The 21st Century State & Local Privacy Policy describes how 21st Century State & Local treats personal information when you use 21st Century State & Local services.
Use Exclusions
- 21st Century State & Local will not release any personally identifiable information to any third party or unauthorized staff member with the following exceptions:
- To facilitate any troubleshooting on a specific use element of the site only if identified by you in the use of the website. You will be informed before your information is released
- For the purpose of complying with Federal, state, and local statues
Uses
- When you submit personally identifiable information to us, we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the general and personalized features and functionality of the 21st Century State & Local Website, and to process any flagging activity or correspondence you send to us
Your name (not your email address) is displayed to other users when you post comments on the 21st Century State & Local Website
We may use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send information of value to you without your consent, or as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt out
We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the 21st Century State & Local Website and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, analyzing, and processing user preferences and trends, as well as user activity and communications
We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit 21st Century State & Local; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our content; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions
Information That is Publicly Available
- Your name (not your email address) is displayed to other users when you engage in certain activity on the site, such as posting comments on a News article on the 21st Century State & Local website
Your Choices
- You may opt out of non-solicited email by selecting unsubscribe in any of the 21st Century State & Local email received in your designated email account
Third-Party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites
21st Century State & Local allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the 21st Century State & Local Website. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the 21st Century State & Local Website. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.
21st Century State & Local does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt out. However, please note that if an advertiser asks 21st Century State & Local to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, women ages 18-34) or audience segment (for example, men ages 18-24 who have viewed certain channels of content), and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the 21st Century State & Local Website, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt out of certain practices. 21st Century State & Local’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or Websites. Any data obtained by third-party ad servers subsequently shared with 21st Century State & Local is maintained and dealt with by 21st Century State & Local in accordance with this privacy policy.
More Information
For more information about our privacy practices, write to us at: 21st Century State & Local Privacy, P.O. Box 1356, Alexandria, Virginia 22313.
