County of Denton, Texas
Privacy Policy Notice
Technology Services maintains the Denton County website as a public service.
This website is designed to make it easier and more efficient for Denton County
citizens and businesses to interact with their county government. The
County is committed to preserving your privacy when visiting this website.
This policy describes the County's privacy practices regarding information
collected from visitors to this website. This policy describes what data is
collected and how that information is used. Denton County may, at its sole
discretion, change modify, add, or delete portions of this policy. Because this
privacy policy only applies to this website (all pages in domains
dentoncounty.com, co.denton.tx.us, and dentoncounty.org), you should examine the
privacy policy of any website you access through this website.
Information Collected When You Visit this Website
When visiting this website the County automatically collects and stores
the following information about your visit:
1. The Internet Protocol address and domain name of your Internet service
provider. The Internet Protocol address is a numerical identifier assigned
either to your Internet service provider or directly to your computer, which
can be used to direct internet traffic to you;
2. The type of browser and operating system you used;
3. The date and time you visited this site;
4. The web pages or services you accessed at this site; and
5. The URL or web site address of the web site you visited prior to coming
to this website and from which any web page on this site was linked.
This information is used to improve this website's content and to help the
County understand how people are using this website. This information is
collected for statistical analysis, to determine what information is of most and
of least interest to our visitors, and to identify system performance or problem
areas. The information is not collected for commercial marketing purposes and
the County does not sell or distribute the information collected from the
website for commercial marketing purposes.
Information Collected When You Email this Website
If during your visit to this website you send an email to the County, your
email address and the contents of your email will be collected.
The information collected is not limited to text characters and may include
audio, video, and graphic information formats you send us. The information is
retained in accordance with the public record retention schedules.
Your email address and the information contained in your email will be used
to respond to you, to address issues you identify, to further improve this
website, or to forward your email to another agency for appropriate action. Your
email address is not collected for commercial marketing purposes and the County
does not sell or distribute your email address for commercial marketing
purposes.
Personal Information and Choice
"Personal information" is information about an individual (e.g. an
individual's name, address, and phone number). A domain name or Internet
Protocol address is not considered personal information.
Personal information is not collected through this website unless you send an
email to the County through this website. If you do not communicate with this
website it does not affect your ability to use any other features of this
website.
Currently, the County does not knowingly collect personal information from
children or create profiles of children through this website. People are
cautioned that the collection of personal information provided by any individual
in an email will be treated the same as information given by an adult, and may,
if not protected by federal or state law, be subject to public access. The
County encourages parents and teachers to be involved in children's Internet activities
and guide the children whenever children are asked to provide personal
information on-line.
Disclosure of Information Collected Through This Website
Information collected through this website, personal or otherwise, may, if
not protected by federal or state law, be subject to disclosure pursuant to law
or court order.
Additionally, the County may disclose personal information to federal, state,
or local law enforcement authorities to enforce its rights against unauthorized
access or attempted unauthorized access to the County's information.
Security
The County limits employee access to personally identifiable information from
this website to only those employees who need access to perform a specific job.
Security measures have been integrated into the design, implementation, and
day-to-day operations of this website as part of our continuing commitment to
the security of electronic content as well as the electronic transmission of
information.
NOTE: The information contained in this policy should not be construed
in any way as giving business, legal, or other advice, or warranting as fail
proof, the security of information provided via this website. For site security
purposes and to ensure that this website remains available to all users, the
County employs software to monitor traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to
upload or change information or otherwise cause damage to this website.
Cookies
This website is designed to become your personalized access to Denton County
government, where you decide what information from the County government website
is important to you, and create your own unique county government page. This
ability to customize this website is achieved through the use of persistent
cookies, which are simple text files stored by your web browser that provide a
method of distinguishing among visitors to websites. Cookies created on the
device you use to access this website 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 the device you use to
access this website. The use of cookies is a standard practice among Internet
websites. The software and hardware you use to access this website allows you to
refuse the cookie or delete the cookie file at any time.
Links Disclaimer
In order to provide visitors with certain information, this website provides
links to local, state and federal government agencies, and websites of other
organizations. A link does not constitute an endorsement of the content,
viewpoint, accuracy, opinions, policies, products, services, or accessibility of
that website. Once you link to another website from this website you are subject
to the terms and conditions of that website, including, but not limited to, its
privacy policy.
Information Disclaimer
Information provided on this website is intended to allow the public
immediate access to public information. While all attempts are made to provide
accurate, current, and reliable information, the County recognizes the
possibility of human and/or mechanical error. Therefore, the County, its
employees, officers and agencies make no representations as to the accuracy,
completeness, currency, or suitability of the information provided by this
website, and deny any expressed or implied warranty as to the same.
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