In order to improve the content and usability of this web site, the City of Mobile (the "City") automatically collects several categories of information from users. This information includes the following:
The City uses this information to identify site performance needs; to ensure compatibility with the technology used by City of Mobile Police Department's visitors, and to generally add and improve services offered on City of Mobile Police Department. In order to accomplish those goals, from time to time, the City may conduct statistical analysis of the data it collects.
The City does not collect data for commercial or marketing purposes, and the City does not sell, exchange or otherwise distribute the data collected by City of Mobile Police Department for commercial or marketing purposes.
During a session on City of Mobile Police Department, a user may affirmatively submit information to the City by, among other means, electronic mail ("e-mail"), by filling in and submitting an on-line form, or by electing to personalize City of Mobile Police Department and use it as a customized portal. Such affirmatively submitted information is stored in a secure environment, and will be used by the City in furtherance of its duties and/or obligations to its citizenry (i.e., "governmental purposes").
The governmental purposes to which affirmatively submitted information may be put include, but are not limited to, the following:
The City does not rent or sell personally identifiable information (i.e., information such as name, address, phone number, e-mail, etc., that identifies a user as a particular person), nor would the City exchange or trade such information with third-parties without a user's explicit permission. The City does not disclose credit card or other personally identifiable financial information other than as necessary to complete a credit card or other financial transaction, or upon explicit permission from the applicable user. All such use by the City of financial information shall be subject to the section of this policy on financial issues, set forth below.
If a City of Mobile Police Department user has elected not to receive further information from the City, City of Mobile Police Department will not send such information. If a City of Mobile Police Department user has elected to receive further communication from the City, City of Mobile Police Department will only send information in categories that have been authorized. If City of Mobile Police Department sends electronic mail ("e-mail") to a user, such e-mail is NOT confidential, and is identical in nature to that information generally available to the public and news media.
In certain instances, a user may have the opportunity to receive or create a password to access or submit personally identifiable information. One should not divulge a password to anyone, and the City will never ask a user for a password in a telephone call, fax, e-mail or other form of unsolicited communication. When a user is finished with an application or applications that are password protected, such user should exit the relevant page(s). If the browser used to access said password protected pages is a publicly-accessible browser, users should close down the entire session and, if applicable or possible, flush any temporary caches or other areas where such a password might be stored subsequent to use.
The City has integrated industry standard or better security measures and systems into the design, implementation and day to day operation of City of Mobile Police Department and its underlying servers and networks. Furthermore, the City maintains ongoing efforts to identify and/or block unauthorized intrusions into or onto City of Mobile Police Department, and to upload to or change information on or otherwise cause damage to City of Mobile Police Department or the information resident hereon or submitted hereto.
City of Mobile Police Department generally, does not use "persistent cookies." Cookies are text files, or entries in larger files, utilized to distinguish between visitors to a web site, and to track information during multiple visits to a web site. The City uses "temporary cookies" on some parts of City of Mobile Police Department, and such temporary cookies expire upon the end of the browsing session. If a user registers to use City of Mobile Police Department as a customized portal, the City uses a persistent cookie to facilitate such customization.
The use of cookies is a standard practice among Internet web sites. Most Internet web browsers may be customized to reject cookies, to only accept or reject cookies by user intervention, or to delete cookies. Rejecting and/or removing cookies, however, may lead to loss of functionality on those City of Mobile Police Department pages requiring cookies to function fully. Additionally, if a user has created a customized version of City of Mobile Police Department, the City will create a cookie that contains the user's unique identifier and indicator for any custom content modules requested and, if a user elected the "remember me" option for signing in to City of Mobile Police Department, the cookie will contain a user's password. Deletion of such a cookie could result in the loss of one's customized City of Mobile Police Department portal settings.
City of Mobile Police Department does not use web bugs on its web pages or in any html e-mail generated by use of the portal, or otherwise sent from City of Mobile Police Department, for any purpose other than to identify site performance needs; to ensure compatibility with the technology used by City of Mobile Police Department's visitors, and to generally add and improve services offered on City of Mobile Police Department.
No applications on City of Mobile Police Department specifically solicit information from minors or seek to determine whether the visitor is a minor. Consequently, because such information will not be specifically identified as being from minors, users of City of Mobile Police Department should be aware that personally identifiable information submitted to City of Mobile Police Department by minors will be subject to being treated in the same manner as information given by an adult and may become subject to Alabama Open Records Law.
The City strongly believes that parental supervision is an important factor in Internet use by minors. Therefore, City of Mobile Police Department asks parents to guide their minor children when children are asked to provide any personal information online. City of Mobile Police Department further asks that children ask for and receive their parent's permission before providing any information online.
Any agency providing personally identifiable health care information via City of Mobile Police Department will be required to certify that its health care data handling and security procedures are compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA"). If such data and security services are provided to such agency(ies) by a third-party provider, the agency(ies) shall be responsible for such third party's compliance with HIPAA.
City of Mobile Police Department provides links to, and may be linked from, local, State and federal government agencies, and from, or to, other web sites. The existence and/or provision of those links neither constitutes nor implies endorsement of the destination or departure web site(s) or of the content, viewpoint, accuracy, opinions, policy(ies), product(s), accessibility or privacy policy of said destination or departure web site(s). Nor does any link between City of Mobile Police Department and a third-party web site imply sponsorship of such web site, or the creator of such web site.
Some content on portions of City of Mobile Police Department resides on servers run by third parties. Each agency providing content for City of Mobile Police Department is bound by City of Mobile Police Department's privacy policy. Any agency using a third-party host, ISP, ASP or other combination of third-party transport, storage, content or application provision services shall be responsible for such third party's compliance with City of Mobile Police Department's privacy policy.
The content of City of Mobile Police Department's web pages is copyrighted, and contain some third party images/graphics that are used with permission. Users are notified, therefore, that one should presume the need to obtain permission from the copyright holder before reproducing or otherwise using images/graphics from this web site.
City of Mobile Police Department may change this policy from time to time, and reserves the right to do so without notice.
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