Last Updated: September 1, 2023
www.bocagrandehappenings.org is provided by Friends of Boca Grande Community Center, Inc. This website allows individuals, organizations and businesses to post community events taking place in Boca Grande, Florida.
Questions, Concerns or Changes to Your Personal Information?
Please contact us.
Friends of Boca Grande Community Center, Inc.
131 First Street West
P.O. Box 1222
Boca Grande, FL 33921
Phone Number: 941-964-0827
Email Address: info@friendsofbocagrande.org
Personal Information
We collect, process and/or store information from you when you:
- visit this website
- have an account on this website
- log in to this website
- publish an event
If you want to edit your submission, be removed from our records or request a record of the data we have about you, please call us 941-964-0827 or email us at info@friendsofbocagrande.org.
Event Submissions
When you submit an event, all the information you enter is processed, stored and publicized by our website. Only the fields “Your Name” and “Your Email” are not published on the website and are used only for internal administrative purposes.
If you post the event through your bocagrandehappenings.org account, the event entry will be assigned to your account so you can edit/delete the event later. This assignment is only visible through the website’s backend.
Website Accounts
If you have been provided with log-in information for our website, your username, name, email address and password (hashed) is stored in the website’s database. Furthermore, when logging in or adding an event, the website places cookies on your computer (see below).
Media
Images may include embedded location data (EXIF GPS). If you upload images to the website or provide bocagrandehappenings.org with images to upload, the image(s) become(s) publicly accessible. It is your responsibility to remove any location data from your image(s), should you desire to do so, prior to uploading.
Other 3rd Party Providers that Store and Process Your Data
- Our website is hosted through Cloudways. Cloudways holds a server log of all website visits to help with security and diagnostics. The server log contains the visitor’s IP address but no information like name, phone number or email address.
- An automated backup of our website is stored on Google Drive.
Google Analytics
This website www.bocagrandehappenings.org is like millions of other websites using Google Analytics to gather information about site visitors and their behavior. We use Google Analytics to get an idea for:
- how many visits our website gets
- how visitors found our website
- in which content they are interested
- how long they stay on our website and on each individual page
- what region they are from
- what type of computer hardware and internet software they are using
- and similar details
However, we do not send any of your personal information to Google Analytics. The collected information is used only for statistics, which help us evaluate our website’s performance. User-level and event-level data stored by Google Analytics is set to be automatically deleted from Google’s servers after 2 months.
To opt-out of Google Analytics completely, install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
New Relic
We use New Relic including their browser monitoring to watch the performance of our web server and website. This helps us to make sure our website runs smoothly. New Relic doesn’t retain any personal data collected by the browser monitoring and does not create cookies. For more information visit New Relic’s Privacy Policy.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website.
You can delete or disable cookies by using your browser. In Chrome you can delete your cookies by clicking on the three vertical dots in the top right corner, then clicking on “More tools” and then on “Clear browsing data…”. The operation is similar in other browsers, such as Edge or Firefox.
- If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an event, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day. - Google Analytics (see description above) stores 1st party cookies on each visitor’s computer.
Content Hosted by Third Parties
We may embed content on our website from third parties such as Google Maps. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
However, since this embedded content is not hosted by our web host, we do not have control of the cookies they use or what personal information they collect. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to them. Please see the third parties’ privacy policies for more information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, as soon as they are posted on this page.
Complaints
Please also contact us at with any complaints regarding your personal data. We will take your complaint seriously, investigate it and take necessary measures where applicable. This does not affect your right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.