Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us. The information you provide will be used solely by the Frederick County Office of Economic Development (FCOED).
We use the information we collect to communicate with you, serve relevant ads, and improve our services.
How We Use Your Information
We collect information to connect with you, share relevant updates, and continuously enhance our outreach and services. This includes:
- Direct Communication: We'll use your email address to contact you about potential collaboration opportunities, provide updates, share information about our services, and send out our newsletters. You're always in control; each email includes clear instructions on how to unsubscribe at any time.
- Targeted Advertising (Remarketing): We utilize remarketing tags across our website and in our digital content, including advertisements and videos. These tags help us understand your engagement with our department's content, allowing us to present you with more relevant information about FCOED. This strategy helps us effectively reach businesses and individuals interested in Frederick County.
- Website Optimization: Analyzing statistics about our website's usage helps us refine its content and design, ensuring it provides maximum value to our visitors and the broader public.
What We Collect
We collect various types of information to fulfill our mission:
- Non-Personally Identifiable Data: When you visit our site, we may automatically collect non-personally identifiable information. This can include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, the name of the domain you used to access the site (e.g., example.com), the type of browser you're using, and which pages you viewed.
- Web Browser Cookies: Our website employs first-party cookies, such as those used by Google Analytics. These cookies enable us to gather web statistics like the total number of visitors, the count of returning users, and which web pages are most popular.
- Personally Identifiable Information: We collect personally identifiable information, such as your name and email address, only when you willingly provide it to us. This typically occurs when you sign up for a mailing list, request information, or download documents. We are committed to not selling, renting, or leasing our contact lists to third parties.
- Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting: We've implemented Google Analytics code to gather anonymized third-party audience data, including general age groups, gender, and interests, for our tracking and marketing initiatives. This specific code does not collect any personally identifiable information about you. If you wish to opt out of this particular tracking, you can use the Google Ads Preference Manager at http://www.google.com/settings/ads/. Alternatively, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Sharing
We will not share your personal information with any third parties. Your data will be kept confidential and used exclusively for the aforementioned communication, advertising, and scheduling purposes.