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Thank you for visiting the Mathews Memorial Library website and reviewing our privacy policy.

The most important thing for you to know about this privacy policy is that the Mathews Memorial Library collects no personal information about you when you visit the library’s website unless you specifically choose to provide that information.

You do not have to give the Mathews Memorial Library any personal information to simply visit the library’s website.  However, access to certain enhanced website features is only available if you choose to register by providing minimal personal information.  If you do choose to register, any personal information you provide in not used to track your website visits.

Here is how the Mathews Memorial Library handles information about your visit to its website:

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

If all you do is browse around the library website, read text, or download information, the Mathews Memorial Library will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically.  This information is only used for statistical purposes.

This information does not in any way identify you personally. 

The Mathews Memorial Library automatically collects and stores only the following information about your website visit:

1. The Internet domain (for example, "verizon.net" if you use a private Internet access account such as Verizon) and IP address (a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you surf the Web) from which you access the Mathews Memorial Library website.
2. The location you are visiting from: country, state and city.
3. The type of browser and operating system you use, the language used, the number of screen colors and video resolution, your flash player version and whether or not you have support for Java.
4. The date and time of your visit and the length of time you spend on the website.
5. The pages on the website you view.
6. If you linked to the Mathews Memorial Library website from another website, the address of that website.  This could be from a direct link placed on another website or a link from the results of a search in a search engine such as Google.
7. If you search the Mathews Memorial Library website, the search words or phrases you use and the results of the search.

How the Mathews Memorial Library Uses This Information

The Mathews Memorial Library uses this information to help make its site more functional for visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to its site, where they are visiting from, and the kinds of information they seek.

Information about the capabilities of the computers used to access the website helps the library to better create content that will be usable by the largest number of visitors

Search results disclose whether the Mathews Memorial Library website contains the kinds of information its visitors seek and are used for planning future additions to the site.  These results are not linked to domain, IP, or browser data.

The Mathews Memorial Library website uses web cookies only when necessary to complete a transaction, and then only temporarily.  The Mathews Memorial Library does not use persistent cookies.

If You Send Personal Information to the Mathews Memorial Library

If you choose to provide us with personal information – becoming a member of the library’s website through registration, sending an e-mail to a library staff member, registering online for a class or other program, signing up for an email newsletter or filling out an online form with your personal information and submitting it through the library’s website – the Mathews Memorial Library uses that information only to enhance the services it offers, respond to your message, or in some other way help get you the information you have requested.  The Mathews Memorial Library does not link in any way this personal information with the statistical information gathered and stored automatically.

The Mathews Memorial Library only shares the information you give it with other agencies or individuals who may be able to respond to your inquiry or as otherwise required by law. The Mathews Memorial Library does not create individual profiles with the information you provide, nor does it give that information to any private organizations. The Mathews Memorial Library does not collect information for commercial marketing.

The Mathews Memorial Library gathers specific information about your interests when you sign up for email newsletters.  This information is used solely for the purpose of providing you with personalized content generated by the library staff.  The information you provide will never be transferred, sold or marketed in any way.  Registrants are free at any time to unsubscribe from any selected email lists, after which, no personal information will be retained by the library.

Information from Children

The Mathews Memorial Library is especially concerned about protecting children's privacy and encourages parents and teachers to be involved in children's Internet explorations, particularly when they are asked to provide personal information online.  The Mathews Memorial Library encourages children to get their parents' or guardian's permission before providing any information online -- at the Mathews Memorial Library website or any other website.  Most importantly, when children do provide information through the Mathews Memorial Library website, it is only used to enable the Mathews Memorial Library to respond to the writer or provide services to that person. The Mathews Memorial Library does not create profiles of children based on any personal information they may have provided through the library’s website.

All Information Subject to Open Record Laws

Information collected automatically on the Mathews Memorial Library website, as well as e-mail sent to the Mathews Memorial Library, is generally subject to state open record laws except as provided by Virginia or federal law.

Receiving Information from the Mathews Memorial Library

Visitors to the website receive information from the Mathews Memorial Library only in response to their own requests or if they have specifically opted-in to a particular mailing list provided by the Mathews Memorial Library.

Links to Other Sites

The Mathews Memorial Library website has links to many other governmental, commercial, educational, and individual websites. Once you follow a link from the Mathews Memorial Library website to another site, you are subject to that new site's privacy policy rather than to the Mathews Memorial Library's privacy policy.

Contact

If you want more information about the Mathews Memorial Library's privacy policy, please contact the library.

Updated 07/01/2010