Your privacy is critically important to us. The Nebraska Horse Council has a few fundamental principles:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our members, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
- We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.
Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:
The Nebraska Horse Council (“NHC”) is the sponsoring organization behind www.nebraskahorsecouncil.org. The maintenance of the site has been contracted out to Fiducia Strategies, of Omaha, Nebraska. It is the Nebraska Horse Council and Fiducia Strategies’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most websites, NHC collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. NHC’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how our visitors use the website. From time to time, NHC may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
NHC also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. NHC does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to the Nebraska Horse Council’s website choose to interact with NHC in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that NHC gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who post a classified ad to provide an email address, phone number, and name. In each case, NHC collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with NHC. NHC does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
The Nebraska Horse Council may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, NHC may monitor the most popular article views on our blog. NHC may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, NHC does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
The Nebraska Horse Council discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to our Board, contractors and some affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on NHC’s behalf or to provide services available at NHC’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of our members, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using NHC’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. NHC will not rent or sell any information collected by using our site. Other than to our members, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, NHC discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when NHC believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of NHC, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of the Nebraska Horse Council website and have supplied your email address, NHC may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with the Council. We primarily use website to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. NHC takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. NHC uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of the NHC website, and their website access preferences. NHC visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the website, with the drawback that certain features of our website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by NHC and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to our various boards are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, the Nebraska Horse Council may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in NHC’s sole discretion. NHC encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.