Privacy and Security Statement

Thank you for visiting the City of Fredericksburg Website and reviewing our privacy and security statement. The City is strongly committed to maintaining the privacy of your personal information and the security of our computer systems. With respect to the collection, use and disclosure of personal information, Fredericksburg makes every effort to ensure compliance with applicable Federal law, including, but not limited to, the Privacy Act of 1974, the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, and the Freedom of Information Act.

As a general rule, the City of Fredericksburg does not collect personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. The information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting our site.

The City of Fredericksburg respects your privacy. Any personal information you provide to us, including your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address, will not be released, sold, rented or otherwise disclosed to any entities or individuals.

If you respond to an on-line request for personal information:
Generally, the information requested by the City of Fredericksburg will be used to respond to your inquiry or to provide you with the service associated with the request.

If you visit our site to read or download information, our web logs collect and store the following information:

The above information is used by software on our website to create summary statistics which allow us to assess the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, identify what information is of most and least interest, determine technical design specifications, monitor system performance, and help us make our site more useful to visitors.

If you identify yourself by sending an E-mail containing personal information:
You also may decide to send us personally-identifying information, for example your mailing address, in an electronic mail message requesting that information be mailed to you. Information collected in this manner is used solely for responding to requests for information or records. We may forward your E-mail to other City employees who are better able to respond to you.

If you link to other sites outside our site:

Our Website has many links to other sites. When you link to any of these sites, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Cookie Use Notice
We do not use cookies to collect any personally identifying information from users or to track user activities beyond our web site. We do not maintain copies of cookies on our web site after you leave our web site.

The City of Fredericksburg limits its use of cookies to "session cookies"...types of cookies that are temporarily stored in your computer's memory. Session cookies are normally deleted from a user's computer when the user logs off the computer or the user exits the browser. The City of Fredericksburg does not issue "persistent cookies"...types of cookies that could be stored permanently on your workstation and reused each time you visit the Department's web site.   In the event a cookie is found on your workstation which was issued from a Fredericksburg web site, you may remove it without adversely affecting your future visits to our web site.

Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996.

This policy is posted pursuant to Title 2.2-3803B of the Code of Virginia.

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