The Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership is committed to protecting the privacy of all visitors to its website, serving as a trusted and valuable source of information. The following describes our online information practices. As technology changes, we will ensure that our practices evolve as well, and will document that evolution here.

There are two types of information that can be gathered on any web site:

Aggregate Information: anonymous data used to diagnose problems, administer websites, gather general demographic information and improve site quality. These data include user domain names (e.g. "sarnialambton.com") and IP addresses, browser types and operating systems. None of this information is considered Personally Identifiable information.

Personally Identifiable Information: any information that identifies an individual personally, such as first and last name, email address, home address or telephone number. Such information is typically gathered when users fill out an online form—for example, to register feedback, request a service, or place an order for a product.

The Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership uses this information only to fulfill users’ service requests. Personal information is not provided to any third party, nor to send unsolicited email.
As well, Sarnia-Lambton employs various physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard data and prevent unauthorized access to information collected online. We work to protect all personal data from loss, misuse, disclosure, alteration or destruction.

Compliance with Legal Process

If required to do so by law, we may disclose personal information to appropriate authorities. We may also do so if, in good faith, we believe such disclosure would be necessary to:

Cookies

Many websites use cookies to enhance the experience they offer visitors—for example, by saving passwords or by allowing visitors to use ‘shopping carts’ in which various items for purchase are stored. Cookies are text files that record user preferences; websites store these files in each user’s Internet browser. Cookies do not, on their own, disclose any personally identifiable information unless that information has been provided by the user through the completion of an online form. Such information, provided voluntarily, may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.

Organizations sometimes draw on cookies to analyze how their websites are being used; this helps determine possibilities for improving site content. It is the policy of Sarnia-Lambton not to use cookies to retrieve information from a visitor’s computer if that information was not originally sent by us to that visitor. We do not use information transferred through cookies for any promotional or marketing purposes.