PRIVACY POLICY
About
Readfest.org and the Southwest Florida Reading Festival mobile app are owned and operated by the Lee County Library System, as part of Lee County, a political subdivision and charter County of the State of Florida.
Collection of Information
This page describes the privacy practices regarding what data is collected and how it is used from visitors to websites owned and operated by departments under the Lee County Board of County Commissioners, including www.readfest.org
Security of Financial Transactions
Readfest.org does not collect payments on its own domain but does redirect to a third-party vendor to accept donations paid by credit card. Information about their privacy policy can be found at https://www.blackbaud.com/company/privacy-policy/north-america.
Written Communications & Public Records
Most written communication to or from County officials regarding County business, including information submitted through the www.readfest.org website forms, is not secure and is subject to public records requests by the public and media, unless specifically exempted by Florida law. If you do not want your email address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Emails sent to staff will in no way be considered binding correspondence. For critical or legal correspondence, please contact staff via telephone or U.S. Postal Service.
Why Do We Collect Website Use Information?
Your privacy is important to us. We will not collect personal information about you when you visit www.readfest.org website, unless you explicitly choose to make such information available to us. When you visit our websites, our web server collects the referring domain name (E.g.: www.google.com) URL of pages viewed, IP address from which you accessed the site (E.g.: 52.167.215.137), user agent string from your browser, and operating system version. Our website uses standard technology called “cookies,” unique identifiers sent to computers by our web server when you visit our website that identify the computer but not the user. Cookies and web server logs collect information about how our website is used in order to improve content. Information gathered may include date and time of visits, pages viewed, time spent at our website, and referring websites. Our website analytics tool, SiteImprove, also collects non-personal information associated with the IP address and cookie session. Information collected includes URL visited, page title, user’s monitor resolution, referring address, page load times, session identifier, breadcrumb trail on leegov.com, search words used, scrolls and clicks on pages, and user agent string. Cookies from readfest.org expire 24 hours after you leave our site.
How Do We Use Shared Personal Information?
If you choose to share personal information, such as subscribing to an e-newsletter, sending a message, or filling out an electronic form, the information will only be used for authorized County business and not disclosed to third parties unless required by Florida or federal law. Once you register with us and sign into our services, you are not anonymous to us, and the information will be saved for a designated period of time in order to comply with the state of Florida’s archiving policies.
Opting Out
If you have registered with us, or subscribed to alerts or newsletters, you have the opportunity to unsubscribe/opt out of receiving future communications.
External Websites
We are not responsible for the practices of websites that are linked to or from our website, nor the information or content contained therein. If you have other questions about our privacy policies or suggestions for improvement, call 239-533-4800.
Accessibility
The Southwest Florida Reading Festival is committed to the spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We strive to ensure that people with disabilities can access our services, participate in our programs and benefit from our community resources. Accommodations are available upon request.
If you have a disability and the format of any material on our website interferes with your ability to access some information contained on our site, please email the Southwest Florida Reading Festival at readingfestival@leegov.com. We will refer your request to the appropriate County Department to provide you with an alternate form of the requested material, as available. Please indicate the nature of the accessibility problem, your preferred format, the web address of the requested material and your full contact information so we can reach you if questions arise while fulfilling your request.
We welcome comments on how to improve the site’s accessibility for users with disabilities. For additional information on Lee County’s ADA policies, visit our ADA Notice webpage.
Legal Notices
Lee County provides this website as a public service. All Information submitted to Lee County via this site shall be deemed and remain the property of Lee County, except those submissions made under separate legal contract.
Lee County shall be free to use, for any purpose, any ideas, concepts, or techniques contained in information provided to Lee County for and through this site.
User access and use of this site constitutes acceptance of these terms and conditions. These terms and conditions may be updated periodically without notice to the user.
Use of the Southwest Florida Reading Festival or Lee County Library System logo is prohibited without official prior approval. To obtain permission for the use of either logo, contact readingfestival@leegov.com.
Linking
Linking to our website is permissible providing the link accurately describes the content of the linked page.
Under no circumstances may you “frame” the website or any of its content. Each page within the website must be displayed in full, without any accompanying frame, design, branding, advertising or promotional materials.
Any links from our site to external sites should not be considered an endorsement of that site. We are not responsible for the content of other websites.
Disclaimer
You should not assume this website is error free. Although we will make every effort to include current and accurate information on our website, the potential exists that an error may occur. Therefore, the county nor any agency, officer or employee of the County warrants the accuracy, reliability or timeliness of any information at this website. Lee County government is not responsible for the results of any defects or misinformation that may be found to exist in this site, or any lost profits or any other consequential damages that may result from such defects or misinformation. Thank you for your understanding.
