Thank you for visiting the Miami21
website and reviewing our privacy policy. We will
collect no personal information about you when you
visit our website unless you choose to provide
that information to us.
Here is how we
handle information about your visit to our
website:
If all you do during your visit is
browse through the website, read pages, or
download information, we will gather and store
certain information about your visit
automatically. This information does not identify
you personally. Only the following information is
automatically collected and stored 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 (an IP
address is a number that is automatically assigned
to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web)
from which you access our website;
The type of browser and operating system
used to access our site;
The date and time you access our site;
The pages you visit; and
If you linked to our website from another
website, the address of that website.
We
use this information to help us make the site more
useful to visitors -- to learn about the number of
visitors to our site and the types of technology
our visitors use. We do not track or record
information about individuals and their
visits.
If you send us personal information
If you choose to provide us
with personal information -- by filling out a form
with your personal information and submitting it
to us through the website -- we use that
information to respond to your message and to help
us get you the information you have requested. We
only share the information you give us with
another government agency if your inquiry relates
to that agency, or as otherwise required by law.
The City of Miami does not collect information for
commercial marketing.
Public Disclosure The State of Florida law
requires that if requested, any information
we collect must be disclosed to the requestor
under section 119.07 of the Florida Statutes
(Public Records Act).
Choice You
may decline participation in any activity that
asks for information (i.e., surveys or emails).
Your choice to not participate will have no effect
on your ability to access information on the
City’s web sites.
Cookies To
better serve you, we occasionally use "cookies" to
customize your browsing experience. Cookies are
simple text files stored by your web browser and
they provide a method of distinguishing among
visitors to the web sites. Cookies created on your
computer by using our web sites do not contain
personally identifiable information and do not
compromise your privacy or security. We use the
cookie feature to store a randomly generated
identifying tag on your computer. If you have
further questions about cookies, the Computer
Incident Advisory Capacity Unit that monitors
computer problems for the U.S. Department of
Energy issued a study on March 12, 1998, of the
risks to users of cookies, titled "Information
Bulletin 1-034: Internet Cookies". You can
refuse the cookie or delete the cookie file from
your computer at any time by using any one of a
number of widely available methods. Your choice to
refuse the cookie will not inhibit your access to
any of the information available on the City web
site. Your acceptance of the cookie will serve to
provide you with additional functionality in
choosing the information you wish to view on a
regular basis.
Passwords In
certain instances, you will have the opportunity
to receive or create a password to access or
submit personal information. You should not
divulge your password to anyone and the County
will never ask you for your password in an
unsolicited phone call or e-mail. When you are
finished with those applications that are password
protected, you should exit the page.
Site security For site security
purposes and to ensure that this service remains
available to all users, this government computer
system employs commercial software programs to
monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized
attempts to upload or change information, or
otherwise cause damage.
Except for
authorized law enforcement investigations, no
other attempts are made to identify individual
users or their usage habits. Raw data logs are
used for no other purposes and are scheduled for
regular destruction in accordance with State
guidelines for records management and retention.
Unauthorized attempts to upload
information or change information on this service
are strictly prohibited and may be punishable
under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and
the National Information Infrastructure Protection
Act.
Links to other web sites The website has links to many other
governmental agencies. In some cases we link to
private organizations. Once you link to another
site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the
new site.
Email Communication Under Florida law
(Florida
Senate Bill SB 80-effective July 1, 2006),
e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not
want your e-mail address released in response to a
public-records request, do not send electronic
mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone
or in writing.
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