Privacy Statement

Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities 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 Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities may collect user-provided personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities may also collect 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 Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities website.

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

Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities website.

Use of your Personal Information

Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities may collect and use your personal information to deliver the services you have requested. Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities and its affiliates. Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities 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, Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities 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 Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities keeps track of the website and pages our customers visit within Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities, in order to determine what Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities services are the most popular. This data may be used to deliver customized content within Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities 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 Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities website uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage 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 Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities webpages, or register for Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities services, a cookie helps Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities 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 Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities 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 Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities services or websites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities 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 websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities is protecting your information.

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