Privacy Policy

Please read the Privacy Policy of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe (“we,” “our,” or “us”) carefully to learn about our information practices on our website (fsst-nsn.gov) and the choices you can make about the collection, use and disclosure of your information. The terms of our Privacy Policy apply to all users of our Website. If you do not agree with the terms of our Privacy Policy, you should immediately stop using our Website.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

You may voluntarily provide us with your personal information, including your name, physical address, email address, phone number, and birth date, as well as any other information you voluntarily provide.

Our Web servers automatically identify the Internet Protocol addresses of each visitor, the type of browser used, the pages viewed and the website last visited before visiting our Website.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use your personal information for any of the following purposes:

• To understand the use of our Website and make improvements
• To respond to specific requests from visitors
• To protect the security or integrity of our Website
• To send newsletters and other notices through your selected opt-in methods
  
  

HOW WE DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION

We will not sell, rent, loan, transfer, or otherwise disclose any personal information to third parties except as set forth in our Privacy Policy.

We may share personal information with third parties under the following circumstances:

• In connection with a court order, subpoena, government investigation, or when otherwise required by law or legal proceedings
• Working with third party companies to support the technical operation of our Website
• Working with third parties that provide services on our behalf and that may use the information solely in conjunction with the specific services they provide for us

Some of these third parties may be involved in administering or supplementing our databases and will need to have access to the information in order to do so. For example, we may retain a third party to verify the accuracy of information within our databases or to gather additional information about individuals within our databases from commercially available sources.

COOKIES

We may use cookies, which are small files placed on your hard drive to identify you when you visit our Website. We use this technology to provide you with a more customized browsing experience. You may set your browser to refuse the cookies, but there may be pages on our Website that you will not be able to access if you do.

Cookies also enable us to learn what brings users to our Website.

We also utilize a third party to track and analyze usage and volume statistical information from the customers of our Website to improve the quality of our Website. No data collected by a third party on our behalf may be owned or used by that third party.

SECURITY

We take reasonable security measures to protect personal information submitted by users from loss and misuse, but cannot guarantee that these measures will prevent a third party from circumventing them and unlawfully intercepting or accessing transmissions or private communications or where an error may occur in the administration of our Website. Some emails sent to or from our Website may not be secure. Please consider this when sending information to us by email. Accordingly, we recommend that you use caution whenever submitting personal information online.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our Website may contain links to other websites that we may not own or operate. We neither can control nor are responsible for the privacy practices or content of these other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of every website that collects personally identifiable information. Our Privacy Policy applies solely to personal information collected on our Website.

POLICY CHANGES

We may modify, alter, or update our Privacy Policy at any time, so we encourage you to review our Privacy Policy frequently. We will not provide individual notice to you of changes to our Privacy Policy, but when we make updates to it we will update the date at the top of our Privacy Policy.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy or regarding your privacy, please contact us using our Contact Form or by mail at:

Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe

603 W Broad Ave.

Flandreau, SD 57028