or device types are accessing the site, informing program decisions on support for deprecated browsers (e.g. older versions of IE) and additional functional testing targets. Similarly, IP information can be aggregated to provide region/country usage information to help identify geographic access trends.
We do not enable cookies to monitor usage or to gather users’ personal information; however, "session cookies" are used to enable Village of Saugerties website functionality. Cookies are small pieces of information that web servers or pages store on a user’s hard drive. There are two types of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Both types of cookies allow Internet servers to "remember" specific information about a user. Websites use them primarily to personalize their sites for individual users, to keep track of orders when users purchase products, and to target advertising toward users based on the information that they access. However, session cookies will "remember" that information for only as long as you explore a website during one "session", or visit to the website. Session cookies will not "remember" information about you when you return to the site for subsequent visits. However, persistent cookies will "remember" this information for more than one session. The Village of Saugerties website does not use persistent cookies.
Information Collected via Correspondence with the Village of Saugerties
Personal information submitted by a user via the "Contact Us" (email) pages is not distributed to parties outside of the Village of Saugerties, unless the incoming information contains illegal or threatening content.
Identifying information, such as name, e-mail address, and phone or fax number, is known only among the people involved in responding to users' comments or questions submitted via the "Contact Us" form, and is not made available for other purposes.
Site Security
Site security is the concept of monitoring network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information on the Village of Saugerties' servers.
In the event that suspicious activity of this sort arises, a user's personal information may be tracked to identify a possible threat. This is the only reason that the Village of Saugerties will ever collect personal information and/or monitor activity without asking permission or giving prior notice.
Where Data is Stored
The servers used for this website are located in the USA. If you send us data from outside the USA, please be aware that any information provided to us, including personal information, will be transferred from your country of origin to the USA. Your decision to provide such data to us, or allow us to collect such data either through our website constitutes your consent to this transfer of data and personal information.