Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to us. At Crawford County, we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
Crawford County (“County,” “we,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of www.crawfordcounty.iowa.gov, including any content, functionality and services offered on or through www.crawfordcounty.iowa.gov (the “Website”), whether as a guest or a registered user. When accessing the Website, the County will learn certain information about you, both automatically and through voluntary actions you may take, during your visit. This policy applies to information we collect on the Website and in email, text, or other electronic messages between you and the Website.
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.
Disclaimers and Limited Purpose
The limited purpose for Crawford County’s website is to educate, engage, inform, and provide access to timely information about County services, meetings, officials, programs, projects, events, policies, and documents to website visitors. The website is a supplement to, and not a replacement for, information available from County departments. The use of the County website is intended for the sole and exclusive use by Crawford County for Crawford County business only.
Accuracy, Changes, and Continuity of Service
The County strives to present current and accurate information on its website but does not guarantee either the accuracy or currency of information posted on its website. Changes are made periodically to many County documents, including county codes, regulations, guidelines, and schedules, and these changes may or may not be reflected in the materials or information present on the County website. Additionally, because the website is frequently under development, materials and information may be deleted, modified, or moved to a different part of the website by the County without advance notice. In the event of a difference between the information on the website and official information available at County offices, the official information shall prevail.
Crawford County does not represent or warrant that access to the service will be uninterrupted or that there will be no failures, errors or omissions or loss of transmitted information. Crawford County assumes no liability or responsibility for the quality, content, accuracy, or completeness of the information, text, graphics, links and any other items contained on this service or any other system or service. The materials contained on this site have been compiled from a variety of sources and are subject to change without notice. Crawford County may make improvements and/or changes in the services and/or the content(s) described herein at any time.
Disclaimer for External Links
The County may permit the establishment of links to external websites on the County’s official website. Links from the County’s website to other sites on the Internet do not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the County. The County is not responsible for the content, quality, or accuracy of any off-site materials referenced or linked through the County’s website. These links are provided as an information service only. It is the responsibility of the user to evaluate the content and usefulness of information from other sites. By using the County’s website, the user acknowledges and accepts that the County is not responsible for any materials stored on other Internet sites, nor is it liable for any inaccurate, defamatory, offensive, or illegal materials found on other Internet sites, and that the risk of injury from viewing, hearing, downloading, or storing such materials rests entirely with the user. The County does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these external locations, and disclaims any and all liability for and knowledge of their contents.
The County exercises final approval authority over any links to external websites it chooses to post and may remove links at any time at its discretion.
Notice to County
Communications made through the County’s website shall in no way be deemed to constitute legal or official notice to the County, its agencies, officers, employees, representatives, or agents with respect to any existing, pending, or future claim or cause of action against the County or any of its agencies, officers, employees, representatives, or agents where notice is required by federal, state, or local law. No communication to the County made through the website shall be deemed to constitute legal or official notice for any purpose.
Disclaimer of Endorsement
The County website is a distributor of content sometimes supplied by third parties. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, links, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including information providers, users, or others, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and do not necessarily state or reflect those of the County or its elected officials, employees, contractors, and agents shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes. Reference herein to any specific commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the County.
Disclaimer of Liability
The County, as well as its employees, contractors, agents, and elected officials, shall not be held liable for any improper or incorrect use of the materials or information contained on the website and assumes no responsibility for any user's use of them. In no event shall the County or its employees, contractors, agents, and elected officials, be liable for any damages, whether direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary or consequential (including, but not limited to, business interruption or loss of use, data, or profits) regardless of cause, and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, statute, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of the website or the materials and information contained on the website, even if advised of the possibility of such damage. This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injury, including but not limited to those caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay, computer virus, communication line failure, theft, or destruction of data, whether for breach of contract, tortuous behavior, statutory liability negligence, or under any other cause of action.
Users are encouraged to consult with appropriate and accredited professional advisors for advice concerning specific matters before making any decision, and the County, as well as its employees, contractors, agents, and elected officials, disclaims any responsibility for positions taken by individuals or corporations in their individual cases or for any misunderstanding and losses, directly or indirectly, on the part of any user.
