Bay Country Web Site Privacy Policy

About Us

This is a privacy policy for Bay Country Estates Homeowners Association, Inc.. Our homepage on the Web is located at http://www.baycountry.org. The full text of our privacy policy is available on the Web at http://www.baycountry.org/privacy/ Users may go to for information on how to opt-in or opt-out of use of their information.

We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy.

You may contact us by mail at the following address:

BCEHA
PO Box 444
Tracys Landing, MD 20779-0444
US
You may contact us by e-mail at bceha@baycountry.org.

Dispute Resolution and Privacy Seals

We have the following privacy seals and/or dispute resolution mechanisms. If you think we have not followed our privacy policy in some way, they can help you resolve your concern.

Webmaster: Webmaster Privacy Dispute Resolution

Additional Information

This policy is valid for 1 week from the time that it is loaded by a client.

Data Collection

P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to as “statements”). This policy contains 4 data groups. The data practices of each group will be explained separately.

Group “Access log information”

We collect the following information:

Click-stream data
HTTP protocol elements
This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.
Research and development.
This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Our Web server collects access logs containing this information.

Group “HomeownerLogin”

At the user’s option, we will collect the following data:

HTTP cookies
Transaction history
This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration. The user is allowed to opt-out of this usage.
This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Homeowners must log in to this web site to access priviledged facilities such as posting news articles, posting advertisements, and voting in the Voting Booth. We record and timestamp the homeowner login transaction and the number of total logins in a database

Group “Discussions”

At the user’s option, we will collect the following data:

HTTP cookies
This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.
This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The data in this group has been marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

We record and timestamp use logins on our Discussion Forums. We attempt to write a persistent cookie on your hard dire with your Forum username to make it easier for you to login upon revisiting the forum. Forum user are anomymous.

Group “Home Page Ads”

At the user’s option, we will collect the following data:

HTTP cookies
This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.
Research and development.
One-time tailoring.
No recipients have been defined for this data.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

We attempt to place a persistent cookie on your browser that identifies the last advertisement that you viewed on the home page. Refreshing the page or subsequent visits to the home page will rotate the advertisement to the next ad in the queue.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:

Site administration
Completing the user’s current activity
User targeting
Research and development
Compact Policy Summary

The compact policy which corresponds to this policy is:

CP=”NOI DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa OUR NOR BUS IND ONL UNI COM NAV INT CNT”
The following table explains the meaning of each field in the compact policy.

Field Meaning
CP= This is the compact policy header; it indicates that what follows is a P3P compact policy.
NOI No identifiable information is collected, so no access is possible.
DSP The policy contains at least one dispute-resolution mechanism.
COR Violations of this policy will be corrected.
CURa The data is used for completion of the current activity.
ADMa The data is used for site administration.
DEVa The data is used for research and development.
TAIa The data is used for tailoring the site.
OUR The data is given to ourselves and our agents.
NOR The data is not kept beyond the current transaction.
BUS Our business practices specify how long the data will be kept.
IND The data will be kept indefinitely.
ONL Online contact information is collected.
UNI Unique identifiers are collected.
COM Computer information is collected.
NAV Navigation and clickstream data is collected.
INT Interactive data is collected.
CNT Content data is collected.
The compact policy is sent by the Web server along with the cookies it describes. For more information, see the P3P deployment guide at http://www.w3.org/TR/p3pdeployment.

Policy Evaluation

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 will evaluate this policy’s compact policy whenever it is used with a cookie. The actions IE will take depend on what privacy level the user has selected in their browser (Low, Medium, Medium High, or High; the default is Medium. In addition, IE will examine whether the cookie’s policy is considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory, whether the cookie is a session cookie or a persistent cookie, and whether the cookie is used in a first-party or third-party context. This section will attempt to evaluate this policy’s compact policy against Microsoft’s stated behavior for IE6.

Note: this evaluation is currently experimental and should not be considered a substitute for testing with a real Web browser.

Satisfactory policy: this compact policy is considered satisfactory according to the rules defined by Internet Explorer 6. IE6 will accept cookies accompanied by this policy under the High, Medium High, Medium, Low, and Accept All Cookies settings.
Bay Country Estates Homeowner’s Association, Inc., P.O. Box 444, Tracy’s Landing, Maryland 20779-0444