Lake
Erie Seaway Trail Center, Inc. Privacy
Policy, Policy of Non-discrimination, and Sexual Harassment Policy
Lake Erie Seaway Trail Center, Inc. (“LESTC”)
collects no personal information about you when you visit our web site unless
you choose to provide this information to us. However, we collect and store
certain information automatically. Here is how we handle information about your
visit to our web site.
Sharing
and Usage
We will never share, sell, or rent individual
personal information with anyone without your advance permission or unless
ordered by a court of law. Information submitted to us is only available to
employees managing this information for purposes of contacting you or sending
you emails based on your request for information and to contracted service
providers for purposes of providing services relating to our communications
with you.
What
We Collect and Store Automatically
If you do nothing during your visit but
browse through the web site, read pages, or download information, we will
gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This
information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and
store only the following information about your visit:
The
Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a
private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you
connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a
number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are
browsing the Web) from which you access our web site.
The
type of browser and operating system used to access our site.
The
date and time you access our site.
The
pages you visit.
If
you linked to our web site from another web site, the address of that web
site.
We
use the information we collect to count the number and type of visitors to
the different pages on our site, and to help us make our site more useful
to visitors like you.
If
You Send Us E-mail
You may choose to provide us with personal
information, such as an e-mail with a comment or question. We use the
information to improve our service to you or to respond to your request. Except
for authorized law enforcement investigations, we do not share our e-mail with
any other outside organizations.
Links
to Other Sites
The LESTC web site has links to partners and
other sites. When you link to another site, you are no longer on our site and
are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.
Restriction
of Liability
LESTC makes no claims, promises or guarantees
about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this web site
and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents of
this web site. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed or statutory,
including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party
rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and freedom
from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents of this web site or
its hyperlinks to other Internet resources. Reference in this web site to any
specific commercial products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade,
firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public,
and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by LESTC.
All inquiries regarding LESTC
should be submitted to:
Non-Discrimination
No person,
in whatever relation with the Lake
Erie Seaway Trail Center,
shall be subject to discrimination in regard to admission or employment or
access to programs or activities on the basis of gender, age, race, color, disability,
national ethnic origin, religion, or sexual orientation.
Copyright
2008 Lake Erie Seaway Trail Center, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Sexual Harassment
On January 1, 2007, Governor Eliot Spitzer issued Executive
Order No. 5, reissuing Executive Order No. 19 which prohibits Sexual Harassment
in the workplace. Lake Erie
Seaway Trail
Center supports this
executive order in its entirety.
Sexual harassment in the workplace is not merely an offensive
working condition, it is against the law. Like harassment on the basis of
color, race, religion or national origin, sexual harassment which discriminates
on the basis of gender is a violation of Section 703 of Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act. of 1964 as amended, and the New York State Human Rights Law.
On September 23, 1980, the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission approved final guidelines, designed to eliminate instances of sexual
harassment in the workplace. In accordance with these guidelines, effective
November 10, 1980, unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors or
other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature will constitute sexual
harassment when:
1. Submission
to the conduct is either an explicit or implicit term or condition of
employment or participation in our non-profit mission as a volunteer or guest;
or
2. Submission
to or rejection of the conduct is used as a basis for an employment (paid or
volunteer) decision affecting the person rejecting or submitting to the
conduct, or
3. The
conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an affected
person's work performance, or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive
work environment.
Everyone is entitled to a working environment free from sexual
harassment. Sexual harassment has devastating economic, psychological and
physical effects on its victims. Its cost to the State is enormous in both
human and financial terms, including the replacement of personnel who leave
their jobs, increased use of health benefit plans due to emotional and physical
stress, and decline in individual and workplace productivity. Sexual harassment
has no place in the workplace. Ignoring the problem is tolerating the problem;
sexual harassment will not be tolerated. Lake Erie Seaway
Trail Center
supports this policy and will adhere to the given mandates by prohibiting
sexual harassment in all phases of employment or participation.
Likewise, Lake
Erie Seaway Trail Center
will continue to treat sexual harassment as a form of employee or volunteer
misconduct and sanctions will continue to be enforced against employees
engaging in sexual harassment, and against supervisory and managerial personnel
who knowingly allow such behavior to continue.
Employees or volunteers who feel that discrimination has
occurred on the basis of sexual harassment have certain rights under the law
and have various administrative and legal remedies available to them. However,
it has always been our goal to address and resolve these matters at the
workplace through an internal discrimination complaint procedure. Therefore, if
an employee or volunteer of Lake
Erie Seaway Trail Center
feels that he or she is a victim of sexual harassment, it should promptly be
reported, in confidence, to:
President
Lake Erie Seaway
Trail Center
716-627-2067
(alternatively, any
board member may also be approached with an initial complaint. Current board
members can be identified by visiting the organization’s web site at
www.lakeerieseawaytrail.com)
Swift, thorough and confidential investigations of allegations
of sexual harassment will be conducted on a case-by-case basis and appropriate
measures, including disciplinary actions, will be taken if the alleged sexual
harassment is proven.
Overall responsibility for handling complaints of sexual
harassment will rest with the President. It will be the responsibility of all
staff and members to cooperate with such investigations, with due regard for
confidentiality to ensure protection of the complainant and the accused.
Additionally, there will be appropriate follow-up to determine if sexual
harassment has been effectively stopped.
Nothing in this policy statement shall be construed to enlarge
upon or limit or abridge the rights of any person under the United States or State Constitutions or the
Statutes of the United States
or the State of New York.
