Privacy Statement

Collecting Information

Thank you for visiting the Blacksburg Transit website and reviewing our privacy policy. The following statement has been developed to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy. Our privacy policy is clear: We will collect NO personal information about you when you visit www.btransit.org unless you choose to provide that information to us.

We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.

The Blacksburg Transit website does not place any "cookies" or other identifiable information on your computer.

(A cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.)

If You Send Us Personal Information

The security of the personal information you provide to Blacksburg Transit is very important to us. If you choose to provide us with personal information -- as in an e-mail to the customer advocate, or someone else within Blacksburg Transit, or by filling out a form with your personal information and submitting it to us through our website -- we use that information to respond to your message and to help us get you the information you have requested. We treat emails the same way we treat letters sent to us. We do not collect personal information for any purpose other than to respond to you. We only share the information you give us with another government agency if your inquiry relates to that agency, or as otherwise required by law. Moreover, we do not create individual profiles with the information you provide or to give it to any private organizations. Blacksburg Transit does not collect information for commercial marketing.

Links to Other Sites

Our Website has links to other government agencies. In a few cases we link to private organizations, with their permission. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Kids' Page

We at Blacksburg Transit are especially concerned about protecting children's privacy. We hope parents and teachers are involved in children's Internet explorations. It is particularly important for parents to guide their children when children are asked to provide personal information on line. Blacksburg Transit's homepage for kids encourages children to send email messages to Blacksburg Transit. We ask children to email ideas to our webmaster. Providing any personal information is entirely optional. We specifically ask children to get their parents' permission before providing any information on line -- at our site or any other site -- and hope parents will always be involved in those decisions. Most importantly, when children do provide information through the Blacksburg Transit website, it is only used to enable us to respond to the writer, and not to create profiles of children.

Additional Information

The Blacksburg Transit reserves the right to alter our Privacy Policy as business needs require. Any changes will be posted to our web site in a timely manner. This statement and the policies outlined here are not intended to and do not give you any contractual or other legal rights.