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HARDIN COUNTY WATER DISTRICT NO. 1
PRIVACY STATEMENT
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE

Last Updated: February 2009

Privacy Statement

Your privacy and security while on the Hardin County Water No. 1 (“District”) website is our highest priority. The District collects only the personal information that is necessary in order to provide the best possible services to our customers.

Depending on the situation, we may collect any of the following information about our visitors to the HCWD.COM website:

Your Email Address (for registered District customers)
Your IP Address
Aggregate information about which pages are visited or accessed.
Any information volunteered by the customer, such as survey, service, or support information.

This information is used in an effort to improve the quality of our web-services, to provide research in the event that there is a question about billing, and to determine the overall quality of the services provided by the District.

District Information Sharing
The Hardin County Water District No. 1 does not release personal information to third parties except as required by law. We do not provide, rent or sell any personal information to third parties for marketing programs or any other purpose. State law restricts the use of personally identifiable information for commercial purposes.

District and Internet Cookies
Cookies are short and simple text files stored on your computer by Internet websites to help identify users and enhance customer service. The District website may use cookies to customize and personalize your service and the transactions on this site. Cookies do not compromise your privacy and or security. Using web-browser settings, you can refuse the use of cookies or delete the cookie file from your computer by using regularly available methods but in doing so may affect some of the functionality of the site.

District Security Notice
The Hardin County Water District No. 1 website (http://www.hcwd.com) uses the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol to safeguard your sensitive and personal information. Using this widely accepted form of encryption, your transaction is secured from your personal computer to the District website computer which is processing your request. The District website processing computers are located behind a secure firewall. A third party processing company hosts our bill-payment processing computers.

District Disclaimer
Solely for your convenience, The Hardin County Water District No. 1 website contains hypertext links to external sites and or pages containing information created by public, governmental, nonprofit and commercial organizations. The inclusion of any link on this site does not imply the District’s sponsorship, endorsement, affiliation, or approval of the linked website. In the event that you discover problems with or have concerns regarding the format, accuracy, timeliness or completeness of a linked external website, please contact the organization that is responsible for that website.

Websites that are linked externally to the District website are not controlled, maintained, inspected, or regulated by The District and we are therefore, not responsible for that website’s services, products, representation, or images.

The District cannot and does not guarantee, represent or warrant that the content contained in those externally linked websites is accurate, legal and inoffensive, or that those sites do not contain viruses or will not otherwise adversely affect your computer. Your use of information obtained from any linked external website is at your own risk.

External hypertext links to websites may be created, modified, or removed by the District at our sole discretion at any time and without notice.

Terms Of Service
The use of the Hardin County Water District No. 1 website is subject to the following Terms of Use.

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