Privacy Policy
COMMITMENT TO PRIVACY
The National Fried Chicken Festival (NFCF) is committed to maintaining the privacy and security of any collected confidential or highly sensitive personal information. This policy has been adopted to address the collection, use, and dissemination of personal information by NFCF. This policy is subject to change over time, as the technologies utilized to provide services via the Internet continue to develop and evolve. Despite changes in technology, any alterations to this policy will not affect the NFCF’s commitment to privacy.
GENERAL STATEMENT
This policy applies to all information digitally collected by or submitted to NFCF. NFCF receives information via two primary methods:
- Information is collected automatically via websites
- Information is voluntarily provided by the user to receive information and/or services (via web forms and email).
AUTOMATIC COLLECTION
If a user has not taken specific steps to anonymize their personal web traffic (e.g. apply mechanisms such as the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on that disable the collection of data for analytical purposes), official NFCF websites may collect certain information automatically. This information includes, but is not limited to:
- User’s Internet protocol (IP) address
- Internet service provider
- Operating system
- The time and date of the visit
- Browser
- The site from which the user visited
- Cookie information (if applicable)
- Direct Contact Information
VOLUNTARY SUBMISSION
In order to provide information and/or services, NFCF may request users to provide personal data, some of which may be personally identifiable information. Information such as name, date of birth, email address, etc. can be collected via voluntary submission of an email or web form or other technology enlisted by NFCF.
INFORMATION USE
Website information that is gathered automatically is utilized to improve the understanding of how NFCF.-provided websites are being leveraged by the user community. For example, we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses “cookies” (i.e. files used to track website activity) to determine how users navigate NFCF site. Google uses this cookie data for various purposes, including the evaluation of website use, reports on website activity, and other services. Please visit the following pages for more information on Google Analytics’ terms of use and Google’s privacy practices.
NFCF uses cookies (beyond cookies utilized by Google Analytics), which enable NFCF to further tailor its web services to the needs of the user community. Cookie data assists the University in improving both web content and distribution. Users have the right to refuse the use of cookies by implementing technical configurations in their web browsers; however, functionalities of certain sites may be impacted if such configurations are implemented.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or if you would like to report an issue or complaint, please contact the NFCF team at [email protected].