Our Simple Privacy Policy: This statement of policy constitutes the privacy practices for the Georgia State Parks on the Air (GA-SPOTA) program, including its websites, emails, and postings on social media. The purpose of this policy is to disclose what personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used, and with whom it may be shared. Those involved in the GA-SPOTA program are the sole owners of the information collected on the program’s websites. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone. We only have access to or collect the information you voluntarily give us via email, file uploads, or other direct contacts. We will use your information to communicate with you and to disclose publicly the fact of and results of your participation.  You may opt-out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us at info@gaparks.org.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

Any data gathered from the Contest Registration Forms is shared only with members of the GA State POTA team.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Data gathered from the Contest Registration is kept on file indefinitely.

What rights you have over your data

If you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.