Public Users Privacy
Policy Statement.
The Henry County Alabama Probate Judge's Office has the utmost consideration
of our users security and privacy. As you surf and utilize the tools
throughout the Henry County Alabama Probate Judge's Office web site,
certain information about you and the way you have accessed this
site is collected automatically as it is recognized by our web servers
and our security framework. Protecting the Security and Privacy
of your Personal Information is important to the Henry County Alabama
Probate Judge's Office and to the way we conduct our business in
compliance with laws on privacy, data protection and data security.
We hope the policy outlined below will help you understand what
information and data the Henry County Alabama Probate Judge's Office
may collect, and also how the Henry County Alabama Probate Judge's
Office uses and safeguards that information and with whom we may
share it. Through the course of your travels, you may want to voluntarily
provide certain information through forms pages, alert requests
as well as updated mailing lists throughout the site. At this time
we would like to take this opportunity to explain to you how we
use (or do not use) the information collected from this site. The
Henry County Alabama Probate Judge's Office are the sole owners
of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share,
or rent this information to others in ways different from what is
disclosed in this statement. The Henry County Alabama Probate Judge's
Office collects information from our users at several different
points on our website.
This policy may change from time to time so please check
back periodically.
Registration.
In order to use certain sections of our website, a user must first
complete the registration form. During the registration process
a user is required to give their contact information (such as name
and email address). This information is used to contact the user
about the services on our site for which they have expressed interest.
Through our site the Henry County Alabama Probate Judge's Office
will not collect any personally identifiable information about you
(e.g., your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address ("Personal
Information"), unless you voluntarily choose to provide it to us
(e.g., by registration). If you do not want your Personal Information
collected, please do not submit it to us. When you do provide us
with Personal Information, we usually use it to respond to your
inquiries that you request in which you the user have expressed
interest from us.
Non-Personal Information
Collected Automatically.
When you access the Henry County Alabama Probate Judge's Office
web site, we automatically (i.e., not by registration) collect the
information that is not personally identifiable (e.g., type of Internet
browser and computer operating system used; domain name of the Web
site from which you came; number of visits, the date and time of
your visit, average time spent, pages viewed). For your peace of
mind, a bit of an explanation of how this is done is as follows:
Web Site Information.
First of all, our web servers and security framework automatically
communicates with your computer or other form of access and certain
information is exchanged in order to facilitate your visit to our
web pages. Our servers and appliances automatically recognize your
domain name (in general terms this actually identifies the classification
of the Internet Service Provider through which you gain access to
the Internet). Examples of common domain types are: com, gov, edu,
mil, org, net, and so forth. The servers also identifies your host
name. Again, this is generally an identification of the Internet
Service Provider you use. None of the above information identifies
you as a specific person nor does it provide any phone numbers,
names, e-mail or postal addresses. In essence, we can identify where
you came from, in terms of internet access, but cannot determine
who you are or where you are specifically located. We get no personal
information of any kind. The above information is used for web site
security and management purposes only and can in no way be used
to identify you. Our Log files are used to analyze traffic and trends
as well as to analyze malicious use and attacks of our system as
well as track the user's movements. Our Log files are not linked
to any personally identifiable information however can be used in
the location and prosecution of malicious users.
"Cookies".
"Cookies" (not of the chocolate chip kind), are small bits of text
that are either used for the duration of a session ("session cookies"),
or saved on a user's hard drive in order to identify that user,
or information about that user. When you view one of the web sites
in the Henry County Alabama Probate Judge's Office, we may store
some information on your computer in the form of a "Cookie" to automatically
recognize you the next time you visit. "Cookies" can help us in
many ways, for example, by allowing us to manage our web site to
better match your interests or to save your password ("persistent
cookies") in secure password protected places so that you do not
have to re-enter it each time. If you choose not to be recognized,
please refer to your internet browser to erase "cookies" from your
computer hard drive, block all "cookies" or receive a warning before
a "cookie" is stored. You can still use our web site if you do not
accept the "cookies", but you may be unable to use certain "cookie"-dependent
features.
Voluntarily Provided
Information.
We collect no information on customers who visit our web pages.
However, if you elect to use some of the features of our pages,
then you will be voluntarily providing information to us. There
are only two ways in which this is done.
The first is via e-mail. Should you choose to send comments to us
or to use one of our e-mail links, then you will actually be sending
us an e-mail message. In the message header we will receive your
return e-mail address. We will use that return address to respond
back to you if a response is appropriate. Further, it is possible
that you might include personal information in your message to us.
If that is the case, we will use that information in responding
to you. The second way is that you might fill out a form on the
site which is then transmitted to us. If the form asks for information
covered by the Privacy Act, then the appropriate Privacy Act notice
will be included with that form. The information will be used only
for the stated purpose. Our general policy on Voluntary Provided
Information is that regardless of how we obtain information about
you, that information is never sold or provided to another source
for any purpose. You will never be contacted by us or anyone else
simply because you visited our site. We only contact you if you
ask us to do so or subscribe to our mailing list or site forms that
you will have filled out to provide us with the contact information.
Site Links.
The the Henry County Alabama Probate Judge's Office links to many
websites created and maintained by only the Henry County Alabama
Probate Judge's Office organization. The Henry County Alabama Probate
Judge's Office provides these links as a service to our users. We
have found that keeping only internal links maintains the level
of security that our users can feel comfortable with at all times.
Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices
of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they
leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every
web site that collects personally identifiable information. This
privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this
Web site.
Newsletter.
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact
information such as an email address.
Choice / Opt-out.
Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having their
information used for purposes not directly related to our site at
the point where we ask for the information. Users who no longer
wish to receive our newsletter may opt-out of receiving these communications
by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email or email
us at optout@henrycountyalabama.org.
Site and Service
Updates.
The Henry County Alabama Probate Judge's Office may also send the
user site and service announcement updates. Users are not able to
un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important
information about the service. We communicate with the user to provide
requested services and in regards to issues relating to their site
account via email or phone.
The Henry County
Alabama Probate Judge's Office Site Security.
The Henry County Alabama Probate Judge's Office takes all precautions
to ensure the security of your Personal Information and protect
it from loss, destruction, falsification, manipulation, and unauthorized
access or unauthorized disclosure. For site security purposes and
to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this
computer system / network employs commercial software programs as
well as appliances to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized
attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts
are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw
data logs are used for no other purposes and are scheduled for regular
destruction in accordance with National Archives and Records Administration
guidelines. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change
information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable
under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National
Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
Prohibitions.
The Henry County Alabama Probate Judge's Office will not link to
any website that exhibits hate, bias or discrimination. Furthermore,
any malicious attacks for the sole purpose of uploading a link to
our site will not be tolerated and prosecuted to the fullest extent
of the law.
A Last Thought.
As the Internet matures, so will our Privacy Policy. We will post
changes to our Privacy Policy on this page as soon as the commitment
has been made to alter any existing policy.
Point of Contact
for Privacy Policy Clarification.
For clarification or additional information you may contact the
Henry County Alabama Probate Judge's Office Privacy Disclosure Administration
Team. The postal address is:
Privacy Disclosure - Henry County Alabama Probate Judge
101 Court Square, Suite A
Abbeville, Alabama 36310
The phone number is:
(334) 585-3257 or
(334) 585-3371