Your Privacy Is Important To Us
We want you to know that when you join Belmont Harbor Neighbors (“BHN ”), attend a Belmont Harbor Neighbors' Council sponsored event, or use our Belmont Harbor Neighbors' Council Internet Web site (www.BelmontHarborNeighbors.org), your personally identifiable information will be respected and protected.

Information
When you join BHN or subscribe to receive communications from BHN on this site, or if you are already a BHN member, we collect specific information including but not limited to your name, address, phone numbers, BHN affiliation, email address, and a password. This information is used to communicate with you on your BHN status and notify you of any special notices or events for which you might be eligible.

Guests
It's not required that you be a Lake View Citizens' Council member to receive communications from Lake View Citizens' Council on the Lake View Citizens' Council website in order to participate in Lake View Citizens' Council. However, Lake View Citizens' Council membership is required before voting in the annual BHN election or completing an online survey.

Online Surveys
We value the opinions of our residents and merchants; BHN ’s mission is to improve our services as well as the quality of life in Lake View. Therefore, from time to time, we will conduct research surveys. We may contract with third parties to perform this type of research but in such cases survey respondents’ identities and information will be protected by a confidentiality agreement between BHN and the contractor.

Third-Party Communications
LVCC partner or member third party companies, for the purpose of providing you with information or promotional opportunities that may be of interest to you, may include certain marketing or promotional messages in BHN Communications. On occasion, we may facilitate reputable, carefully-screened, BHN not-for-profit partners or companies whose services or products may be of interest to you to have one-time access to the BHN print mailing list for the purpose of sending a BHN Board approved mailing. (You may unsubscribe by following the “Opting Out” instructions below.) As a general rule, however, no third-party is ever provided with your telephone number. Only BHN Board approved third-party vendors with whom BHN has entered into a confidentiality agreement are provided with your email address and then only for the explicit purpose of sending communications approved by BHN . The BHN Board assesses a charge to any for-profit organization who asks to appear in BHN materials. Only BHN member organizations may purchase space in BHN materials.

Emails
We use email addresses to deliver information relevant to our residents and member organizations, such as meeting notices, safety alerts, community issues, property tax reform information, and other City of Chicago notifications. As with website subscription information, your email address will not be intentionally disclosed to other email recipients in general communications”. You always have the option of opting out of emails as described below under “Opting Out”.

Cookies
Cookies are small bits of information that are stored on your computer hard drive by your web browser. Cookies help establish a user session and allow our server to correctly provide site users with the appropriate information. We also use cookies to ensure you obtain the information you request and to authenticate your authority to access the site. We currently do not use cookies to track the usage of BHN website but may in the future in order to improve the site according to our residents' needs.

Domain Names
In general, you can visit most parts of the BHN website site without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. Our web servers identify the domain names of visitors, but this is not captured as personally identifiable information. This information is aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed and similar site usage information in order to know how to improve the site's content.

Other Uses
LVCC may disclose personal information if required to do so by law, court order, or as requested by a governmental or law enforcement authority, or in the good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable. Situations may include: to perform, maintain or enforce contracts formed between BHN and its residents, to protect the rights or properties of BHN , its residents or others, or when we have reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with or damage to our rights or properties, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities.

Opting-Out
As a Belmont Harbor Neighbors' Council member, BHN website registered user or BHN sponsored event attendee, you will occasionally receive direct mail pieces and emails. We hope you will find these updates interesting and informative. Of course, if you would rather not receive this information electronically, you can email info@BelmontHarborNeighbors.org. In addition, emails sent to you will also contain a message on how to opt out of that type of communication in the future.

Consent
By using this web site or joining BHN , you agree to the collection and use, consistent with applicable laws, of information available on or through this site (including your personal identifying information) by BHN , its branches, partners, contractors and permitted agents. Should a change to our privacy policy occur, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of the nature of the information we collect, how we use it, and the circumstances under which we disclose it. Unless otherwise required or permitted by applicable law, we do not intend to use your personally identifiable information collected through this site or by joining BHN in ways not described here without first providing you the opportunity to opt-out of that use.

Other sites
This privacy policy covers only the Belmont Harbor Neighbors' Council website site, and does not cover any other site, including those related to this site such as the individual branches or member organizations. BHN does not control the policies of other sites (including those we may link to). We have no control over other sites' privacy policies or use of any personal information you or others may share with them.

How to contact us
If you have comments or questions about this Privacy Policy, please email us at info@BelmontHarborNeighbors.org. Please reference this Privacy Policy in those communications.