Privacy policy

Effective March 22, 2008

This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on http://lakewoodneighborhood.org, a web site and service of the Lakewood Neighborhood Association. Our postal address is Lakewood Neighborhood Association, PO Box 140618, Dallas, TX 75214. We can also be reached via email.

Our Commitment To Privacy

Your privacy is very important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make a link to it available at the bottom of all of our pages.

Information we collect

Membership information

On some pages, you can sign up as a member of this web site in order to post article comments. The only type of personal information collected on these pages is your email address. We will only use your email address as a way to identify you when you login, and to contact you about your site membership as may be required.

Log files

We retain the standard Web server log file information, which includes the date and time of each visit to our web site, the visitor's IP (internet protocol) address, the referring IP address or domain (the prior web page visited), and the files viewed on our web site (including HTML pages, graphics, etc.). We use log file information to analyze data in the aggregate to determine the trends and usage of our site. We do not correlate the log data to identify specific users.

Cookies

We use cookies to record session information, which helps us on a technical level to provide a useful and responsive web experience. We also use a persistent cookie to analyze site traffic trends in the aggregate, but we do not use it to track any personal information.

Links to third-party web sites

You may be directed to third parties' web sites via links on our pages. We are not responsible for the collection, use, maintenance, sharing, or disclosure of data and information by such third parties. We encourage our visitors to be aware of the varied privacy policies of web sites that they visit.

Our commitment to data security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How you can access or correct your information

You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by either logging into the site and reviewing your membership information, or by contacting us directly. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

Changes to our privacy policy

From time to time, we may use visitor information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this privacy policy. We will provide prominent notice of any such changes on this page.

If any such changes include substantial new uses of your information, we will update this privacy policy on our web site and notify our readers on the front page of this publication. In addition, we will require that you actively "opt in" to any such changes before we use your personally identifiable information in the new way.

If you feel that this site is not following this privacy policy, you may contact us at the above addresses; or contact state or local chapters of the Better Business Bureau, state or local consumer protection offices, or the Federal Trade Commission, by phone at 202.FTC.HELP (202.382.4357) or on the web.