Effective Date: December 1, 2007
*The “effective date” indicates the date the privacy policy was last updated.
Collection of Non-Personally Identifiable Information
Information use of Individuals who are only browsing the site, reading pages, or downloading information (not volunteering information) will have only the following non-invasive components collected:
- • The Internet Protocol (IP) Address and domain name used. IP addresses are an identifier assigned either to your Internet service provider or your computer. This address can be translated to determine the domain name of your service provider (e.g. company.com or xschool.edu). Generally, the Grass Valley Police Department will only determine a visitor domain name if a security issue is suspected.
- • The type of browser and operating system you use
- • The date and time you visited this site
- • The web pages or services you accessed at this site
- • The web site you visited prior to coming to this web site
The information listed above is for information and statistical purposes only. The Grass Valley Police Department may use this information to create summary statistics used to assess highly accessed information and pages, to assist in determining technical design specifications, and/or assess system performance or problem areas.
Additionally, the Grass Valley Police Department Website uses software programs for the purpose of monitoring network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations and the security purposes mentioned elsewhere in this notice, 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.
The Grass Valley Police Department strives to collect the minimum information necessary to comply with applicable law or provide the requested service. The Grass Valley Police Department does not sell, rent or otherwise distribute visitor's information, including electronic mail addresses, to any outside company or organization, unless legally required to do so. This applies to information that may be collected on the Grass Valley Police Department’s site and on that of any third party with whom the Grass Valley Police Department contracts to provide Internet related services. If choose to participate in a survey, send an email, or perform other transactions using this website, the following additional information may be collected:
- • Your email address, and contents of emails sent through the website - for purposes of providing you with a response.
- • Information volunteered in response to a survey or through online forms - for purposes identified by the survey or online form.
- • Information volunteered by participating in an online transaction with the Grass Valley Police Department - for purposes of completing the transaction only.
Cookies are text files created by your browser and stored on your system for to aid in customizing your browsing experience. This website may use "cookies". Cookies allow information to change as you navigate through this website. Two types of cookies may be used, "session-only" and "persistent". The Grass Valley Police Department uses cookies in the following ways:
- • If you wish to access information, the Grass Valley Police Department may use a session-only cookie to reserve storage on your computer in order to pass your inquiry information to a follow-on page for the purposes of retrieving requested information. The session-only cookies are erased either during web browser operation or after your web browser is shut down.
- • If you wish to conduct on-line transactions the Grass Valley Police Department may use a session-only cookie when processing your request. The type of information voluntarily submitted to fulfill your request varies by transaction and may include your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, social security or federal identification number, credit card number and expiration date, and/or driver license number. The Grass Valley Police Department cannot control the use of cookies by sites outside this website. If you choose to link to a site through the website, the Grass Valley Police Department cannot control their use of cookies and this privacy policy will not apply.
This site may have purpose to collect information from minors, on a voluntary basis, in relation to youthful based activities. Any information collected by the Grass Valley Police Department website from children 13 and under is subject to the same guidelines of the Grass Valley Police Department’s general privacy policy as well as the following guidelines:
- • Parental consent will be obtained before collecting, using or disclosing personal information about a child.
- • In the event that the Grass Valley Police Department changes its practices of collecting, using or disclosing any information in a substantive way, new parental consent will be obtained. An example of a change may include what material is collected, how the information may be used, or third party access to that information.
- • Upon verification of a child's parent's identity, the requesting parent will be able to review the personal information collected from their child.
- • A parent will be allowed to revoke their consent and the Grass Valley Police Department will delete information collected from or for their children on request. When consent is revoked, the web site will stop collecting, using or disclosing information from or for that child. Revocation may end a child's participation in an activity if the information collected was necessary for participation on the web site. Additional information can be obtained at the FTC's Consumer Response Center and the Kidz Privacy web sites.
Agencies requesting or providing personally identifiable health care information of this website are required to certify that its health care data handling and security procedures are compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA"). If such data and security services are provided to such agency by a third-party provider, the agency shall be responsible for such third party's compliance with HIPAA.
Contact Information
The Grass Valley Police Department is made up of a number of departments. Each department is responsible for the applications it develops including applications that may gather volunteered personally identifying information. In these cases, contact information is provided at the point of information entry allowing the user to contact that department either through e-mail or the phone. Additionally, contact information for the website is provided and can be used as an initial point of contact in lieu of individual department contacts.
By visiting the Grass Valley Police Department Website, users agree that they will not use the site for any unlawful activity, or use it in any way that would violate the terms and conditions of use. This web site is governed and construed by the laws of the State of California. Any use of the web site shall comply with all City of Grass Valley and California laws and regulations as well as with all federal laws and regulations Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this website are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the state Computer Trespass law and federal statutes including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
Third Party Links
The Grass Valley Police Department Website may contain links to local, State and federal government agencies and to other web sites. The inclusion of such links does not constitute an endorsement of the destination web site nor the content, viewpoint, accuracy, opinions, policies, products or site accessibility. Nor does any linkage between the Grass Valley Police Department Website and a third-party web site imply sponsorship of that web site.