Privacy Policy

Overview

This web site adheres to the privacy standards required by the United States of America, the State of Louisiana, and the City of West Monroe. By using our web site, you agree to the terms of our Privacy Policy. We encourage you to examine our Terms of Use and other legal notices.

Our Privacy Policy applies only to our web site. There may be links within our web site to resources located on other web sites or online sources; such resources are governed by the privacy policies of the third party, which is beyond our control.

We reserve the right to alter this Privacy Policy at any time, so please check this page from time to time. The following describes our privacy policy as of 11 April 2002.

Information Required for Browsing

Certain items of information are required to transfer data through the Internet (such as the domain and host from which you access our site, the Internet protocol address of the computer that you are using, your browser software, your operating system, the date and time you access our site, etc.).

The data collected is used for administrative purposes (such as measuring the number of visitors to the different parts of our web site, etc.). This data may be stored indefinitely, since a regular schedule for deleting this information has not yet been decided.

Although we do not expect to share this data with third parties, we reserve the right to do so (subject to applicable laws and regulations) should it become necessary (for example, to comply with a lawful court order, to verify or enforce the policies governing our web site, to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our web site, etc.).

Information Required for Correspondence

Certain items of information are required for correspondence. Some information (such as your e-mail address for e-mail correspondence, your telephone number for telephony, etc.) may be personally identifiable.

We reserve the right to collect and store this data. If this data is in fact collected, it may be stored indefinitely, since a regular schedule for deleting this information has not yet been decided.

If you want this information deleted immediately after the business of the correspondence has been concluded, please highlight this in your correspondence. If an exchange of correspondence is prolonged, such a note should be included in all correspondence.

Although we do not expect to share this data with third parties, we reserve the right to do so (subject to applicable laws and regulations) should it become necessary (for example, to comply with a lawful court order, to verify or enforce the policies governing our web site, to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our web site, etc.).

This web site does not knowingly collect personally-identifiable information from persons under thirteen (13) years of age. If you are under 13 years of age, do not send any personally-identifiable information to us. If we discover that a person under 13 years of age has provided this web site with personally-identifiable information, we will delete that person's personally-identifiable information.

Optionally-Provided Personally-Identifiable Information

We do not require personally-identifiable information beyond the minimums necessary (as described previously). If you choose to volunteer such information, we reserve the right to collect, store, and share such information (subject to applicable laws and regulations) even though we currently have no intention to do so.

This web site does not knowingly collect personally-identifiable information from persons under thirteen (13) years of age. If you are under 13 years of age, do not send any personally-identifiable information to us. If we discover that a person under 13 years of age has provided this web site with personally-identifiable information, we will delete that person's personally-identifiable information.

We do not use any forms of any sort to request personally-identifiable information, nor do we use electronic mailing lists or postal mailing lists.

Visitor Access to Personally-Identifiable Information

Due to the difficulties in authenticating the identities of visitors to our web site, we do not permit visitors to access personally-identifiable information regarding themselves or others.

Cookies

We do not use "cookies" in our web site.

Consent to Transfer

Our web site is operated in the United States of America. If you are located in the European Union or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that the information you provide will be transferred to the United States. By using our web site and/or providing us with your information, you consent to this transfer.

Security

No form of communication can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Although we take steps to secure the data you provide us, we can not ensure or warrant the security of any information that you send to us. Therefore, any information that you transmit to us is done so at your own risk.