Ohio County Treasurers is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Ohio County Treasurers Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Ohio County Treasurers website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Ohio County Treasurers collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Ohio County Treasurers also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Ohio County Treasurers. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Ohio County Treasurers for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Ohio County Treasurers Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Ohio County Treasurers public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Ohio County Treasurers does not read any of your private online communications.

Ohio County Treasurers encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Ohio County Treasurers so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Ohio County Treasurers is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Ohio County Treasurers and Ohio County Treasurers family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Ohio County Treasurers collects and uses your personal information to operate the Ohio County Treasurers Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Ohio County Treasurers also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Ohio County Treasurers and its affiliates. Ohio County Treasurers may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Ohio County Treasurers does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Ohio County Treasurers may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Ohio County Treasurers may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Ohio County Treasurers, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Ohio County Treasurers does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Ohio County Treasurers keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Ohio County Treasurers, in order to determine what Ohio County Treasurers services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Ohio County Treasurers to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Ohio County Treasurers Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Ohio County Treasurers or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Ohio County Treasurers; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Ohio County Treasurers, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Ohio County Treasurers Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Ohio County Treasurers pages, or register with Ohio County Treasurers site or services, a cookie helps Ohio County Treasurers to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Ohio County Treasurers Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Ohio County Treasurers features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Ohio County Treasurers services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Ohio County Treasurers secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Ohio County Treasurers secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Ohio County Treasurers will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Ohio County Treasurers encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Ohio County Treasurers is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Ohio County Treasurers welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Ohio County Treasurers has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Ohio County Treasurers at support@ohiocountytreasurers.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.