Privacy Notice

Terms and Conditions of Use

Please read these Terms and Conditions ("Terms") carefully before using this website, https://www.madisontourism.com/, which is operated by Madison County Tourism, Inc. (“MCT”).

Your access to and use of this website is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use this site.

By accessing or using this site, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the terms then you may not access this site.

 

Links to Other Web Sites

This site contains links to third-party web sites or services that are not owned or controlled By MCT.

MCT has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that MCT shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such websites or services.

Changes

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time.

Privacy

Thank you for visiting Madison County Tourism, Inc.’s ("MCT")  website. This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for https://www.madisontourism.com/. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:

  1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
  2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
  3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
  4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Where appropriate, MCT may add additional terms and conditions of use and privacy for certain interactive events or programs. In such circumstances, access to the additional terms and conditions will be conspicuously displayed.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing 

MCT is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. MCT only has access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. MCT will use your information to respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us and in the compilation of data for use only by MCT and its affiliates. If you opt-in, MCT may contact you via email, mail and phone in the future to tell you about special offers, new products or services changes to this privacy policy, or to distribute prizes. MCT will not sell or rent this information to anyone. MCT will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, including partner businesses listed on this site, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. mailing travel information.

The information that MCT collects is used to enhance the usability and improve the content of our web pages. It may be used to personalize information and for statistical purposes. Personal information will not be shared with third parties unless indicated and when approved by you (in other words, if you opt-in to sharing information) or unless required to do so by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, court orders, legal process from law enforcement agencies, or similar legal proceedings. MCT provides information to investigate or prevent suspected illegal activities. Personal data may be shared in the following situations, as well:

-As required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, legal proceedings, or similar legal process

-When MCT believes in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request,

-In certain situations, MCT may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, and

-To a third party with your prior consent to do so.

MCT will retain personal data processed for up to two years or until a confirmed visitor/user notifies us that he/she no longer wishes to receive the services or information for which the data was collected. MCT will retain and use this personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

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 or phone number given on the bottom of this page:

  • See what data MCT has about you, if any.
  • Change/correct any data MCT has about you.
  • Have us delete any data MCT has about you.
  • Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security 

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever MCT collects sensitive information, that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

While MCT uses encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, MCT also protects your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, mailing a visitors guide) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which MCT stores personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Requesting Information

In order to request travel information, you must first complete a request form. A request form requires you to give certain information (such as name and address). This information is used to contact you about the products/services on our site in which you have expressed interest. At your option, you may also provide additional information (such as a phone number), but it is not required. If MCT has trouble fulfilling your request, this information will be used to contact you.

Cookies 

We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve their access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. This tracking software is provided by Google Analytics, which uses cookies to track and measure visitor usage (you can read Google's privacy policy here for further information). The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance their experience on our site. Cookies are also used to collect and segment users into audiences that we may target with remarketing ads or pay-per-click ads. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site. By continuing to use this site you agree to our privacy policy.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, our website developer, SimpleView. You can read their privacy policy here). However, MCT has no access to or control over these cookies.

Sharing 

We share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

MCT may partner with another party to provide specific services. When the user opts-in for these services, MCT will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

Links 

This website contains links to third-party sites as a convenience to the user. Please be aware that MCT is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. MCT encourages this site’s users to be aware when they leave this site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information. MCT cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused nor transactions undertaken as the result of visiting any external links mentioned.

Email

Email marketing campaigns published by this website or its owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include: the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity (this is in no way a comprehensive list). This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate/engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy URLs (web addresses, for example “http://bit.ly” and "https://goo.gl” addresses). 

Users are advised to take caution and use good judgement before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

If you feel that MCT is  not abiding by this privacy policy, which strives to conform with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), contact us immediately via telephone at 800-684-7320 or email info@madisontourism.com.

 

December 20, 2018. Edited & customized by: Madison County Tourism, Inc. PO Box 1029, Morrisville, NY 13408.