Catskill WoodNet (“CW”) is a member-based group of sawmills, woodworkers and other wood related businesses from New York's Catskill Mountain Region. CW provides www.catskillwoodnet.org (“the site”) without expressed or implied warranty outside those expressed below. CW provides the content and functionality for the expressed use of its users and members. Both CW and the site are administered by the Watershed Agricultural Council, Inc.
Collection of Information
In order to improve the content and usability of this website, the site automatically collects several categories of information from users during their visit(s). This information includes the following:
- The apparent Internet Protocol ("IP") address of your Internet Service Provider ("ISP") and/or your computer, if your computer has an IP address assigned directly to it.
- The apparent Fully Qualified Domain Name ("Domain Name") of your Internet Service Provider ("ISP") and/or your computer, if your computer has a domain name assigned directly to it.
- The type of browser (such as, for example Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.) used and the operating system of a user's computer. Information collected is based on information and content provided to CW by such software and systems.
- The date and time a user visited the site.
- The web pages accessed at the site, as well as any applications used and forms data.
- The Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") of the site which a user visited prior to a user’s visit to the site (if detectable), if such user did not connect directly to the site, or use it as a homepage.
CW uses this information to identify site performance needs; to ensure compatibility with the technology used by the site's visitors, and to generally add and improve services offered on the site. In order to accomplish those goals, from time to time, CW may conduct statistical analysis of the data it collects.
CW does not collect data for commercial purposes, and CW does not sell, exchange or otherwise distribute the data collected by the site for commercial purposes.
Information Submitted
During a session on the site, a user may affirmatively submit information to CW by, among other means, electronic mail ("e-mail"), by filling in and submitting an on-line form, or by requesting an account. Such affirmatively submitted information is stored in a secure environment, and will be used by CW in furtherance of its duties and/or obligations to its users and/or members.
Affirmatively submitted information may include, but is not limited to, the following:
- Helping CW respond to a request for information not readily available from the site.
- Investigating a problem reported to CW via the site.
- Keeping lists of parties interested in some particular issue or facet of CW that CW anticipates issuing further information in the future.
CW does not rent or sell personally identifiable information (i.e., information such as name, address, phone number, e-mail, etc., that identifies a user as a particular person), nor would CW exchange or trade such information with third-parties without a user's explicit permission.
If a user has elected not to receive further information from CW, the site will not send such information. If a site user has elected to receive further communication from CW, The site will only send information in categories that have been authorized. If the site sends electronic mail ("e-mail") to a user, such e-mail is NOT confidential, and is identical in nature to that information generally available to the public and news media.
Security
In certain instances, a user may have the opportunity to receive or create a password to access or submit personally identifiable information. One should not divulge a password to anyone, and CW will never ask a user for a password in a telephone call, fax, e-mail or other form of unsolicited communication. When a user is finished with an application or applications that are password protected, such user should exit the relevant page(s). If the browser used to access said password protected pages is a publicly-accessible browser, users should close down the entire session and, if applicable or possible, flush any temporary caches or other areas where such a password might be stored subsequent to use.
CW has integrated industry standard or better security measures and systems into the design, implementation and day to day operation of the site and its underlying servers and networks.
Cookies
This website generally does not use "persistent cookies." Cookies are text files, or entries in larger files, utilized to distinguish between visitors to a website, and to track information during multiple visits to a website. CW uses "temporary cookies" on some parts of the site, and such temporary cookies expire upon the end of the browsing session. If a user registers to use the site, CW may use a persistent cookie to facilitate such customization.
Rejecting and/or removing cookies may lead to loss of functionality on those pages requiring cookies to function fully. Additionally, if a user has created an account, the site will create a cookie that contains the user's unique identifier and indicator for any custom functionality.
Children
No applications on the site specifically solicit information from minors or seek to determine whether the visitor is a minor. Consequently, because such information will not be specifically identified as being from minors, users of the site should be aware that personally identifiable information submitted to the site by minors will be subject to being treated in the same manner as information given by an adult.
Third Party Links
The site provides links to, and may be linked from, local, State and federal government agencies, and from, or to, other websites. The existence and/or provision of those links neither constitutes nor implies endorsement of the destination or departure website(s) or of the content, viewpoint, accuracy, opinions, policy(ies), product(s), accessibility or privacy policy of said destination or departure website(s). Nor does any link between the site and a third-party website imply sponsorship of such website, or the creator of such website.
Some content on portions of the site resides on servers run by third parties. Each agency providing content for the site is bound by the site's privacy policy. Any agency using a third-party host, ISP, ASP or other combination of third-party transport, storage, content or application provision services shall be responsible for such third party's compliance with the site's privacy policy.
Intellectual Property
The content of the site's webpages is copyrighted, and contain some third party images/graphics that are used with permission. Users are notified, therefore, that one should presume the need to obtain permission from the copyright holder before reproducing or otherwise using images/graphics from this website.
The site may change this policy from time to time, and reserves the right to do so without notice.