CED Privacy Policy

This Statement of Privacy applies to the WILLCOUNTYCED.COM (The Will County Center for Economic Development) and governs data collection and usage.

By using the WILLCOUNTYCED.COM website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information


The Will County Center for Economic Development may collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, address, and telephone number. The Will County Center for Economic Development may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your Postal Code, preferences, interests and favorites.

Information about your computer hardware and software also may be automatically collected by WILLCOUNTYCED.COM. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This visitor data and traffic information is used by The Will County Center for Economic Development for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the WILLCOUNTYCED.COM website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through WILLCOUNTYCED.COM public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

The Will County Center for Economic Development encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from WILLCOUNTYCED.COM so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. The Will County Center for Economic Development is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of WILLCOUNTYCED.COM and The Will County Center for Economic Development family of websites.

Use of your Personal Information


The Will County Center for Economic Development collects and uses your personal information to operate the WILLCOUNTYCED.COM website and deliver the services you have requested. The Will County Center for Economic Development will send confirmation emails following registration to all registered patrons. We will also periodically send updates and newsletters to users.

The Will County Center for Economic Development may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from The Will County Center for Economic Development and its affiliates. The Will County Center for Economic Development may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services or products that may be offered.

The Will County Center for Economic Development does NOT sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. The Will County Center for Economic Development employs other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance and processing credit card payments. They may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use such information for other purposes.

The Will County Center for Economic Development does NOT collect, use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

The Will County Center for Economic Development keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within WILLCOUNTYCED.COM in order to determine what WILLCOUNTYCED.COM services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content within WILLCOUNTYCED.COM to users whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

The Will County Center for Economic Development website will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on WILLCOUNTYCED.COM; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Will County Center for Economic Development; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of WILLCOUNTYCED.COM , or the public.

Opting Out

You may opt-out of receiving our marketing emails by clicking on the opt-out link included in every marketing email we send. At any time, customers may discontinue receiving SMS offers by sending the SMS message “STOP” to the applicable shortcode, or by following other instructions provided by in the SMS message. Opting out from one particular offer source from WILLCOUNTYCED.COM will not apply to all communications from WILLCOUNTYCED.COM.

Use of Cookies


The WILLCOUNTYCED.COM website may use “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. It is used to store small amounts of information, which is collected for traffic analysis only. Cookies do not contain personal information; they only collect information about your “surfing” habits on the website of the provider of the cookie. They do NOT contain personally identifiable information. 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 WILLCOUNTYCED.COM pages, or register with WILLCOUNTYCED.COM site or services, a cookie helps WILLCOUNTYCED.COM 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 WILLCOUNTYCED.COM website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the WILLCOUNTYCED.COM features that you customized. The Will County Center for Economic Development and WILLCOUNTYCED.COM do not sell, give or trade the statistics they store to any third parties for data-mining or marketing purposes.

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 the The Will County Center for Economic Development’s services or websites.

Security of your Personal Information


WILLCOUNTYCED.COM secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. WILLCOUNTYCED.COM secures 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 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement


The Will County Center for Economic Development will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. The Will County Center for Economic Development encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how The Will County Center for Economic Development is protecting your information.

Contact Information

The Will County Center for Economic Development welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that WILLCOUNTYCED.COM has not adhered to this Statement, please contact The Will County Center for Economic Development at contactus@WILLCOUNTYCED.COM or at:

The Will County Center for Economic Development
203 N. Ottawa Street, Suite 100, Joliet, IL 60432

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