Privacy Policy - Pennsylvania Propane Gas Association

Pennsylvania Propane Gas Association Privacy Policy

The Pennsylvania Propane Gas Association (“PAPGA”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy and providing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. We offer a range of services to help you and others explore, interact, and learn about the world of propane in new ways.

This Privacy Policy applies to the PAPGA website (https://papropane.com/) and governs data collection and usage. By using our website, you consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy.

COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

PAPGA from time to time collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address, or telephone number. We also collect anonymous demographic information that is not unique to you, such as ZIP code, age, and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected for the website. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by PAPGA to maintain and customize website content, and to provide general statistics regarding use of our website.

INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US

When you access the Members Only, Pay Invoice or PAC Donation Areas, you provide us with information that may include your name, company, address, country, phone and email. You can also choose to add additional information.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We do not share your personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of PAPGA except for trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis or process payments. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

PAPGA does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

PAPGA keeps track of the websites and pages members and consumers visit within the website. We share non-personally identifiable information with our members to show trends about the general use of our website. This data is used to deliver customized content and provide marketing initiatives-based on user’s behavior within our website.

We will share information outside of PAPGA if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to: (a) meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request; (b) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; and (c) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety or PAPGA, our users, or the public as required or permitted by law.

FOR EXTERNAL PROCESSING

We provide personal information to our affiliates and other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. For example, we use trusted service providers to process credit card payments.

LINKS AND INTEGRATED PARTNERSHIPS

This website contains links from and to other websites. PAPGA has no control over and assumes no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services outside of our website. We encourage our users to be aware of this when they leave our website and strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and/or statements of every site you visit to understand how those websites collect, use, and share your information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by PAPGA’s website.

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We secure the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol.

MEASURE PERFORMANCE

We use Google Analytics to understand how our website is used.

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

USE OF COOKIES

PAPGA’s website uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize any PAPGA pages or register with the PAPGA site, a cookie helps to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same PAPGA website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our website.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our services do not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware your child or children provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

PAPGA may change this Privacy Policy time to time. We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Policy to be informed of how we are protecting your information. The continued use of our website following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

CONTACT INFORMATION

PAPGA welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe we have not adhered to this Privacy, please contact PAPGA at 908 N. 2^nd Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102, 717-441-6040. We will use reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.