Your privacy is extremely important to Northport Village Corporation (“NVC”) . This Privacy Policy describes how we use your personal information and what your rights are. In this Privacy Policy, the terms “personal information” or “personal data” are interchangeable and such terms includes all other similar terms under applicable privacy laws, such as, for example, “personally identifiable information.” In general, personal information includes any information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated, linked, or linkable with a particular individual.

We are committed to protecting your privacy through NVC’s compliance with this Privacy Policy, including all documents linked to or accessible from this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information that NVC may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit this website at www.NVCMaine.org (the “Website”) and NVC’s practices regarding how NVC uses, maintains, protects, and discloses your personal information, and what your rights are with regard to your personal information.

In order to improve the content and usability of this Website, NVC automatically collects several categories of information from users. This information includes the following:

1. The apparent Internet Protocol (“IP”) address of your Internet Service Provider (“ISP”) and/or your computer, if your computer has an IP address assigned directly to it.
2. The apparent Fully Qualified Domain Name (“Domain Name”) of your ISP and/or your computer, if your computer has a domain name assigned directly to it.
3. The type of browser (such as, for example, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Opera, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) used and the operating system resident on a user’s computer.
4. The date and time a user visited the Website.
5. The web pages accessed at the Website, as well as any applications used and form data.
6. The Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) of the site which a user visited prior to NVCMaine.org (if detectable), if such user did not connect directly to NVCMaine.org.
7. NVC uses this information to identify site performance needs; to ensure compatibility with the technology used by NVCMaine.org’s visitors, and to generally add and improve services offered on NVCMaine.org. In order to accomplish those goals, from time to time, NVC may conduct statistical analysis of the data it collects.
8. NVC does not collect data for commercial or marketing purposes, and NVC does not sell, exchange, or otherwise distribute the data collected by NVCMaine.org for commercial or marketing purposes.

Information Submitted to NVCMaine.org

During a session on NVCMaine.org, a user may affirmatively submit information to NVC by, among other means, electronic mail (“e-mail”), or filling in and submitting an on-line form. Such affirmatively submitted information is stored in a secure environment, and will be used by NVC in furtherance of its duties and/or obligations to its citizenry (i.e., “governmental purposes”).

Any information collected on NVCMaine.org will be treated the same as any written communication and is subject to the confidentiality and public disclosure provisions of 1 MRSA Chapter 13.

The governmental purposes to which your affirmatively submitted information may include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Helping NVC respond to a request for information not readily available from NVCMaine.org.
2. Investigating a problem reported to NVC via NVCMaine.org.
3. Keeping lists of parties interested in some particular issue or facet of NVC life about which NVC anticipates issuing further information in the future.
4. Sending informational updates and conducting outreach on topics such as, but not limited to, services and upcoming NVC events.
5. Sharing information with other NVC departments or offices or other government agencies for the limited purpose of facilitating services, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
6. Disclosure of such information pursuant to a request made under Freedom of Information Law (“FOIL”) or court order, if such information is not protected by federal, state, or local law.

NVC does not rent or sell personally identifiable information (e.g., information such as name, address, phone number, e-mail, etc., or other information that identifies or could lead to the identification of a user as a particular person), nor would NVC exchange or trade such information with third-parties without a user’s explicit permission. NVC does not disclose credit card or other personally identifiable financial information other than as necessary to complete a credit card or other financial transaction, or upon explicit permission from the applicable user.

If NVCMaine.org sends electronic mail (“e-mail”) to a user, such e-mail is NOT confidential, and is identical in nature to that information generally available to the public and news media.

Security and Monitoring

1. In certain instances, a user may have the opportunity to receive or create a password to access or submit personally identifiable information. One should not divulge a password to anyone, and NVC will never ask a user for a password in a telephone call, fax, e-mail or other form of unsolicited communication. When a user is finished with an application or applications that are password protected, such user should exit the relevant page(s). If the browser used to access said password protected pages is a publicly-accessible browser, users should close down the entire session and, if applicable or possible, flush any temporary caches or other areas where such a password might be stored subsequent to use, and log out of all applications.
2. NVC believes it has integrated industry standard or better security measures and systems into the design, implementation and day-to-day operation of NVCMaine.org and its underlying servers and networks. Furthermore, NVC (through its partners) maintains ongoing efforts

to identify and/or block unauthorized intrusions into or onto NVCMaine.org, and to upload to or change information on or otherwise cause damage to NVCMaine.org or the information resident hereon or submitted hereto.

3. The act of using NVCMaine.org constitutes the user’s express consent to NVC’s monitoring of all uses of the system. If such monitoring reveals possible evidence of criminal activity or any other unauthorized use, system administration personnel may provide your information to law enforcement or other officials, as authorized or required by law.

Cookies

Cookies are text files, or entries in larger files, utilized to distinguish between visitors to a website, and to track information during multiple visits to a website. NVC uses “temporary cookies” on some parts of NVCMaine.org, and such temporary cookies expire upon the end of the browsing session. This Website generally does not use “persistent cookies.”

The use of cookies is a standard practice among Internet websites. Most Internet web browsers may be customized to reject cookies, to only accept or reject cookies by user intervention, or to delete cookies. Rejecting and/or removing cookies, however, may lead to loss of functionality on those NVCMaine.org pages requiring cookies to function fully.

Children

No functions on NVCMaine.org specifically solicit information from minors or seek to determine whether the visitor is a minor. Consequently, because such information will not be specifically identified as being from minors, users of NVCMaine.org should be aware that personally identifiable information submitted to NVCMaine.org by minors will be subject to being treated in the same manner as information given by an adult and may become subject to FOIL.

NVC strongly believes that parental supervision is an important factor in Internet use by minors. Therefore, NVCMaine.org asks parents to guide their minor children when children are asked to provide any personal information online. NVCMaine.org further asks that children ask for and receive their parent’s permission before providing any information online.

Third Party Links

NVCMaine.org provides links to, and may be linked from, local, state and federal government agencies, and from, or to, other websites. The existence and/or provision of those links neither constitutes nor implies endorsement of the destination or departure website(s) or of the content, viewpoint, accuracy, opinions, policy(ies), product(s), accessibility or privacy policy of said destination or departure website(s). Nor does any link between NVCMaine.org and a third-party website imply sponsorship of such website or the creator of such website.

Some content on portions of NVCMaine.org resides on servers run by third parties. Each agency providing content for NVCMaine.org is bound by NVCMaine.org’s Privacy Policy. Any agency using a third-party host, ISP, ASP or other combination of third-party transport, storage,

content or application provision services shall require such third party to comply with NVCMaine.org’s Privacy Policy.

Intellectual Property

The content of NVCMaine.org’s webpages is copyrighted and contains some third-party images/graphics that are used with permission. Users are notified, therefore, that one should presume the need to obtain permission from the copyright holder before reproducing or otherwise using images/graphics from this website.

Changes to this Policy

NVCMaine.org may change this policy from time to time and reserves the right to do so without notice.

Questions:

If you have questions about our privacy procedures, please contact or call the Village Office at

(207) 338-0751 or write to:

Northport Village Corporation

c/o Technology Officer

813 Shore Road

Northport, Maine 04849