Information we gather

The GAR Associates, owner and operator of GAR PROS websites, in conjunction with the Albany County, NY will not collect any personal information not voluntarily supplied by the user while subscribing, registering, taking a survey, commenting or any other action in which the user was a willing and obvious participant.

GAR Associates does gather information from users that cannot be used to personally identify visitors. Such information includes, but is not limited to, the user’s general geographic location, browser and operating system information, Internet Service Provider, and other general information used to track trends in readership, personalize your experience, improve our Web site and target communication.

How we protect your information

GAR Associates will never sell, rent, swap or in any way distribute your personally identifiable information to any third-party organization. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising or other uses.  We may disclose personal information if we are required to do so by law or we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law or with legal process, protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Web site, or protect the personal safety, rights or property of ourselves, our users or the public.

Use of cookies 

The GAR PROS websites may use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits, keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. Cookies are small files that a site stores on your computer. Cookies enable the site to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. If you wish, you may disable cookies and you will not be prevented from visiting our site.

IP Addresses

The GAR PROS websites logs Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for site administration and troubleshooting purposes. We also use this information in an aggregate fashion to track access to our Web sites. In addition, your IP address is logged every time you submit a form on our Web site.

Third party links

At our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our Web site. These third party sites h