Privacy Policy

The Piatt County Animal Shelter is committed to your right to privacy and to keeping your personal information private. You can visit the Piatt County Animal Shelter web site without telling us who you are or revealing any identifying information about yourself. However, because our web site includes areas in which visitors can provide personally identifying information, we have developed this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies and practices regarding information we collect about you.

This Privacy Policy governs the URL http://www.piattanimals.org and certain electronic communications sent out by the Piatt County Animal Shelter. This web site is owned and operated by the Piatt County Animal Shelter for the benefit of its members and other visitors interested in the protection of all animals. Our headquarters is located at 306 N Buchanan, Monticello, IL 61856. The Piatt County Animal Shelter reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be preceded by a notice posted to this Privacy Policy at least ten (10) days prior to the effective date of such change.

How We Collect Information About You

Information You Voluntarily Provide. The Piatt County Animal Shelter collects and maintains certain personal information about you when you send us an e-mail or complete any of our online forms, such as when you request information from us, make a donation, subscribe to one of our online newsletters, request to become a member, or forward a web page, electronic postcard, electronic ballot, or electronic newsletter. Such information may include your name, mailing address, and email address; it may also include the email addresses of those to whom you forward Piatt County Animal Shelter electronic content, and any other information collected in the forms. You may be asked to provide credit card information to become a member of the Piatt County Animal Shelter, contribute to the Piatt County Animal Shelter, purchase certain information or materials from the Piatt County Animal Shelter, or subscribe to various Piatt County Animal Shelter publications.

Other Information. The Piatt County Animal Shelter also collects certain other information that cannot identify you personally when you visit our web site. This information includes your IP address and your domain name. piattanimals.org logs these IP addresses and domain names, and aggregates them for system administration and to monitor the use of our site. We use the aggregated information to measure the number of visits to our site, the average time spent on our site, the number of pages viewed, and various other site statistics. This monitoring helps us to provide a more useful and engaging online experience to piattanimals.org visitors, and helps us to improve the quality of our content.

The Piatt County Animal Shelter uses cookies in order to make the results available for your onsite searches. Cookies are not used for any other reason on this site. A cookie is a small file that is sent out by a web site, accepted by the user's browser, and placed on the user's hard drive. You can always set your browser to warn of cookies being placed, and then chose which cookies you want to accept. The Piatt County Animal Shelter does not match any information gathered by cookies with personal information you may have voluntarily submitted to the Piatt County Animal Shelter.

Ways Information About You Is Used

We may use the information you voluntarily provided to contact you regarding animal-related issues we feel you may be interested in, to keep you updated regarding the Piatt County Animal Shelter's programs, and to extend an invitation to you to support our programs. We may also send such information to the people whose email addresses you provide when forwarding Piatt County Animal Shelter electronic content. When we do so, our sole intent is to enlarge our family of informed animal advocates and organizational supporters. Every recipient of our electronic communications can quickly and easily opt out of future such communications by following the instructions on any electronic communication we send.

From time to time, we may make such voluntary information, excluding credit card information (which will never be disclosed), available to the Piatt County Animal Shelter's affiliate organizations or to sponsors or licensees that provide special programs or services we think you might find interesting or beneficial. The Piatt County Animal Shelter uses very strict standards in determining which reputable companies become sponsors and licensees, to ensure that such organizations are committed to the protection of visitors' privacy and committed to the goals of the Piatt County Animal Shelter. If your volunteered personal information will be used in any manner other than as stated above, such use shall be specifically posted. If you wish to update or remove your information, or if you do not wish your information to be shared with affiliated third parties, please contact our Media Coordinator. You may also unsubscribe at any time in every issue of our newsletters.

Other. From time to time, the Piatt County Animal Shelter may link to other web sites not affiliated with the Piatt County Animal Shelter. The Piatt County Animal Shelter attempts to link only to those web sites which also respect a visitor's privacy and the goals of the Piatt County Animal Shelter; however, the Piatt County Animal Shelter cannot be responsible for the content or policies of third-party web sites. Please check with these third-party organizations or companies for their specific privacy policies. If you find inoperable links or are concerned about any of the sites that the Piatt County Animal Shelter currently links to, please inform the Piatt County Animal Shelter by contacting our Media Coordinator.

Security. The Piatt County Animal Shelter uses generally accepted, industry-standard security systems, software, and encryption technologies to protect against unauthorized access to the Piatt County Animal Shelter servers, equipment, and other components of our online presence. This includes using industry-standard security systems to protect credit card processing information.

Contacting the Piatt County Animal Shelter. If you would like to contact the Piatt County Animal Shelter about correcting information we might have collected, or if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact our Media Coordinator.