PRIVACY
TOWN OF SMOOTH ROCK FALLS WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
The Corporation of the Town of Smooth Rock Falls (CTSRF) is committed to respecting the privacy of its web visitors. Any personally identifiable information received is kept confidential–as it would be through a visit in person to Town Hall, through mail correspondence, or over the telephone. This includes names, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses.
Web visitors do not have to provide any information to freely browse Corporation of the Town of Smooth Rock Falls web sites or to download information. Personal information gathered through e-mails and/or form submissions will only be accessed by those employees within Town departments responsible for directly responding to your question or comment.
Usage Tracking
Our site may automatically record some general information about your visit which we use for statistical analysis to help make our site more useful to visitors. This information might include the:
- Internet domain for your Internet service provider, such as ‘company.com’ or ‘service.ca’ and the IP address of the computer accessing the website, such as ‘ppp-55’;
- type of browser you are using, such as Internet Explorer or Netscape;
- type of operating system you are using, such as Windows or Macintosh;
- date and time you visit our site and Web pages that you visit on our site, along with the address of the previous website you were visiting, if you linked to us from another website.
Cookies
We also use “cookies” that identify you as a return visitor and which can help us tailor information to suit your individual preferences. A cookie is a piece of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store the cookie on your hard drive. The goal is to save you time and provide you with a more meaningful visit and to measure website activity. Cookies do not contain any personally identifying information. Many browsers, however, allow you to disable cookie collection if you wish, or inform you when a cookie is being stored on your hard drive.
Periodically our site may allow the use of third party cookies or similar technologies to measure and improve the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. From time to time this information may be shared with a third party who in turn uses that information to serve you advertising relevant to your interests as you are browsing across the web. When doing so the Corporation of the Town of Smooth Rock Falls and/or it’s agents use the services of Google and Facebook. Our website users can visit www.youradchoices.ca to learn more about this type of advertising and may choose whether to continue receiving interest-based ads.
External Links
This policy discloses the privacy practices for our website. However, our site contains links to other sites. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy and security policies of the new site. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of all websites you visit.
Disclaimer:
Although the Town of Smooth Rock Falls makes every effort to ensure that material/information provided are current and accurate, the Town of Smooth Rock Falls cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy of this information, nor is it responsible for any expenses or damages incurred directly or indirectly resulting from the use of this information. Please check with Town staff for the most up-to-date information by calling (705) 338-2717 and requesting the appropriate department.
The Town of Smooth Rock Falls reserves the right to change notices, descriptions, and hyperlinks without advanced warning. In the case that information available at Town Hall and information on one of the Town of Smooth Rock Falls’ web sites are in discrepancy it shall be deemed that the material located at Town Hall is current and correct, overriding the material contained within the web site. When in doubt as to accuracy, it is always in the best interest of the web site visitor to contact the Town of Smooth Rock Falls to ensure timely and accurate information.
The Town of Smooth Rock Falls reserves the right to decide what web sites it will hyperlink to. We cannot guarantee a link with any site will be established, nor can we guarantee a link will be kept indefinitely, or that it will be updated promptly. These hyperlinks are provided solely as an information service for Town of Smooth Rock Falls web site visitors and are not a reflection of a site’s integrity, quality, or suitability. A hyperlink from the Town’s site may be established or dropped at any time.
Copyright Information:
This Web site and the materials and images appearing within it are protected by Canadian copyright law. Except as otherwise provided for under Canadian copyright law, such Web site, materials and images may not be copied, published, distributed, downloaded or otherwise stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or converted, in any form or by any means, electronic or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner unless stated otherwise on specific pages within the site.
The Town’s complete privacy policy can be viewed here.