Privacy Notice

The Easttown Library (the “Library”) is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to its website. We ask visitors to our site to provide their name, e-mail address, postal address, and/or telephone number only when needed to assist in answering your inquiries, providing information, or providing you with access to activities, programs, resources, or services offered through our website. The information you will be asked to provide will enable you to access services offered only at the Library (e.g., meeting room rentals, proctoring, etc.) or virtually (e.g., online events), while other services (e.g., library catalog, OverDrive/Libby, databases, etc.) are offered to all library cardholders throughout the Chester County Library System (“CCLS”) and may require your Library barcode number to access. 

Please read this Notice in its entirety. You may contact us with any questions or comments by using the contact information listed at the end of this Notice.
Please note that this Notice applies only to the Library website and specifically does not apply to other companies' or organizations' websites to which we link.
Sharing of Information

In accordance with the Confidentiality Policy of the CCLS, we will not sell, lease, or otherwise distribute or disclose your e-mail address, postal address, phone number, borrower records, or other personal information to non-Library affiliate partners unless required by law. 

Email and Mailing Address Preferences

The Library sends notices to customers who have provided their email addresses for that purpose or have opted-in to a mailing list. Emails may be used for library news, event information and registration details, and fundraising. Mailing addresses may also be used to send information about Library events, services, and fundraising. 

Customers who wish to be removed from general Library mailing or email lists may contact the originating department.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”)

We will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone younger than 13 years of age. If a user submitting their postal address, e-mail address, or telephone number is suspected of being younger than 13 years of age, the Library will delete this information from our records in accordance with COPPA. We will never disclose a child's personal information as full name, address, etc. ("information that would facilitate or enable the physical or online locating and contacting of a specific individual") without written approval from a parent or legal guardian. In accordance with COPPA we will only display on our sites a child's first name, last initial, and/or age on our sites to announce contest winners and display user submitted comments. 

Statistical Tracking 

When you visit the Library’s website, we collect information using 3rd party software (e.g. the Library’s content management system, Google Analytics) to measure various aspects of our visitors’ usage of our website to assist us in making it more useful to you. This information may include your device type, IP address, browser type and version, pages visited, and other diagnostic data.

Cookies 

Cookies are small data files stored on your own computer's hard drive. They are generated by websites to provide users with a personalized and often simplified online experience. Some of the Library’s and CCLS’s electronic resources use cookies to enable you to utilize some of those resources’ features. These resources do not capture any personal information.  The settings of each computer browser control the extent to which cookies are allowed and deleted on your machine. If you choose not to accept the cookies generated by the Library website and/or third party database applications, you will not be able to use some of those services online and some of our interactive pages; your use of the remainder of the Library website will not be affected, however.

External Links/Other Organizations 

Some Library and related CCLS webpages contain links to external sites not maintained by the Library or CCLS. We are not responsible for your privacy when you disclose information to outside websites. It is your responsibility to protect your personal information. 

Updates 

If our information practices change, we will post the policy changes on our site to notify you. 

If you have any concerns about how your information is used, please contact the Director of Easttown Library at 610-644-0138 or director@easttownlibrary.org.