Pri­va­cy Policy

Smith Vil­lage (“Com­mu­ni­ty,” ​“We,” ​“Us”) respects your pri­va­cy and is com­mit­ted to pro­tect­ing it through our com­pli­ance with the fol­low­ing pri­va­cy pol­i­cy. This pol­i­cy describes:

• The types of infor­ma­tion we may col­lect from you or that you may pro­vide when you vis­it our web­site (www​.www​.smithvil​lage​.org; ​“web­site”) or via email, text or oth­er elec­tron­ic mes­sages between you and the community.
• Our prac­tices for col­lect­ing, using, main­tain­ing, pro­tect­ing and dis­clos­ing that information.
• Our poli­cies and prac­tices regard­ing your infor­ma­tion and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our poli­cies and prac­tices, your only recourse is not to use our web­site. How­ev­er, you do have the option to opt-out of some track­ing (see: ​“Choic­es About How We Use and Dis­close Your Infor­ma­tion“).

By access­ing or using the web­site, you agree to this pri­va­cy policy.

Infor­ma­tion We Col­lect About You and How We Col­lect It

We col­lect sev­er­al types of infor­ma­tion from and about users of our web­site, includ­ing information:

• That is about you but indi­vid­u­al­ly does not iden­ti­fy you, such as your age, gen­der and inter­ests; how you came to the web­site (e.g., search engine, third-par­ty web­site, media cam­paign or email); and the pages and fea­tures of the web­site you use.
• By which you may be per­son­al­ly iden­ti­fied, such as name, postal address, email address or tele­phone num­ber (“per­son­al information”).
• About your Inter­net con­nec­tion, the equip­ment you use to access our web­site, and your location.

We col­lect this information:

• Auto­mat­i­cal­ly as you nav­i­gate through the site. Infor­ma­tion col­lect­ed auto­mat­i­cal­ly may include IP address­es and infor­ma­tion col­lect­ed through cook­ies, web bea­cons and oth­er track­ing tech­nolo­gies (see: ​“Usage Details, IP Address­es, and Cook­ies and Oth­er Tech­nolo­gies“).
• Direct­ly from you when you pro­vide it to us (see: ​“Infor­ma­tion You Pro­vide to Us”).
• From third par­ties, for exam­ple, our busi­ness partners.

Usage Details, IP Address­es, and Cook­ies and Oth­er Technologies

As you nav­i­gate through and inter­act with our web­site, we may auto­mat­i­cal­ly col­lect cer­tain infor­ma­tion about your equip­ment, brows­ing actions and pat­terns. The infor­ma­tion we col­lect auto­mat­i­cal­ly is sta­tis­ti­cal data and does not iden­ti­fy any indi­vid­ual. It helps us improve our web­site and deliv­er bet­ter and more per­son­al­ized future ser­vices by enabling us to:

• Esti­mate our audi­ence size and usage patterns.
• Ana­lyze and devel­op the community’s sales and mar­ket­ing strat­e­gy, deter­mine how vis­i­tors find the com­mu­ni­ty and its web­site, the user’s inter­est regard­ing the Community’s ser­vices, and how to improve the community’s website.
• Store infor­ma­tion about your pref­er­ences, allow­ing us to cus­tomize our web­site accord­ing to your indi­vid­ual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Rec­og­nize you when you return to our website.

We do not col­lect per­son­al infor­ma­tion auto­mat­i­cal­ly, but we may tie this infor­ma­tion to per­son­al infor­ma­tion about you that we col­lect from oth­er sources or that you pro­vide to us. The tech­nolo­gies we use for this auto­mat­ic data col­lec­tion may include:

Cook­ies (or brows­er cook­ies). Cook­ies are a tech­nol­o­gy of web brows­er soft­ware that allows web servers to rec­og­nize the com­put­er used to access a web­site. A cook­ie is a small file placed on the hard dri­ve of your com­put­er. You may refuse to accept brows­er cook­ies by acti­vat­ing the appro­pri­ate set­ting on your brows­er. Unless you have adjust­ed your brows­er set­ting so that it will refuse cook­ies, our sys­tem will issue cook­ies when you direct your brows­er to our website.

Flash Cook­ies. Cer­tain fea­tures of our web­site may use local stored objects (or Flash cook­ies) to col­lect and store infor­ma­tion about your pref­er­ences and nav­i­ga­tion to, from and on our web­site. Flash cook­ies are not man­aged by the same brows­er set­tings used for brows­er cook­ies. For infor­ma­tion about man­ag­ing your pri­va­cy and secu­ri­ty set­tings for Flash cook­ies, see ​“Choic­es About How We Use and Dis­close Your Infor­ma­tion.”

Web Bea­cons. Pages of our web­site and our emails may con­tain small elec­tron­ic files known as web bea­cons (also referred to as clear gifs, pix­el tags and sin­gle-pix­el gifs) that per­mit us, for exam­ple, to count spe­cif­ic vis­i­tors who have vis­it­ed cer­tain pages or opened and clicked an email. The infor­ma­tion we col­lect from these bea­cons is sent to our mar­ket­ing automa­tion and email mar­ket­ing ser­vice called Act-On (www​.act​-on​.com).

