Action Center
Thursday August 17, 2006
Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting our website. Protecting your privacy is of the utmost importance to us. We want to assure you that our privacy policy is clear and simple.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
This website does not collect any personal information about site visitors unless they choose to provide that information to us in order to be contacted about an issue or assisted with a problem.
If you provide us with personal information
For your information, the WPDO does collect aggregate data about visits to our websites, such as statistics that show which portions of each site are visited most often. The following information is also collected when you visit any our website: the domain from which you access the website, the date and time of your visit, the pages you visit, and the address of the website, if any, that provided the link from which you reached the site. This information is gathered only for the purpose of enabling us to improve the online service we provide to visitors of our website.
Links to other sites
No individual identifying or personal information (such as your name) is automatically gathered when you visit any our website. The site does not use `cookies’ or other means to track your visit to our site in any way.
This site is set up to collect personal information about you only if you expressly provide the information to us. The site has an online Web form that you can use to contact us by electronic mail to express your views or concerns or to ask for assistance with a particular problem involving the Borough of West Paterson. To send an e-mail, the form asks you for your name, e-mail address and your message. This information may be used to contact you about the matter you expressed your views about, or to provide assistance regarding problems you may be experiencing in dealing with a government department.
If you are requesting help with a Borough matter, it may be necessary for us to share the information you provide with a particular department to facilitate a resolution.
From time to time we will tabulate comments received through the website concerning issues and government policy issues so that we will be fully informed about the views of constituents. Occasionally we come across a comment made by a constituent, or a situation described by a constituent, in an e-mail message (as well as postal mail, phone calls, and faxes) that we think makes a point of such general interest that we would like to refer to it in a speech, or public comment, or by sharing it with the relevant government department. We will make every effort in such cases to contact the author first. If you intend your message to be confidential, and would prefer that it not be used in such a way, please indicate that in the message, so we can be sure to respect your wishes and see that your views are held entirely within the government department.
Our website has links to other useful sites on the Internet, including links to other government agencies and political sites relating to our area. The WPDO cannot take responsibility for the content of these third-party web sites, and their privacy policy should also be reviewed.