Indemnification
To the extent permitted by applicable law, by using Crawford County’s website, the user agrees to indemnify, and hold harmless, Crawford County, its agencies, officers, employees, representatives, and agents from and against all claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising out of the user's use of this site or materials and information contained on this site
Choice of Law
Construction of the disclaimers above and resolution of disputes thereof are governed by the laws of the State of Iowa. The laws of the State of Iowa shall apply to all uses of this data and this system. By use of this system and any data contained therein, the user agrees that use shall conform to all applicable laws and regulations and user shall not violate the rights of any third parties.
Children Under the Age of 13
Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use.
If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at support@crawfordcounty.iowa.gov.
Information We Collect About You
When you access the Website, the County will learn certain information about you during your visit.
The Website provides various places for users to provide information. We collect information that users provide by filling out forms on the Website, communicating with us via contact forms, responding to surveys, search queries on our search feature, providing comments or other feedback, and providing information when ordering a product or service via the Website.
We use information you provide to us to deliver the requested product and/or service, to improve our overall performance, and to provide you with offers, promotions, and information.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technology
As you navigate through our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies including Google Analytics to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This will generally include information about your location, your traffic pattern through our website, and any communications between your computer and our Website. Among other things, we will collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, and your browser type.
The information we collect automatically is used for statistical data and will not include personal information. We use this data to improve our Website and our service offerings. To the extent that you voluntarily provide personal information to us, our systems will associate the automatically collected information with your personal information.
Use of Cookies And Pixels
Similar to other commercial websites, our website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” and server logs to collect information about how our site is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as your IP address.
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
The County reserves the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. The County reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.
Third Party Use Of Cookies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
Email Information
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received online, mail, and telephone. This also applies when you register for our website, sign up through any of our forms using your email address on this site. For further information see the email policies below.
Email Policies
We are committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the section titled Disclosure of Your Information.
We will maintain the information you send via e-mail in accordance with applicable federal law.
In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all e-mails sent from our organization will clearly state who the e-mail is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all e-mail messages will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you receive no further e-mail communication from us.
Our emails provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners by reading the unsubscribe instructions located at the bottom of any e-mail they receive from us at anytime.
Use Of SMS Text Messaging
By using our SMS services, you consent to receiving SMS messages from us. Message frequency may vary. Please note that standard data rates imposed by your carrier will apply.
If at any time you wish to stop receiving text communications from us, simply reply with “STOP” or “UNSUBSCRIBE”. Upon receiving your opt-out request, we will immediately stop sending future messages to your number. We do not use SMS for marketing purposes, or share your SMS information with third parties, outside of what is required to provide the requested service.
How And Why We Collect Information
The County collects your information in order to record and support your participation in the activities you select. We use this information to track your preferences and to keep you informed about the services you have selected to receive and any related services. As a visitor to this Website, you can engage in most activities without providing any personal information. It is only when you seek to download resources and/or register for services that you are required to provide information.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
We use personal information for purposes of presenting our Website and its contents to you, providing you with information about our services, carrying out any contract between you and the County, administering our business activities, providing customer service, and making available other items and services to our citizens and prospective citizens.
Disclosure Of Your Information
As a general rule, we do not sell, rent, lease or otherwise transfer any information collected whether automatically or through your voluntary action.
We may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries, affiliates, and service providers for the purpose of providing our services to you.
We may disclose your personal information to a third party, including a lawyer or collection agency, when necessary to enforce our terms of service or any other agreement between you and the County.
We may provide your information to any successor in interest in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the County’s asserts and/or business.
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights or when compelled by a court or other governmental entity to do so.
How Do We Protect Your Information and Secure Information Transmissions?
We employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the information you provide to us and the information we collect automatically. This includes using standard security protocols and working only with reputable third-party vendors.
Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. However, doing so is allowed, but at your own risk. Some of the information you may enter on our website may be transmitted securely via a secure medium known as Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL. Credit Card information and other sensitive information is never transmitted via email.
The County may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, the County uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
Policy Changes
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Us
Crawford County welcomes your questions or comments regarding the Privacy Policy:
Crawford County
1202 Broadway
Denison, IA 51442
Email Address: support@crawfordcounty.iowa.gov
Effective as of January 15, 2025
