Privacy Policy
Our privacy policy is intended to keep you informed on the types of information we may collect during your visit, and the confidentiality of that information. We automatically collect non-personal technical information about your visit. In addition, we may collect some personal information, but not without your knowledge.
Technical Information
When you browse, read pages, or download information on our website, we may automatically gather and store certain technical information about your visit. This information never identifies who you are. The information we may collect and store about your visit includes:
- The Internet domain (e.g. “example.com”) and IP address (number assigned to your computer while you are online) from which you access our website
- The type of browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari) and operating system (Windows, Mac OS, Linux, etc.) used to access our site
- The date and time you access our site
- The pages you visit
- If you came to this website from another website, the address of that website.
This information is used to detect trends in technology and the methods people use to access our site. We may only analyze this data in a summary form, and cannot use this information to track your Internet usage or habits.
Cookies
Some websites generate pieces of text known as cookies, which are stored on your computer and accessed during subsequent visits. Some cookies collect personal information to recognize your computer in the future. The America’s Byways Resource Center website operates as a government website, and cannot perform such tracking; we only use non-persistent cookies or “session cookies.” These cookies are stored only in your computer’s memory and will be erased when you close your browser.
We use session cookies for technical purposes such as temporary storage of your responses to fill-in forms and improving navigation between pages on our site.
Accounts and Personal Information
Currently, there are no interactive features on our website that require visitors to register for a website account. Under normal circumstances, your personal information will not be viewable to the public on the website, except when:
- You are affiliated with a byway or other entity and are a source of information to the traveling public or other byway professionals.
- You hold the copyright to a photo, document, or other piece of information displayed on the website. In this case, your name may be displayed to provide proper credit.
Submission of Non-personal Information
In some instances, this website collects information such as travel information, photos, comments, traveler experiences, survey questions, discussion topics, etc. Again, we will not publish your name or e-mail address when displaying this information, except in cases where information is copyrighted and requires attribution. We also reserve the right to reject submissions if they are deemed inappropriate or of little value. This includes submissions to the Byways Portfolio section of the website.
Linking Policy
Our website links to many websites created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations, including the Federal Highway Administration’s National Scenic Byways Program’s site for the byway community: http://www.bywaysonline.org/ and its site for the traveling public: http://www.byways.org/. We provide these links as a service to our users. When users link to an outside website, they are leaving the America’s Byways Resource Center website and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners/sponsors of the outside website(s).
We will not knowingly provide links to any website that exhibits hate, bias or discrimination. Furthermore, America’s Byways Resource Center reserves the right to deny or remove any link that contains misleading information, unsubstantiated claims, objectionable or offensive material, or is determined to be in conflict with our mission or policies.
