Village Privacy Policy

www.villageeastcanton.net

Overview

Your privacy is essential to us. It is not the Village of East Canton’s policy to collect personal information about you when you visit our Website unless you choose to make such information available. By visiting the Village of East Canton’s Website, you agree to the practices described in this policy. The Village does not use “cookies” or otherwise keep track of who visits our website unless the person e-mails the Village or in any manner contacts the Village through the website.

By sending the Village an electronic mail (“e-mail”) or filling out a form on our website, such as sending something where it says “Contact…,” you are sending us personal information (e.g., your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or other information). The Village stores this information to respond to or process your request or otherwise resolve the subject matter of your submission.

Public Record

Visitors to the Village of East Canton’s Website should be aware that, subject to specific statutory exceptions, information received in connection with the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the Village, including but not limited to electronic data, are public records under State of Ohio law. Therefore, users should be aware that information submitted through this Website, such as sending a message or submitting an electronic form, may be subject to disclosure to other parties under a public record request. The State of Ohio’s public record law requires that all information that qualifies as a record be saved for a designated period.

External Sites/Links

The Village’s Website contains links to information and services located on websites maintained by other public agencies and private organizations. Once you access another website, you are subject to the privacy policy and terms of usage for that particular website. The Village of East Canton is not responsible for the privacy of sites accessed from links contained on the Village’s website.

(Would you like your link included on the Village’s website? Please get in touch with the Village office.)

Security

The Village of East Canton takes very seriously the integrity of the information and systems we maintain

Therefore, we have instituted security measures for all information systems under our control. These security measures are designed to identify attempts to tamper with this website. Information collected through these security measures may be used in connection with a criminal prosecution or other legal proceedings.

If you choose to send an e-mail to the Village, you should be aware that electronic mail (e-mail) is not necessarily secure against interception and may be subject to the disclosure requirements of the Public Records Act or other legal disclosure requirements.

Privacy

The Village takes your privacy wishes seriously. If you have Do Not Track enabled on your browser, we do our best to not track you (with any above exceptions) and we even try to suppress 3rd party scripts (usually those scripts are present to enhance the page’s content or provide us with statistics).