Gibson County Sheriff's Department

Privacy Policy

This privacy statement disclosed the privacy practices for the Gibson County Sheriff's Department located at http://www.gibsoncountysheriff.com

This statement is our notification of:

What personally identifiable information of yours or third party personal information is collected from you through this web site
The organization collecting the information.
How the information is used.
With whom the information may be shared.
What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of the information.
The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under our control.
How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection and Use

Gibson County Sheriff's Department, is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Gibson County Sheriff's Department collects information from our users at several different points on our web site.

Registration

In order to use portions of this web site, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give their contact information (such as their name, address, email address, and other factors). This information is used to contact the user about the services on our site for which they have expressed interest. It is optional for the user to provide demographic information (such as income level and gender), and unique identifiers, but encouraged to do so we can provide a more personalized experience on our site.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas of our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Links

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that the Gibson County Sheriff's Department is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site.

Security

This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line. Learn more about SSL by reading Java.Sun's guide to SSL.

When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the security icon on your web browser becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, when you are visiting non-secure sites.

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment, behind a locked cage.

If you have any questions about the security at our web site, you can send an email to info@gibsoncountysheriff.com

Notification of Changes

If we change this privacy policy, we will post those changes on our home page so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

NOTICE TO PARENTS

Parents or guardians: We want to help you guard your child's privacy. We encourage you to talk to your children about safe and responsible use of their Personal Information while using the Internet. For more information on protecting you and your family please visit http://www.truste.org

Children under 13 years of age should not submit any information to Gibsoncountysheriff.com without parent's or guardian's consent. We do not monitor the age of our audience.

Questions

Please contact us at info@gibsoncountysheriff.com if you have any questions about our privacy policy.