Privacy Policy

Last Updated On 06-Aug-2024
Effective Date 06-Aug-2024

This Privacy Policy describes the policies of Town of Grand Isle, on the collection use and disclosure of your information that we collect when you use our website ( townofgrandisle.com ) (the “Site”). By accessing or using the Site, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the same, please do not access or use the Site.

Town of Grand Isle
170 Ludwig Lane, P.O. Box 200
Grand Isle, LA 70358,
email: togi@townofgrandisle.com
phone: 985-787-3196

We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time without any prior notice to you and will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site. The revised Policy will be effective 180 days from when the revised Policy is posted in the Site and your continued access or use of the Site after such time will constitute your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. We therefore recommend that you periodically review this page.

Information We Collect

Information you provide

We do not require you to register or provide information to use the Site.

We will collect and process the following personal information about you if you send us a message trhough our contact form or sign up for email updates from the Town of Grand Isle:

  1. Name
  2. Email

Information collected and stored automatically

We automatically collect certain information about your visit to the Site. We limit the data collected to meet specific business needs and to protect your privacy. We may know what path(s) you took on our websites, but we don’t know who you are. We do not use this information to identify you personally without your express consent and an authorized purpose.

We automatically collect and store the following information about your visit to the website:

  • General log information. Examples of general log information include, but are not limited to: Internet domain (for example, “companya.com” or “website2.edu”); Internet Protocol (IP) address; operating system; the browser used to access our website; the date and time you accessed our site; and the pages that you visited.
  • Referral and statistical information where we have links to or from the site you visited. Such data may include aggregate data such as the number of offsite links occurring during a visit to the website. It may also include specific data, such as the identity of the site which you visited immediately before or after our site. We do not use such data to identify you personally.

We use the general log information to help us make the Site more useful to visitors. We use it to learn about how locations on our site are being used, what information is of most and least interest, and how we can enhance ease of use by ensuring our sites can interface with the types of technology our visitors use. We also use such statistics to tell us of any possible site performance problems. Except for oversight, law enforcement investigations, or protection of the Site information technology infrastructure as authorized by law, no other attempts are made to identify you or your usage habits.

How We Use Your Information

We do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personal information to outside marketers. Information collected via the Site may be shared with employees, contractors, and other service providers as necessary to respond to a request, provide a service, or as otherwise authorized by law.

We will use the information that we collect about you for the following purposes:

  1. Visitor feedback collection
  2. Support
  3. In order to provide email updates.

If we want to use your information for any other purpose, we will ask you for consent and will use your information only on receiving your consent and then, only for the purpose(s) for which grant consent unless we are required to do otherwise by law.

Retention Of Your Information

We will retain your personal information with us for We save data as needed to respond to information submitted through the contact form or for as long as we need it to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected as detailed in this Privacy Policy. We may need to retain certain information for longer periods such as record-keeping/reporting in accordance with applicable law or for other legitimate reasons like enforcement of legal rights, fraud prevention, etc. Residual anonymous information and aggregate information, neither of which identifies you (directly or indirectly), may be stored indefinitely.

Your Rights

Depending on the law that applies, you may have a right to access and rectify or erase your personal data or receive a copy of your personal data, restrict or object to the active processing of your data, ask us to share (port) your personal information to another entity, withdraw any consent you provided to us to process your data, a right to lodge a complaint with a statutory authority and such other rights as may be relevant under applicable laws. To exercise these rights, you can write to us at togi@townofgrandisle.com. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.

You may opt-out of direct marketing communications or the profiling we carry out for marketing purposes by writing to us at togi@townofgrandisle.com.

Do note that if you do not allow us to collect or process the required personal information or withdraw the consent to process the same for the required purposes, you may not be able to access or use the services for which your information was sought.

Cookies Etc.

To learn more about how we use these and your choices in relation to these tracking technologies, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

Security

The security of your information is important to us and we will use reasonable security measures to prevent the loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration of your information under our control. However, given the inherent risks, we cannot guarantee absolute security and consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.

Third Party Links & Use Of Your Information:

Our Site may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. This Privacy Policy does not address the privacy policy and other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service that may be accessible via a link on the Site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Grievance / Data Protection Officer:

If you have any queries or concerns about the processing of your information that is available with us, you may email our Grievance Officer at:

Town of Grand Isle
170 Ludwig Lane, P.O. Box 200
Grand Isle, LA 70358
email: togi@townofgrandisle.com

We will address your concerns in accordance with applicable law.