Central New York Regional Transportation Authority Privacy Policy Statement
Welcome to the Central New York Regional Transportation Authority
(CNYRTA) web site. This statement provides the CNYRTA's privacy policy on
information that is collected through this web site and the use of that
information.
In General
The CNYRTA may use the technical information as such terms are defined
below, it collects for management and promotion of CNYRTA and/or other regional
transit services or to administer fare media programs. In the event that CNYRTA
determines in its sole discretion that it is necessary to disclose this
technical information to third-party contractors or other regional
transportation agencies for the management and promotion of CNYRTA and/or other
regional transit services, or to administer fare media programs, those third
parties and other regional transit agencies will be required to follow this
privacy policy. CNYRTA will not sell
or disclose your technical information for any other purpose without your
written consent, unless we are required by law to disclose such technical
information about you.
Information Collected
During Your Visit To This Web Site
The CNYRTA is the sole owner of the information collected on this
site, www.centro.org. The CNYRTA automatically collects information from its
customers at several different points on the web site. The information that CNYRTA
automatically collects includes, but is not limited to Personal Information
(defined below) and Technical Information. By
using our services and accessing our site, you are consenting to the information
collection and use practices described in this statement, as modified from time
to time by us without further notice. If we change our privacy policy, we will
post a new statement on our site and change the date indicated at the bottom of
the statement. Therefore, we encourage you to check the date of our privacy
policy statement whenever you visit this site for any updates or changes.
Personal Information
If you provide CNYRTA with personal information, then we reserve the
right to collect that information.
Personal Information is defined as information that can be used to identify you
individually, such as your name, address, telephone number, or email address. This information may be collected
when you provide it to us which, for example, could occur when it is contained
in an email, if you submit the information when ordering various fare media and
other goods offered on this site, by your participation in our online surveys,
or when you apply for employment with the CNYRTA.
CNYRTA employees will have access to your personal information bu such
access is only for legitimate business purposes.
CNYRTA will endeavor to protect the confidentiality of your personal
information.
Please see below for additional information explaining the different
forms of Personal Information and how we may collect and use your Personal
Information.
Technical Information
We automatically collect and store Technical Information about your
visit to our site including: (1) the name of the domain and host from which you
access the Internet; (2) the type of browser software and operating system used
to access our site; (3) the date and time you access our site; and (4) the pages
you visit on our site. The Technical Information collected will not personally
identify you.
Please see below for additional information explaining the different
forms of Technical Information, including the use of “cookies”, and how we may
collect and use your Technical Information.
E-mail Address
If you send us an e-mail with questions or comments or subscribing to
receive notifications of newly available information regarding pertinent CNYRTA
transit services by e-mail or wireless enabled device, the CNYRTA may use your
e-mail address and other personal information (defined in Personal Information)
included in your correspondence to improve the content of our web site, to
provide you with pertinent information regarding CNYRTA transit services or to
respond to your correspondence. Your e-mail address will only be used to deliver
the requested information unless you agree to additional e-mail notifications.
If you provide your e-mail address to receive notifications such as Centro
Alerts, CNYRTA will use your e-mail address to send you the type of information
for which you provided it.
Surveys
From time to time the CNYRTA may conduct online surveys that customers
will be invited to complete on a voluntary basis. Information collected through
the surveys will be used for the purpose of marketing or planning CNYRTA
services only unless you expressly agree otherwise.
Security
Please be aware that information that you send to us by e-mail is not
necessarily secure. You should avoid
including sensitive information such as your credit card numbers or bank account
numbers on e-mails that you send to us. The CNYRTA will not be
responsible for the protection of such sensitive information.
Employment Related
Information
If you are interested in CNYRTA employment you can apply online and
submit information regarding past work experience. This information will be used
only for evaluating an applicant's qualifications for a position with CNYRTA.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that a web site can place on your
computer's hard drive in order, for example, to collect technical information
about your activities on the site or to make it possible for you to use an
online shopping cart to keep track of items you wish to purchase. The cookie
transmits this information back to the web site's computer that, generally
speaking, is the only computer that can read it. You may set your web browser to
warn you whenever a site attempts to place a cookie on your computer or refuse
to accept cookies. The CNYRTA will use cookies collected during your visit to
this site for the purpose of facilitating your use of our site and for
maintaining statistics concerning use of our site that will help us make
improvements. Technical information collected by cookies will not be linked to
your personal information.
Profile
We store technical information that we collect through cookies and log
files to create a profile of our customers. The profile information is used to
improve the content of the site, to perform a statistical analysis of use of the
site and to enhance use of the site. Technical information stored in a profile
will not be linked to your personal information.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that the
CNYRTA is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We encourage
our customers to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy
statements of each web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site.
Notification of Changes
CNYRTA reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy
without notice, it will display any changes to this privacy policy to this web
site 30 days before the changes become effective. If we decide to change this
privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy policy statement on
the homepage and other pages we deem appropriate so our customers are always
aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what
circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
How to Contact Us?
If you have any questions about our privacy policy statement or our
use of your information you can e-mail us at
cnyrta@centro.org.
Special Notice
Effective Date of this version of CNYRTA's Privacy Policy: January,
2010.
Use of this site signifies your acceptance of
CNYRTA Web
Site Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.
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