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Privacy Statement

BJC St. Charles County is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the BJC St. Charles County site and governs data collection and usage. By using the BJC St. Charles County site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

BJC St. Charles County collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. BJC St. Charles County 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 BJC St. Charles County. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by BJC St. Charles County for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the BJC St. Charles County site.

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

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

Use of your Personal Information

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

BJC St. Charles County does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. BJC St. Charles County 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, BJC St. Charles County 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 BJC St. Charles County, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

BJC St. Charles County does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

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

BJC St. Charles County 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 BJC St. Charles County or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of BJC St. Charles County; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of BJC St. Charles County, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The BJC St. Charles County 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 BJC St. Charles County pages, or register with BJC St. Charles County site or services, a cookie helps BJC St. Charles County 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 BJC St. Charles County Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the BJC St. Charles County 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 BJC St. Charles County services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

BJC St. Charles County secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. BJC St. Charles County 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.

Changes to this Statement

BJC St. Charles County will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. BJC St. Charles County encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how BJC St. Charles County is protecting your information.

Contact Information

BJC St. Charles County welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that BJC St. Charles County has not adhered to this Statement, please contact BJC St. Charles County at [email protected]. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

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