Privacy Policy

Purpose

The City of Casper World Wide Web site is a fundamental communication tool for providing critical and informative City information and interactive services to it s citizens and the world. The goal of the City of Casper Web site is to encourage user participation in City government, to enable electronic service delivery to the public, and to help create a better City.

Personal/confidential information

The City of Casper does not use its Web site to collect personal information for any purpose other than to respond to a user’s request or input, or to complete an online transaction.

The City of Casper does not give such personal information to third parties or other organizations, except as provided by law. 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:

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;
The type of browser and operating system used to access the City’s Web site; The date and time and duration of the visit;
The pages visited;
If you link to the City’s Web site from another Web site, the address of that Web site.

The City of Casper will not send you unsolicited email regarding any commercial offers or advertisements at any time.

If a user chooses to provide the City of Casper with personal information, such as sending and e-mail to a City employee or official by filling out and submitting an online form located on the City’s web site, the City may use that information to respond to the user’s message and to assist in obtaining information the user may have requested.

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 as necessary to complete an online transaction and for record-keeping for such activities as billing, permits, licenses, and other business-related purposes, or otherwise as provided by law.

Cookies or other technology may transfer information from the City of Casper’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 prefer, you can set your computer to refuse cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of the City of Casper’s Web site if you do so.

Notwithstanding the above provisions of this section, information submitted to the City, of Casper’s web site may be subject to disclosure to other party pursuant to various provisions of state and federal law.

Security

Unless a particular web page on the City’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’s web server will be treated as confidential. If a user submits information to the City through a web page containing visible indicators of active encryption technology, the City of Casper will take all responsible precautions to safeguard the confidentiality of such information as provided by law, but shall nevertheless not be held liable for any injury caused by the disclosure of that information , whether caused by security breach, accident, inadvertence, negligence, or any other act resulting in disclosure.