Privacy Policy

This is how we will handle information we learn about you from your visit to our website. The information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting our site. Please note that we collect no personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide that information to us.

If you visit our site to read or download information such as career opportunities, press releases, or online databases, we collect and store only the following information about your visit:

  • The name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America    Online account) and the Internet Protocol (IP) address or host name which may or may not identify a specific computer.
  • The date and time you access our site.
  • The pages you visit.
  • The Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site.

These web access logs may be preserved indefinitely and used at any time and in any way necessary to prevent security breaches and to insure the integrity of the data on our servers. We generally do not collect information through the use of web browser cookies, unless noted on a particular web page. With the exception of web access and email log data that is collected from all visitors, we do not collect any information on-line from children.

If you send us E-mail:
You may decide to send us personally identifying information (for example, your mailing address) in an electronic mail message or web-based form requesting that information or products be mailed to you. Information collected in this manner is used solely for responding to your request unless noted in the specific web page where your request is made. We generally do not share this information with other government agencies, commercial and non-commercial entities, or the public unless noted on a particular web page. Any information that you provide us in an email may be subject to disclosure under a Freedom of Information Act request. We also retain an email log of the time each message is received by the server, the source and destination address of each message, the time each message is forwarded, the delivery status of each message, and a unique email identifier number. The email log may be retained up to 90 days.

For SITE MANAGEMENT, information from web access and email logs is collected for statistical purposes. This computer system uses software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

Security Notice
For SITE SECURITY purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic, to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, and to prevent denial of services attacks or other attacks intended to cause damage. Unauthorized modification of any information stored on this system may result in criminal prosecution.

Our website may contain links to various other organizations. Once you link to another site, please be aware that you are then subject to the privacy policies of the new site. Also, Essa Times is not responsible for the privacy practices employed by other sites that may link to the Essa Times website.