Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to https://www.ocwcog.org/ and Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments include https://www.ocwcog.org/. The Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments website is an acupuncture website. By using the Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments’ website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
If you purchase Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments’ products and services online, we collect billing and credit card information either on site or with a third party vendor. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.
Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your:
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.
Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments and its affiliates.
Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments 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 transferred to the third party. Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments may share data with trusted partners to help 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 Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments may disclose your personal information, without notice, 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 Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments, or the public.
Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments, in order to determine what Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments website.
The Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments website may 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 Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments pages, or register with Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments’s site or services, a cookie helps Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments 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 Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments 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 Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments services or websites you visit.
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments uses the following methods for this purpose:
SSL Protocol
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.
Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information. Users may opt-out of receiving any or all communications from third-party partners of Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments by contacting us here:
Web page: http://ocwcog.org/privacy-policy/
Email: info@ocwcog.org
Phone: (541) 967-8630
From time to time, Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments, you may opt out of such communications by referring to the bottom of the email.
Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments at:
Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments
1400 Queen Ave SE, Suite 201,
Albany, OR 97322
Email: info@ocwcog.org
Phone: (541) 967-8720
Effective as of January 1, 2026
