Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last updated on March 24, 2023

Please read the following Privacy Policy carefully. By using the Cooperative Council of Governments (CCOG) Website, You agree to these terms and conditions. CCOG takes Your privacy seriously and We deeply value Your business and all who utilize the CCOG Website.

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy has been created with the help of the Privacy Policy Generator, whose website can be accessed at: https://app.freeprivacypolicy.com/

This Privacy Policy contains the following information, accessible below:

• Interpretation and Definitions
• Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
• No Data Collected from Children
• Publicly Posted Information | Product Reviews
• Your Responsibilities
• Updating Your Information
• Rejecting Cookies and Your Options
• Links to Other Websites
• Persons with Disabilities
• Social Media
• Events and Video Teleconferencing
• Changes to this Privacy Policy
• Contact Us

 

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Account means a unique account created for You to access Our Service or parts of Our Service.

Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Privacy Policy) refers to the Cooperative Council of Governments (CCOG), located at 6001 Cochran Road, Suite 333, Solon, OH 44138.

Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

Country refers to: United States

Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone, or a digital tablet.

Our means the individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service.

Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

Service refers to the CCOG Website accessible at https://cooperativecogohio.gov/.

Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.

Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Website refers to the CCOG website, accessible at https://cooperativecogohio.gov/

You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

 

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

 

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Phone number
  • Address, City, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code
  • Usage Data

 

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (i.e., IP address), Your Device’s geographic location and domain name, browser type, browser version, the pages of Our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, web pages accessed, whether You are a new or returning visitor, page loading time, scrolling and mouse movement (shows Us which portions of our Service are most relevant to You), heat Maps (shows Us which parts of our website are unused, irrelevant, and/or unnecessary), link and button clicks, if a form is submitted, referral website (the last website You visited), and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

CCOG Website visitor activity is collected and stored by Google Analytics. More information about Google Analytics can be found on its website: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US.

We use LinkedIn Analytics, which is a selection of metrics that capture the performance of the website(s) we operate on LinkedIn. Like other social media tools, LinkedIn Analytics measures and tracks user metrics, such as our followers and visitors, and their clicks, shares, and comments. For more information, see LinkedIn’s privacy policy.

 

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and to store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:

• • Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
  • Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. Learn more about cookies: Use of Cookies by Free Privacy Policy.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary / Essential Cookies

Type: Session Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

Functionality Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

In order to change Your cookie preferences, please change Your cookie browser settings in accordance with the instructions in the section below “Rejecting Cookies and Your Options”. For more information about cookies, visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en-US

 

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.

To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.

For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.

To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services, and events which We offer that are similar to those that You have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.

To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.

For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve Our Service, products, services, marketing, and your experience. The Site may collect data about the advertisements you have seen or engaged.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

• • With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service or to contact You.
  • For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
  • With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
  • With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services, or promotions.
  • With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
  • With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

 

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company also retains Usage Data for internal analysis purposes, to strengthen the security of Our Site, and to improve the functionality of Our Service.

 

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. This information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to another organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

 

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• • Comply with a legal obligation
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
  • Protect against legal liability

 

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

 

No Data Collected from Children

The Site is not directed at, nor intended for use by, children. As a result, if You are under the age of sixteen (16), You are prohibited from accessing or using the Services (including the Site) or with providing Us with Your personal information.

 

Publicly Posted Information | Product Reviews

You may, from time to time, have the ability to submit via the Site a comment on, provide an opinion about, rate, or otherwise discuss Our Services (a “Product Review”). In other circumstances, You may directly provide Us feedback on Our business, Our business sector, or the Services (“Feedback”). Any information or content You post in a Product Review or in Your Feedback may be available to other users of the Site (and our social media platforms) and may be retrievable by third-party search engines, and third parties may also be able to download or share Your Product Review and Feedback to social media websites or elsewhere. We recommend that You guard Your privacy and anonymity and not upload any information in Your Product Review and Feedback that You wish to remain confidential. Any third party with access to Your information via the Site will be permitted to use the information in the same manner as if You submitted the information directly to that third party. Publicly posting any information on the Site is entirely voluntary on Your part, and we recommend You carefully consider the information You choose to make publicly available. As between You and the Company, any and all Product Reviews and Feedback shall be considered Our confidential and proprietary information. In order for the Company to utilize such Product Reviews and Feedback, You grant to the Company a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, under all relevant intellectual property rights, to use, publish, and disclose such Product Reviews and Feedback in any manner We choose and to display, perform, copy, make, have made, use, sell, and otherwise dispose of the Company’s and our sub-licensees’ products or services embodying such Product Reviews and Feedback in any manner and via any media we choose, without reference to the source. The Company shall be entitled to use Product Reviews and Feedback for any purpose without restriction or remuneration of any kind with respect to You and/or Your representatives.

