Your privacy is very important to us. At FishersIsland.net we have fundamental principles that we follow:
- 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 products and services, or to protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the ongoing operation of our site FishersIsland.net and the Fog Horn newsletter.
Fishersisland.net and accompanying Island communications is a program of the Fishers Island Community Center (FICC). It is FICC’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.
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. Fishersisland.net uses cookies to help FICC identify and track visitors, their usage of the fishersisland.net website, and their website preferences. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the fishersisland.net website, with the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Fog Horn Newsletter
FICC periodically keeps in contact with parties who choose to receive our email-based Fog Horn newsletter via email. Signing up for the Fog Horn is not required to use the fishersisland.net website. The email address and name of the individuals are stored with third-party service providers. Participants in the Fog Horn newsletter may opt out or update their contact information at any time.
Use of Third Party Services
FICC and Fishersisland.net use third party applications for data analytics and tracking. These applications use cookies and other data tags to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by cookies and other data tags about your use of the website (including possibly your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by the third party applications, including but not limited to Google Analytics.
The email address and name of the individuals who subscribe to the Fog Horn are stored with third-party email and website hosting service providers [SendGrid] and [siteGround].
Aggregated Statistics
FICC may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its fishersisland.net website. For instance, FICC may monitor the most popular pages on the fishersisland.net website using Google Analytics or use a spam screening service to help identify spam. FICC may display this information publicly or provide it to others. From time to time, FICC may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. However, FICC does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described below.
FICC also collects potentially personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users. FishersIsland.net only discloses logged-in user IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally identifying information as described below, except that IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the website.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to fishersisland.net choose to interact with FICC in ways that require fishersisland.net to gather personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that FICC gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who choose to complete polls or questionnaires and/or access FICC information that is not displayed publicly to provide a username and email address. In each case, FICC collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with fishersisland.net. FICC 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.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
FICC discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on FICC’s behalf or to provide services available on fishersisland.net website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using fishersisland.net website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. FICC will not rent or sell potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, ICB discloses potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental requests, or when ICB believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of ICB, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of fishersisland.net website and have supplied your email address, FICC 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 fishersisland.net and the Fishers Island community. We primarily use our blog 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 contact form on the website), 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. FICC takes measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally identifying information.
Security
Due to the rapidly evolving nature of information technology, the electronic transmission of data, including via the internet, cannot be guaranteed complete security. FICC is committed to protecting your privacy and securing your information. However, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to fishersisland.net, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive the information you transmitted, we will use reasonable safeguards to appropriately maintain the security of personal information collected on or otherwise processed by way of our website.
Links to Other Sites
In some cases, fishersisland.net may contain links to non-FICC websites. Providing such links does not imply endorsement of the information or services offered by these linked sites. Nor do the FICC’s Privacy Notices, policies or procedures apply to these other sites. When you link to a third-party site, you do so at your own discretion and any data collected is subject to the privacy policies of that web site.
Privacy Policy Changes
Because technology continues to evolve rapidly, FICC may make appropriate updates to this notice from time to time. FICC encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Any updates to this Privacy Notice will be posted to this page and will reflect the date of such revision. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Revised: 1/29/23
