Privacy Policy

Records

Records received by the State of North Dakota from websites are subject to the same controls and uses as records collected by governmental offices visited in person. The Legislative Council provides security for information provided to it and does not sell information received. The Legislative Council may be required to disclose collected information pursuant to a court order. In addition, the Legislative Council may be authorized to share this information with other state agencies for purposes of child support, law enforcement, collection of debts owed to the state or its political subdivisions and any other purpose authorized by law. Information not specifically addressed in this policy must be disclosed pursuant to the North Dakota Open Records Law.

Information collected on this site is retained in accordance with the record retention schedules developed by Legislative Council.

Security

In order to protect the information being gathered, this website has security measures in place, including firewalls, encryption, and authenticated access to internal databases where needed. All personal information collected from visitors will be encrypted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption protocol when being transmitted across the web.

Website Analytics

The Legislative Council uses Google Analytics to create summary statistics used for administering the performance of the website, diagnosis of problems, and determining which information is of most interest to the public. This information is not identifiable by person and is only for summary statistical analysis.

Information gathered may include:

  • Device, browser, and operating system used to access the website.
  • Visitor behavior, such as how many times a user visits the site or how much time is spent viewing a page.
  • IP address.
  • Dates and times users access the website.
  • Type of browser and operating system used to access the website.
  • Referring channel through which users come to the website.
  • Search terms used when finding the website on a search engine.

More information about the data collected by Google Analytics can be found on following Google support page: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Personal Information

Contact information will be collected from an application only if a response is necessary to verify purchases or if there is a need to correspond with visitors.

If during your visit to our site you send an email, the email address will be collected as a means to reply to you. We may forward your message to another agency for appropriate action.

Cookies will be used under specific conditions.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact us.