Privacy Policy for Chicken Petition
Personal data we collect for signers of this Petition include personal data, such as name, email, your address, and data from each field completed. Transactional data, such as your IP address and technical data, such as information about cookies and verification that the form was completed by a person.
Personal data is not just created by a user’s interactions with our site. Personal data is also generated from technical processes such as contact forms, comments, cookies, analytics, and third party embeds which are detailed below.
Petition Comments
When visitors Sign the Petition and leave a Comment within the Petition, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help deter spam detection.
We will share your Comment(s) to the Town Council along with your Name and Address along with the Date and your IP address.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Submission of Petition
When you sign the Petition your email address is saved and a temporary cookie is set if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you sign the Petition, we will also set up several cookies to save your email information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year.
We will send you an email thanking you for signing the petition. You may choose to create an account by pressing the button ‘Set your Password’. If you do not respond we will keep you as a visitor and not contact you again.
If you would like to receive updates related to keeping chickens legal in the Town of Millsboro. Or, you may join us and become a Member to learn about other events, issues or news about our neighborhood, county, state or nation.
You will not need to reply to the email but we will not attempt to contact you again. The email will come from our domain, voice.web-mtg.com.
Retention of your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Accounts & Data Retention
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information provided in your user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your rights over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
If you complete forms, petitions or other documents, you will be asked to accept condition(s) and if you approve, you agree that you are aware that the the final version will be sent to the specified municipality, county, state and/or federal agency.
You will be contacted for your approval before it is sent to anyone else. Otherwise, this does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
