Privacy Policy

This txcountyoffices.org Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes the information we gather from you when you use the Site, and related services (together, the “Services”) and how we use, process, and disclose that information.

Information We Collect from You Through Your Use of the Site

We collect personal data when you decide to contact us. We collect your email, name, address and other personal data you voluntarily decide to provide us when you are filling a web form on our Site. Our legal basis in processing of this personal data lies in our legitimate interest to provide you with our Site and provide you with answers to your comments, requests, or questions.

We automatically collect information about how you use our services, for example, pages you have viewed. We also collect certain technical information about your device including your Internet protocol address, geo-location information, your browser type, language and identifying information, your operating system and application version, device types, device model and manufacturer, device identifiers, and your device operating system type and version. Our legal basis lies in our legitimate interest to provide you with our Site, adapt it according to your hardware for the best user experience, diagnostic analytics to assess the number of visitors and network and information security and analyzing your satisfaction.

How we use your Personal Data

We may use your personal data for the following purposes:

Facilitate the creation of and secure our Site;
Identify you as a user in our Site;
Provide, personalize, and improve the Site;
Communicate with you about your use of the Site;
Fulfill your requests that you send us;
Protect, investigate, and prevent potentially fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activities;

Data Security, Retention and Transfer

Please be aware that your Personal Data may be processed in our operating offices located in the United States. However, your data will be processed in compliance with applicable data protection laws. We take all reasonable steps to protect the information we receive from you from loss, misuse, or unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and/or destruction. We have put in place appropriate physical, technical administrative and organizational measures to safeguard and secure your information, and we make use of privacy-enhancing technologies such as encryption. We ensure the ‘confidentiality, integrity and availability’ of our systems and services. However, no company can fully prevent security risks. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

We will retain your personal data as long as you are using our services, but not more than 3 years after you contacted us. This does not apply to technical data which is stored during sessions and deleted from time to time.

How txcountyoffices.org Uses Your Information

txcountyoffices.org generally uses your information to:

Facilitate the creation of and secure our Site;
Identify you as a user in our Site;
Provide, personalize, and improve the Site;
Communicate with you about your use of the Site;
Fulfill your requests that you send us;
Protect, investigate, and prevent potentially fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activities;

We may also use your information to verify your geographic location. We may use your geographic location data to personalize our Service, to recommend content, determine whether the information you have requested is available in your location. If Information is aggregated or de-identified so it is no longer reasonably associated with an identified or identifiable natural person, txcountyoffices.org may use it for any business purpose.

How txcountyoffices.org shares and discloses Your Information

We may share your information, including personal information, as follows:

Service Providers. We may rely on service providers to support or provide some of the services that are available through the Site. We may also rely on service providers to perform certain services for us in connection with your use of our Site, such as communications and hosting services, network security, technical and customer support, tracking and reporting functions, quality assurance testing,. and other functions. We may share information from or about you with these third party providers so that they can perform their services or complete your requests. These third party providers may share information with us that they obtain from or about you in connection with providing their services or completing your requests. Third party providers may also share this information with their subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control. Some of our web pages utilize framing techniques to serve content to you from our third party providers, while preserving the look and feel of the Site. In such cases, please note that the information you provide is being provided to the third party.
We may share data with our contractors and service providers, who act either as processor or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers. Purpose of processing – make our Site available to you and ensure its safe and smooth performance. Legitimate interest – to provide you with our Site, to execute our rights and enforce our Terms of Use.

We also disclose information in the following circumstances:

Business Transfers. If (i) we or our affiliates are or may be acquired by, merged with, or invested in by another company, or (ii) if any of our assets are or may be transferred to another company, whether as part of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding or otherwise, we may transfer the information we have collected from you to the other company. As part of the business transfer process, we may share certain of your personal information with lenders, auditors, and third-party advisors, including attorneys and consultants.
In Response to Legal Process. We disclose your information to comply with the law, a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena.
To Protect Us and Others. We disclose your information when we believe it is appropriate to do so to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Service or this Policy, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
Aggregate and De-Identified Information. We share aggregate, anonymized, or de-identified information about users with third parties for marketing, advertising, research or similar purposes.

