This statement was updated April 7, 2021.
This Privacy Policy describes how the Bike IN Safe program through Indiana Department of Transportation collects and manages personal information and respects your privacy. This policy may be amended from time to time. We encourage visitors to and users of this page to regularly review our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the site following the posting of changes will mean you accept those changes.
Collection of Information
We collect and use information about you in several ways. We receive information directly from you when you send us an email, complete a form on our websites (such as a request for more information or for a request for free safety gear or to schedule a bike safety event), or call us with questions. We collect information electronically when you browse our site.
There are two types of information we collect – anonymous and personal.
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Anonymous Information
Anonymous information is information that cannot be used to identify you individually. We collect anonymous information automatically, using methods such as standard Internet logs and cookies. -
Standard Internet Logs
We collect information for each request to our website in a log file. Each log entry includes the date and time of the request, your IP address, the content you requested, the type of browser you use, any URL your browser provides indicating a website that may have referred you to our site, as well as the results of the request (error diagnostic information).
Cookies
“Cookies” are tiny text files stored by a user’s browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) to save information for use in subsequent interactions with the site. This information can be anything that is known to the website owner and may include but is not limited to any content you provide via a form on the site, content you view, the date and time that you view this content, the products you purchase, or your location information.
We collect no personally identifiable information except for information you explicitly submit on this website. You are not required to accept any cookies to use this site.
We use third-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) to gain insights about the demographics and usage behavior of our visitors and to serve advertising to them across the Internet.
Personal Information
Personal information is information that can be used to identify you individually, such as your name, email address and phone number. We collect personal information only when you explicitly give it to us in form fields on the page. Completing the form fields gives Bike IN Safe permission to contact you.
Use of Collected Data and Google Products We Use
We utilize products that collect, receive, or use end users’ personal data. Data is collected to allow us to provide our services, as well as for remarketing and behavioral targeting, advertising, analytics, and email marketing. Personal data is collected using the following services:
Analytics:
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Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics to help analyze how visitors use this site. Google Analytics utilizes the data it collects to track and examine the use of our website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. Data collected: Cookie, Identifiers for mobile devices and Usage Data. Google’s Privacy Policy | Opt Out | How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites -
Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting
We use the Demographics and Interest Reporting feature in Google Analytics to gain insights regarding the demographics and interests of our website visitors. Data collected: Cookie and Usage Data. Google’s Privacy Policy -
Google Remarketing with Analytics
Google Remarketing with Analytics is a service provided by Google Inc. that connects the tracking activity performed by Google Analytics and its cookies with the Google Display Network and Search-ads campaigns. It allows us to create audiences of our site users and deliver relevant ads based on the actions those users took on our site. Data collected: Cookie and Usage Data. Privacy Policy | Opt Out -
Google Tag Manager
We use this tool to place tracking code. It may collect aggregated data from tags firing. Google’s Privacy Policy
Remarketing and Behavioral Targeting:
We use the following third-party advertising vendors that use cookies to show you our ads across the Internet based on your past visits to our website properties or your previous web browsing behavior.
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Google Ads
We use advertising products offered by Google Ads, potentially including Google Paid Search, Google Display and YouTube. Google Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Google, Inc. that connects data from the Google Ads advertising network with actions performed on our website. Data collected: Cookie and Usage Data. Google Ads’ Privacy Policy | Opt Out
You can generally opt-out of receiving personalized ads from third party advertisers who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising by visiting the opt-out page on the DAA site.
You can opt out of personalized online ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative by visiting the opt-out page of the NAI site.
You may also decline to receive interest-based ads through TrustE/TrustArc’s preferences manager (or if you are located in the European Union click here).
Email Marketing:
We collect email addresses and other personally identifiable information to send transactional emails to our subscribers. We utilize the following products that collect, receive, or use end users’ personal data for this purpose. To learn about how a specific email vendor collects and uses personal data, click on the privacy policy link.
- SendGrid – Privacy Policy
Information We Share
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Anonymous Information
We may disclose statistical information to third parties in aggregate form without revealing any personal details about our users (for example, 60% of our visitors live in Marion County). -
Personal Information
We do not share personal information you voluntarily provide, except as necessary to provide support and services.
Access to Your Data
Upon request, we provide site visitors with access to all information (including proprietary information) that we maintain about them. Consumers can access this information by email. Please contact us at BikeInSafe@indot.in.gov.
Security of Your Data
We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you on our site. Please note that although we take reasonable steps to protect your information, no website or computer system or wireless connection is completely secure.
Future Use of Data
If our information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes here and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses.
Revoking Consent and Data Erasure
End users who reside in the European Economic Area: If you wish to revoke your consent to have information processed by us or any of the vendors we use for data processing, or you wish to request deletion of your personal data, please both contact the website owner where the data was collected/obtained (the Data Controller) and us at BikeInSafe@indot.in.gov.
Privacy Inquiries
If you have concerns or questions regarding our consumer privacy practices, please forward them to BikeInSafe@indot.in.gov.