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Town of Queensbury is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy describes Town of Queensbury’s and affiliates online information practices, including how we collect and use your personal information, as it relates to queensbury.net (the “Site”).
Our site includes links to other web sites. When visiting those sites, your information is governed by their privacy statements. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy statement of any website you visit.
Information Collection and Tracking
There are two types of information that Town of Queensbury collects about users:
Information You Provide to Us
- When interacting with the Site, we may ask you to provide us with the following Customer Contact Information such as your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, job title and company.
- We may use Customer Contact Information to contact you and deliver information targeted to your interests.
- We do not sell, trade, or rent your Customer Contact Information to third parties.
Information We Collect as You Access and Use the Site
- Details of/relating to your use of our Site.
- Details of any e-mail correspondence or any other social media interactions that you have with us.
- Cookie or other tracking information collected below.
Using Google Analytics, Town of Queensbury may automatically (or passively) store or collect certain Usage Information when you visit or interact with the Site.
- Your IP address or other unique identifier (“Device Identifier”). A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your Device used to access the Service, and our computers identify your Device by its Device Identifier.
- Your browser type, operating system, hardware, and mobile network information.
- The URL that referred you to our Site.
- Your location and other information, including the time of day.
Google Analytics
The Site collects anonymous statistical information using Google Analytics. Google Analytics collects information such as how often you visit the Site, what pages you look at, and when. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information.
For more information about the data that is collected through Google Analytics, please visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that some websites transfer to a visitor’s web browser when first visiting the site or page. A cookie does not contain personal information, but will be used to remember your choices of certain options when using some types of content, such as saving passwords, personal preferences, or analyzing how well our website is performing.
Cookies are not required to view to use this site and may be turned off within your browser, but you may need to have cookies enabled for certain functionality of the site to work effectively for you.
Essential
Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the proper function of the website.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| wpconsent_preferences | This cookie is used to store the user's cookie consent preferences. | 30 days |
Google reCAPTCHA
Google reCAPTCHA helps protect websites from spam and abuse by verifying user interactions through challenges.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _GRECAPTCHA | Google reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. | 179 days |
Login
These cookies are used for managing login functionality on this website.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| wordpress_logged_in | Used to store logged-in users. | Persistent |
| wordpress_sec | Used to track the user across multiple sessions. | 15 days |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Used to determine if cookies are enabled. | Session |
Statistics
Statistics cookies collect information anonymously. This information helps us understand how visitors use our website.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a powerful tool that tracks and analyzes website traffic for informed marketing decisions.
Learn more| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _gac_ | Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together. | 90 days |
| __utma | ID used to identify users and sessions | 2 years after last activity |
| __utmt | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests | 10 minutes |
| __utmb | Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 30 minutes after last activity |
| __utmc | Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session. | End of session (browser) |
| __utmz | Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server | 6 months after last activity |
| __utmv | Contains custom information set by the web developer via the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated every time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 2 years after last activity |
| __utmx | Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test. | 18 months |
| _ga | ID used to identify users | 2 years |
| _gali | Used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked | 30 seconds |
| _ga_ | ID used to identify users | 2 years |
| _gid | ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager | 1 minute |
Policy Updates
All contents of this site and the services offered are: Copyright © 2019 Town of Queensbury and/or its suppliers. All rights reserved. Town of Queensbury reserves the right at any time and without notice to change the terms and privacy policy simply by posting such changes on our site. Any such change will be effective immediately upon posting.
This policy was last modified on 7-24-24.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact:
Town of Queensbury
518-761-8200
742 Bay Rd. Queensbury, NY 12804
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