 

Your Responsibilities

You are permitted, and hereby agree, to only provide personal information to the Company if such personal information is accurate, reliable, and relevant to our relationship and only to the extent such disclosure will not violate any applicable data protection law, statute, or regulation or infringe upon a person’s data privacy rights or privileges. If You provide personal information (including personal information concerning a third party) to the Company, You expressly represent and warrant to the Company that You have the full right and authority to provide the company with such personal information (including personal information concerning a third party) and that the Company’s use and processing of such personal information as set forth herein will not violate any person’s rights or privileges, including rights to privacy. You hereby agree to fully and completely indemnify the Company for any claims, harm, or damages that may arise from Your provision of personal information (including personal information concerning a third party) to the Company.

 

Updating Your Information

It is important that the personal information that You provide to Us is accurate and reliable. In certain circumstances, You may have the ability to directly edit Your Account to update and change Your personal information (e.g., name, telephone number, email), and You must do so when such changes are warranted. You may review, update, or modify Your personal data, including profile and contact information, at any time by contacting Us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.

 

Rejecting Cookies and Your Options

In order to change Your cookie preferences, please change Your cookie browser settings in accordance with the instructions below.

You can stop cookies from being downloaded on Your device by selecting the appropriate settings on Your browser. Most browsers will tell You how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when You receive a new cookie, and how to disable existing cookies. You can find out how to do this for Your particular browser by clicking “help” on Your browser’s menu or by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note, however, that without cookies You may not be able to access or take full advantage of the Site. Most browsers allow users to use a “private mode” by which cookies are deleted after Your website visit. Please read the help section of Your browser to learn more about how to activate the “private mode.” You could still visit Our Site if Your browser is in “private mode”; however, the user experience may not be optimal, and some features may not work.

• • Click here to learn more about the “Private Browsing” setting and managing cookie settings in Firefox.
  • Click here to learn more about “Incognito” and managing cookie settings in Chrome.
  • Click here to learn more about “InPrivate” and managing cookie settings in Internet Explorer.
  • Click here to learn more about “Private Browsing” and managing cookie settings in Safari.

If You want to remove previously stored cookies, You can manually delete the cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent the Site from placing further cookies on Your device unless and until You adjust Your browser setting as described above.

You can find more information about cookies, behavioral advertising, and online privacy at www.allaboutcookies.org.

 

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s 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.

 

Persons with Disabilities

The Company strives to ensure that every person has access to information related to Our Services, including this Privacy Policy. Please contact Us if You would like this Privacy Policy provided in an alternative format, and We will seek to meet Your needs.

 

Social Media

We may engage with You on various social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn). If You contact Us on a social media platform for customer support or for other reasons, We may contact You via the social media’s direct message tools. Certain social media platforms may also automatically provide Us with Your personal information, the information we receive will depend on the terms that govern Your use of the social media platform(s) and any privacy settings You may have set. The Site may include social media features and widgets (e.g., the “Facebook Like” button, the “Share This” button) or interactive mini-programs that run on the Site. These features may collect Your IP address and which Site page You are accessing and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on the Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy statement of the relevant social media platform that provides them.

 

Events and Video Teleconferencing

The Company hosts and uses video teleconferencing platforms to facilitate conferences, meetings, training events, and other programs. We often use online platforms that are owned and administered by a third-party service provider (e.g., Google, Zoom, WebEx, Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams). Please be aware that Our video teleconferencing may record the content, conversations, and discussions thereon, and such records may be stored or retained by Our third-party service providers. By participating in Our events and video teleconferencing, You hereby consent to the collection and retention of any information provided therein, and You hereby consent to the recording of such activities.

 

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. We will notify You if this Privacy Policy is amended by updating the “Last Updated” section listed above. It is Your responsibility to periodically review the Privacy Policy to determine whether any amendments have been made hereto. Your use of the Services and continued use of the Services after any amendments are made to this Privacy Policy, signifies Your consent to this Privacy Policy and any amendments hereto. We may, in our sole discretion, provide You communications, including via email or text messages, about changes to our Privacy Policy; however, such communications do not abrogate or otherwise limit your responsibility to periodically review the Privacy Policy to determine whether any amendments have been made hereto.

 

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

By email: David.Akers@CooperativeCOGOhio.org.

By phone: 844.289.6728