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PRIVACY POLICY
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Your E-Mail Privacy
Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are
public records. If you do not want your e-mail address
released to a public-records request, do not send electronic
mail to this entity. Instead, contact the
City Clerk's office by
phone or in writing. |
If you send us personal information
If you choose to
provide us with personal information -- by filling out a form with your
personal information and submitting it to us through the web site -- we
use that information to respond to your message and to help us get you
the information you have requested. We only share the information
you give us with another government agency if your inquiry relates to
that agency, or as otherwise required by law. The City of Oldsmar does
not collect information for commercial marketing.
Choice
You may decline
participation in any activity that asks for information (i.e., surveys
or emails). Your choice to not participate will have no effect on
your ability to access information on the City's web site.
Here is how we
handle information about your visit to our Web site:
Information collected and stored
automatically
If all you do during
your visit is browse through the Web site, read pages, or download
information, we will gather and store certain information about your
visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally.
Only the following information is automatically collected and stored
about your visit:
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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;
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The type of
browser and operating system used to access our site;
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The date and
time you access our site;
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The pages you
visit; and
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If you linked to
our Web site from another Web site, the address of that Web site.
We use this
information to help us make the site more useful to visitors -- to learn
about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our
visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals
and their visits.
Cookies
To better serve you, we occasionally use
"cookies" to customize your browsing experience. Cookies are
simple text files stored by your web browser and they provide a method
of distinguishing among visitors to the web sites. Cookies created
on your computer by using our web sites do not contain personally
identifiable information and do not compromise your privacy or security.
We use the cookie feature to store a randomly generated identifying tag
on your computer. If you have further questions about cookies, the
Computer Incident Advisory Capacity Unit that monitors computer problems
for the U.S. Department of Energy issued a study on March 12, 1998, of
the risks to users of cookies, titled "Information
Bulletin 1-034: Internet Cookies".
You can refuse the cookie or delete the cookie file from your computer
at any time by using any one of a number of widely available methods.
Your choice to refuse the cookie will not inhibit your access to any of
the information available on the City of Oldsmar's web site. Your
acceptance of the cookie will serve to provide you with additional
functionality in choosing the information you wish to view on a regular
basis.
Passwords
In certain
instances, you will have the opportunity to receive or create a password
to access or submit personal information. You should not divulge
your password to anyone and the City will never ask you for your
password in an unsolicited phone call or e-mail. When you are
finished with those applications that are password protected, you should
exit the page.
Site security
For site security
purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users,
this government computer system employs commercial software programs to
monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or
change information, or otherwise cause damage.
Except for
authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to
identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs are used
for no other purposes and are scheduled for regular destruction in
accordance with State guidelines for records management and retention.
Unauthorized
attempts to upload information or change information on this service are
strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and
Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection
Act. |
