The
City of Tuscaloosa is dedicated to preserving your privacy and security while
viewing our Web site. It is the policy of the City to encourage the free flow
of information from its citizens regarding complaints and requested services.
To this end, it is important to protect the identity of citizens who choose to
make complaints or requests of services of the City. Particularly with regard
to public safety, many citizens would refrain from providing vital information
if their identities were compromised out of a concern for their personal
safety. For these reasons, the policy of the City of Tuscaloosa is to preserve the
privacy of its citizens who choose to make complaints, request service, or
otherwise interact with the City’s 311 information system. We strive to
retrieve the minimum amount of information from our visitors necessary in order
to provide a host of various services and resources. This Web Privacy Policy
page outlines practices and procedures affecting visitors to our site in
accordance with the law. The City of Tuscaloosa reserves the right to change these
policies and the corresponding information on this page at any time without
prior notice. Personal information may be required by law or in order for us to
provide a requested service; in doing so we are subject to the requirements for
administering information systems as established in the law. We do not capture
personal information without visitors' permission. The City of Tuscaloosa
recognizes that persons accessing its Web site, making complaints or requesting
services have an expectation of privacy with regard to this interaction with
the City. The policy of the City of Tuscaloosa is to respect and protect this
expectation of privacy.
For
every visitor to our site, there are several common pieces of information that
we do collect that are stored in logs.Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser
type, operating system, the date and time of the visit, and the addresses to
which a visitor linked during a visit to our Web site are all recorded. 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.
We
do not use cookies to record any personal information. Rejecting a cookie in
these applications will render the application useless. Applications use
cookies to track the session through randomly generated ID numbers that cannot
be traced back to any personal or private information.
It
is the policy of the City of Tuscaloosa not to publish or reveal the identity of
persons interacting with this Web site, making complaints or initiating a
service request. The City of Tuscaloosa does not sell, rent, or publish any of our
visitors' personal or private information. We do not reveal specific
information about subscribers or other personally identifiable data to
unaffiliated third parties for their independent use, except if required to do
so by the law. In addition, we endeavor to restrict employee access to any
personal information except where necessary to perform required duties
.
Unauthorized
attempts to modify any information stored on this system, to defeat or
circumvent security features, or to utilize this system for other that its
intended purposes are prohibited and may result in criminal prosecution
.
If
you have any questions specifically regarding your privacy on our site, please
email to
: webmaster@tuscaloosa.com.