Information You Provide Us
In order to provide you with the Services we may ask you for Personally Identifiable Information (“Personal Information”). Personal Information include addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, usernames, passwords, and other information you provide voluntarily that may be considered Personal Information. The City of North Charleston Tourism Department collects and uses such information only insofar as is it deems reasonably necessary in order to provide our Services, for us to manage and send you notices regarding your account, and for us to send you notices regarding the Services. Subject to compliance with applicable law or contractual obligations, this information will be stored for as long as necessary to provide these Services plus a reasonable time thereafter to comply with our archiving and restoration policies.
If you email us through any of the contact us links on our Website, or if you submit a request for information through our Website we may ask you for Personal Information including but not limited to your name and email address in order to respond to your questions, comments, and requests. If you choose to correspond with us via email, we may retain the content of your email messages, your email address and our correspondence with you.
Cookies, Clear GIFs, Clickstream and Browser Information
We may use “cookies” on or in conjunction with our Website to help the City of North Charleston Tourism Department identify and track visitors, their usage of our Website, and their website access preferences. A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. If you do not wish to have cookies placed on your computer you should set your browser to refuse cookies before using the Website, with the drawback that certain features of the Website may not function properly without the aid of cookies. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any Personal Information you submit while on our website.
We may use third-party cookies as part of remarking activities we conduct with Google and/or other third-party vendors, to help provide you with relevant promotional offers as you use the Internet. As part of these remarketing activities, these third-party cookies may record your visits to our Website and web sites visited prior to using our Websites. Such cookies can then be used to serve advertisements to you on other web sites. You may choose to be exempt from the use of Google remarketing cookies at the Google advertising privacy page. Alternatively, you may opt-out of remarketing on the Google network and similar networks at the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page. Opting out will not prevent advertisements from being served to you on the Internet; it will only affect advertisements that utilize remarketing cookies to serve advertisements on the specified advertising networks. We are not responsible for the activities of other parties that may not comply with your opt-out request.