Privacy Policy

Website Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the O’Fallon Public Library Web site and for reviewing our privacy policy.

The most important thing for you to know about this privacy policy is that the O'Fallon Public Library collects no personal information about you when you visit this Web site unless you choose to provide that information.

Here is how the O'Fallon Public Library handles information about your visit to its Web site:

Information is collected and stored automatically using Google Analytics.

If all you do is look around the Web site, read text, or download information, the Library will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically.

This information does not identify you personally.

The following information about your visit is automatically collected about your visit:

1. The date and time you visit
2. The pages you view
3. If you linked to the O'Fallon Public Library Web site from another Web site.
4. The search terms used to find the O’Fallon Library Web Site
5. The type of browser and operating system used
6. The city and state your IP address is located in

The O'Fallon Public Library uses this information to help make its site more functional for visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to its site and the kinds of information they seek.

If You Send Personal Information to the O’Fallon Public Library

If you choose to provide us with personal information -- sending an e-mail to Library staff members or filling out an online form with your personal information and submitting it through the O’Fallon Public Library Web site -- the Library uses that information only to respond to your message and to help get you the information you have requested.

All Information Subject to Open Record Laws

Information  sent to the O’Fallon Library, is generally subject to state open record laws except as provided by Federal or Illinois State Law.

Illinois Library Record Confidentiality Act

(75 ILCS 70/1) (from Ch. 81, par. 1201)
Sec. 1. (a) The registration and circulation records of a library are confidential information. No person shall publish or make any information contained in such records available to the public unless:
(1) required to do so under a court order; or
(2) the information is requested by a sworn law enforcement officer who represents that it is impractical to secure a court order as a result of an emergency where the law enforcement officer has probable cause to believe that there is an imminent danger of physical harm. The information requested must be limited to identifying a suspect, witness, or victim of a crime. The information requested without a court order may not include the disclosure of registration or circulation records that would indicate materials borrowed, resources reviewed, or services used at the library. If requested to do so by the library, the requesting law enforcement officer must sign a form acknowledging the receipt of the information. A library providing the information may seek subsequent judicial review to assess compliance with this Section.

This subsection shall not alter any right to challenge the use or dissemination of patron information that is otherwise permitted by law.

(b) This Section does not prevent a library from publishing or making available to the public reasonable statistical reports regarding library registration and book circulation where those reports are presented so that no individual is identified therein.
(b‑5) Nothing in this Section shall be construed as a privacy violation or a breach of confidentiality if a library provides information to a law enforcement officer under item (2) of subsection (a).
(c) For the purpose of this Section, (i) "library" means any public library or library of an educational, historical or eleemosynary institution, organization or society; (ii) "registration records" includes any information a library requires a person to provide in order for that person to become eligible to borrow books and other materials and (iii) "circulation records" includes all information identifying the individual borrowing particular books or materials.
(Source: P.A. 95‑40, eff. 1‑1‑08.)

(75 ILCS 70/2) (from Ch. 81, par. 1202)
Sec. 2. This Act may be cited as the Library Records Confidentiality Act.
(Source: P.A. 86‑1475.)

Receiving Information from the O’Fallon Public Library

Visitors to the Web site receive information from the O’Fallon Public Library only in response to their own requests or if they have specifically opted-in to a particular mailing list provided by the O’Fallon Public Library or to have information about their account sent via email.

Links to Other Sites

The O’Fallon Public Library Web site has links to many other governmental, commercial, educational, and individual Web sites. Once you follow a link from the O’Fallon Public Library Web site to another site, you are subject to that new site's privacy policy rather than to the Library's privacy policy.

Contact

If you want more information about the O’Fallon Public Library's privacy policy, contact:

Jamie Doil
Reference & Technology Manager
O'Fallon Public Library