Privacy Statement

Introduction

The City of Rockford is committed to maintaining your online privacy. The City of Rockford On-Line Privacy Policy applies to data collected from the City of Rockford website, including all City Departments. We do not collect personal information without your permission.

The following explains the City's privacy policy for all visitors to the City of Rockford's web site.

Information Gathering and Cookies

If you visit our website to read or download information, such as schedules, forms or permits, we capture and store only the domain name of your computer (for example, aol.com), your browser type and version, and other related information to speed up the performance of web page delivery. All information is deleted from your cache memory when you close the session and leave our site. We collect no other personal information.

We do not use or set cookies on our website to store any information on your personal computer hard drive.A cookie is a very small text file inserted onto your computer by a website that you visit. When you return to the website, the cookie is then read by the site's web server. Cookies are used for many things, from making web sites more personal to tracking your web browsing habits.

On-line Transactions

The City of Rockford allows citizens to submit service requests and allows job applicants to apply for City jobs on-line.  Any information submitted online is subject to the same privacy policies as if you had engaged in these activities over the phone or in person, rather than over the Internet.

Sending the City of Rockford Email

We value your feedback. If you send the City of Rockford an email with questions or comments about our programs or services, we do collect your email address and any other information that you volunteer.

Sale of Data

We do not sell data for direct mail or advertising purposes.

Other Web Sites

This site contains links to other sites. The City of Rockford is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites.