Website Privacy Statement

Information gathered will be used by the Ridgeland Tourism Commission (RTC). The RTC recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of all information provided by users of visitridgeland.org. We created the following guidelines with a fundamental respect for our users' right to privacy to guide our relationships with our users.

Information Collected by RTC
RTC collects information about users during their registration; their inquiries, their participation in certain activities on our Web site, including contests and polls; through the use of cookies. When users request pages from our server, our Web server automatically collects some information about the users, including their IP addresses. These addresses are used by computers on the network to send the requested pages to users.

Use of Information
Information will not be sold or distributed to outside third parties. RTC will not reveal email addresses that users provide to us to any third party without their permission.

Using e-mail addresses provided at registration or otherwise, RTC periodically sends out promotional e-mail to our users about services and products offered by RTC. Users can indicate that they do not wish to receive e-mail information from RTC by notifying info@visitridgeland.org. Third parties will not contact our users through the use of our e-mail lists.

The RTC utilizes users' IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. We also use it to gather broad demographic information about our users in general. This information does not contain anything that can identify users personally.

Our site uses cookies to deliver content specific to users' interests and to honor their preferences. This information is used to assist us in creating a site that will serve the needs of our users.

General RTC is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of Web sites to which it may provide links or the Web sites of its advertisers or clients.

RTC uses reasonable precautions to keep the personal information disclosed to us secure and to disclose such information only to responsible third parties after permission from the user.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site or your dealings with RTC, please feel free to contact us.