Revised: 9-5-2025
Lake to River Economic Development Privacy Policy
Lake to River Economic Development (also referred to as “us”, “we” or “our”) is committed to safeguarding the privacy of those who use our website. Lake to River Economic Development seeks to ensure that our high standards for data privacy extend to everyone who uses our website from any place in the world, and that how Lake to River Economic Development collects and uses personal data is simple and clear to understand.
Lake to River Economic Development will not sell, rent, share or otherwise disclose your personal data to anyone, except as necessary to provide our services or as otherwise described in this Policy, without first providing you with notice and the opportunity to consent.
Who Does This Policy Include?
• Individuals (also referred to as “users”, “your” or “you”) who visit our website.
Who Does This Policy Exclude?
• Ohio Land of Leader’s website links to third-party websites that are not the subject of this Privacy Policy. We recommend you read the Privacy Policy of any third-party websites that you visit.
• Ohio Land of Leader’s website is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. As such, we will not knowingly collect personal data from any person under the age of 18.
Types Of Data Lake to River Economic Development Collects, Stores And Uses When User Completes The “[Collect Data]” Form Or Signs Up To Receive Emails*
• Name
• Job title
• Mobile telephone number
• Email address
• Internet protocol (IP) address
• Company name
• Company address, including country of origin
• Company phone number
• Company size
• Business focus and industry
How This Information Is Used
• To track website performance metrics in order to measure them against key performance indicators. This allows us to make our marketing campaigns more effective and efficient.
• To aid strategic development (e.g. If Lake to River Economic Development advertises on weather.com, we track when you click on Ohio Land of Leader’s website from that site. If Lake to River Economic Development does not get any traffic from weather.com, we may stop advertising on weather.com). This helps us tailor our digital advertising so we can more effectively connect with target users.
• To audit usage of the website. This helps us improve our website content to make it more engaging and useful to users.
• To track whether users open emails from Lake to River Economic Development. This helps us improve future emails and makes them more meaningful to users.
• To send periodic mission-related communications from Lake to River Economic Development and JobsOhio.
Cookies
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information, and they can be used by websites to make a user’s experience more efficient. Applicable law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of our site. For all other types of cookies, we need your permission.
Some cookies are placed by third-party services that appear on our page. Lake to River Economic Development uses cookies to personalize content and advertisements, to provide social media features and to analyze traffic to our website. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing vendors who may combine it with other information that you have provided to them or that they have collected from your use of their services. Lake to River Economic Development uses the following cookies:
• Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
• Statistic cookies help website owners understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
• Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites and for remarketing efforts. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.
You can configure your web browser to refuse cookies or to notify you when a website attempts to send you a cookie. You can also check your hard drive for cookie files and delete them from your computer. If you disable cookies, you may find a certain section of the Lake to River Economic Development website does not work properly. For more information, visit https://allaboutcookies.org/.
Web Beacons
Certain pages on the Lake to River Economic Development website and social media pages may contain web beacons (also known as Internet tags, and pixel tags), which are small bits of code embedded in pages or images on the website and social media pages (“Web Beacons”). The Web Beacons may be used with Cookies to understand how you interact with us, so we can manage and improve those interactions. We may also include Web Beacons in e-mails we send to you to learn if messages have been opened, acted on, or forwarded. This helps us improve future messages and makes them more meaningful to you.
Your Rights
Lake to River Economic Development will collect and process your personal data only when we have 1) your consent to do so; 2) an agreement in place with you or your company; 3) a legal obligation to do so; 4) another legitimate business interest or 5) to protect your vital interest or that of another person.
We would like to send you information about our services that we think you will like. Please note your consent is for Lake to River Economic Development and its sales and marketing vendors, and JobsOhio and its sales and marketing vendors. Lake to River Economic Development and JobsOhio have agreements with each of these entities that are compliant with the GDPR.
Lake to River Economic Development wants to ensure you are aware of the following data protection rights where we rely on your consent to process your personal data:
• The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Lake to River Economic Development corrects any inaccurate or incomplete information.
• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Lake to River Economic Development delete your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Lake to River Economic Development restricts processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Lake to River Economic Development transfer the data it has collected to you or another organization, under certain conditions.
Lake to River Economic Development retains personal information for the length of time needed to carry out the processing purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We also retain information for related business purposes, security, legal compliance, and disputes and claims handling, consistent with our retention policy and as permitted or required by applicable law.
You may email info@laketoriverohio.org with any request, and we will respond within 30 days. Subject to any exemptions provided by law, if you exercise your right to erasure, your personal data will be deleted from Lake to River Economic Development’s systems, and you will receive written confirmation of the deletion. Lake to River Economic Development will also notify JobsOhio and its vendors and affiliates of your request and direct them to also delete your personal data.
Lake to River Economic Development may disclose your information to business partners or third-party data processors in accordance with a properly-executed court order or as otherwise required by law. Lake to River Economic Development will fully cooperate with law enforcement or a court order requiring it to disclose the identity or usage details of any user of our website.
Log Data
An Lake to River Economic Development vendor may collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include your computer’s IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics. This data is anonymous and is aggregated for consumer privacy.
Google Analytics 4 (“GA4”)
Lake to River Economic Development may use GA4, an analytical tool that focuses on data privacy and has many features of privacy control to comply with majority privacy laws, particularly the GDPR (e.g. GA4 does not log or store individual IP addresses).
Security
Lake to River Economic Development has commercially appropriate measures to secure and to ensure user information is protected against unauthorized access or use, alteration, unlawful or accidental loss or destruction. We also have systems in place to authenticate, monitor, audit and encrypt your information. We keep your personal data for the allowable period of time inclusive of certain conditions. Nevertheless, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee that information in our care will be absolutely safe from intrusion by others. It is important that you protect against unauthorized access to your account information and your computer.
Transfer of Data
Using the Internet to collect and process information about you may involve the transmission of data internationally. Therefore, by browsing Lake to River Economic Development’s site, you acknowledge and agree to the processing of your information in this way. By agreeing to Ohio Land of Leader’s transfer of your information to third parties, you are deemed to have consented to any transfer of your information to a third party that Lake to River Economic Development works with outside the European Union.
GDPR Compliance
Lake to River Economic Development and JobsOhio have taken steps to ensure that personal data of individuals within the European Union is secure, complying with the GDPR.
Revisions
By visiting the site, you are legally bound by the terms of this policy. Lake to River Economic Development reserves the right to revise, update or change the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice to you. All modifications or changes shall be effective upon posting the updated policy on the Lake to River Economic Development website. You should visit this page regularly to review the current terms. Your continued use of the site will be deemed as irrevocable acceptance of any revisions to this policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about Lake to River Economic Development’s GDPR compliance or data privacy or would like to submit a request related to your data, please email info@laketoriverohio.org.
