The
Texas Tree Trails web site does not use cookies except for internal admin
log in sessions. Session cookies are used to track tree ID numbers in
use but no user or visitor information is collected. Upon closing the
browser, the session cookies are
deleted or will expire in a short period of time.
Texas Tree Trails does not collect information from the general
public.
We collect personal information from our volunteers as contact
information for use in setting up tree measurement appointments with
tree owners. This personal information is not used by Texas Tree Trails for any
purpose other than Texas Tree Trails business and volunteer contact.
The Texas Tree Trails name and the Texas Tree Trails logo and all of
it's parts are copyrighted material for use by the Texas Tree Trail
organization, its partners and constituents. No one outside of these
organizations may use our logo, our name or materials in any form without first getting written
permission from the Texas Tree Trails board.
Site Form
and Tree Owner Privacy
For the purpose of creating Virtual
Tours, Texas Tree Trails will obtain permission from tree owners
with trees on
privately owned land for the collection of data and its use, which
includes:
- photographs of the tree(s)
- descriptions of the tree(s)
- publishing of these media on our
web site as part of a virtual tour or single web page and storage of
this data in our database
- any public or private access by interested
parties for viewing of the said trees
- access by Texas Tree Trails
representatives for gathering data such as physical measurements,
botanical measurements and location details for storage in our database.
These materials become the property of Texas Tree Trails.
The tree owner can opt in or out on one or many parameters having to
do with location and personal privacy. These choices are collected with
the owners signature on our Site Form.
Texas Tree Trails will not sell or lend tree owners personal
data, collected tree data or any privacy selections they have made for any reason. We
hold this privacy as a fundamental basis for our virtual tours.
See the Site Form Instructions
(on the Documentation page) for the selectable options and degrees
of privacy available to the tree owner.
Data Collection
Public Tree Locations - All data is considered to be in the
public domain and as such is published and used for public consumption.
Private Tree Locations - All data that has been permitted by
use from the tree owner is used and published in accordance with the
agreement we have with the owner. Any other data collected is held
private. The tree or owner data is not used for any other purpose but
proprietary Tree Trail business.
