Town of Sturbridge Burn Permits
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BurnPermits.com (A Product and Service of Fluent Information Management Systems, Inc.)
Address: 2611 Development Drive - Unit 3, Brockville, Ontario, K6V 5T2
Introduction
BurnPermits.com (A Product and Service of Fluent Information Management Systems, Inc.)(“Company” or “We” or “BurnPermits.com”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and protect the personal information of our customers and website users (”you”), describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website (www.burnpermits.com) or one of our client’s websites at [prefix].burnpermits.com (the “Website”), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
We will only use your personal information in accordance with this policy unless otherwise required by applicable law. We take steps to ensure that the personal information that we collect about you is adequate, relevant, not excessive, and used for limited purposes.
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time if required in order to reflect the changes in our data processing practices or otherwise.
The Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy practices of any third parties. Without affecting our responsibility for the data processors engaged by us to process data on our behalf, BurnPermits.com disclaims all responsibility for the processing carried out by third parties, also in cases where the Services include hyperlinks to third parties’ websites.
Information we collect about you
Personal information, that we can reasonably use to directly or indirectly identify you, such as
Non-personal information, that does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity or directly relate to an identified individual, demographic information, or statistical or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal information. For example, we may aggregate personal information to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Website feature.
Technical information, including your login information, browser type, time zone setting, the hardware you use to access our Website and mobile application, and usage details.
Non-personal details about your Website interactions or any phone number used to call our customer service number.
How we collect information about you
We use different methods to collect your information, including through direct interactions with you when you provide it to us, for example, by filling in forms or corresponding with us by phone, email, or otherwise.
Information you provide to us
The information we collect directly from you on or through our website may include:
How we use your information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information
The Website may include links to third-party websites, services, payment processors, social networks, or applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow the third party to collect or share data about you. Third parties may also place cookies on their browsers for targeted advertising purposes. If you follow a link to a third-party website or engage a third-party plugin, please note that these third parties have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. We do not control these third-party websites, and we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
Disclosure of your information
We may share and disclose your personal data to customer support solutions, marketing solutions, transactional email providers, service providers hosting the Services and the Website to be able to provide you the Services and improve our Website and mobile application.
We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
We may also disclose your personal information
Choices about how we use and disclose your information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Your rights
It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes. By law you have the right to request access to and to correct the personal information that we hold about you.
You have the right to recall your prior given consent. The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on the consent before its withdrawal, and we may continue processing your personal data based on other legal grounds, except for direct marketing.
Right to access, correct and delete
If you want to review, verify, correct, or withdraw consent to the use of your personal information you may also send us an email to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and your right to access, and to provide you with the personal information that we hold about you or make your requested changes. Applicable law may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all of the personal information that we hold about you, or we may have destroyed, erased, or made your personal information anonymous in accordance with our record retention obligations and practices. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal information, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.
Data security
The security of your personal information is very important to us. We use physical, electronic, and administrative measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We store all information you provide to us behind firewalls on our secure servers.
Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
Data retention
Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Under some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to use such anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you or your consent.
Changes to our privacy policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. We include the date the privacy policy was last revised at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Last Updated on July 31, 2024
All residents living within the town can obtain a permit through the online process or through the department. Permits are conditional and may be revoked at any time by the Fire Department.
You may register online using this website, or you can visit us in person.
If you want to have an open-air fire (bonfire, fire pit etc.) then YES, you need an approved permit. If you are having a barbecue or small campfire, a separate cooking/campfire permit is required and can be obtained at the Fire Department at no fee.
Brush, cane, driftwood and forestry debris (but NOT from commercial or industrial land clearing). Agricultural materials including fruit tree and bush prunings, raspberry stalks, and infected bee hives for disease control. Trees and brush from agricultural land clearing. Fungus-infected elm wood, if no other acceptable means of disposal is available.
Leaves. Brush, trees, cane or driftwood from COMMERCIAL or INDUSTRIAL land clearing. Grass, hay, leaves, stumps or tires. Construction materials or demolition debris. Household trash.
https://www.mass.gov/service-details/open-burning-safety