Infor­ma­tion You Pro­vide to Us

The infor­ma­tion we col­lect on or through our web­site may include:

• Infor­ma­tion that you pro­vide by fill­ing in forms on our web­site. This includes, but is not lim­it­ed to, infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed when you sub­mit a request for infor­ma­tion or to be con­tact­ed by the com­mu­ni­ty; a request for mate­ri­als from the com­mu­ni­ty (e.g., DVDs, white papers and brochures); reg­is­ter­ing for an event; or sub­scrib­ing to email communication.
• Records and copies of your cor­re­spon­dence (includ­ing email address­es), if you con­tact us.
• Your respons­es to sur­veys that we might ask you to com­plete for research purposes.
• Details of trans­ac­tions you car­ry out through our web­site and of the ful­fill­ment of your orders.
• Your search queries on the site.

How We Use Your Information

The Com­mu­ni­ty and/​or its agents use infor­ma­tion that we col­lect about you or that you pro­vide to us, includ­ing any per­son­al information:

• To pro­vide you with infor­ma­tion, prod­ucts or ser­vices that you request from us.
• To ful­fill any oth­er pur­pose for which you pro­vide it.
• For mar­ket­ing purposes.
• To present our web­site and its con­tents to you.
• To allow you to par­tic­i­pate in inter­ac­tive fea­tures on our website.
• In any oth­er way we may describe when you pro­vide the information.
• For any oth­er pur­pose with your consent.

We nev­er sell your per­son­al information.

Choic­es About How We Use and Dis­close Your Information

We strive to pro­vide you with choic­es regard­ing the per­son­al infor­ma­tion you pro­vide to us. We have cre­at­ed mech­a­nisms to pro­vide you with the fol­low­ing con­trol over your information:

Track­ing Tech­nolo­gies and Adver­tis­ing. You can set your brows­er to refuse all or some brows­er cook­ies, or to alert you when cook­ies are being sent. To learn how you can man­age your Flash cook­ie set­tings, vis­it the Flash play­er set­tings page on Adobe’s web­site. If you dis­able or refuse cook­ies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inac­ces­si­ble or not func­tion properly.

This web­site uses Google Ana­lyt­ics to track web­site activ­i­ty and vis­i­tor behav­ior. If you want to opt-out of being tracked by Google Ana­lyt­ics, you may use the Google Ana­lyt­ics Opt-out Brows­er Add-on. Google Ana­lyt­ics also col­lects data about vis­its to the web­site via the Dou­bleClick cook­ie and Flood­light tags. This infor­ma­tion is being used to pro­vide demo­graph­ic and inter­est data about vis­i­tors to the web­site and to tar­get online dis­play adver­tise­ments on third-par­ty web­sites. Using Google’s Ads Set­tings, vis­i­tors can opt-out of Google Ana­lyt­ics for Dis­play Adver­tis­ing and cus­tomize Google Dis­play Net­work ads.

Pro­mo­tion­al Offers from the Com­mu­ni­ty. If you do not wish to have your con­tact infor­ma­tion used by the Com­pa­ny to pro­mote our own ser­vices, you can fol­low the link to unsub­scribe from mail­ing lists at the bot­tom of email com­mu­ni­ca­tion; send an e‑mail to info@​smithvillage.​org stat­ing your request; call 773−474−7303 and ask to be removed from mar­ket­ing lists. This opt-out does not apply to infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed to the Com­mu­ni­ty as a result of enter­ing into a res­i­dence agree­ment, pro­vid­ing health records or oth­er transaction.

Access­ing and Cor­rect­ing Your Information

To review and change your per­son­al infor­ma­tion, you may call us at 773−474−7303 or send us an email at info@​smithvillage.​org to request access to, cor­rect or delete any per­son­al infor­ma­tion that you have pro­vid­ed to us. We may not accom­mo­date a request to change infor­ma­tion if we believe the change would vio­late any law or legal require­ment, or cause the infor­ma­tion to be incorrect.

Data Secu­ri­ty

We have imple­ment­ed mea­sures designed to secure your per­son­al infor­ma­tion from acci­den­tal loss and from unau­tho­rized access, use, alter­ation and dis­clo­sure. All infor­ma­tion you pro­vide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the trans­mis­sion of infor­ma­tion via the inter­net is not com­plete­ly secure. Although we do our best to pro­tect your per­son­al infor­ma­tion, we can­not guar­an­tee the secu­ri­ty of your per­son­al infor­ma­tion trans­mit­ted to our web­site. Any trans­mis­sion of per­son­al infor­ma­tion is at your own risk. We are not respon­si­ble for cir­cum­ven­tion of any pri­va­cy set­tings or secu­ri­ty mea­sures con­tained on the website.

Minors

No por­tion of Smith Village’s web­site, ser­vices and agency ser­vices is direct­ed toward minors (indi­vid­u­als below the age of 18). The Com­pa­ny does not solic­it any infor­ma­tion about minors, nor does it mar­ket to minors.

Enforce­ments

Ques­tions or com­plaints about Smith Village’s pri­va­cy pol­i­cy, as well as con­cerns about the community’s enforce­ment of the pol­i­cy, can be direct­ed to:

Smith Vil­lage
c/​o Sales and Mar­ket­ing Depart­ment
2320 West 113th Place
Chica­go, IL 60643
773−474−7303