Privacy Statement for USACOPS

USACOPS has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: USACOPS.

Information This Site Gathers/Tracks

USACOPS makes webpages for Law Enforcement Agencies and Officers in the United States. We use public contact information (like names, addresses, and telephone numbers) to construct the webpages. Agencies and Officers may voluntarily add to, modify or construct their USACOPS webpage by filling out a form and/or directly supplying us with department information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, photos, text, links, emails and/or other information to be placed on their USACOPS webpage. This information is used only to construct, update or maintain a department's webpage on the website. USACOPS will not sell, rent or lease this information.

Visitors to the site may voluntarily fill out and submit a revision form or send us an email to inform us of incorrect information (like names, addresses, telephone numbers, etc) for agencies on the site. USACOPS will not sell, rent or lease this information.

We normally send a reply back to the email address used to submit the form or email to let the individual know the addition or update to the website has been completed or to follow up with any questions we may have in regards to the submitted information.

Forms used by website visitors to submit department updates, additions or revisions are provided by Jotform Inc. To learn more about their Privacy Policy, please go here.

Use of the Information this Site Gathers/Tracks

Our web site logs IP addresses, but we do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. A user's session will be tracked, but the user will be anonymous. This helps us diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. We collect and store statistics about the online activities of our visitors on a collective basis. We use this information on an aggregated basis to collect broad demographic information about user trends, count the number of users of our services, to provide advertising services and to continue to enhance and improve our site.

We use the information and materials voluntarily submitted to us by Agencies and/or Officers to construct/maintain their USACOPS webpage and to verify information that was submitted. USACOPS values your privacy. We will not sell, rent or lease this information.

We use the information from the revision forms voluntarily submitted to us by visitors to correct and/or update agencies on the site and to verify information that was submitted. USACOPS values your privacy. We will not sell, rent or lease this information.

Relationships

USACOPS maintains special relationships, such as our email service "Powered by Everyone.net", with various strategic partners and companies. These partners and companies may gather additional information from you; USACOPS sometimes has access to some or all of the information, and the partner's use of the information is not within our control. USACOPS is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. USACOPS shall have no responsibility or liability if these partners or companies contact, or permit a third party to contact or provide or disclose User's Registration Data to any third party.

We utilize the services of Jobvertise to provide a job board for users to view/post jobs. To view their Terms of Service / Privacy Policy, please go here.

Forms used by website visitors to submit department updates, additions or revisions are provided by Jotform Inc. To learn more about their Privacy Policy, please go here.

Links and Linked Sites

This site contains links to other sites. USACOPS is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Security

All reasonable care is taken by our staff in handling your personal information to ensure its security both offline and online. The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Cookies

You may be served cookies from our partners, advertisers or advertising agencies while visiting our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party partners or advertisers.

This website uses online forms by JotForm Inc for website visitors to submit department updates, additions or revisions. To learn more about their cookies and Privacy Policy, please go here.

Anonymous visitor statistics cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called "analytics" programs also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

We use Webalizer to collect information about how many users we have and which pages they visit. This program collects your Internet Protocol (IP) address as part of that process but is otherwise not user specific. An IP address may also be used to block an individual or group from trying to use the site inappropriately, and we reserve the right to do so. Webalizer website: http://mrunix.com/webalizer/

USE OF AWSTATS AS WEB ANALYSIS SOFTWARE
We use AWStats to keep track of web site visit statistics. It works on the server side, analyzing web server logs, and does not use cookies.

AWStats is used to analyze website visitor statistics to identify potential pitfalls; not found pages, search engine indexing issues, which contents are the most appreciated.

AWStats is processing the following data:

IP address
And also:

Date and time
URL of the page being viewed
URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page
User Agent of the browser
The processing of personal data with AWStats is based on legitimate interests.

AWStats does not use HTTP cookies or JavaScript code from the visitors' browsers. These data (log files) cannot be assigned to specific persons and these data will not be combined with other data sources. The program is installed on the hosting package.

The AWStats program is an open source project. Information from the third party provider on data protection can be found at https://www.awstats.org.

This website uses Google Analytics - you can opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics (we'd prefer you didn't though as this data is seriously helpful to us in improving our website). To learn more on how Google manages data, please go here.

This site also uses Google Adsense / DoubleClick which uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Please visit this page which explains how Google manages data in its ads products.

We use Google Adsearch on this website. To learn more on how Google manages data, please go here.

Opting Out: Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the the DAA opt-out program or the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.

If you wish to block other cookies, including those being served by companies that are not part of the NAI or the DAA you can use the browser-level cookie controls.

The "Help" portion of the toolbar on most web browsers may tell you how to prevent your web browser from accepting new cookies, how to have your web browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable cookies altogether. By disabling cookies altogether, however, you will not be able to take full advantage of some of USACOPS.com's features or the website may not function properly, we therefore recommend that you leave cookies turned on, or at least instruct your web browser to make an exception for cookies sent to you by USACOPS.com.

To learn more about cookies and how to control and disable cookies, please visit the Cookies & You website.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact

webmaster@usacops.com