Northwest Mosquito Abatement District (NWMAD) is committed to maintaining your privacy and protecting your personal information when you visit the NWMAD website. With respect to the collection, use, and disclosure of personally identifiable information (PII), NWMAD complies with all applicable federal laws.
Our privacy policy is clear:
- NWMAD does not collect any personally identifiable information (PII) when you visit any of NWMAD’s digital media channels unless you choose to provide that information to us through channels such as forms.
- Any PII that you choose to provide is fully protected.
- Non-PII information related to your visit to our websites may be automatically collected and temporarily stored.
Data Retention
Submitting personal information (name, address, telephone number, email address, etc.) is voluntary and is not required to access information on our website. However, if you choose to provide NWMAD with personally identifiable information — for example by completing a form, or sending an email — we may use that information to respond to your message and/or help us get you the information or services you requested.
We retain the information only for as long as necessary to respond to your question or request. Information submitted electronically is maintained and destroyed as required by the Federal Records Act and records schedules of the National Archives and Records Administration. It may be subject to disclosure in certain cases (for example, if required by a Freedom of Information Act request, court order, or if authorized by a Privacy Act System of Records Notice (SORN)). It is subject to the Privacy Act if maintained in a Privacy Act system of record.
How Information is Used
If you choose to provide us with information, such as filling out a form or sending an email, we may use that information to contact you, respond to your message, or provide you the information or services you requested. In order to serve you better, we may analyze multiple sources of data you have provided (for example, to look up whether you previously contacted NWMAD about the same topic so that we do not send you a duplicative response).
Links to External Sites
NWMADIL.gov pages and other NWMAD digital media platforms may link to websites created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations and individuals. When you follow a link to an external site, you are leaving NWMADIL.gov and are subject to the external site‘s privacy and security policies. We do not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of information contained on an external site. We also do not endorse the site’s sponsor, any views they express, or any products or services they offer.
Security
All NWMAD digital media offerings, including the NWMADIL.gov site, are maintained by the U.S. Government and protected by various provisions of Title 18 of the U.S. Code.
At NWMAD, reasonable precautions are taken to protect NWMAD’s digital platforms, including information automatically collected by or voluntarily submitted to NWMADIL.gov. For example, we restrict access to personally identifiable information to employees, contractors, and vendors who require access to this information in order to perform their official duties, and exercise controls to limit what data they can view based on the specific needs of their position. For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, our web servers use industry-standard methods to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
We periodically review our processes and systems to verify compliance with industry best practices and to ensure the highest level of security for NWMAD’s digital platforms.
Please contact [email protected] if you suspect any security issues on the NWMADIL.gov website.
Cookies
When you visit a page on NWMADIL.gov, the Internet browser on your computer or mobile device may store a small piece of data that is exchanged with NWMADIL.gov web servers (commonly called “cookies”). Cookies allow your browser to “remember” specific information about your visit while you are using the site and are sent by the browser to NWMADIL.gov servers in all web requests to NWMAD. Cookies from NWMAD web pages only collect information about your visit and interaction with our site; they do not collect personal information about you. To learn how to manage or refuse cookies from NWMADIL.gov or any other site view Learn how to block website cookies on usa.gov.
NWMADIL.gov utilizes single-session cookies that are used for technical purposes, such as enabling better navigation through the site and generating aggregated statistics about how the website is used. Under the framework of OMB M-10-22, this qualifies as a Tier 1 use (PDF).
Third Party Tools
Forms powered by Jetpack
The Contact Form feature captures contacts, leads, and questions from your posts and pages, with the power of Jetpack Forms.
Data used: The contact form submission data — IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message — is submitted to the Akismet service (also owned by Automattic) for spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the site’s database on which it was submitted and is emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e. the site author who published the page on which the contact form resides). This email will include the submitter’s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message.
Data synced: Post and post metadata associated with a user’s contact form submission. If Akismet is enabled on the site, the IP address and user agent originally submitted with the comment are also synced, as they are stored in the post meta. See more about what data Jetpack syncs.
Statistics powered by Jetpack
The Jetpack Stats feature tracks your site visits and other valuable insights, so you can drive more traffic to your website
Data used: IP address, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, and country code. Important: the site owner does not have access to any of this information via this feature. Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses — are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature.
Activity tracked: Post and page views, video plays (if videos are hosted by WordPress.com), outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country. Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load when this feature is enabled, including the JavaScript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites to make sure that our plugin and code are not causing performance issues. This includes tracking page load times and resource loading duration (image files, JavaScript files, CSS files, etc.). The site owner has the ability to force this feature to honor DNT settings of visitors. By default, DNT is currently not honored.
Social Media
Where we manage a presence on social media sites to share government information and engage with our audience, we do not collect any personally identifiable information through those sites. We do not use personal information made available by the third-party sites. If you submit a question or comment to us via a social media tool or platform, we may reply directly to you via that platform, but we don’t track or record any information about individuals who use or interact with us via those platforms.
Last reviewed: 11/26/2024