Privacy Policy
Tuesday, 01 September 2009
 

Privacy Policy

 

The Galion Alumni Association Website User Privacy Policy covers the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information that may be collected by the User or Member registration process. 

Please take a moment to read the following to learn more about our information practices, including what type of information is gathered, how the information is used and for what purposes, to whom we disclose the information, and how we safeguard your personal information. Your privacy is a priority of   the Galion Alumni Association, and we go to great lengths to protect it.

Why we collect personal information

We collect your personal information to help us provide a means of communication between the Galion Alumni Association and former and present attendees and staff of the Galion City Schools. It enables us to give you the ability to join other registered users and provide a means of maintaining contact with former classmates and friends.  It aids the ability of class reunion committees to provide timely reunion information. This information is limited in publication on the website and what is published is restricted to other registered users.  Cookies must be enabled in your browser to allow you to access the registered user's area.  If you are blocking cookies you must give permission to accept cookies from this site.  We do not track Internet usage of the visitors to our site.

What information we collect and how we may use it

There are a number of situations in which your personal information may help us give you better communications.

For example:

When you interact with the Galion Alumni Association website, we may collect personal information relevant to setting up a profile, such as your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, class year, occupation and other family information.  Some of this information will be required to complete a registration.  Some of this information will be viewable by other registered users and some or it will be hidden.

We may use personal information to Email notice of newsletters or mail solicitations for membership in the Galion Alumni Association or ask for contribution for projects supported by the Galion Alumni Association.

Banner Ads and links to other websites

Visiting other websites through the use of banners or links from this site subjects the user to the privacy policies of those sites.

Google Ads

The Galion Alumni Association website displays merchant ads from Google AdSense near the top of each page.  Clicking on these ads and going to those sites make you subject to the Google privacy policy that may be found here http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html and to the privacy policies of the sites being visited.  Some of those sites may track your Internet usage.