Society Website Policies

The Society's website is open for all to visit. For interested parties, the Society has posted its various website policies regarding Cookies, Privacy, and Terms of Use.

Terms Of Use

The Macon County Historical Society website, mctnhs.com, is free for viewing and use by website visitors. By continuing to view this website, visitors relinquish and waive all claims of liability against mctnhs.com, its owners, employees, providers, subcontractors, clients, agents, or any other entity connected with the office of The Macon County Historical Society. Other than viewing the mctnhs.com website via the Internet, the contents of the mctnhs.com website are not available for any purpose.

Privacy Policy

Personal Data

The mctnhs.com website does not collect, store, or share personal data.

Derivative Data

The mctnhs.com website does not collect, store, or share IP Addresses and Geolocation Information. The browser's data examination helps determine the most effective delivery of website content; however, this data is neither stored nor shared.

Cookie Usage

Cookie data usage takes place on a temporary and limited basis during a viewer's visit. This data usage is to help determine efficient methods to deliver content. This information is deleted when the website is exited.

Social Network Data

The mctnhs.com website does not collect, store, or share social media-related data.

Mobile Data

The mctnhs.com website does not collect, store, or share any information relating to mobile device IDs or manufacturers.

Third-Party Data

The mctnhs.com website does not share or sell information to third parties.

Website Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies?

In the context of computers and the Internet, Cookies are small files that contain technical information about browsing activity. Whenever someone visits a website, the website's server sends a Cookie to the device that is being used to access the website. The device will store the Cookie in a file that's located within the visitor's web browser.

As pages are visited, the website will attempt to use the stored Cookies to respond to the visitor in a more personalized way, such as remembering certain data, providing faster page load times, etc.

How are cookies used?

There are many types of Cookies. The ones more frequently used by mctnhs.com are for performance purposes, or to enhance the visitor's experience.

The other type of Cookie being used is one that temporarily keeps track of items that the visitor might place in a shopping cart. If Cookies are being blocked, accurate tracking of items in the visitor's shopping cart may be disabled. This collection process is temporary and the related information is removed once an order has been submitted to the credit card clearing agency.

These are the only two types of Cookies employed by the mctnhs.com website. No personal information is collected for use in these Cookies.