Privacy Notice and Policies
Village of Fredericksburg
The Village of Fredericksburg recognizes the importance of privacy to website visitors. We collect the minimum amount of information necessary to serve our visitors and to provide the best website experience. We will not collect personally identifiable information about you when you visit our website unless you voluntarily provide information. [See Section I]. This privacy notice applies only to public sites and services provided by the Village of Fredericksburg.
The Village of Fredericksburg may be required to disclose personally identifiable information voluntarily submitted to us or in response to requests for information pursuant to Ohio’s Public Records Act, RC 149.43. [See Section III for more information.]
I. What We Collect:
When you access https://fredericksburgohio.org/, we may gather information in the following ways:
• Information collected automatically. When you view pages on our website https://fredericksburgohio.org/, some of your information is automatically collected. This information may include:
o Internet protocol (IP) address of the individual computer (or proxy server)
making the request
o Type of internet browser or computer operating system you are using
o Date and time you accessed the website
o Webpages visited on the site
o Internet address of the website from which you may have linked to this site.
This information is aggregated and is used to analyze users’ trends and statistics to help us improve our website. It may also be used to identify and respond to threats to our network.
• Information voluntarily submitted. The Village of Fredericksburg may collect additional information if you voluntarily provide it by filling out any online forms or submissions, requesting information, submitting questions or comments via email, registering for a subscription email, or participating in our live chat. The type of information varies by transaction. Unless the online form specifically asks for it, users should exercise caution when submitting sensitive information such as:
o Social security number;
o Driver’s license number;
o Medical information;
o Financial account numbers (ex: bank account numbers);
o Credit or debit card numbers;
o Personal Identification Numbers and Passwords.
II. Sharing information
We will only share personal information for the following reasons, which may include sharing data with other parties as necessary to fulfill your request or remain in compliance with the law:
• To respond to your request and answer questions or process your request as efficiently as possible;
• To provide the product or service you have requested, including sharing information with other entities if they are in a better position to respond or if disclosure to the other entity is necessary to provide the product or service;
• To fulfill the duties charged to the Village of Fredericksburg;
• To assist law enforcement in investigating complaints, prosecuting cases, or coordinating law enforcement efforts;
• To fulfill requests pursuant to Ohio’s Public Records Act, RC 149.43;
• For any other reason if the information is believed to pose threat of harm to people, property, systems, or is believed to be a violation of a law;
• For any other reason with your written consent.
III. Public Records
The Village of Fredericksburg is required to adhere to Ohio Public Records Law. Therefore, information submitted, both automatically and voluntarily as described above in Section I, through our website may be disclosed pursuant to a public records request.
Once information is produced pursuant to a public records request, it is no longer protected by this Privacy Notice, and any future dissemination of the information is at the sole discretion of the records requestor.
IV. Cookies
Village of Fredericksburg uses “log files” and “web cookies” to capture generic, Internet user information each time a request is made to view a page within this site. A cookie is a small text file, not a program, which is saved on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies do not disclose your name or e-mail address to a website. They can only tell a website if you have visited before and can pass short bits of information from the website back to itself the next time you visit.
The Village of Fredericksburg may use cookies in the following ways:
• To help you to conduct online transactions;
• To help process data submitted to us;
• To maintain your connection to our services; and/or
• To perform statistical analyses on website usage to understand how people are using the website and how we can improve it.
If you disable cookies, you can still use the Village of Fredericksburg’s website, but your ability to use some areas or functions of the website may be limited.
V. Outside links
We might provide links to other organizations through our website. These links are for informational purposes only. In providing these links, we do not endorse the content, products, services, or viewpoints of any external websites. When you link to another site, you are no longer on our website and this privacy notice does not apply. When you link to another website, you are subject to the privacy policy of that website.
VI. Access and Dispute of Information:
In certain cases, you have the right to access the records our office maintains about you, and you also have the right to correct or request these records be deleted in certain cases. Under sections 1347.08 and 1347.09 of the Ohio Revised Code, individuals have access rights to their information maintained in personal information systems. “Access rights” means you have the right, with limits, to inspect, correct, and dispute such information.
For record-keeping systems not covered by chapter 1347 of the Revised Code, we will work with you to give you the opportunity to inspect, correct or dispute information, if any, about yourself in other records system we maintain, subject to restrictions or limits in Ohio law.
VII. Disclaimer of Warranties:
The information, materials and services provided on or via our website are provided “AS IS” without any warranties of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of compliance with applicable laws, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of third-party rights including intellectual property rights. The Village of Fredericksburg does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the materials or services on or via this Site. The Village further does not warrant that its website, its servers, or email sent from the Village of Fredericksburg are free of viruses or other harmful components.
VIII. Limitation of Liability:
Under no circumstances shall the Village of Fredericksburg be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive or special damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, those resulting from lost profits, lost data or business interruption) arising out of the use, inability to use of, or errors or omissions in the contents or functions of its website, even if the Village of Fredericksburg or an authorized representative thereof has been advised of the possibility of such damages. If your use of the materials, information or services from this website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment or data, you assume all costs thereof.
IX. Contact:
If you have any questions concerning the privacy policy for the sites and services provided by the Village of Fredericksburg, please contact the Village of Fredericksburg’s Office at 330-695-3606.
Revised: April 12, 2024.