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Haven Public Library is committed to protecting the privacy of
visitors to its web site. The following sets forth our information
gathering and dissemination practices:
 When
you visit the Library's web site, wecmay collect and store information
only to measure the number of visitors to different areas of
our site to assist us in making our site more useful to you.
This information may include:
- The
address (IP) of your computer or internet provider
- The date
and time you accessed our site
- The Internet
address of the web site that referred you to our site.
We may ask
visitors to our site to provide their e-mail address, postal
address and/or telephone number only when needed to assist in
answering inquiries or providing information. If a user submitting
their postal address, e-mail address or telephone number is
suspected of being younger than 13 years of age, we will delete
this information from our records in accordance with the
Children's
Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPR) [in HTML format] [View
in PDF format]
In accordance with the Library Confidentiality Policy, we will
not sell, lease, or otherwise distribute or disclose your e-mail
address, postal address, phone number, borrower records or other
personal information for non-library purposes to outside parties
unless required by law.
We will never disclose a child's personal information as fullname,
address, etc. ("information that would facilitate or enable
the physical or online locating and contacting of a specific
individual") without written approval from a parent or
legal guardian. In accordance with the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPR) [in HTML format] [View
in PDF format] we will only display on our site a
child's first name, last initial, location and/or age on our
sites to announce contest winners and display user submitted
comments.
The Library's web site may use "cookies" to allow
you access to certain functions within our site. These cookie
files do not capture any personal user information (such as
e-mail address or user passwords). Temporary cookie files are
automatically deleted when you close your browser.
Some of the Library web site pages contain links to external
sites not maintained by the Library. The Library cannot be responsible
for your privacy when you disclose information to outside web
sites. It is the your responsibility to protect your personal
information.
From time to time, we may use visitor information for new unanticipated
uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our
information practices do change, we will post the policy changes
on our site to notify you and provide you with the ability to
opt out of these new uses. If you have any concerns about how
your information is used, please contact
the Webmaster.
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