The Oldsmar Library recognizes the
need to protect your right to privacy. Each individual borrower, regardless of
age, is guaranteed confidentiality regarding library registration and borrowing
records under Florida State Statute 257.261.
Under the USA Patriot Act of 2001, the library must comply with court orders for
library patron records. Records may include materials used and PC, electronic
device, Internet and e-mail records. The law may prohibit staff from informing
you of such a search.
Privacy of personal information requested by the library:
- The Library has in place certain
technological and procedural security functions in order to protect your
personal information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. In
addition, the Library will use reasonable efforts to remove your personal
information when you request it or when it is no longer needed. The Oldsmar
Library cannot, however, guarantee that loss, misuse, alteration,
destruction or retention will never occur, and does not make representations
to this effect.
- Patrons who have supplied their
e-mail address as part of their registration record may receive notices by
e-mail. The Library will use e-mail addresses within the patron's record
only for library business.
- Under Florida law, e-mail addresses
are public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in
response to a public-records request, do not send electronic mail to this
entity. Instead, contact the library by phone or in writing.
- Patron telephone numbers in
registration records are utilized in contacting the patron regarding a
library service they have requested or to receive automated hold and overdue
notices. Mailing addresses are used to send letters regarding information
directly related to library services and programs. Such addresses and
numbers are not used for any other purpose and are not sold to outside
parties.
Privacy in the library:
Library staff will not confirm your
presence in the Library to anyone by phone or in person to any person except
a parent or guardian. Library staff may announce a person's name and request
that they come to a service desk.
Privacy on our website:
- In order to improve the usefulness of
our website, we automatically collect and maintain statistical information
from our site's data logs. This is designed to assist the Library in
compiling user statistics and in promotion of the Library and its programs
and services. The information gathered cannot be attributed to a specific
user.
- Some of the services available to you
from our website will require the bar code number from your library card
for verification purposes. Outside vendors do not have access to our records
and the bar code number is not passed to an outside vendor's server.
- When using computers inside the
library, you may utilize outside websites that collect personal information
and place cookies on the computer's hard drive. Such cookies may exist until
the computer is re-booted, and could be accessed by others. A cookie is
information that a website puts on a computer's hard drive so that it can
remember something about the user later.
- The library's website includes links
to outside sites. Those sites, and any other you may choose to go to, may
have different privacy statements and the Library's Privacy Statement does
not apply to such sites. The Oldsmar Public Library is not responsible for
protecting personal information gathered by outside Web sites.
- The Oldsmar Public Library's effort
to protect your privacy does not apply to e-mail and other electronic
communications that you send and receive via the Internet using our
computers. On the Internet, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, CONSULT THE LIBRARY'S CONFIDENTIALITY POLICY