Privacy Policy

At The Town of AuSable, we take your privacy very seriously. That’s why we created this privacy policy document to show you the type of data we collect and how we use it.

What personal data do we collect and why do we collect it

Comments

When you leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

When you send us a message via our contact form, we collect your name and email address in addition to the message. This makes it easy for us to reply to your messages.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Third-Party Services

Our website uses third-party services including Google Analytics. This section outlines how these services collect and process your data.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze traffic to our website.

Google’s Privacy Policy: For more details on Google’s data practices, please see the Google Privacy Policy.

  • Data Collected: Google Analytics collects information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, pages visited, and time spent on the website.
  • Purpose: This data helps us understand how visitors use our website, allowing us to improve our services and user experience.
  • Cookies: Google Analytics uses cookies to collect and analyze information about your browsing behavior.
  • Opt-Out: You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Newsletter

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will collect your name and email address.

Who we share your data with

As mentioned above, we share your IP address and user agent string with Google. If you subscribe to our email newsletter, your details will be sent to our database.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.