Who we are

The Federation of Vermont Lakes and Ponds is a nonprofit organization located in Vermont (USA).

We can be reached via e-mail by using the Contact Us form.

In accordance with the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, we do not collect personal data on you, unless you choose to provide that information voluntarily via e-mail, online request forms, or by becoming a member.

Here is how we handle information about your visit to our website:

Non-Personally Identifiable Information Collected and Stored Automatically

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, download or print files, or use our search engine, we automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

  • The Internet domain (for example, “xcompany.com” if you use a private Internet access account, or “yourschool.edu” if you connect from a university’s domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our web site;
  • The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
  • The date and time you access our site;
  • The pages you visit; and
  • If you linked to this website from another site, the address of that website.

This information does not identify you personally. To make our site more useful to visitors, we use this information to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology they use.

With respect to cookies: We use cookies to record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, and record past activity at a site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site.

If You Send Us Personal Information

If you choose to provide us with personal information, as in an e-mail, through the contact us form, by becoming a member, or by subscribing to our email newsletter, we use that information to respond to your message and to help us get you the information you have requested. No information, including your e-mail address, will be sold or shared with any other organization. If you supply us with your postal address online you will only receive the information for which you provided us your address.

With respect to security: We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

Data Collected to Manage Your Membership

At checkout, we will collect your name, email address, username, and password. This information is used to setup your account for our site. If you are redirected to an offsite payment gateway to complete your payment, we may store this information in a temporary session variable to setup your account when you return to our site.

At checkout, we may also collect your billing address and phone number. This information is used to confirm your credit card. The billing address and phone number are saved by our site to prepopulate the checkout form for future purchases and so we can get in touch with you if needed to discuss your order.

At checkout, we may also collect your credit card number, expiration date, and security code. This information is passed to our payment gateway to process your purchase. The last 4 digits of your credit card number and the expiration date are saved by our site to use for reference and to send you an email if your credit card will expire before the next recurring payment.

When logged in, we use cookies to track some of your activity on our site including logins, visits, and page views.

Links to Other Sites

Our Web site has links to state, federal, and private websites. Once you navigate to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

All photos on this website are either stock photos and are royalty-free, used by permission of the photo owner, or owned by The Federation of Vermont Lakes and Ponds.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us.