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Privacy Policy

The Elmira & District Curling Club respects the privacy of all visitors to this Web site.

Purpose of This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use information about visitors to our Web site and to help you make informed decisions when using the information and services provided on our Web site.

Information Collection and Use

When you visit our Web site, you may provide us with two types of information:

  • personal information that you knowingly choose to disclose, collected on an individual basis
  • information about use of our Web site, collected on an aggregate basis, as you and others browse our Web pages

Personal Information You May Choose to Provide

Registration Information

If you choose to use our Web site to participate in activities that involve any form of on-line registration, you will need to provide us with information about yourself, such as your name, phone number, mailing address, e-mail address, preferences, or comments. That information will be used only for the purpose or purposes indicated or implied by the nature of the Web application in question.

E-mail Information

If you choose to correspond with us through e-mail, we may retain the content of your e-mail messages together with your e-mail address and our responses for future reference.

Web Site Use Information

We log information about visitors to our Web site, but only information that does not uniquely identify visitors as individuals. This information is retained only in summary form and only for a limited time. We use this information strictly for the purpose of better understanding what our visitors are looking for and improving the design, organization, layout, content, and functionality of this Web site.

Specifically, we log and summarize:

  • dates and times of visits
  • browser types and versions
  • operating systems
  • screen resolutions
  • screen colour depths
  • referring Web sites (search engines, Usenet groups, etc.)
  • domains (.com, .net, .gov, .edu, etc.) of visitors
  • countries and/or continents of visitors, when they can be determined

We do not record:

  • names
  • mailing addresses
  • phone numbers
  • e-mail addresses

Nor do we use "web beacons" or "clear GIFs" to aid advertisers or promoters. Recorded information is never sold to, or shared with, any other person or organization in any form.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a tiny text file that a Web server sends to your Web browser and which your Web browser stores on your hard disk and sends back to the server on request. Cookies are commonly used to allow a Web server to remember who you are so that you don't have to sign into a secure area each time you browse to a new page, to remember your style or content preferences, or to support shopping carts and other electronic commerce services.

This Web site uses cookies for some Web applications, but only for the more convenient operation of those specific applications. This Web sites does not use cookies to track individual visitors' browsing patterns. All cookies used on this Web site are session cookies, which expire when the visitor's browser is closed.

Further Information

If you have any questions about our privacy policies and practices that have not been satisfactorily answered by this policy document, please get in touch with us by any of the methods listed on the Contact page.

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