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Woodlands Online Privacy Policy


As an Internet user, you have the right to expect any website to disclose its privacy policies which explain how your personal information is collected, used, and shared. You also have a responsibility to choose which websites you feel comfortable disclosing such information to.


Item A: Why do you need my personal information for Member Registration and site submitted information?

In order to provide community services and benefits, Woodlands Online requires and maintains a very limited amount of your personal information given during Registration and for materials submitted by you to the website. This information is used primarily for us to contact you and to confirm that you live or work in the service area of this website since this website makes available many services only for those that live or work in the community. Your identifying information also protects your uniqueness as a website Member, preventing others from using the same log-in or screen name.

We may also compile general information that is not personally identifiable to you as an individual to create generic demographic profiles of the users of this website for the purpose of bringing more relevant content and services to the website. This general information may also be provided to third parties such as advertisers or prospective advertisers who support these efforts. Your name, email, phone and address is not provided in this general information.

Item B: Who has access to my Member Registration and site submitted materials information?

The privacy of your personal information is a paramount concern of Digital Texas. Our employees, contractors, and partners are also Members and users of the website. All registration and site submitted personal information, and use thereof, is reasonably safeguarded. You hereby consent to Digital Texas, its server network operations and software development agents accessing and/or archiving this information. Digital Texas may disclose your registration information if required by law or in good faith belief that the disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce the website Terms of Service, to comply with a legal process, to respond to information of potential violations of third party rights, or to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Woodlands Online and its users. Otherwise, your personal information will not be made available to third parties without your consent.

Under no circumstances will your personal information be willingly distributed or made available to advertisers or other third parties for commercial business use.

The information you entrust to us is protected on a professionally managed web server and the site uses professionally produced, non-open source software. Digital Texas, along with its network operations and software development agents have made and continue to make substantial efforts to achieve a well protected website operations environment. However, neither Digital Texas, nor any website operator, can completely guarantee that your information will be immune from unauthorized access. Hence, we only require a minimal amount of personal information to use services on the website.

Item C: What about Cookies?

Woodlands Online users are required to have Cookies enabled on their computers. We rely on this technology to allow you to access your Member Only areas and to participate in some services in the general public area of the website. Once initially logged-in, you will not be prompted for your log-in name and password again unless you log out or experience a prolonged period of inactivity.

Woodlands Online also provides web services from third parties, such as advertising systems, on the website and as such these parties may also use Cookies in the course of providing their services to you. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website.

Digital Texas and its third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to report ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to the site.

The Google Analytics features we have implemented are based on Display Advertising (e.g., Remarketing, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, the DoubleClick Campaign Manager integration, or Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting).
Using the Ads Settings, visitors can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads.

Digital Texas also uses Remarketing with Google Analytics to advertise online. Third-party vendors, including Google, may show our ads on sites across the Internet. Digital Texas and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on someone's past visits to your website.

Digital Texas will not facilitate the merging of personally-identifiable information with non-personally identifiable information previously collected from Display Advertising features that is based on the DoubleClick cookie. Data from Google's Interest-based advertising or 3rd-party audience data (such as age, gender, and interests) with Google Analytics is used to produce aggregate audience characteristics for advertisers to consider for advertising on the site and to allow us to better provide content to our audience.

Item D: Is any of my information public?

Please be aware that, while your Registration and site submitted personally identifiable information is not provided to third parties without your consent, except for the unusual aforementioned reasons, many of the listing submission forms require contact information such as name, email address and phone number. In such cases, you can select which pieces of information you want others to see on the live website.

If you use the specific email address area within the websites' forms, your email address will not become available to the public nor to spammers who spider (data mine) the website for such addresses. However, many forms allow you to declare whether to display your personal information or not. We urge you to always use caution and discretion when posting any personally identifying information about yourself or your household.

Item E: Woodlands Online Liability Disclaimer:

Woodlands Online specifically disclaims any liability with regard to any actions resulting from your submissions and postings to the public portion of the website. Generally, any communication which you post to the website is considered to be non-confidential and must comply with the Terms of Service.

Item F: Changes to This Privacy Policy:

Woodlands Online may from time to time update our Privacy Policy. Please review this page from time to time for any changes.

Item G: Data Deletion:

Users making use of Facebook Apps such as Facebook Login can request data deletion through the Facebook site's settings. On the Facebook site, navigate to Settings, use the "Apps and Websites" link in the left menu. Alternatively you can use this direct URL: Facebook Apps and Websites Settings Page. From there, click the "Remove" button along the row labeled "WoodlandsOnline.com". At the prompt, leave the following checkbox checked: "Allow Facebook to notify WoodlandsOnline.com that your login connection was removed. They may offer you another way to log in." and click the "Remove" button. Afterwards, to ensure the immediate removal of your data, click the "View Removed Apps and Websites" button below the list of sites. At the prompt, click the "View" button next to the app labeled "WoodlandsOnline.com". At the next prompt, click "Send Request". If successful, a green circle will appear along with a new link labeled "View Status". You can view the "View Status" link to confirm whether the data has been deleted.

Users registered directly through our site can have their data deleted as well. After logging in, travel to the Account Settings page, located in the top menu of all User Publishing pages. Near the bottom of the Account Settings page, click the "Cancel My Registration" button to delete user account and all data associated with it. Alternatively, if you are having difficulty logging in and wish to request your data for deletion, send us a Contact Us request saying so from the Contact Us - Help page.

Last Updated: October 2021