PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT
FOR THE APPELLATE TAX BOARD WEB
SITE
Thank you for visiting the Web site of the Appellate Tax Board of
Massachusetts. This Web site is designed to make it easier and more efficient
for Massachusetts citizens and tax practitioners to interact with the Appellate
Tax Board. As such, we are committed to protecting your privacy and making your
on-line experience both valuable and secure.
Policy: We realize
that visitors to this Web site are concerned about their privacy. We attempt to
protect your privacy to the maximum extent possible.
Since this policy
applies only to this Web site, you should examine the privacy policy of any
other Web site you access through this Web site, including those of other
Massachusetts state agencies.
A Privacy Partnership: Your privacy
with respect to the use of this Web site results from a partnership between the
Commonwealth and you, the user. At this Web site, we attempt to protect your
privacy to the maximum extent possible.
Because some of the information
that you might transmit to the Commonwealth through Commonwealth Web sites is
subject to Massachusetts General
Laws Chapter 66, Section 10 ("The Public Records Law"), the Commonwealth
cannot ensure absolute privacy. Information that you provide to the Commonwealth
may be made available to members of the public under that law.
This
policy informs you of the information that is collected from you at the
Appellate Tax Board's site and what we do with it. Based on this information,
you can make an informed choice about your use of this site.
Personally Identifiable Information: We use the term "personally
identifiable information" to mean any information that could reasonably be used
to identify you, including your name, address, e-mail address, Social Security
number, birth date, bank account information, credit card information, or any
combination of information that could be used to identify
you.
Information Voluntarily Provided by You: This Web site collects
only the following personally identifiable information voluntarily provided by
you. This Web site will collect your email address if you send an email to the
Appellate Tax Board via this site. This Web site currently enables visitors to
request to be included on a distribution list for the electronic transmission of
the Appellate Tax Board's Findings of Fact and Report. At this time, we do not provide
any other medium for you to send any other personally identifiable information to
this agency through this Web site.
Information Automatically Collected
and Stored by this Site: This Web site does not automatically collect and
store any information through the use of "cookies." However, this site does
collect and store indefinitely your Internet Protocol ("IP") address, which
does not identify you as an individual, but which records the date and time of
your visit, whether a file you have requested exists and how many "bytes" of
information were transmitted to you over the Web from this site. We use your IP
address to assess the frequency of visits to this site and the popularity of its
various pages and functions. We will not attempt to match any personally
identifiable information that you might provide to us, in a context other than
this Web site, with your IP address, unless there are reasonable grounds to
believe that doing so would provide information that is relevant and material to
a criminal investigation.
Policy changes: We will post changes to
this policy at least 30 days before they take effect. After any changes take
effect, all information we collect, if any, will be subject to the new
policy.
Contact Information: For questions about your privacy
while using this Web site, please contact Judith Cannistraro, Esq. at (617)
727-3100.
DEFINITIONS
"Cookies" are files that a Web
site can place on your computer. A cookie file contains unique information that
a Web site can use to track such things as your password, lists of Web pages you
have visited, and the date when you last looked at a specific Web page, or to
identify your session at a particular Web site. A cookie file allows the Web
site to recognize you as you click through pages on the site and when you later
revisit the site. A Web site can use cookies to "remember" your preferences, and
to record your browsing behavior on the Web. Although you can prevent Web sites
from placing cookies on your computer by using your browser's preference menu,
disabling cookies may affect your ability to view or interact with some Web
sites.
"Internet Protocol Address" or "IP
Address" is a series of numbers that identifies each computer and machine
connected to the Internet. An IP address enables a server on a computer network
to send you the file that you have requested on the Internet. The IP address
disclosed to us may identify the computer from which you are accessing the
Internet, or a server owned by your Internet Service Provider. Because it is
machine-specific, rather than person-specific, an IP address is not, in and of
itself, personally identifiable information.
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