Privacy Policy
The City
of Fontana recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of
the users of this web site. The City of Fontana World Wide Web site
is a fundamental communication tool for providing critical and informative
City information and interactive services to its citizens and the
world. The goal of the City of Fontana Web site is to encourage
user participation in City government, to enable electronic service
delivery to the public, and to help create a better Fontana.
Personal/Confidential Information
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The
City of Fontana does not create individual profiles with the
information provided by users of this site, nor does it give
such personal information to third parties or private organizations.
The City does not track information about individuals and their
visits. The information does not identify you personally. Web
usage summary statistics are gathered for site management, and
other purposes such as assessing what information is of most
and least interest, determining technical design specifications,
and identifying system performance issues. We automatically
collect and store the following information about your visit:
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The
Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you
use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu"
if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address from
which you access the City's Web site;
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The
type of browser and operating system used to access the City's
Web site;
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The
date and time and duration of the visit;
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The
pages visited;
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If
you link to the City's Web site from another Web site, the address
of that Web site.
The City
of Fontana does not collect information for commercial marketing
from its Web site. The City of Fontana will not send you unsolicited
email regarding any commercial offers or advertisements at any time.
If
a user chooses to provide the City of Fontana with personal information,
such as sending an e-mail to a City of Fontana employee or by filling
out and submitting an online form located on the City of Fontana's
Web site, the City of Fontana may use that information to respond
to the user's message and to assist in obtaining information the
user may have requested. The City of Fontana treats e-mails and
submitted online forms the same way it treats letters to a Councilmember
or a City department.
In
order to provide electronic commerce capabilities, the name, address
and payment information (if applicable) that the user might provide
when using this Web site may be collected, processed and disclosed
to complete an online transaction and for record-keeping for such
activities as billing, permits, licenses and other business-related
purposes.
Cookies
or other technology may transfer information from the City of Fontana's
Web site to your hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies
or similar technology can make the Internet more useful by storing
information about your preferences on a particular site. The use
of cookies or similar technology is an industry standard, and many
major Web sites use them to provide useful features for their users.
Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although
they do identify a user's computer. Most browsers are initially
set up to accept cookies. If you'd prefer, you can set yours to
refuse cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage
of the City of Fontana's Web site if you do so.
Notwithstanding
the above provisions of this section, information submitted to the
City of Fontana's Web site may be subject to disclosure to another
party pursuant to various provisions of California law, including,
but not limited to, the California Civil Discovery Act of 1986 and
the California Public Records Act. The City of Fontana only shares
such information with another government agency if the user's inquiry
relates to that agency, to protect the interests of others, to protect
and defend the rights or property of the City of Fontana or as otherwise
provided by law
Security
Unless
a particular web page on the City of Fontana's Web site indicates
that encryption technology is being used, the user should not assume
that information uploaded through that web page to the City of Fontana's
Web server will be treated as confidential. If a user submits information
to the City of Fontana's server through a web page containing visible
indicators of active encryption technology, the City of Fontana
will take all reasonable precautions to safeguard the confidentiality
of such information, but shall nevertheless not be held liable for
any injury caused by the disclosure of that information, whether
caused by security breach, accident, inadvertence, or any other
act resulting in disclosure.
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