Quinebaug Valley Velo collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Quinebaug Valley Velo also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Quinebaug Valley Velo. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Quinebaug Valley Velo for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Quinebaug Valley Velo Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Quinebaug Valley Velo public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Quinebaug Valley Velo does not read any of your private online communications.

Quinebaug Valley Velo encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Quinebaug Valley Velo so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Quinebaug Valley Velo is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Quinebaug Valley Velo and Quinebaug Valley Velo family of Web sites.

Quinebaug Valley Velo collects and uses your personal information to operate the Quinebaug Valley Velo Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Quinebaug Valley Velo also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Quinebaug Valley Velo and its affiliates. Quinebaug Valley Velo may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Quinebaug Valley Velo does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Quinebaug Valley Velo may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Quinebaug Valley Velo may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Quinebaug Valley Velo, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Quinebaug Valley Velo does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Quinebaug Valley Velo keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Quinebaug Valley Velo, in order to determine what Quinebaug Valley Velo services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Quinebaug Valley Velo to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Quinebaug Valley Velo Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Quinebaug Valley Velo or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Quinebaug Valley Velo; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Quinebaug Valley Velo, or the public.

The Quinebaug Valley Velo Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Quinebaug Valley Velo pages, or register with Quinebaug Valley Velo site or services, a cookie helps Quinebaug Valley Velo to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Quinebaug Valley Velo Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Quinebaug Valley Velo features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Quinebaug Valley Velo services or Web sites you visit.

Quinebaug Valley Velo secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Quinebaug Valley Velo secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Quinebaug Valley Velo will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Quinebaug Valley Velo encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Quinebaug Valley Velo is protecting your information.

Quinebaug Valley Velo welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Quinebaug Valley Velo has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Quinebaug Valley Velo at admin@admin.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.