Effective Date: 04/10/2024
1. Introduction
The Southern Maryland Equity in History Coalition (the “Coalition”) is committed to protecting the privacy of its website visitors and users. This Privacy Policy notifies you of the following:
- What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used, and with whom it may be shared.
- What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
- The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
We (the Southern Maryland Equity in History Coalition) are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to or collect information that users provide us with voluntarily via email or other direct contact.
We will not share, sell, or rent this information to anyone.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including:
- Personal Information: Information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline.
- Non-personal Information: About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use information collected about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
- To present our Website and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
- To fulfill the purposes for which you provided the information or that were described when it was collected.
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide:
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
6. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.
7. Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address given on our website:
- See what data we have about you, if any.
- Change/correct any data we have about you.
- Have us delete any data we have about you.
- Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
We will not share, sell, or rent this information to anyone.
8. Security
We take precautions to protect your information. We do not collect sensitive information, such as credit card data.
9. Links
These websites contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
10. Surveys and Share Your Story
Occasionally we may request additional information via surveys, requests for historical sources, and “Share Your Story” submissions. Participation is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address). Contact information will be used to correspond with the person who shared a story Your information will not be sold, rented, or given to any third-party for commercial or non-commercial purposes without your consent.
Cookies
We use “cookies” on these sites. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. We use cookies for web analytics, like those offered by Google Analytics, to help us understand things like how long a visitor stays on our website, what pages they find most useful, and how they arrived. To learn more about Google Analytics and your data, visit this Google webpage. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
We will not share, sell, or rent this information to anyone.
