Welcome to the website for the Osage County Industrial Authority, www.ociaok.com. This site is owned by the Osage County Industrial Authority. We recognize that many visitors to our website are concerned about the information they provide to us or that we may collect, how we treat that information, and what we do with it. In order to address those concerns, we have developed this privacy statement. It is designed to protect the Osage County Industrial Authority as well as our end-users.

A. Type(s) of Information Collected

On this website, we may collect both personally identifiable information and non-personal information from you.

1. Personally Identifiable Information

You don’t have to provide us with your personally identifiable information (such as your name, address, telephone number, email address) in order to read most of the content on our website. We do collect personally identifiable information about you when you set up an account or place an order from the website (such as registering for a training and/or safety class). Such information may include name, address, phone number, email address, credit card numbers, expiration dates, CVV codes, as well as billing and shipping addresses. We may also collect personally identifiable information about you when you submit comments, sign up to receive emails or newsletters from us, enter a contest, respond to a survey, email us, or when we contact you to submit personally identifiable information regarding an order. Without this information, we would not be able to fulfill your order(s), or respond to your inquiries, entries, and requests. Please note that several features of the site—such as advertisements—may be operated by third parties. These third parties may also obtain personally identifiable information from you in order to use their services. Please check their privacy policies for information about their privacy practices. In some cases these third parties may provide your personally identifiable information to the Osage County Industrial Authority.

2. Non-Personal Information

Non-personal information such as which pages on our website are accessed, what information is downloaded, what type of browser and operating system are being used, which Internet service provider is being used, and other information of this general type will be collected about all visitors. This information does not allow us to personally identify each site visitor. By collecting this information we learn how best to develop our website to meet the needs and desires of our visitors.

B. Methods of Information Collection

Personally identifiable information is collected when submitted by you—such as when you sign up for an account with us, place an order for a product, or when you send us an email via the form on our contact page. Personally identifiable information may also be collected when you include it as part of a comment or letter that you post on the site or submit to us. Your personally identifiable information may be collected by third party service providers and then provided to the Osage County Industrial Authority by the third party. Non-personal information may be collected via “cookies” (small text files placed on your computer’s hard drive), or similar web browser technology.

C. How We Use Your Information

1. Personally Identifiable Information

If you sign up for an account with us or place an order from our website, then we may use your personally identifiable information to maintain your account and to correspond with you. We may also use it to send you materials that we think would be of interest to you. We may also provide your personally identifiable information to advertisers or others. If you enter one of our contests, then we may use your personally identifiable information for purposes of the contest (such as to notify you if you win) and/or in accordance with the contest rules. We may also provide your personally identifiable information to the sponsor(s) of the contest, publish information concerning the winner of the contest, and/or for any other lawful purposes. If you email us or ask to be placed on a mailing list that we maintain, then we may contact you and send information to you. If you register to purchase merchandise through this website, then we may use your personally identifiable information to maintain your account and/or process your order. If we receive your personally identifiable information from a third party service provider, then we may use the information to contact you and to assist in performing the service for which you have registered with the third party. In addition to the uses listed above, we may use your personally identifiable information to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, as part of a statistical website usage analysis, and/or to improve the features and content of this website. We may also use your personally identifiable information to assist in delivery of content that is customized to your interests. We do not collect personally identifiable information on an automatic basis, but we may combine non-personal information (which may be automatically collected) with your previously submitted personally identifiable information. These uses of your personally identifiable information are standard practices with any e-commerce website, and are not considered to be out of the ordinary.

2. Non-Personal Information

We may use your non-personal information to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, as part of a statistical website usage analysis, to improve the features and content of this website, and/or for other purposes to assist our business. We may share such information with advertisers and other third parties, typically in the aggregate. We may also use your non-personal information as set forth elsewhere in this privacy policy.

3. Links from the Website to Advertisers and Other Third Parties

Please be aware that the Osage County Industrial Authority’s advertisers, business partners, sponsors, service providers, and other third parties accessible through this website site (such as through links from this site and/or framed on this site) may have their own privacy practices. The Osage County Industrial Authority is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of the third parties when providing information to them. These third parties may provide the personally identifiable information that they collect to the Osage County Industrial Authority and may also use the information in accordance with their own privacy practices. Financial institutions, such as those which process credit card orders, are subject to federal privacy laws. The Osage County Industrial Authority uses Authorize.net on this website to capture and process payments by debit or credit card.

4. Other Third Parties

During the course of its business, the Osage County Industrial Authority uses third party service providers—such as lawyers and accountants—to perform a variety of functions. In some instances, the Osage County Industrial Authority may need to provide personal and/or non-personal information about you to such third parties. However, all third party service providers that are not linked from the site are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any purpose other than that for which they were selected to work with the Osage County Industrial Authority.

5. Public Forum

If you submit a comment, email, or similar correspondence, the information in your submission may be published to the general public. Please exercise caution and discretion when making such submissions.

6. Other Uses

In addition to the uses set forth elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, OCIA may use or disclose personal or non-personal information:

i. in cases where we believe in good faith that it is necessary to prevent a crime, an injury, or financial loss to ourselves or to third parties;
ii. to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of this site;
iii. pursuant to a court order, warrant, subpoena, discovery request, or as required by law;
iv. in conjunction with the sale or offering for sale of some or all of OCIA;
v. in the event of OCIA‘s bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, or similar financial circumstances; and/or
vi. when you have been made aware of the possibility of use or disclosure of the information at or prior to the time of collection.