myKentIsland.com Privacy Policy

Version 07/08/2004

At myKentIsland, our goal is to develop and innovative unique services to better serve the online users and the community of Kent Island/Queen Anne's County. We realize that privacy is an important issue. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we gather when you use myKentIsland's services, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard it.

The following principles apply to the personally identifying information we ask for and that you provide. "Personally identifying information" is information that individually identifies you, such as your name, physical address or email address.

myKentIsland collects limited personal and non-personally identifying information your browser makes available whenever you visit a website. This log information includes your Internet Protocol address and browser type. We use this information to for statistical information to better enhance the site services.
Some of our services require you to register for an account. myKentIsland asks you for some personal information in order to create an account (typically your name, email address and a password for your account) and we will use that information to provide the service. For certain services, such as our paid listing programs, we may request credit card or other payment information which is handled via PayPal, a leading merchant payment processing company. Click here for PayPal's Privacy Policy.
When we require personally identifying information, we will inform you about the types of information we collect and how we use it. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing your personal information with us.

Cookies

When logging into your myKentIsland member account, cookies are sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your account and name. A "cookie" is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. We use cookies in the member area to track valid logins during your time on the myKentIsland website. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some myKentIsland features or services may not function properly without cookies.

Information sharing

We do not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other companies.

If you have an account, we may share the information submitted under your account among all of our services in order to provide you with a seamless experience and to improve the quality of our services. We will not disclose your account information to other people or non-affiliated companies.
We may store and process personal information collected on our site in the United States or any other country in which myKentIsland or its agents maintain facilities. By using our services, you consent to the transfer of your information among these facilities, including those located outside your country.
In the event of a transfer of ownership of myKentIsland, such as acquisition by or merger with another company, we will provide notice before any personally identifying information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Information security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services.

Updating your information

We provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your personally identifying information for many of our services.

Changes to this Policy

Please note this Privacy Policy will change from time to time. We expect most such changes to be minor, but there may be changes that are more significant. Regardless, we will post those changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will also provide a more prominent notice. Each version will be noted at the top of the page. Prior versions of this Privacy Policy will be kept in an archive for you to view.