This instance of HydroServer is operated by the Utah Water Research Laboratory at Utah State University. For more information about the Utah Water Research Laboratory, please visit https://uwrl.usu.edu/. The services provided by this instance of HydroServer are hosted in the commercial cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
We respect your privacy. We will only use your personal identification information to support and manage your use of this HydroServer instance, including the use of tracking cookies to facilitate security procedures. Usage of this HydroServer instance is monitored, and usage statistics are collected and reported on a regular basis. We use third party services such as Google Analytics and Heap Analytics to collect usage information, and, therefore, information that does not personally identify you may be shared with these third parties. Utah State University reserves the right to contact you to request additional information or to keep you updated on changes to this HydroServer instance. You may opt out of receiving newsletters and other non-essential communications. No information that would identify you personally will be provided to sponsors or third parties without your permission.
HydroServer collects and stores information that is generated automatically as you use it, including your preferences and anonymous usage statistics. This information may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, the files viewed on our websites and applications (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data. We use this data to analyze trends in the aggregate and administer our Products. Non-personal information that we passively collect may be combined with other information about you, including Personal Information. We use this information to facilitate and improve HydroServer.
HydroServer uses cookies and similar technologies to analyze trends, track user's movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions of our Products. Non-personal information that we collect using these technologies may be combined with other information about you, including Personal Information.
HydroServer uses access control policies and procedures to manage access to content according to the access control settings created by users. All information, data, metadata, photos, and other content posted or stored in HydroServer is potentially available to other HydroServer users and the public. You are responsible for determining who has access to the content you upload to HydroServer. Utah State University disclaims any responsibility for the preservation of confidentiality of such information.
HydroServer users can choose to share at the following levels of granularity:
Access to monitoring site metadata: You can choose to share monitoring site metadata with individual HydroServer users by adding them as a site owner, or you can set a site’s privacy to “public”. When a site is set to public access, all site descriptive metadata is viewable by the public, and the site appears in the overall “Browse Monitoring Sites Page”. Access to datastream metadata: You can choose to hide or share metadata about each individual datastream that has been created at an individual monitoring site. Choosing the option to share datastream metadata makes it visible to the public. Site owners always have access to datastream metadata. Access to datastream data: You can choose to hide or share the data values of each individual datastream that has been created at an individual monitoring site. Choosing the option to share datastream data makes that data visible to the public. Site owners always have access to datastream data values.
If you upload images to HydroServer, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Users can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
User profile information placed in HydroServer is public and potentially accessible to all HydroServer users. We encourage you to provide user profile information to sufficiently identify your data, the responsible organization, and to ensure that prospective consumers of your data can contact you. However, do not add information to your user profile that you want to keep private. We will strive to protect your email address by, for example only allowing registered users access to “mailto” links, but cannot guarantee that your email address will not be exposed.
Although most changes are likely to be minor, this Privacy Policy may be changed from time to time at our sole discretion. Utah State University encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to the Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
For concerns about this privacy policy, please contact [email protected].