Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts does not read any of your private online communications.

Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts and Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts collects and uses your personal information to operate the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts and its affiliates. Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts, in order to determine what Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts pages, or register with Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts site or services, a cookie helps Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts at Multimediateam@fljud13.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.