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Marin County Free Library

The Marin County Free Library recognizes the need to protect your right to privacy regarding the questions you ask and the materials you borrow

CONFIDENTIALITY OF LIBRARY RECORDS:

Public Records Act, California Government Code Sections 6254 (j) and 6267 mandates confidentiality of your registration and borrowing records. These records include any information that a library requires a library user to provide in order to become eligible to borrow books and other materials, and any information, which identifies the library user borrowing particular books and other material. All library records relating to an individual library user's use of the library and its resources are confidential. These records may be consulted and used by library staff in the course of carrying out library operations, but will not be disclosed to others except upon the written authorization of the library user, pursuant to court order or as otherwise required by law.

ABOUT PRIVACY AT THE LIBRARY
Our Commitment to PrivacyProtecting your privacy is important to us. This notice explains our information practices, what information the library collects, and how the library uses that information. All staff who work at the Marin County Free Library sign a statement prior to employment agreeing to abide by our Privacy Policy and State law.

PUBLIC USE COMPUTERS AND PRINTING
The library uses a program called Library Online to manage reservations for its public access computers and to manage printing done by the public. This program captures information from your library card record, including name, card number, phone number and the amount in your printing account.
Library Online stores information on the amount of printing that you do but has no record of the content that was printed.

Information about which patrons reserved and used public access computers is purged every night. If you reserve a computer once your personal information remains in the database indefinitely. Access to this information is limited to a few staff members, and they do not access the database for any reason other than providing services. This database is managed by MARINet.