Last updated: 3/26/2025
This Privacy Policy ("Policy") governs the manner in which Jefferson County Fire Wire ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, maintains, and discloses information on the website jeffersonfirewire.com (the "Site"). This Policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by us.
Personal Information: We do not directly collect any personal information through our Site. There are no registration forms, comment sections, or contact forms designed to capture personally identifiable information.
Server Logs and Technical Data: Our Site is hosted by a cPanel shared hosting provider (Westelcom). In connection with your use of our Site, standard server logs are automatically generated and maintained. These logs may include your IP address, browser type, access times, pages viewed, and referring URLs. Such information is collected solely for operational and security purposes and is not used to personally identify individual users.
Third-Party Services: Our Site incorporates an embedded Google Maps component on some pages for displaying incident locations. When you interact with these maps, Google may collect information such as your IP address, device data, and other technical details as described in their Privacy Policy. Additionally, if you arrive at our Site via a Facebook post or link, Facebook may record that activity per its own privacy practices.
Since we do not collect personal information directly, our use of the information gathered through server logs and third-party services is limited to the following purposes:
We do not use the information for any marketing or advertising purposes, nor do we combine it with any other data to personally identify you.
Our Site does not use any first-party or third-party cookies for tracking or advertising. However, the embedded Google Maps and any interactions via Facebook referrals may result in those services placing their own cookies on your device. We have no control over these cookies; please refer to Google’s and Facebook’s privacy policies for details on their data practices.
We take reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures to safeguard the information available to us and to protect it against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Our server logs and technical data are stored on systems maintained by our hosting provider and are accessible only to authorized personnel for purposes of Site maintenance and security. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Our Site is not directed toward children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children. If it is discovered that personal information from a child under 13 has been inadvertently collected, we will promptly delete it.
We reserve the right to modify or update this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting to this page, and your continued use of the Site constitutes your acceptance of such changes. We encourage you to review this Policy periodically for any updates.
Some pages on this Site may not be accessible from the home page and are provided only via direct URL. Access to such pages is granted exclusively to authorized users. Any information contained on these pages is confidential and must not be shared, reproduced, or used to reverse-engineer, hack, modify, or otherwise compromise the integrity of our service.
This Site is independently operated by an individual using the name Jefferson County Fire Wire and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Jefferson County Government or any other official agency.