Third-Party Advertisers and Links

We permit advertisements to be delivered to you by third-party Internet advertising companies (also called ad networks or network advertisers). These companies may use cookies, Web beacons, platform device identifiers, software agents, and other technologies to collect non-personally identifiable information about your visits over time on our Service and across other websites to deliver advertisements to you targeted to your interests, measure their effectiveness and personalize advertising content, and to understand the usage and visitation of the Services and the other applications and websites tracked by these advertising companies. We do not have access to or control over cookies, Web beacons, platform device identifiers, software agents, or other technologies that they may use. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third party advertisers. You should check the privacy policy of the third-party advertiser to determine how it handles information it separately collects from you. In addition, the Network Advertising Initiative offers information about some of the Internet advertising companies we may use.

Our policy towards children’s information

This Service is not directed to anyone under the age of consent. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of consent. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with Personal Information without their consent, he or she should contact us. If we become aware that anyone under consent has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our files.

To the extent that txcountyoffices.org’s processing of your personal information is subject to the General Data Protection Regulation, txcountyoffices.org relies on your consent, given through affirmative assent upon visiting the txcountyoffices.org Site, to process your information data. txcountyoffices.org may also process information that constitutes your personal information for direct marketing purposes and you have a right to object to txcountyoffices.org’s use of your personal information for this purpose at any time.

Information Choices

When you visit the Site, we and others give you the following choices about use of mechanisms for tracking, including tracking of your online activities over time and across different websites and online services by third parties. Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies from our Site or from third parties. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Site. To opt-out of Google Analytics web tracking for certain browsers, you can download Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You may opt out of other cookies that may be present on the Site by following the directions on Google’s opt-out page and Quantcast’s opt out page. You can also choose to opt-out of use of cookies by some of our third-party advertising partners to deliver ads tailored to your profile and preferences. However, while we and others give you choices as described in this policy, there are many ways in which Web browser signals and other similar mechanisms can indicate your choice to disable tracking, and our Site may not be aware of or honor every mechanism.

You may decline to share certain data with txcountyoffices.org, in which case we may not be able to provide you with some of the features and functionality of the Site or Service. You may have the right to know what personal information txcountyoffices.org has about you and to correct any inaccuracies.

EEA BASED DATA SUBJECTS RIGHTS

If you are data subject (individual) from the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom you have the following rights:

– Right to rectification.

– Right to limitation of processing.

– Right of access.

– Objecting to or restricting the use of personal data.

– The right to data portability.

You can execute your rights by sending a request.

You can exercise your rights by filing a written request containing as a minimum the following information: (1) name, postal address, email address and other data allowing identification of the respective natural person; (2) description of the request; (3) signature, date, correspondence address and mobile number.

Generally, we will provide the information free of charge. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

Upon the filing of a request by an authorized person, the notarised power of attorney must be attached to the request. In case of death of the natural person, his / her heirs exercise his / her rights and the certificate of heirs shall be attached to the request.

We will review and pronounce on the request within 1 month as of its filing. This period may be extended by further two months, if necessary. However, we will inform you about any delay and the cause of such delay. Where data does not exist or law forbids their provision, access to the requesting party to such data is refused.

If you are not satisfied with the response received and/or believe that your rights related to were violated, you are entitled to exercise your right to defense.

Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may revise the Policy. To help you stay current of any changes, we note the date the Privacy Policy was last updated above. Also, we will inform you about updates of our Privacy Policy in case you provided us with your contact data.

Dispute Resolution

If you believe that txcountyoffices.org has not adhered to this Policy, please contact txcountyoffices.org by e-mail at [email protected]. We will do our best to address your concerns. If you feel that your complaint has been addressed incompletely, we invite you to let us know for further investigation.

Cookies

We use cookies, Web beacons, and URL information to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the information for which you searched and which you viewed. Cookies are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing a website. We use necessary and security cookies to ensure smooth and safe use of our Site. We use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which usually stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Site. We also use cookies for data analytics purposes, including from Google Analytics. You can find more information on how Google uses data from these cookies at google.com/policies/privacy/partners. You should consult your web browser to modify your cookie settings. Please note that if you delete or choose not to accept cookies from us, you may be missing out on certain features of our Site. Web beacons are digital images that are used to log information on the Site or in our emails. We use Web beacons to manage cookies, count visits, and to learn what marketing works and what does not. We also use Web beacons to tell if you open or act on our emails.

Others, including third-party analytics service providers and advertising partners, may also collect personal data about your online activities over time and across different web sites when you use our Site, including as described in this Privacy Policy. This Policy does not apply to and we are not responsible for those other parties. Third-party analytics services may use cookies and web beacons through our Site (for example Google Analytics and Mixpanel) to provide us with information about how you use and interact with our Site. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third parties to learn about your choices about the information they collect from you.