Emmaus Main Street Program

Teri Madison,

Executive Director

Emmaus Main Street Program
244 Main Street
Emmaus, PA 18049
PH: 610-965-6279
FX: 610-965-9852

Privacy Statement

Emmaus Main Street Program is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Emmaus Main Street Program Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Emmaus Main Street Program website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Emmaus Main Street Program collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Emmaus Main Street Program also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Emmaus Main Street Program. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Emmaus Main Street Program for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Emmaus Main Street Program Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Emmaus Main Street Program public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Emmaus Main Street Program does not read any of your private online communications.

Emmaus Main Street Program encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Emmaus Main Street Program so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Emmaus Main Street Program is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Emmaus Main Street Program and Emmaus Main Street Program family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Emmaus Main Street Program collects and uses your personal information to operate the Emmaus Main Street Program Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Emmaus Main Street Program also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Emmaus Main Street Program and its affiliates. Emmaus Main Street Program may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Emmaus Main Street Program does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Emmaus Main Street Program may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Emmaus Main Street Program may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Emmaus Main Street Program, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Emmaus Main Street Program does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Emmaus Main Street Program keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Emmaus Main Street Program, in order to determine what Emmaus Main Street Program services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Emmaus Main Street Program to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Emmaus Main Street Program Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Emmaus Main Street Program or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Emmaus Main Street Program; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Emmaus Main Street Program, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Emmaus Main Street Program Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Emmaus Main Street Program pages, or register with Emmaus Main Street Program site or services, a cookie helps Emmaus Main Street Program to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Emmaus Main Street Program Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Emmaus Main Street Program features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Emmaus Main Street Program services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Emmaus Main Street Program secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Emmaus Main Street Program secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Emmaus Main Street Program will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Emmaus Main Street Program encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Emmaus Main Street Program is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Emmaus Main Street Program welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Emmaus Main Street Program has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Emmaus Main Street Program at teri@emmausmainstreet.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

The Emmaus Main Street Program was officially incorporated in 1995 as a non-profit program to support and revitalize the Emmaus' historic downtown. Funding was provided by the state Department of Community and Economic Development with initial matching funds provided by the Borough of Emmaus.

Founded by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in early 1980's, Main Street Programs incorporate historic preservation, community consensus building, and volunteer effort to attain community and economic development.

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