Introduction
The Economic Development Authority (EDA) of Appomattox County thanks you for visiting our website. We hope that you find the site to be both informative and easy to navigate. Confidentiality is an important component of economic development, and is one in which the EDA takes both extreme pride and urgent care to protect. Therefore, the following privacy information is being provided to increase your level of comfort concerning our website.

Definitions
Personal information is hereby defined as information that can identify you as an individual or company, including your name, address, email address and phone number. Personal information is information not otherwise available to the general public.

Non-personal information is hereby defined as information that cannot identify you as an individual or company.

Personal Information Collection And Use
Personal privacy is extremely important to the EDA. Therefore, this site does not collect any personal information unless you choose to provide that information to us and, furthermore, personal information is not a requirement to visit and use this site.

Users of this site have the option to communicate with the EDA and staff via email or by an automated contact form requesting specific information designed to allow the EDA and staff to better assist an individual or company find a new location or expand an existing one.

Contact with the EDA is strictly an option available to the user, but is one that requires the sharing of basic personal information such as name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address in order for services to be rendered.

All information voluntarily submitted to the EDA will be logged by the EDA for tracking purposes, and will be used to follow-up on your comments, questions, or requests.

All information voluntarily submitted to the EDA will be safeguarded in compliance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and will not be shared, sold, or leased with other people or nonaffiliated agencies, organizations, or companies without your permission.

All information voluntarily submitted to the EDA may be shared with trusted partners, including the Region 2000 Economic Development Council and the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, who work on behalf of the EDA to enhance the economic prosperity of Appomattox County and who will ensure the privacy of your comments, questions, or requests.

Financial information of any sort is not requested nor collected by this site.

Non-Personal Information Collection And Use
This site automatically receives and records certain non-personal information on our server logs, including

1. the IP address and Internet domain of your computer
2. the type of browser and operating system used to access our website
3. the date and time you access our website
4. the pages you visit
5. the address of the website from which you accessed the EDA site (if you did not access the EDA site directly).

The EDA uses this non-personal information to learn about our visitors and the technology that they use in order to make our website more useful in the future.

This site does not leave cookies on your computer, nor does it read or in any other way disturb cookies already on your computer.

Feedback
If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact the EDA by emailing us at info@appomattox.org or calling the Department of Economic Development at (434) 352-2637.