Maine CITE useD Google Analytics
As of May 2021, Maine CITE has stopped using Google Analytics. However, other services used by Maine CITE may collect user information. Google Analytic data collected prior to the date mentioned still exists so the Policy Statement stands as such.
Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. Google Analytics customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so they can improve it. Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors.
All website owners using Google Analytics are required to have a privacy policy that fully discloses the use of Google Analytics. This website uses Google Analytics.
Please read Google Analytics Businesses’ Data Policy for more information.
Our Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
The information we collect
Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions. These cookies are used to store information, such as what time the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before, and what site referred the visitor to the web page. Browsers do not share first-party cookies across domains.
Every computer and device connected to the Internet is assigned a unique number known as an Internet protocol (IP) address. Since these numbers are usually assigned in country-based blocks, an IP address can often be used to identify the country, state, and city from which a computer is connecting to the Internet. Google Analytics collects the IP address of website visitors in order to provide website owners a sense of where in the world their visitors come from. This method is known as IP geolocation.
Google Analytics does not report the actual IP address information to Google Analytics customers. Additionally, using a method known as IP masking, website owners that use Google Analytics have the option to tell Google Analytics to only use a portion of the IP address, rather than the entire IP address, for geolocation. Whether or not website owners use Google Analytics, they have access to IP addresses for visitors to their sites.
The information we DON’T Collect
Personal information is information that personally identifies you, such as your name, email address or billing information, or other data which can be reasonably linked to such information. The Google Analytics Terms of Service, which all analytics customers must adhere to, prohibits the tracking or collection of this information using Google Analytics or associating personal information with web analytics information. This website does not collect any personal information.
Google’s Use of Analytics Data
Website owners that use Google Analytics have control over what data they allow Google to use. They can decide if they want Google to use this data or not by using the Google Analytics Data Sharing Options. When these options allow, the data is used to improve Google products and services. Website owners can change these options at anytime.
Learn more about our Data Sharing Options here…
Browser Opt-out
To provide website visitors more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, we developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not prevent information from being sent to the website itself or to other web analytics services. Learn more about the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on and how you can install it.
Mailing Lists
If you have attended one of our on-line events, your e-mail address has already been added to our mailing list for future mailings. You may opt-out of future mailings by contacting us at info@mainecite.org and we will be happy to remove your e-mail address.
Effective May 24, 2018, if you sign up on our mailing lists you will be required to check off that you agree to have your personal information transferred to MailChimp in conformance with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) enacted by the EU.
How To Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please call us at 207-621-3195 or send us an email at info@mainecite.org
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This privacy policy adapted from the Google Analytics Privacy Center and from the Better Business Bureau BBBOnLine, Inc.
revised: 6/30/2021 sl