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Privacy Statement

The Town of Rocky Mountain House is committed to providing a website that respects your privacy and protects your information. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Town of Rocky Mountain House site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Town of Rocky Mountain House site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

The Town of Rocky Mountain House collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Town of Rocky Mountain House also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your postal code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Town of Rocky Mountain House. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Town of Rocky Mountain House for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Town of Rocky Mountain House site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Town of Rocky Mountain House public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

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

Use of your Personal Information

The Town of Rocky Mountain House collects and uses your personal information to operate the Town of Rocky Mountain House website and deliver the services you have requested. The Town of Rocky Mountain House also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Town of Rocky Mountain House and its affiliates. The Town of Rocky Mountain House may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

The Town of Rocky Mountain House does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. The Town of Rocky Mountain House 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 Town of Rocky Mountain House, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

The Town of Rocky Mountain House does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

The Town of Rocky Mountain House keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within the Town of Rocky Mountain House, in order to determine what Town of Rocky Mountain House services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Town of Rocky Mountain House to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

The Town of Rocky Mountain House website 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 Town of Rocky Mountain House or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Town of Rocky Mountain House; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Town of Rocky Mountain House, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Town of Rocky Mountain House website use "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 Town of Rocky Mountain House pages, or register with Town of Rocky Mountain House site or services, a cookie helps Town of Rocky Mountain House 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 Town of Rocky Mountain House website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Town of Rocky Mountain House 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 Town of Rocky Mountain House services or websites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

The Town of Rocky Mountain House secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The Town of Rocky Mountain House 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

The Town of Rocky Mountain House will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy. The Town of Rocky Mountain House encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how the Town of Rocky Mountain House is protecting your information.

Contact Information

The Town of Rocky Mountain House welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Town of Rocky Mountain House has not adhered to this Statement, please contact the Towns FOIP Coordinator at Legislative@TRMH.ca or by phone 403-845-2866, ext. 288.