ELA Privacy Notification:
The Echo Lakes Association (ELA) is a private nonprofit organization solely for the closed and limited community of Echo Lake, California. We share NO information with any other entities and have installed security measures to keep member’s information safe. ELA only collects voluntarily-supplied information for the purposes of payment of membership contributions and sending messages to specific cabin tracts or other groups of ELA members. ELA places a high priority on protecting your privacy. This privacy policy was developed to demonstrate ELA’s firm commitment to the privacy of our members and website users. This policy explains that types of information is collected by the ELA website www.echolakenews.org and how this information is used.
What Personally Identifiable Information is Collected
ELA members who register for www.echolakenews.org and individuals who sign up to receive ELA e-communications voluntarily provide ELA with contact information (such as name, cabin tract and email address). We may use this information for specific, limited purposes. You may always “opt out”, either now or at any time in the future, if you do not wish to receive our messages.
IP addresses
ELA uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer www.echolakenews.org and for statistical metrics used to track website visitor traffic.
Cookies
ELA’s www.echolakenews.org uses “cookie” messages to automatically help provide better services. They remind us who you are and your preferences for our website based on what you’ve done and told us before. The “cookie” is placed in your computer and is read when you come back to our website. Cookies let us take you to the information and features you’re particularly interested in. They also let us track your usage of www.echolakenews.org so we know which parts of our sites are most popular. You can reject cookies or cancel them by instructing your Web browser accordingly.
How Your Information May Be Used
We use your personal information to provide you with personalized service; to send e-mail alerts to you; to answer your requests; to process your membership application; etc. You may choose to opt out at any time, which will cease all communications from us. We may also use your information to track visitors to our website. This lets us see which of our features are the most popular so we can better serve our users’ needs. It also lets us provide aggregate data about our traffic (not identifying you personally, but showing how many visitors used which features, for example) to outside parties.
Email Privacy
ELA does not provide, sell, or rent email addresses to anyone outside the organization.
External Links
ELA’s www.echolakenews.org includes links to external websites. These links do not fall under the www.echolakenews.org domain, and ELA is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of external websites. Your use of any linked website is solely at your own risk.
Modifications
We may amend this privacy policy from time to time; please review it periodically. We maintain the option to modify this privacy at any time by electronic notice posted on our website. Your continued use of our website after the date that such notices are posted will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.
