1. Privacy Statement
Weathervane Spotter, operates this weathervanespotter.com web site. Weathervane Spotter (“we,” “us,” or “our”) regards the privacy and security of user information as a critical component of the service that we offer to our users. The following information explains our information gathering and dissemination practices.

2. Personal Information
When you visit, use or navigate our website, we may process personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in receiving or obtaining information about or from us when you participate in activities on the website, or otherwise when you contact us.

• • We do not process sensitive personal information.
  • We do not receive any information from third parties.
  • We process your information to provide, improve and administer our website, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention and to comply with law.
  • All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

3. Information Automatically Collected
Some information, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics, is collected automatically when you visit our website. This information does not reveal your specific identity such as name or contact information.

IP addresses are used by your computer every time you are connected to the Internet. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer. IP addresses are automatically collected by our web server as part of demographic and profile data known as “traffic data” so that data (such as the web pages you request) can be sent to you. This information is primarily used for maintaining the security and operation of our website and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes. Weathervane Spotter will not use your IP address to attempt to identify your personal information.

4. Cookies
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user’s computer. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you’d prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies, although you may not be able to take full advantage of a web site if you do so.

Weathervane Spotter may utilize cookies to enhance your online experience by saving your preferences. Advertisers that display ads on our site may also use cookies and/or web beacons (or pixel tags). Pixel tags are typically transparent graphic images usually no larger than 1 pixel x 1 pixel that are displayed on a web site that monitors the behavior of a user visiting a web site. The type of information typically consists of the IP address of the computer, the current time, duration of visit, the type of browser and previously set cookie values. Weathervane Spotter does not have access to the information obtained from third party advertiser cookies or pixel tags.

5. Referrers
A Referrer is the information passed along by a web browser that references the Web URL you linked from, and is automatically collected by our web server as “traffic data”. This information is used by Weathervane Spotter to identify broad demographic trends that may be used to provide information tailored to your interests. You will not be personally identified from this information.

6. System Information
System information we collect as part of “traffic data” includes time, the type of web browser being used, the operating system/platform, and CPU speed. This information is sent automatically by your web browser when you are connected to a web site. This information is used by Weathervane Spotter in identifying broad demographic trends and may be used to provide information appropriate for your computer system. You will not be personally identified from this information.

7. Other Web Sites and Links
This web site contains links to other web sites. The inclusion of a link towards a third party website does not imply an endorsement by us. The privacy practices of those web sites linked to/from weathervanespotter.com are not covered by this privacy statement and Weathervane Spotter is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. Additionally, if you make a purchase from a store or merchant listed on or linked to the weathervanespotter.com web site, any information that you give, such as your credit card number and contact information, is provided to those merchants. These merchants have separate privacy and data collection practices and Weathervane Spotter has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. You should be careful to review any privacy policies posted on any linked sites before signing up with and using them.

8. Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, the practices of weathervanespotter.com, or your dealings with our web site, please contact us at:
Weathervane Spotter
509 East Gambier Street, Suite D
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
Contact: Contact Form

9. Third Party Advertising
This site utilizes third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

If you would like more information about this practice as well as information on how you can help protect your online privacy click here to visit the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) website. For more information specific to Google’s privacy policy click here. For details on how Google uses information from sites that use Google services click here.

10. Modification of Privacy Policy By Weathervane Spotter
Weathervane Spotter reserves the right to change or update this Privacy Policy. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible.

Revised December 16, 2023