Website Privacy Information

Who we are

Websites in the colonielibrary.org domain are produced by staff members at the William K Sanford Library in Colonie, NY. The Library’s main website can be found at https://colonielibrary.org, and the Tech Tips Blog subdomain is https://techtips.colonielibrary.org.

Comments

Comments are not enabled on our websites.

Media

Users may not upload media to our websites.

Cookies

When patrons visit the Library’s websites, the Library collects and stores only information needed to measure the number of visitors to different areas of the site and to assist in making the site more useful. Anonymized website and computer usage data are separate from individual library patron account data. This privacy statement applies only to the library’s websites. These websites contain links to websites outside of colonielibrary.org that may have different privacy practices.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on our websites may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

Google Analytics uses cookies to gather information about our sites’ usage and users. Google’s privacy policy can be found here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. We retain and share no other data.  

How long we retain your data

Data remains in Google Analytics indefinitely. Online form submissions are purged after they are processed.

Rights you have over your data

If you would like to opt out of Google Analytics, please visit this page to learn about a browser add-on made for this purpose: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Where your data is sent

Google Analytics is the only partner with access to user data from our websites.

More information about privacy and the library

For more information about how the library uses patron information, please see the following policies:

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