| The City of
Elk Grove is committed to protecting the privacy of the
individuals utilizing the City's website. However, personal
information submitted to the City's website may be subject
to disclosure pursuant to various California laws,
including, but not limited to, the Information Practices Act
of 1977 (Civil Code Section 1798 et seq.), the California
Civil Discovery Act of 1986 (Code of Civil Procedure
Sections 2016-2036), the California Public Records Act
(Government Code Section 6250 et seq.), Government Code
Sections 11015.5 and 11019.9, and with other applicable laws
pertaining to information privacy. The City may share such
information with other government agencies if: (1) the
information relates to that agency; (2) to protect the
interests of others; (3) to protect and defend the rights or
property of the City of Elk Grove; or (4) as otherwise
provided by state or federal law.
The City’s website uses
“cookies.” A cookie is a small data file that certain
websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A
cookie file can contain information, such as a User ID that
the site uses to track the pages you have visited. The only
personal information a cookie can contain is information
that you supply yourself. A cookie is only a text file and
cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files
created by other sites. You can refuse cookies by turning
them off in your browser. However, they may be required to
use some of the web applications on the City's site.
During your visit to the
City’s website, we will use cookies to gather and store
certain information about your visit. This information does
not identify you personally. The following information may
be automatically collected and stored about your visit:
- The Internet Protocol
Address and domain name used;
- The type of browser
and operating system you used;
- The date and time you
visited this site;
- The web pages,
downloaded files or services you accessed at this site;
and
- The website you
visited prior to coming to this website.
This information is
collected for statistical and site management purposes only.
The City's website uses software programs to create summary
statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing
what information is of most and least interest, determining
technical design specifications, and identifying system
performance or problem areas.
For site security purposes
and to ensure that this service remains available to all
users, the City's website employs software programs to
monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to
upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Raw
data logs are used for no other purposes. The City of Elk
Grove does not give, share, sell, rent or transfer any
personal information to a third party, unless we have your
consent.
The City's website also
contains links to other sites. Please be aware that the City
is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other
sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave
our site and to read the privacy statements of each and
every website that collects personally identifiable
information. This privacy statement applies solely to
information collected by the City's website.
The City of Elk Grove does
not collect any personal information for commercial
marketing. The City will not send you unsolicited email
regarding any commercial offers or advertisements at any
time.
Further, unless a
particular web page on the City's website indicates that
encryption technology is being used, the user should not
assume that information uploaded through that web page to
the City's web server will be treated as confidential. If a
user submits information to the City's server through a web
page containing visible indicators of active encryption
technology, the City of Elk Grove will take all reasonable
precautions to safeguard the confidentiality of such
information, but shall nevertheless not be held liable for
any injury caused by the disclosure of that information,
whether caused by security breach, accident, inadvertence or
any other act resulting in disclosure.
The City of Elk Grove
attempts to maintain the highest accuracy of content of its
web site. Any errors or omissions should be reported for
investigation.
The City of Elk Grove makes
no claims, promises, or guarantees about the absolute
accuracy, completeness or adequacy of the contents of this
website and expressly disclaims liability for errors and
omissions in the contents of this web site. No warranty of
any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including, but
not limited to, the warranties of non-infringement of third
party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a
particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is
given with respect to the contents of this website or its
hyperlinks to other internet resources.
Reference in this web site
to any specific products, processes, or services, or the use
of any trade, firm, or corporation name is for the
information and convenience of the public, and does not
constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the
City of Elk Grove, or its employees or agents.
This Privacy and Use
Statement is subject to change without notice. |
