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Spotsylvania County Home : Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Spotsylvania County is committed to protecting your privacy. You can visit most pages on our web site without giving us any information about yourself. However, there are circumstances in which we do need to collect information in order to provide services that you request. This privacy statement explains data collection and use in those situations. This privacy statement only applies to www.spotsylvania.va.us; it does not apply to other online or offline Spotsylvania County sites.
Collection of Personal Information
We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you. Generally this information is requested when you are registering for services, ordering e-mail newsletters, or when purchasing/paying for taxes, fees, licenses, or other services. Personal information collected by www.spotsylvania.va.us is often limited to e-mail address, country or location, but may include other information when needed to provide a service you requested.
Example: If you choose a service or transaction that requires payment, such as paying a tax, we will request personal information necessary for billing, such as your name, address, telephone number, and credit card number.
www.spotsylvania.va.us also collects certain information about your computer hardware and software. This information may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, domain name, access times and referring web site addresses (site-visitation data). This information is used to maintain the quality of the web site and to provide general statistics regarding use of www.spotsylvania.va.us and will not be shared with outside parties. We cannot and do not associate any of this information with individual persons, distribute this information, or use it in any manner other than for statistical analysis in improving our site to better serve our visitors.
www.spotsylvania.va.us strives to collect the minimum amount of information from our visitors necessary in order to provide a host of various services and resources.
Use of your Personal Information
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To ensure our site is relevant to your needs.
- To deliver services, such as newsletters, events, and updated information that you request.
- To help us create and publish content most relevant to you.
- To allow you access to limited-entry areas of our site as appropriate.
We will merge site-visitation data with anonymous demographic information for research purposes, and we may use this information in aggregate to provide more relevant content. In some limited-entry sections of www.spotsylvania.va.us, with your approval, we will combine site-visitation data with your personal information in order to provide you with personalized content/experience. If you decline permission, we will not provide you the personalized service and won't merge your personal information with site-visitation data.
Spotsylvania County may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Spotsylvania County or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Spotsylvania County, or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Spotsylvania County employees, or members of the public.
Security of your Personal Information
www.spotsylvania.va.us is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide us with in computer systems with limited access that are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit sensitive information (such as a credit card number, or other vital statistics) over the internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. On pages that we use SSL you can find a seal like the one below to allow you to verify that the page you are viewing is secure, and to check the status of our site certificate.
Protection of Children's Personal Information
www.spotsylvania.va.us is a general audience site and does not knowingly collect any personal information from children.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other public or private entities; websites, whose privacy practices we do not control.
Use of Cookies
When someone visits our web site, a cookie is placed on the visitor's machine (if the visitor accepts cookies) or is read if the visitor has visited the site previously. The use of cookies is to assist in the collection of the site visitation statistics described above, to pass needed information from one page to the next, and for some applications that use cookies to track a session through randomly generated ID numbers that cannot be traced back to any personal or private information.
If you choose to not have your browser accept cookies from the www.spotsylvania.va.us web site, you will be able to view the text on the screens, however you will not experience a personalized visit. In cases of which the Application requires a cookie to track a session as stated above, rejecting a cookie will render the application useless.
Enforcement of this Privacy Statement
If you have questions regarding this statement, you should first contact www.spotsylvania.va.us through our feedback form. If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact the County Administration office.
Changes to this Statement
www.spotsylvania.va.us will occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the "last updated" date located at the bottom of this privacy statement. For material changes to this statement, www.spotsylvania.va.us will notify you by placing prominent notice on the web site.
Unauthorized Access
Unauthorized attempts to modify any information stored on this system, to defeat or circumvent security features, or to utilize this system for other that it's intended purposes are prohibited and may result in criminal prosecution.
Contact Information
Spotsylvania County welcomes your comments regarding this privacy statement. Please contact us through our feedback form.
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