MyStateUSA Online Privacy Notice
(last updated: January 21, 2008)

 
This Privacy Policy covers the Website www.mystateusa.com and affiliated extensions such as /edit and any other websites owned by MyStateUSA (the "Website"). Because we wish to demonstrate our commitment to our users' and customers'privacy, we will notify users of:
  1. What personally identifiable information MyStateUSA collects
  2. What personally identifiable information third parties collect through the Website
  3. What organization collects the information
  4. How MyStateUSA uses the information
  5. With whom MyStateUSA may share user information
  6. What choices are available to users regarding collection, use and distribution of the information
  7. What measures MyStateUSA takes to protect the information under its control
  8. How users can correct any inaccuracies in the information
This privacy statement covers only information that is collected through this Website, and does not cover information that may be collected through software downloaded from the site.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, please do not hesitate to contact MyStateUSA.


Information Collection & Use
MyStateUSA considers any information provided as sensitive information, and as such, respects and protects the information and your privacy. Parts of our site may allow you to enter personal information so that you can receive support or additional information from MyStateUSA. We advise that individuals under the age of 18 refrain from entering any personal information. In order to subscribe to AlertSense through this Website, you must first complete the registration form. During registration you are required to provide contact information (such as name and email address and cell phone or home phone). We use this information to notify you regarding the services you subscribed to receive. If you are an internal user or an administrator for an entity, the creation of a username and password is necessary to access the system for sending alerts and maintaining/creating users.

MyStateUSA is the sole owner of the information collected on www.mystateusa.com. We collect personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Website. This information will be kept secure and confidential.

MyStateUSA gathers only what information is necessary for completion of the text messaging and emailing service. Information is used solely for transmitting text messages and/or emails, and will not be sold or shared with any third parties. In addition, this Website may gather broad statistical information, including, but not limited to, number of website visits, page views,etc. While MyStateUSA may track site usage, this information/data is not transmitted to any users in particular. We will not use your cell phone numbers for or in connection with site statistics or usage ; your cell phone and home phone numbers will only be used for sending subscribed text-messages, emergency text-messages, or phone calls in emergency or threat to life and limb situations.

  1. Subscriptions. If you subscribe to our service, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our registration form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email,cell phone or home phone). MyStateUSA AlertSense is a free service, however, based on your cell phone provider plan, you may incur text messaging charges.
  2. Unsubscribe. All emails and text messages sent to you have a link or phone number,giving you the ability to unsubscribe from our free service at any time..
Information Sharing and Disclosure
  1. Personally identifiable information. We do not share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties.
  2. Service Providers. We use other third parties to provide certain other services on our Websites. When you sign up for these services, we will share personally identifiable information as necessary for the third party to provide that service. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
  3. Legal Disclaimer. We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website.
Log Files
As part of our efforts to provide a useful web site to our users, we do collect non-personal data regarding the referring site and the pages the user has visited. This data is not individualized, and there is no way for MyStateUSA to associate this data to any individual person. We gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp and clickstream data.

We use this information to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help" file.

We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords and to create a session state. If you reject cookies, you will not be able to use our site correctly.

Links to Other Sites
This Website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by MyStateUSA. Please be aware that MyStateUSA is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. MyStateUSA may provide links to other web sites. Those web sites are not bound to follow our policies, and we do not assume any liability if you choose to link to those sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Website that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Website and MyStateUSA.

Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may update it by making the change on our Unsubscribe links, Internal Users or Administrator Passwords page or by contacting us at the contact information listed below.

Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). We take data security very seriously, and have taken necessary precautions by hosting and storing our entire system out of Tier 1 data center(s).

If you have any questions about security on our Website, you can contact us at the contact information listed below.

Business Transitions
In the event MyStateUSA goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via prominent notice on our Website for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

These are our current privacy guidelines. As MyStateUSA offerings expand, this policy may change. We encourage you to check back from time to time to see if any changes have been made. To be deleted from the MyStateUSA database, please send an email to support@mystateusa.com.

Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us: By snail mail at:
    MyStateUSA
    1458 S. Eagle Flight Way
    Boise, ID 83709-3160
    By Telephone: 1.208.377.3160
    Emergency: 1.877.840.2041
    By E-Mail: help@mystateusa.com