Your Safety Comes
First
In order to improve the content and usability of this website,
the City of Erlanger (the "City") automatically collects
several categories of information from users. This information
includes the following:
1. The apparent Internet Protocol ("IP")
address of your Internet Service Provider ("ISP") and/or
your computer, if your computer has an IP address assigned directly
to it.
2. The apparent Fully Qualified Domain Name ("Domain
Name") of your Internet Service Provider ("ISP")
and/or your computer, if your computer has a domain name assigned
directly to it.
3. The type of browser (such as, for example Netscape,
Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla, etc.) used and the operating
system resident on a user's computer.
4. The date and time a user visited the site.
5. The web pages accessed at the site, as well
as any applications used and forms data.
6. The Uniform Resource Locator ("URL")
of the site which a user visited prior to friendshipcity.com (if
detectable), if such user did not connect directly to friendshipcity.com,
or use it as a homepage or "Portal.
The City uses this information to identify site performance needs;
to ensure compatibility with the technology used by friendshipcity.com's
visitors, and to generally add and improve services offered on
friendshipcity.com. In order to accomplish those goals, from time
to time, the City may conduct statistical analysis of the data
it collects.
The City does not collect data for commercial or marketing purposes,
and the City does not sell, exchange or otherwise distribute the
data collected by friendshipcity.com for commercial or marketing
purposes.
Information Submitted to friendshipcity.com
During a session on friendshipcity.com, a user may affirmatively
submit information to the City by, among other means, electronic
mail ("e-mail"), by filling in and submitting an on-line
form, or by electing to personalize friendshipcity.com and use
it as a customized portal. Such affirmatively submitted information
is stored in a secure environment, and will be used by the City
in furtherance of its duties and/or obligations to its citizenry
(i.e., "governmental purposes").
The governmental purposes to which affirmatively submitted information
may be put include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Helping the City respond to a request for information
not readily available from friendshipcity.com
2. Investigating a problem reported to the City
via friendshipcity.com
3. Keeping lists of parties interested in some
particular issue or facet of Erlanger life about which the City
anticipates issuing further information in the future.
4. Disclosure of such information pursuant to
a request made under Freedom of Information Law ("FOIL")
or court order, if such information is not protected by federal
or state law.
The City does not rent or sell personally identifiable information
(i.e., information such as name, address, phone number, e-mail,
etc., that identifies a user as a particular person), nor would
the City exchange or trade such information with third-parties
without a user's explicit permission. The City does not disclose
credit card or other personally identifiable financial information
other than as necessary to complete a credit card or other financial
transaction, or upon explicit permission from the applicable user.
All such use by the City of financial information shall be subject
to the section of this policy on financial issues, set forth below.
If an friendshipcity.com user has elected not to receive further
information from the City, friendshipcity.com will not send such
information. If an friendshipcity.com user has elected to receive
further communication from the City, friendshipcity.com will only
send information in categories that have been authorized. If friendshipcity.com
sends electronic mail ("e-mail") to a user, such e-mail
is NOT confidential, and is identical in nature to that information
generally available to the public and news media.
Security
In certain instances, a user may have the opportunity to receive
or create a password to access or submit personally identifiable
information. One should not divulge a password to anyone, and the
City will never ask a user for a password in a telephone call,
fax, e-mail or other form of unsolicited communication. When a
user is finished with an application or applications that are password
protected, such user should exit the relevant page(s). If the browser
used to access said password protected pages is a publicly-accessible
browser, users should close down the entire session and, if applicable
or possible, flush any temporary caches or other areas where such
a password might be stored subsequent to use.
The City has integrated industry standard or better security measures
and systems into the design, implementation and day to day operation
of friendshipcity.com and its underlying servers and networks.
Furthermore, the City maintains ongoing efforts to identify and/or
block unauthorized intrusions into or onto friendshipcity.com,
and to upload to or change information on or otherwise cause damage
to friendshipcity.com or the information resident hereon or submitted
hereto.
Cookies
This website and friendshipcity.com generally, do not use "persistent
cookies." Cookies are text files, or entries in larger files,
utilized to distinguish between visitors to a website, and to track
information during multiple visits to a website. The City uses "temporary
cookies" on some parts of friendshipcity.com, and such temporary
cookies expire upon the end of the browsing session. If a user
registers to use friendshipcity.com as a customized portal, the
City uses a persistent cookie to facilitate such customization.
The use of cookies is a standard practice among Internet websites.
Most Internet web browsers may be customized to reject cookies,
to only accept or reject cookies by user intervention, or to delete
cookies. Rejecting and/or removing cookies, however, may lead to
loss of functionality on those friendshipcity.com pages requiring
cookies to function fully. Additionally, if a user has created
a customized version of friendshipcity.com, the City will create
a cookie that contains the user's unique identifier and indicator
for any custom content modules requested and, if a user elected
the "remember me" option for signing in to friendshipcity.com,
the cookie will contain a user's password. Deletion of such a cookie
could result in the loss of one's customized friendshipcity.com
portal settings.
Web Bugs
friendshipcity.com does not use web bugs on its web pages or in
any html e-mail generated by use of the portal, or otherwise sent
from friendshipcity.com, for any purpose other than to identify
site performance needs; to ensure compatibility with the technology
used by friendshipcity.com's visitors, and to generally add and
improve services offered on friendshipcity.com.
Children
No applications on friendshipcity.com specifically solicit information
from minors or seek to determine whether the visitor is a minor.
Consequently, because such information will not be specifically
identified as being from minors, users of friendshipcity.com should
be aware that personally identifiable information submitted to
friendshipcity.com by minors will be subject to being treated in
the same manner as information given by an adult and may become
subject to FOIL.
The City strongly believes that parental supervision is an important
factor in Internet use by minors. Therefore, friendshipcity.com
asks parents to guide their minor children when children are asked
to provide any personal information online. friendshipcity.com
further asks that children ask for and receive their parent's permission
before providing any information online.
Third Party Links
friendshipcity.com provides links to, and may be linked from, local,
State and federal government agencies, and from, or to, other websites.
The existence and/or provision of those links neither constitutes
nor implies endorsement of the destination or departure website(s)
or of the content, viewpoint, accuracy, opinions, policy(ies),
product(s), accessibility or privacy policy of said destination
or departure website(s). Nor does any link between friendshipcity.com
and a third-party website imply sponsorship of such website, or
the creator of such website.
Some content on portions of friendshipcity.com resides on servers
run by third parties. Each agency providing content for friendshipcity.com
is bound by friendshipcity.com's privacy policy. Any agency using
a third-party host, ISP, ASP or other combination of third-party
transport, storage, content or application provision services shall
be responsible for such third party's compliance with friendshipcity.com's
privacy policy.
Intellectual Property
The content of friendshipcity.com's webpages is copyrighted, and
contain some third party images/graphics that are used with permission.
Users are notified, therefore, that one should presume the need
to obtain permission from the copyright holder before reproducing
or otherwise using images/graphics from this website.
friendshipcity.com may change this policy from time to time, and
reserves the right to do so without notice.
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