Privacy Statement

STATEMENT: The Maitland Valley Conservation Authority, ("MVCA") acknowledges and honors the privacy of users of this MVCA Internet Web site. You can visit this MVCA Internet Web site without telling MVCA who you are. MVCA does not require your personal information to obtain access to this Internet Web site. However, you may choose to give MVCA personal information about yourself, such as your name, address, phone number, and email address. When you provide MVCA with such data or other information about yourself, MVCA will act in a responsible manner. MVCA will make a sincere effort to respond in a timely manner to your requests to correct inaccuracies in the personal information that you provide to MVCA. MVCA may store, use, and disclose personal information as authorized or required by applicable law, including making disclosures that are necessary or advisable to: (1) protect the rights, health, safety, or property of MVCA or others; (2) allow for lawful security related investigations or law enforcement investigations; and (3) comply with applicable laws, regulations, or other lawful requirements. Except as stated above, MVCA will not transfer, exchange, license, sell, lease, or otherwise disclose your personal information without your approval; however, MVCA may collect and/or provide aggregate statistics about MVCA's Internet Web site and Internet Web site users to other parties. In viewing this Internet Web site, MVCA may collect certain anonymous information from you such as: the domain name of the site providing you with Internet access; your Internet protocol address used to connect your computer to the internet; your browser type; your type of operating system; the time you spend surfing the MVCA Internet Web site; the specific pages that you view at this Web site; and other items that assist MVCA in administering this Web site. When you view certain parts of this MVCA Internet Web site, information may be stored on the hard drive of your computer. This information may be in the form of a "cookie" or other technologies that will permit the adaptation of the MVCA Internet Web site to better reflect your particular interests, priorities, and preferences. A "cookie" is a piece of data that an Internet Web site transfers, via your browser, back to your computer's hard drive or other parts of your computer system to assist MVCA with its general Web site recordkeeping activities. Please note that this MVCA Internet Web site contains hyperlinks to other non-MVCA Internet Web sites and MVCA does not control or monitor the privacy policies of those sites. This MVCA Privacy Statement only applies to information collected and maintained by MVCA. MVCA reserves the right to modify this Privacy Statement at any time by updating this Privacy Statement Web page. This Privacy Statement was last updated on March 2, 2009. Questions regarding this policy statement should be directed to: sjackson@mvca.on.ca