Sweetwater Authority's Privacy Notice

We collect no personal information about you without your knowledge when you visit this site, although you may choose to provide this information to us in specific instances. However, we do collect and store certain information automatically.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically
When you browse, read pages, or download information in the sweetwater.org domain, we automatically gather and store certain technical information about your visit. This information never identifies who you are. The information we collect and store about your visit includes
• the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the domain from which you access the Internet (e.g., 123.45.67.89), whether yours individually or provided as a proxy by your Internet Service Provider (ISP)
• the type of browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer) and operating system (Windows, Unix) used to access our site
• the date and time you access our site
• the pages you visit (recorded by the text and graphics files that compose that page)
• the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site.

We use the summary statistics to help us make our site more useful to visitors, such as assessing what information is of most and least interest to visitors, and for other purposes such as determining the site's technical design specifications and identifying system performance or problem areas.

This information is NOT shared with anyone beyond the support staff for this website and other appropriate SWA staff, except when required by computer security, law enforcement investigation or other authorized legal purpose, and is customarily used only as a source of anonymous statistical information.

Cookies
Websites in the sweetwater.org domain use only non-persistent (per-session) cookies to aid users in setting browsing or navigation preferences. These cookies do not collect personal information on users and are erased as soon as you leave our website.

Per-session cookies serve technical purposes such as providing seamless navigation through SWA websites. These cookies do not permanently record data and they are not stored on your computer's hard drive. SWA cookies are stored in memory and are only available during an active browser session.

If You Send Us Personal Information
If you choose to provide us with personal information—such as filling out a Contact Us or registration form and submitting it to us through the website—that information will be used only to complete the activity for which it was provided, whether it is a one-time event (e.g., returning the results from a web search, forwarding an email message, or registering for a tour), or a recurring event, such as providing a subscription service. This information may be used for the technical support of the website and its computer system, or to enhance, evaluate, or otherwise review the website or service. The information may also be used to contact an individual in response to a request for information.

You may choose to provide us with personal information, as in an e-mail message containing your comments or questions. We use this information to improve our service to you or to respond to your request. There are times when your message is forwarded, as e-mail, to other employees who may be better able to help you.

Personal information, collected as noted herein, is retained to meet the needs of the stated purpose and is then discarded at the earliest time possible.

Sweetwater Authority does NOT collect information for commercial marketing. Personal information is shared only with employees of Sweetwater Authority involved in processing data for the completion of the stated purpose, entities for which SWA is acting as an agent, and/or entities acting as SWA's agent (an agent in this instance is defined as a third party that processes data only for the completion of the stated purpose), except for authorized law enforcement investigations, or as otherwise required by law.