MORRISVILLE CENTRAL PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated April, 2023
This privacy notice for
the Town of Morrisville ("we," "us,"
or "our"), describes how and why we might collect, store, use,
and/or share ("process") your information when you use our
services ("Services"), such as when you:
Questions or
concerns? Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your
privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and
practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or
concerns, please contact us at Privacy@MorrisvilleNC.gov.
SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS
This summary provides
key points from our privacy notice, but you can find out more details about any
of these topics by clicking the link following each key point or by using our
table of contents below to find the section you are looking for.
What personal
information do we process? When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may
process personal information depending on how you interact with us and
the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use.
Do we process any sensitive
personal information? We do not process sensitive personal information.
Do we receive any
information from third parties? We may receive information
from public databases, marketing partners, social media platforms, and other
outside sources.
How do we process your
information? We process your information to provide, improve, and
administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud
prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for
other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have
a valid legal reason to do so.
How do we keep your
information safe? We have organizational and technical processes
and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no
electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can
be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that
hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not
be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify
your information.
What are your rights? Depending on where
you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have
certain rights regarding your personal information.
How do you exercise your
rights? The
easiest way to exercise your rights is by emailing us at privacy@MorrisvilleNC.gov.
We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data
protection laws.
Table of Contents
1. WHAT
INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?.
2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
3. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?
4. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
5. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
6. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
7. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
8. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
9. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
10. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
Personal information you
disclose to us
In Short: We collect personal
information that you provide to us.
We collect personal
information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the
Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our
products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or
otherwise when you contact us.
Personal Information
Provided by You. The personal information that we collect depends on the
context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make,
and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may
include the following:
Sensitive Information. We do not process
sensitive information.
Social Media Login
Data. We may provide you with the option to register with us using
your existing social media account details, like your Facebook, Twitter, or
other social media account. If you choose to register in this way, we will
collect the information described in the section called "HOW
DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?" below.
Application Data. If you use our
application(s), we also may collect the following information if you choose to
provide us with access or permission:
This information is
primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our application(s),
for troubleshooting, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
All personal information
that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must
notify us of any changes to such personal information.
Information automatically
collected
In Short: Some information � such
as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device
characteristics � is collected automatically when you visit our Services.
We automatically collect
certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This
information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact
information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP
address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language
preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about
how and when you use our Services, and other technical information. This
information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our
Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
The information we
collect includes:
Information collected from
other sources
In Short: We may collect limited
data from public databases, marketing partners, social media
platforms, and other outside sources.
In
order to enhance our ability to provide relevant marketing, offers, and
services to you and update our records, we may obtain information about you
from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners,
affiliate programs, data providers, social media platforms, and from
other third parties. This information includes mailing addresses, job titles,
email addresses, phone numbers, intent data (or user behavior data),
Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, social media profiles, social media URLs, and
custom profiles, for purposes of targeted advertising and event
promotion. If you interact with us on a social media platform using your
social media account (e.g., Facebook or Twitter), we receive personal
information about you such as your name, email address, and gender. Any
personal information that we collect from your social media account depends on
your social media account's privacy settings.
In Short: We process your
information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with
you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also
process your information for other purposes with your consent.
We process your personal
information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our
Services, including:
In Short: If you choose to
register or log in to our Services using a social media account, we may have
access to certain information about you.
Our Services offer you
the ability to register and log in using your third-party social media account
details (like your Facebook or Twitter logins). Where you choose to do this, we
will receive certain profile information about you from your social media provider.
The profile information we receive may vary depending on the social media
provider concerned, but will often include your name, email address, friends
list, and profile picture, as well as other information you choose to make
public on such a social media platform.
We will use the
information we receive only for the purposes that are described in this privacy
notice or that are otherwise made clear to you on the relevant Services. Please
note that we do not control, and are not responsible for, other uses of your
personal information by your third-party social media provider. We recommend
that you review their privacy notice to understand how they collect, use, and
share your personal information, and how you can set your privacy preferences
on their sites and apps.
In Short: We keep your information
for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this
privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your
personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in
this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted
by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). We are not
required to keep your personal information for longer than the period of time in which you have an account with us.
When we have no ongoing
legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either
delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for
example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives),
then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any
further processing until deletion is possible.
In Short: We aim to protect your
personal information through a system of organizational and technical
security measures.
We have implemented
appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security
measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we
process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your
information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information
storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or
guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third
parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access,
steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your
personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our
Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a
secure environment.
In Short: You may
review, change, or terminate your account at any time.
If you are located in the EEA or UK and you believe we are
unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to
complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find
their contact details here: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.
If you are located in Switzerland, the contact details for the data
protection authorities are available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.
Withdrawing your
consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal
information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the
applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us by using the contact
details provided in the section "HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US
ABOUT THIS NOTICE?" below.
However, please note
that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its
withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the
processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful
processing grounds other than consent.
Account Information
If you would at any time
like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your
account, you can:
If you have questions or
comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at Privacy@MorrisvilleNC.gov.
Most web browsers and
some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track
("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy
preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and
collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard
for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized.
As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other
mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online.
If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future,
we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy
notice.
In Short: Yes, if you are a
resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to
your personal information.
California Civil Code
Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law, may
permit users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a
year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information
(if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the
names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal
information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California
resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in
writing to us using the contact information provided below.
If you are under 18
years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with
Services, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you
publicly post on the Services. To request removal of such data, please contact
us using the contact information provided below and include the email address
associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. To
the extent required by law, we will make sure the data is not publicly
displayed on the Services, but please be aware that the data may not be
completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems (e.g., backups,
etc.).
In Short: Yes, we will update this
notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this
privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an
updated "Revised" date and the updated version will be
effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this
privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of
such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to
review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting
your information.
If you have questions or
comments about this notice, you may email us at Privacy@MorrisvilleNC.gov or
by post to:
Town of Morrisville
100 Town Hall Drive
Morrisville, NC 27560
United States