Privacy Policy

Key points within our Privacy Policy:

  • We collect no personal information from you if you visit the site without logging in.
  • We use session cookies only: if you log in to Secure Florida, we keep track of who you are by placing a session cookie on your computer. A session cookie disappears when you close your browser. NOTE: you must have cookies enabled to join or log in to our site.
  • If you choose to join Secure Florida, you give us permission to send you email.
  • We will never overwhelm you with emails, but send only Alerts, Beacons, and occasional administrative messages.
  • If you choose to join Secure Florida, we will never sell your email address, or give it out except as follows. By law, our registration list may be disclosed as a result of certain public records requests.
  • We will use all due diligence to protect your information from any unauthorized disclosure.
  • You may remove your email address from our list at any time by logging in, selecting "Edit Profile," and clicking on "Remove Me" from the bottom of the form.

Secure Florida recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of all information provided by the users of our website. We created the following policy guidelines with a fundamental respect for our users? right to privacy.

Secure Florida collects no information from visitors who simply visit the website. When a users visits the Secure Florida website and chooses to join the system, they are giving explicit permission for Secure Florida to communicate with them through email.

Information Collected by Secure Florida

Secure Florida collects information about users only during the registration process. In order to join the Secure Florida system, users must provide certain voluntary information about themselves. When registered users request pages from our server, it automatically collects IP addresses. These addresses are then used by Secure Florida to manage the user session so that our web pages can provide a custom appearance to the end user.

Secure Florida provides cyber security alerts and other important information to our registrants. Secure Florida will not reveal any personal information that users provide to us to any third party without explicit permission, except as noted below. However, most records created or complied in regard to state business are public records under Florida State Law, and must be disclosed upon request. Some of this information may be saved for a designated period of time in order to comply with the State of Florida?s archiving policies. Information may be disclosed to third parties or other governmental agencies unless prohibited by state or federal law or exempt pursuant to the Florida public records law.

Using the email addresses provided by the registrant, Secure Florida periodically sends out cyber security alerts, newsletters, and information surveys to site users about security issues. Users can indicate that they do not wish to receive email information.

Our site uses permanent cookies only if the user chooses to have their computer remember their login information.

Secure Florida registrants retain ownership of their personal data. By signing up at Secure Florida, users give specific permission to Secure Florida to communicate with them through email and to use data for research. Users have full control to delete themselves from the system by selecting the ?edit profile? or ?your profile? link within the system and selecting ?delete me? or ?remove me? from the bottom of the profile form.

General

Secure Florida uses reasonable precautions to keep secure the personal information disclosed to us and to disclose such information only to responsible third parties after permission from the user.