Privacy Policy

The Galveston Wharves maintains this website as a public service and is committed to protecting the privacy and security of its users and to making their on-line experience enjoyable, secure, comfortable, and valuable. The following is the privacy policy for this site (all pages starting with www.portofgalveston.com):

1. Our site uses cookies to save passwords so that visitors do not have to re-enter passwords upon revisiting our site. Note: A cookie file contains unique information a website can use to track such things as passwords, lists of pages you’ve visited on the site, and the date when you last looked at a specific page or to identify your session at our website. A cookie is often used in commercial websites to identify the items selected for a specific shopping cart application.
2. Our site’s registration forms and/or surveys may require users to give us contact information (e.g. name and email address) and access to such information is restricted to Galveston Wharves’ personnel on a need to know basis except as may otherwise be required by state or federal law. 
   If personal information is requested on the website or volunteered by a user, state and federal laws, including the United States Privacy Act of 1974, may protect it.  However, once a user provides such information, it may be subject to public inspection and copying if not protected by state or federal law. 
3. This site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, unauthorized access, misuse, or alteration of the information under our control. The maximum encryption available (256-bit) is utilized on our secure server. No system, however, can be guaranteed to be completely safe.
4. If you send us an electronic mail message with a question or comment that contains personally identifying information, or fill out a form that e-mails us this information, we will use the personally-identifiable information only to respond to your request and analyze trends. We may redirect your message to another government agency or person who is in a better position to answer your question.
5. If you no longer wish to receive emails from the Galveston Wharves, you can edit your subscriber settings or unsubscribe from future mailings by emailing the Galveston Wharves at communications@portofgalveston.com. All emails sent to subscribers will also contain a link to unsubscribe from future communications.
6. This site contains links to other websites. The Galveston Wharves is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
7. Our site uses visitors’ IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. The IP address also helps identify visitors and gather broad demographic information.
8. For site management functions, information, excluding unique identifiers, is collected for analysis and statistical purposes. This information is not reported or used in any manner that would reveal personally identifiable information. Nor will this information be released to any outside parties unless the Galveston Wharves is required to do so in connection with law enforcement investigations or other legal proceedings, or as otherwise required by state or federal law.
   We use Log analysis tools to create summary statistics that are used to assess what information is of most interest to users, determine technical design specifications, and identify system performance or problem areas. The following information is collected for this analysis:
   
   System date– The date and time of the user/client request.
   User Name – The name of the user that accessed the FTP server.
   User Client IP address – The hostname (or IP address if DNS is disabled) of the user/client requesting access.
   Method – The request method used.
   Universal Resource Identifier (URI)– The location of a resource on the server.
   Query string of the URI – Anything after the question mark in a URI.
   Status– The status code the server returned to the user/client.
   Bytes Sent/Received– The number of bytes sent/received by the user.
   Time Taken– The length of time the action took.
   HTTP header, “user-agent”– The user-agent information includes the type of browser, its version, and the operating system it’s running on.
   HTTP header, “referrer”– The referrer specifies the page from which the client accessed the current page.
   
9. Should this site make forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users, please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

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Galveston Wharves Privacy Policy approved March 26, 2024

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Chairman, Victor Pierson