We value the support of our members, donors and others who support the New York State Wildlife Rehabilitation Council (NCWC) through visiting our web site. All of the Council's web pages are accessible without providing any personal information. We know that protecting personal information is important to our supporters. We will collect no personally identifying information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us.

If you have questions or concerns regarding our site's privacy statement, contact NCWC directly at PO Box 63, Lake George, NY 12845 or email beltoodles725@aol.com. This policy may be updated periodically.

General Browsing Information: If you visit our site to read or download information, we may collect and store the following general information in order to analyze trends, gather broad demographic information, and monitor site traffic patterns that can help us further develop and improve the design and functionality of our site: your computer's IP address, browser type, and operating system, the date and time you access our site, the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site; and the various pages that you visit while on our site.

Personally-Identifiable Information: The only personal information we collect directly via the website is information submitted by licensed wildlife rehabilitators requesting that their information be listed on our site. NCWC may collect personal information indirectly through our print-out & mail-in forms for member registration and merchandise purchase. Contact information from the registration forms is used to get in touch with the user when necessary, but is never made available to third parties without the user's consent. We do not use this information for any purpose other than as stated on our forms.

Publicly Sharing Your Information: We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others.

Cookies: A cookie is a small file stored on your hard disk drive. Cookies may contain different types of information such as site preferences and login information. The NCWC website does not use cookies.

Links to Other Web Sites: The NCWC website contains links to other websites outside of the NCWC website. The Commission is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these websites.

COPYRIGHT STATEMENT: You are welcome to make a link to any of the Web pages NCWC has published on the Internet. There is no need to request permission.

Not all of the information on our site is in the public domain. Some images/graphics are licensed for use under the copyright law, and the use of the NCWC logo is restricted to official publications.