PRIVACY POLICY
Coastal Water Suppliers Association ("CWSA") understands and
respects your need for privacy. Any and all information
collected at our sites will be kept strictly confidential
and will not be sold, reused, rented, loaned, or otherwise
disclosed. Any information you give to CWSA will be held
with the utmost care, and will not be used in ways that you
have not consented to. If you have any questions, please
don't hesitate to contact us at the numbers below.
Automatic Information
When you visit our Web site, our Web server automatically
recognizes and stores the name of the domain from which you
access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are
connecting from an America Online account), the date and
time you access our site, and the Internet Protocol (IP)
address of the Web site from where you came. This
information enables us to run site usage tools and create
statistics about our site. These statistics help us to
better understand how our site is being used and what we can
do to make it more useful to visitors. This information is
not stored in a personally-identifiable format.
Information You Provide Us
We use the information that you provide us for responding to
your requests, customizing the material presented to you
based on your past visits to our web site, to communicate
with you, and to improve the content of our web site. The
primary goal in collecting personal information is to
provide you customized services, features and content, and
give you an efficient personalized experience that best
meets your needs.
If you choose to identify yourself by sending us an email or
completing an online form, CWSA employees and business
partners will have access to such information in order to
contact you for customer service purposes. We also aggregate
information on what pages you access. Information submitted
by you, such as survey information and/or comments or
feedback, may be stored in a personally-identifiable format
and is used only for internal purposes and is not shared
with people or organizations outside of CWSA, its
subsidiaries or successors in interest, and its business
partners. If we want to share your name outside this group
or otherwise publicize the fact that you submitted materials
or other information to us, then we will we ask your
permission to use your name with the materials or other
information you submitted to a particular part of this site.
Links
This site may contain links to other sites not owned or
managed by CWSA. CWSA is not responsible for the privacy
practices of such websites.
Use of "Cookies"
"Cookies" are small files that are placed on your hard drive
that assist us in providing customized services. We may use
cookies to allow you to let enter your password less
frequently during a session. No other personal information
is stored in this cookie.
From time to time, CWSA may send a "cookie" to your
computer. A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to
your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s
hard drive. A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or
read cookie files created by other sites. Cookies do not
damage your system. We use cookies to identify which areas
of the CWSA websites you have visited or customized, so the
next time you visit; those pages may be readily accessible.
This information may be used to personalize our services to
you.
You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the
settings of your browser. You can reset your browser to
refuse all cookies, or allow your browser to show you when a
cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept these
cookies, your experience at our site and other Web sites may
be diminished and some features may not work as intended.
Opt Out
CWSA recognizes that users may not wish to be contacted
about new or related products. CWSA allows you to opt out of
any e-mail marketing that may result from use of the site.
When you receive an email, you will be given instructions on
how to remove yourself from that list.
Release of Information
CWSA will release any information that is required to be
released by law or court order.
Security of the Information
We use secure socket layer (SSL) encryption to protect the
transmission of information you submit to us when you use
our secure online forms. All the information you provide us
through these forms is stored securely offline. If you send
us an email or complete the Contact Us Form, you should know
that email is not necessarily secure against interception
unless you are using a security-enabled web browser.
The above policies are effective as of October 1, 2009. CWSA
reserves the right to change this policy at any time. The
use of information that we gather now is subject to the
Privacy Policy in effect at this time. Users wishing to see
the changes may do so by visiting our web site privacy
policy statement frequently.