511NJ Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting the 511NJ website and reviewing our Privacy Policy. This policy applies to the 511NJ.org Website, My511NJ Alerts (Email and SMS) and Phone Service, as well as, our published Voice Assistant Skill, Action and Applications on Amazon, Google and SIRI respectively (Invocation/App Name: New Jersey Traffic).
1. Personal Information You Share with Us
You have complete control of the information you choose to share online. Personal Information refers to any information or combination of data, that can uniquely identify a specific person.
1.1. Account Information
If you choose to create an account on the 511NJ.org website, you will be asked for some basic contact information like your First Name, Last name, Email and mobile telephone number. You will also be required to provide account details like a Username and Password.
1.2. Your Choice
You do not need to create an account to access the information provided on the 511NJ.org website, IVR or Voice Assistant portals. This is necessary only if you desire to receive personalized event email, or SMS messages, for your configured roadway trips and time parameters using My511NJ Alerts.
1.3. How It Is Used
We do not store any information about you unless you volunteer to provide it to us. The email address you configure as part of your My511NJ Alerts profile will be used to send you real-time traffic alerts for the roadways that you have set up; for the data and duration that you desire. The mobile telephone number you provide will be used to only send you SMS messages during user-specified dates and times.
1.4. How You Control the Information
You can edit, update or delete any information you give us for the 511NJ.org website, by visiting the “Manage Account” page on the website.
Similarly, you can review and update the permissions you provide, for the various voice assistants by visiting the settings page of the respective Alexa Skill/Google Action/SIRI Applications.
1.5 Control of SMS information
SMS does not obtain personal information about you unless you choose to send that information to SMS. By using the My511NJ Alerts service, you agree and consent to the SMS Privacy Policy. If you do not consent and agree to this policy, do not provide any information to SMS.
2. Information Collected
A domain name or Internet Protocol (IP) address is not considered personal information.
2.1. Analytics
The following data is collected for analysis and to determine the user sessions, pageviews and usage of all the features provided.
· IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the internet) from which you access our web site.
· The type of browser, device, and operating system used to access our site.
· The date and time you access our site.
· The pages you visit.
· If you reached the 511NJ.org web site from another website, the address of that website is stored as a referral.
2.2. If You Send Us Personal Information
We save and review the comments you provide; so, if you choose to send us an email, or leave a comment including your personal information that is considered as consent to store the provided data.
2.3. Voice Assistants
Our Voice Assistant Skill, Action and Applications on Amazon, Google and SIRI respectively; requests you to allow us to use your device location information. This is to provide personalized information based on your location. You can enable or disable the permissions on the respective skills, actions or app store’s settings pages.
3. Cookies
Cookies are a small amount of data sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. The 511NJ.org website uses “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies.
Session cookies expire after the user exits the website, or shortly thereafter, and are not generally considered to be a privacy or security concern.
Persistent cookies tend to have a longer lifespan and are used to retain user session information such as settings and configuration parameters.
Cookies are unique to each website and information in them cannot be accessed by other websites. The cookies utilized by the 511NJ.org website do not provide any personal information about the user and are only used to enhance the user's experience while using the website. Click here for more information on our cookies.
4. Security
We, as the developers and managers of the 511NJ.org website, My511NJ Alerts, Phone System and Voice Assistant applications have taken several steps that are intended to protect the integrity of the data, avoid corruption of data, block anonymous or unauthorized access to our systems and information, and to provide reasonable protection of private information in our possession.
5. Disclaimer
The 511NJ.org website, My511NJ Alerts, Phone system and Voice Assistant platforms contain data which is subject to change at any time. Our website materials may contain hypertext or links to other websites which are not owned, operated, controlled, or, reviewed by us. These links are provided solely as a courtesy and convenience to you, the user. When you link to one of these sites, you are no longer on the 511NJ.org website and this Privacy Policy will not apply. When you link to another website, you are subject to the privacy policy of that new website.
We have no control over the organizations, views, accuracy, copyright, trademark compliance, or, the legality of the material contained on those servers and do not sponsor, endorse, or approve the information, content, products, materials, opinions or services contained on such external sites.
The user proceeds to these external sites at their own risk.
We disclaim any and all liability from damages which may result from the accessing of a third-party site which is linked on the 511nj.org website, or from reliance upon any such information.
6. Contact Information
To offer comments about the 511NJ.org website, My511NJ Alerts, Phone system, Voice Assistant platforms, or about the information presented in this Privacy Policy please contact:
Director of Communications
New Jersey Department of Transportation
PO Box 600
Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0600