Benton Amateur Radio Society Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the Benton Amateur Radio Society (BARS) website and reviewing this privacy policy. The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform you of what kinds of information we may gather about you when you visit the website and how we may use that information. This Privacy Policy Statement discloses the privacy practices for www.k5ne.org.

Should you have any questions or concerns about the BARS Website Privacy Policy Statement and use of personal information, please feel free to contact me by e-mail at webmaster@k5ne.org.

We periodically summarize and analyze these log files to learn how visitors use content on the site. This information is used to allocate resources effectively and to improve the content, organization and performance of the site. This process does not collect, store or use personally-identifying information such as name, address, telephone number or e-mail address.

Collection and Release of Gathered Information
It is our policy to collect only that personally-identifying information (such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number) that visitors to the BARS website knowingly and voluntarily provide by entering a message in the Contact Us section on the website. If you do provide personally identifying information, that information will be used by us to conduct the requested action.

The Benton Amateur Radio Society is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share or rent this information to others, period. We do not collect, save or store such personally-identifying information from web visitors who just browse through the website without completing and e-mailing any forms, and we do not attempt to identify users or share user information with any parties outside of the BARS website, except as described above, in the event of a suspected attempt to deliberately circumvent the system's security with the intent to gain unauthorized access to or to do physical damage (for example, an attack by hackers), and as required in the course of officially authorized law enforcement investigations.

Electronic Mail
When you send personal identifying information via e-mail (that is, in a message containing a question or comment, or by filling out a form that e-mails this information), we use it to respond to your requests only. We do not distribute lists of e-mail addresses to any other parties. In no event, will we distribute lists of e-mail addresses to any outside parties. Information collected via e-mail will be retained at our discretion in a directly readable form as long as necessary to complete our response. The BARS website utilizes verification procedures for both e-mail and SMS subscription services in order to prevent unauthorized enrollments.

As a service to our visitors, we maintain an e-mail list of users that wish to receive our newsletters and/or receive bulletins and announcements. This is a double opt-in system requiring you to verify your e-mail address and your intention to join the e-mail list. You can opt-out at any time and your e-mail address will be removed from our system. This list is used only for the distribution of our newsletters, bulletins and announcements and will never be distributed to outside parties.

SMS Messaging Service
As a service to our members and visitors, the Benton Amateur Radio Society (BARS) maintains an optional SMS (Text Messaging) notification service. Participants may elect to receive meeting reminders, event notifications, and other club-related announcements on their mobile phones.

Enrollment in the SMS Messaging Service requires the user to voluntarily provide a mobile telephone number through the BARS website. Participation is entirely optional.

To protect against unauthorized subscriptions, BARS utilizes a verification process requiring confirmation from the mobile device before service is activated. If confirmation is not completed, no SMS messages will be sent.

Mobile telephone numbers collected for the SMS Messaging Service are used solely for the purpose of delivering BARS-related text messages and administering the service. BARS will not sell, rent, share, distribute, or disclose mobile telephone numbers to third parties for any reason.

Participants may discontinue SMS service at any time by replying STOP to any BARS text message or by using the online opt-out process available on the BARS website.

For assistance regarding the SMS Messaging Service, participants may reply HELP to a text message or contact the BARS Webmaster at webmaster@k5ne.org.

Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you subscribe to or un-subscribe from our mailing list.

The BARS Mail List Manager uses First-Party-Cookies only to track subscriptions while you subscribe to or un-subscribe from our mailing list. The purpose is to track your email address during the subscribe and un-subscribe operations only.

Cookies are not used anywhere else on the BARS website.

Agreement
By using this site, you signify your agreement with the BARS Web Site's privacy policy. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this policy at any time. Your continued use of this website signifies your acceptance to these terms.

Links to Other Websites
This Website contains links to other websites that are not operated or maintained by BARS and are not covered by this Privacy Statement. Visitors should be aware that the links on this Website are provided only for your convenience. We have no control over, make no promises or warranties of any kind with regard to, and accept no responsibility or liability for, the content of any other website or their privacy policies, their use of cookies, or the way they collect, save, store or use information. You should review the privacy policy of each website you visit.

BARS Staff

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