- General
The Village of Barrington Hills respects the privacy of
every individual who visits our Web site and requests information.
This Privacy Statement outlines the information the Village
of Barrington Hills will collect and how we will use that
information. This Statement will also instruct you on what
to do if you do not want your personal information collected
or shared when you visit our Web site.
- Personal Information
The Village of Barrington Hills will not collect any personal
information about you (that is, your name, address, telephone
number, or e-mail address) unless you provide it to us voluntarily.
If you do not want your personal information collected,
please do not submit
it to us. If you have already submitted this information
and would like for
us to remove it from our records, please contact us at the
e-mail address,
or phone number listed at the bottom of this Statement. We
will use
reasonable efforts to delete your information from our existing
files.
When you do provide us with personal information, we may
use that information in the following ways: We may store
that information to track interest in our services or requests
for information, or we may use that information to contact
you in response to your request.
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Children's Privacy
The Village of Barrington Hills intends to comply
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) that
helps to protect the safety and privacy of children online. COPPA and
its accompanying FTC regulation constitutes United States Federal law
that protects the privacy of children using the Internet. Personal
information from children under 13 is not knowingly collected, nor are
children under 13 knowingly contacted by the Village. No information
of any kind is solicited by the Village from children under 13. It is
possible that the Village may receive emails pertaining to children
under 13. If the Village is notified of this, as soon as the
information is verified, parental consent will be immediately obtained
or the email will be deleted from the email box servicing
www.barringtonhills-il.gov.
- Other Information Collected Automatically
In some cases, we may collect information about you that
is not personal. Examples of this type of information include
the type of Internet Browser you are using, the type of computer
operating system you are using, and the domain name of the
Web site from which you linked to our site.
- Site Security
We monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts
to upload or
change information or to otherwise cause damage to the site.
Anyone using
this Web site expressly consents to such monitoring.
We take appropriate security measures to protect unauthorized
access,
alteration or destruction of data. Unauthorized attempts
to upload
information and/or change information on these web sites
are strictly
prohibted and are subject to prosecution under the Computer
Fraud and Abuse
Act of 1986 and Title 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1001 and 1030.
- Policy Changes
Please note this Privacy Policy can change from time to
time. We expect most
such changes to be minor, but we will post those changes
as they occur.
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Who to Contact
If you have submitted personal information
through the Village of Barrington Hills Web site and would
like that information deleted from our records, please
contact us at our e-mail
address or phone us at (847) 551-3000.
