Privacy Policy
Effective Date: May 29, 2025
The East Lewis County Chamber of Commerce (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website https://elcchamber.org (the “Site”). Please read this policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data.
1. Information We Collect
We collect personal and non-personal information when you interact with our Site. This may include:
- Personal Information: Name, email address, phone number, business details, billing address, and payment details when you create an account, submit a listing, complete a form, or make a purchase.
- Technical Information: Your IP address, browser type, device information, and pages visited, which help us improve website performance and user experience.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information you provide to:
- Process payments and manage transactions.
- Display your submitted business listings in our directory.
- Respond to inquiries and provide support.
- Create and manage your user account and profile.Improve the
- functionality and content of our website.
- Send relevant communications about your account, membership, or listings.
- Comply with legal obligations.
3. How Your Information Is Shared
We do not sell your personal information. We may share information with trusted service providers who help us:
- Process payments securely.
- Host and manage the website and its content.
- Deliver email communications and notifications.
- Analyze website usage for improvement.
These third-party providers are only given the information necessary to perform their services and are obligated to keep it confidential.
4. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
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.
5. Third-Party Services
When you create an account or submit a listing:
- Your submitted business information may be published publicly in our directory.
- Only you (as the account holder) or a site administrator (us) can manage and edit your listings.
- Sensitive information such as passwords and payment details are not shared or displayed publicly.
6. Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
7. Contact Forms
When you submit a message through a contact form, we collect the data you provide to respond to your request. This information is not used for marketing purposes unless you explicitly opt in.
8.Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
9. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience on our Site. Cookies are small data files stored on your device. You can set your browser to refuse cookies, but some features of our Site may not function properly without them.
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.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
10. Data Security
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to secure your personal data. These include encryption, access controls, and secure payment processing through verified providers such as Squareup.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
11. Your Data Protection Rights
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.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their 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.
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.
12. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. Your continued use of the Site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.