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Privacy Policy
 

Privacy Policy for the Official Website of the Town of Brunswick, Maine

The official website of the Town of Brunswick, Maine is defined by the following domain names: www.brunswickme.org, www.brunswickpd.org, and brunswickfd.org.   Visitors to the Town of Brunswick website are advised that, with limited exceptions, information provided to, or collected by, the Town of Brunswick is considered a public record as defined in Title 1 of the Maine Revised Statutes Annotated (M.R.S.A.) Chapter 13.  As a service, the Town of Brunswick provides links to websites it does not control and visitors are advised to check the privacy policy of those websites.

Public Records - In General

With limited exceptions, information collected on the Town of Brunswick website, or in connection with the operation of the Town of Brunswick website, is considered and treated as a public record as defined in Title 1 of the Maine Revised Statutes Annotated (M.R.S.A.) Chapter 13.  Public records are open to inspection and may be copied and distributed to others.  Unless the information collected meets one of the exceptions to the public records provisions, there should be no expectation of privacy or confidentiality when providing information to, or utilizing the website of, the Town of Brunswick.

E-mail - Public Records

With limited exceptions, e-mails sent to elected or appointed officials, or to any employee or volunteer, of the Town of Brunswick are considered public records as defined in Title 1 of the Maine Revised Statutes Annotated (M.R.S.A.) Chapter 13.  Public records are open to inspection and may be copied and distributed to others in addition to the addressee.  Unless the e-mail meets one of exceptions to the public records provisions, there should be no expectation of privacy or confidentiality when sending an e-mail to any elected or appointed official, employee or volunteer, of the Town of Brunswick.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that a web server may ask your web browser to store on your computer, and send back to the web server when needed.  They are often used to store an identifier or other information in order to facilitate a transaction or customize a service.  They can also be used to track visits to a website.  The Town of Brunswick does not use cookies on its website.  However, when on-line registration programs offered by the State of Maine are utilized (e.g. Rapid Renewal, Snowmobile/ATV, etc.) visitors are directed to a website controlled by the State of Maine.  The State of Maine does use cookies and the State explains its use of cookies in its Privacy Policy.

Website Visitor Information Collected

In order to improve its website, the Town of Brunswick may collect some or all of the following information about visitors who view or download information from the Town's website:

Information
Definition
Date Date the visit occurred.
Time Time the visit occurred.
Client IP Unique Internet Protocol (IP) address of the website visitor.  The IP address recorded is normally that of a the visitor's Internet service provider.
Server IP Unique Internet Protocol (IP) address of the Town of Brunswick web server accessed.
HTTP Status Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) error code.
E.g., "404" Requested Page Not Found."
HTTP Request URL Identifies the web page or file requested by the website visitor.
Bytes Sent Amount of data sent from the web server to website visitor during that connection
Bytes Received Amount of data sent from the website visitor to the web server.
User Agent Type of web browser, operating system, and/or other client software that made the request to the web server.
Referrer Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that referred to the requested file.
Protocol Version Version of HTTP used by the visitor's web browser software.
Domain Name Domain name from which the Town's website was accessed.
Country Country from which the Town's website was accessed.
Query Terms Terms or words used to query the Town's website.
Linked From Another site that is/was linked to the Town's website.
File Name and Type File Name and Type requested.
Directory Directory visited.

The above information is used by the Town to improve its website.  It is not collected with the intention of identifying individual visitors.  However, visitors are advised that this collected information is a public record.  Further, the Town reserves the right to attempt to identify individual visitors should the Town determine that to be necessary.

 

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