Who we are
Countrywood Homeowners Association is a non-profit organization chartered to manage neighborhood commons for the 151 residence Countrywood Neighborhood located in Jefferson County, Vestavia Hills, Alabama, USA. The primary US Postal Service Zip Code for the neighborhood is 35243.
Our website address is: https://countrywood35243.com.
Resident Information
Property owner information – such as name and address – is publicly available online thru county tax records. This information in the public domain. We collect additional contact information, such as phone numbers and email address. We also ask for family member information (name and date of birthday) for use in our social events planning, welcome letters, and announcements.
We occasionally publish directory information for the neighborhood, similar to a local phone book for the benefit of the neighborhood.
Online Payments
This website stores transaction completion records from online payments. This information is necessary to manage crediting payments to the correct property. To complete your online payment, we direct your browser to the Paypal website. We also send payment description, amount and payee information for use by Paypal in completing the transaction. The payment information you enter with Paypal, such as credit or debit card numbers or bank information is not stored in any of our systems. The payment processor, Paypal, is responsible for the actual payment clearing. Their privacy policy can be found on the Paypal website. Paypal uses secure encryption to process online payments.
All traffic on this website is encrypted using the latest SSL/TLS security.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. Resident contact information is not shared with outside parties, defined as anyone outside the neighborhood.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Residents can request to have their contact information excluded from our directory by submitting a request to the HOA Board. This removal request only covers non-public information such as phone, email address and additional family members. Publicly available property ownership information will still be kept in our systems.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.