Privacy Policy
I respect your right to the privacy of information that may personally identify you. This Policy deals with such information (“data”) you provide offline as well as at this website.
Disclaimers
James River Technical Communications is not responsible for the Privacy practices or the content of third-party websites, Protection of personal data anyone submits to social media companies, such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, LinkedIn, etc., or Protection of personal or financial data submitted by an individual to an online financial institution, such as PayPal.
Definitions
| Visitor | An individual who uses only the public areas of the website. |
| Personal Data | Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. |
| Public Area | An area of the website that can be accessed both by subscribers and visitors without needing to login. |
| Restricted Area | Any area of the website that requires login by authorized users to open and use. |
| Personally Identifiable Information | PII are any data that could potentially identify a specific individual or can be used to distinguish one person from another and can be used for de-anonymizing anonymous data. |
| Personally Identifiable Financial Information | PIFI are any data that a consumer provides to a financial institution that would not be available publicly such as an individual’s name, contact details, bank account number, credit card number, Social Security number, etc. |
Security Design
James River Technical Communications is protected by an industry-standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificate and 128-bit encryption. All passwords are encrypted and retained within the website SSL certificate.
Data Protection
| Explicit Consent | No personal data (PII) collected and stored by James River Technical Communications on this website. |
| Google Analytics | We use Google Analytics on our website to better understand the needs of our website visitors and subscribers and to detect any issues users are having with our website. |
Data Retention
Contact Information
When you use the Contact Form to reach an individual listed on our website, the system asks you to accept our collection of these data:
- IP (Internet Protocol) Address
- IP (Internet Protocol) Based Location
- Web Browser
- Operating System
- Screen Resolution
These data are retained until the information you action you requested is acted upon by the recipient, after which your request is removed or archived.
PII
James River Technical Communications does not acquire, retain, or share any personally identifiable information with any outside party for any reason.
PIFI
James River Technical Communications does not request or store any personally identifiable financial information online for any reason.
What Data Do We Automatically Collect?
Cookies
There are different types of software cookies used today to capture various visitor data, such as:
| Essential Website Cookies | These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services through our website and to use some of its features, such as access to subscriber-only areas. Because these cookies are strictly necessary for website operation, you cannot opt-out of their use. You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings. |
| Performance and Functionality Cookies | These cookies enhance the performance and functionality of our website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functions may be unavailable. |
| Analytics and Customization Cookies | These cookies collect information used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is used, how effectively we are reaching out to users, or to help us customize our website to enhance your experience. These cookies do not identify any person specifically. |
| Advertising/Targeting Cookies | James River Technical Communications does not use advertising or targeting cookies. |
Google Analytics
This website uses Analytics services from Google LLC. Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are stored on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site during their visit. The collected data (including your truncated IP address) is transmitted and stored on a server controlled by Google, located in the United States.
Google will use this information about your use of the website to generate reports on website activity for website operators and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google will not link the IP address provided by your browser in Google Analytics to any other Google data.
Google will retain user and event data for 26 months.
You can deactivate the installation and use of Cookies by simply setting up your web browser. However, you will not be able to access all the functions of the site in an optimal way. If you wish to prevent the storage of personal data (including your IP address) and their use by Google, you can install the plugin.
For more information, please see the Google Analytics Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
reCAPTCHA
We usethe Google reCAPTCHA service to protect submissions and prevent spam on the site. It checks if you are a person to prevent certain features of the website from being abused by spam bots.
Where required, you consent to sending your IP address and possibly other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service. Your data will be communicated to Google and used by their services. However, your IP address will first be truncated by Google in EU Member States—or in other states that are part of the European Economic Area agreement. In exceptional cases, your full IP address will be transmitted to a Google server in the United States and then subsequently truncated. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of this service. The IP address provided to reCAPTCHA through your browser will not be merged with any other Google data. This data collection is subject to Google’s Privacy Policy.
Advertising and Remarketing
James River Technical Communications does not promote our products or services through third-party advertising programs such as Google AdSense and Facebook.
Contact Form
Individuals who use the website to contact an officer of James River Technical Communications are required to explicitly acknowledge and allow James River Technical Communications to retain and use the data they enter in the Contact Form so that we can answer their concerns.
How Often Will We Update this Policy?
We will update this policy when needed due to, for example, advanced technologies, legal requirements, and changing Association business standards. You should check this article routinely.