We here at Maine Food Atlas greatly respect your privacy, and we hope that our users feel that the information they share with us is 100% secure and private. Here are the guidelines we follow at Maine Food Atlas to ensure your privacy and our integrity:
Passwords
The Maine Food Atlas staff will NEVER ask for your password. If someone does ask for your password or other info, please immediately notify us.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Maine Food Atlas is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on the website’s notification and alerts banner for a period of two weeks, so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
Final Notes
Maine Food Atlas will never, under any circumstances give away or display your IP address. Additionally, Maine Food Atlas will never sell or transmit e-mail addresses or any other personal identifiers to third parties.