Internet Privacy Policy Statement

The County respects your privacy. The information below is intended to explain how the County gathers information on this web site and the technology the County uses to ensure that your information is private and secure. This privacy policy statement is intended to be in compliance with the Va. Code Section 2.2-3803.

• Collecting Information
• Providing External Links
• Ensuring Confidentiality
• Sending Your Comments

Collecting Information

1. What information is collected?
    
   The County collects non-personal data like IP addresses, browser types, referring pages, the number of visits, the pages on this web site to which you link during a visit.
    
    
2. Is any information collected automatically just by accessing this web site?
    
   The information listed above is collected automatically when you access the County's web site.
    
   This site does not automatically collect personal information about you.
    
    
3. Does this web site place a cookie on your computer?
    
   Yes, if you choose to log on to any of the Hanover e-Gov Online Services. These online applications do use cookies to pass session IDs from the server to the end user's PC. Since these cookies are only used for the current session, they exist on the end user's PC as memory objects only. We have found no instance where these memory cookies have been stored outside of memory (on the hard disk drive, etc.). Therefore, while cookies must be enabled to create a session (to log in), no cookies are stored on your PC. These session cookies collect no sensitive information and the data that is collected is not retained.
    
    
4. How is the collected information used?
    
   The County analyzes the web site activity by tracking visitor movements through the site. Each computer on the Internet has an IP address. We use IP addresses to track the number of visits to the County's web site and to identify the most popular pages. Analyzing this information helps us improve the performance and value of the materials available on this web site.
    
   At some point you may wish to contact the County via email. The information that you provide in such an email message is used solely to fulfill your online request.
    
   The County does not share, sell, or trade any information collected on this web site.

Providing External Links

The County provides some links on this web site that lead to resources outside the County's web site. When this web site provides an external link to a third party's site, you will see a small exit symbol () which indicates that you will leave the County's web site if you click on the link. The County is not responsible for the privacy practices of the sites to which we link. When a link on the County's web site directs you to a third party's site, the County encourages you to read that third party's privacy statement to learn of that party's privacy practices.

Ensuring Confidentiality

The County utilizes a system of hardware and software known as a "firewall" to regulate information that can enter and exit the County's web server(s). This ensures that only authorized access occurs and that information remains confidential.

Sending Your Comments

If you have questions regarding this privacy statement, the practices of the County's web site, or your interaction with the County's web site please contact the Web Administrator.