Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products and services.

What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and Web site use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.

1.     Personal Information You Choose to Provide

Registration Information.
You may provide us information about yourself, your firm or company, and your practices when you contact, register to be a member of, register for certain services, register for email newsletters or alerts from PlayInLinnCounty.org.  You may also provide additional comments on how you see PLAY servicing your needs and interests.

Email Information.
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.

2.     Web Site Use Information

Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site may utilize a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and Web server logs to collect information about how our Web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site. We, our advertisers and ad serving companies may also use small pieces of code called “web beacons” or “clear gifs” to determine which advertisements and promotions users have seen and how users responded to them.

How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering and expanding our business activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. You may notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive these offers by emailing us by using the Contact Us form located on this site.

What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a Web site, that site's computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a Web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you explore on our Web site, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from other visitors so your experience is only available to you. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from seeing unnecessary content, advertisements, or requiring you to log in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server's log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Web site and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.

Privacy of Comments Sent to PLAY
We treat all of our greetings products as public correspondence between the sender and PLAY and may disclose the contents of any correspondence to members of PLAY or other interested parties.  Under normal circumstances, we will monitor or may edit the contents of the comments you submit to PLAY. The name, URL, and comments submitted in the Blog or Contact Us sections of PLAY's web site will be available for public viewing.  The email address you submit in the Blog or Contact Us sections may also.

Disclosure Exceptions
Notwithstanding the above policies, we reserve the right to disclose your personal information to appropriate third-parties if we are required to do so by law or we believe that such action is necessary:

• To comply with legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena or court order;
• To protect the company's rights and property;
• To investigate reports of users sending material using a false e-mail address or users sending harassing, threatening, or abusive messages;
• To protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our web site and/or the services provided by the websites; or
• During emergencies, such as when we believe someone's physical safety is at risk.

Sharing Information with Third Parties
We may enter into alliances, partnerships or other business arrangements with third parties who may be given access to personal information including your name, address, telephone number and email for the purpose of providing you information regarding products and services that we think will be of interest to you. In connection with alliances, partnerships or arrangements, we may also provide certain information to third parties if we have determined that the information will be used in a responsible manner by a responsible third party. For example, some of our partners operate stores or provide services on our site, while others power offerings developed by us for your use. We also use third parties to facilitate our business, including, but not limited to, sending email and processing credit card payments. In connection with these offerings and business operations, our partners and other third parties may have access to your personal information for use in connection with business activities. As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may also transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or any dissolution.

Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. We may also contact you if we feel you are misusing the functionalities provided by our websites.  As our customer, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by sending us an email request by using the Contact Us form located on this site.

How Do We Protect Your Information?
We take steps to protect your personal data offline. All of your information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices, our computer systems and the computer systems that are used to host our websites. The servers on which we store personally identifiable information are not owned, operated, or secured by us.  A third-party Internet service provider (ISP) hosts the PLAY Web site and any databases used to store your information.  Any privacy policies, acceptable use policies or other rules and regulations offered by the ISP that operates the aforementioned web site superceded this privacy policy and our terms of service.

How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email or include personal financial or other important information via email or in PLAY's Blog. Please contact us by using the Contact Us form located on this site if you have any questions or concerns.

Certain Disclosures
We may disclosure your personal information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or Affiliated Parties; (b) protect and defend our rights and property, the Site, the users of the Site, and/or our Affiliated Parties; or (c) act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of the Site, us, or third parties.

What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or from our Web site nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.

Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Web site to another Web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other Web site, including Web sites which have a link on our Web site, is subject to that Web site's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

Your Consent
By using our Web site you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our Web site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.