Lake Sara Area Water Cooperative, Inc. Privacy Policy
Lake Sara Area Water Cooperative, Inc. (“Lake Sara Water Co-Op”) respects your privacy. We strive to use information to provide the best possible service while respecting the confidentiality of information we are entrusted with. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we may receive or collect when you use our services, as well as some of the methods we use to safeguard your personal information.
1. Collection of personal information
We collect personal information in order to establish your account, to handle billing and to understand your specific needs to serve you better. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable, such as your name, address, email address, credit card number or phone number.
2. How we use your information
The information Lake Sara Water Co-Op collects is used to comprehensively understand your needs and interests, and permits to deliver a more consistent and personalized experience. For example, Lake Sara Water Co-Op may use your information to:
Your information may be aggregated with other clients’ information on a purely non-identifiable basis to understand how our products are used to help make them better.
Credit card information is used solely for payment processing and fraud prevention efforts. Credit card information, and other sensitive personal information required to process a credit decision, is not used for any other purposes by us or our financial services providers and will not be retained any longer than necessary to provide your services, unless you request that we retain your credit card information to streamline your future purchases.
3. Policy on sharing your information
Lake Sara Water Co-Op will not sell, rent or lease your personal information to others. Lake Sara Water Co-Op may share personal information with companies working on our behalf and Lake Sara Water Co-Op-owned business entities for the purposes detailed above. In any such cases, however, we require that the companies or entities adhere to privacy standards and policies at least as restrictive as those Lake Sara Water Co-Op has in place.
We may have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to: (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or legitimate governmental request, (b) detect, prevent, or otherwise address suspected fraud, security or technical issues, (c) enforce any applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Lake Sara Water Co-Op, its users or the general public as required or permitted by law.
4. Sites covered by this Privacy Policy
The Lake Sara Water Co-Op website (www.lsawc.com) may from time-to-time link to third-party websites for your convenience and to provide easy access to additional useful information. Should you select such a link you will leave the Lake Sara Water Co-Op website. Lake Sara Water Co-Op does not control those sites nor their privacy practices, which may differ from Lake Sara Water Co-Op’s practices and policies. Any personal data you choose to provide to or that is collected by such third parties is not in any way covered by the Lake Sara Water Co-Op Privacy Policy. We recommend that you read over such website’s privacy policy before providing any personal information. A link to another website from Lake Sara Water Co-Op does not constitute an endorsement or representation about the value, quality or usefulness of anything found on that third-party website
5. Access to and accuracy of your information
Lake Sara Water Co-Op strives to keep your personal information accurate and up-to-date. Towards this goal we utilize various technology, management processes and policies. As part of our overall data accuracy initiative Lake Sara Water Co-Op provides you with reasonable access to your personal information so you may review and correct your information if needed. To safeguard your privacy and security, we will verify your identity through various means, such as by requiring a password and user ID, before granting access to your data.
We ask that you update your information as and when it changes so any information used to serve you remains as accurate as possible.
6. Keeping your information secure
Lake Sara Water Co-Op values your trust and takes it seriously. To prevent unauthorized access and disclosure, to maintain data accuracy, and to ensure the appropriate use of your information, Lake Sara Water Co-Op utilizes industry standard physical, technical and administrative procedures to safeguard any personal information we collect.
7. Changes to this policy
The world of technology changes quickly. If and when there are future changes to our Privacy Policy in response,
we will post them at www.lsawc.com.
8. Contacting us
We value your opinions and suggestions. Please email us at lsawc@mgengineers.com with any questions or concerns or alternately you can write to us at the following address:
Lake Sara Area Water Cooperative, Inc.
114 W. Washington Avenue
Effingham, IL 62401
(217)342-9658