Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how fayettetn.us (“we,” “our,” or “us”) collects, uses, and protects your information when you visit our website.

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://fayettetn.us. For any inquiries, you may contact us at:

Fayette County Mayor’s Office
P.O. Box 218
13095 North Main Street
Somerville, TN 38068

Information We Collect

Media

If you upload images to the website, avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract this data.

Cookies

  • Comments: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.
  • Login Page: We 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.
  • Login Information: Cookies are used to save login details and screen preferences. Login cookies last two days, while screen option cookies last a year. Selecting “Remember Me” extends login cookies to two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.
  • Article Editing/Publishing: A cookie stores the post ID of the edited article. It expires after one day.

Embedded Content

Articles may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you visited those websites directly. These external sites may:

  • Collect data about you
  • Use cookies
  • Embed additional third-party tracking
  • Monitor interactions with embedded content (including if you have an account and are logged in to the third-party site)

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect:

  • The data entered into the comments form
  • The visitor’s IP address
  • Browser user agent string (to help with spam detection)

An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be shared with the Gravatar service to check if you use it. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Approved comments, along with profile pictures, are visible publicly.

Event, Venue, and Organizer Information

When creating, submitting, importing, saving, or publishing event-related data, we may collect and store:

  • Venue Information: Name, address, city, state, postal code, phone, website, geographical coordinates
  • Organizer Information: Name, phone, website, email
  • Event Information: Website, cost, description, date, time, image

If events, venues, or organizers are imported, we may collect data from CSV, ICS files, or external URLs (e.g., Eventbrite, Meetup).

API Keys

We use APIs to enhance site functionality, including services like Google Maps. These services may collect associated credentials and usage data (e.g., email, Client ID, Client Secret).

How Long We Retain Your Data

  • Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely for follow-up purposes.
  • For registered users, personal information is stored in their user profile. Users can view, edit, or delete their personal data (excluding username changes). Administrators can also manage this information.

Your Rights Over Your Data

If you have an account or left comments, you can:

  • Request an exported file of personal data we hold.
  • Request deletion of your personal data, excluding data required for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through automated spam detection services.

Third-Party Services

  • CDN: This service may log visitor IP addresses, user agents, referrer, location, and ISP information for up to 7 days. Files and images served via CDN may be stored outside your country. Stackpath Privacy Policy.
  • Eventbrite Tickets: Purchaser and attendee information is managed and stored by Eventbrite.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to monitor website traffic and interactions. Google Analytics may collect:

  • IP addresses
  • User behavior patterns
  • Device and browser information

For more information, view Google’s Privacy Policy.

To opt out of cookies used by Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. This add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript from sharing information about visit activity.

Security

We implement industry-standard practices to protect your data but cannot guarantee absolute security. Data transmissions are at your own risk.

Changes to This Policy

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy as needed. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.

Thank you for visiting fayettetn.us.