The Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center (CCPL&IC) is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to its website. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices on our website.

• When you visit the Library’s website, we collect and store only information to measure the number of visitors to different areas of our site (pages) to assist us in making them more useful to you. This information includes:
  o The address (IP) of your computer or internet provider;
  o The date and time you accessed our website;
  o The Internet address of the website that referred you to our site.
  
  
• We ask a visitor to our website to provide his/her e-mail address, postal address and/or telephone number only when needed to assist in answering inquiries, provide information, participate in a contest or ship requested materials and products. If it is reasonably believed that a user submitting his/her postal address, e-mail address
  or telephone number is younger than 13 years of age, CCPL&IC will delete this information from our records in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
  
  
• In accordance with CCPL&IC’s Confidentiality of Library Records Policy, we will not sell, lease, or otherwise distribute or disclose your e-mail address, postal address, phone number, borrower records or other personal information for non-library purposes to outside parties unless required by law.
  
  
• We will never disclose a child’s personal information such as full name, address, etc. (“information that would facilitate or enable the physical or online locating and contacting of a specific individual”) without written permission from a parent or legal guardian unless ordered to do so by a court of competent jurisdiction. In accordance with COPPA, we will only display on our Web pages a child’s first name, last initial, library location and/or age in order to announce contest winners and display user-submitted comments.
  
  
• The Library’s Web pages use “cookies” to allow you access to certain functions (such as the online catalog and electronic resources, etc.) within our site. These cookie files do not capture any personal user information (such as e-mail address or user passwords). Temporary cookie files are automatically deleted when you close your
  browser.
  
  
• Photos and videos that appear on the Library’s website, in library publications, on the library’s television program, or in other promotional materials may be gathered from public programs, events, and library locations.
  
  
• To ensure the privacy of individuals and children, images will not be identified using full names or personal identifying information without written permission from the photographed subject, parent or legal guardian.
  
  
• Photos, images and videos submitted by users for online galleries or contests may also be used by the Library for promotional purposes, and those users will be considered to have given permission for use of their images.
  
  
• Some Library Web pages contain links to external sites not maintained by the Library. The Library cannot be responsible for your privacy when you disclose information to outside websites. It is your responsibility to protect your personal information. From time to time, we may use visitor information for new unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy policy. If our information practices do change, we will post the policy changes on our website to notify you and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you have any concerns about how your information is used, please contact Library Administration (library@cumberland.lib.nc.us).