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Privacy
Policy and Legal Disclaimers
General
The City of Warwick's website at www.warwickri.gov adheres
to the Rhode
Island Computer trespass law § 11-52-4.1 and federal statutes
including the Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the
National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
Disclaimer
This World Wide Web (WWW) site is provided as a public service by
the City of Warwick, Rhode Island. This site is intended to be used
by the public for viewing and retrieving information only. In providing
information on this site, we have attempted to be as accurate as
possible. However, the City of Warwick, Rhode Island makes no claims,
guarantees or promises about the accuracy, currency, or completeness
of the information provided and is not responsible for any errors
or omissions, or for results obtained from the use of the information.
Every possible effort is made to keep the content of this site accurate
and current, but that may not always be the case. Distribution of
the information does not constitute any warranty. The user assumes
the risk of verifying any materials used or relied on.
Links
The City of Warwick, Rhode Island's computer resources
and materials may contain hypertext or other links to external sites
not owned or controlled by the State of Rhode Island or the City
of Warwick, Rhode Island.
Links to external servers do not imply any official City of Warwick,
Rhode Island endorsement of the opinions or ideas expressed therein,
or guarantee the validity of the information provided.
Links to commercial sites are in no way an endorsement of any vendors'
products or services.
Links to other computer systems are not supervised nor regularly
reviewed by the City of Warwick, Rhode Island.
Any information, endorsements of products or services, materials
or personal opinions appearing on such external sites are not controlled,
sponsored nor approved by the City of Warwick, Rhode Island.
Links may be provided to external servers that are managed in
a professional manner, that are fully operational, available most
of the time and do not serve inaccurate information or obscene information,
including graphics. The City of Warwick, Rhode Island will not link
to external servers if such link would appear to provide an official
endorsement of fundraising efforts or lobbying for a political agenda.
In addition, the City of Warwick, Rhode Island will not link to
external servers if such link would appear to provide an official
endorsement of an individual's candidacy for elected office.
Copyright
The City of Warwick, Rhode Island makes the content of
this WWW site available to the public. Anyone may view information
found here without obligation to the City of Warwick, Rhode Island,
unless otherwise stated on particular articles of information to
which a restriction on fair use may apply. However, the City of
Warwick, Rhode Island makes no warranty that materials contained
herein are free of copyright claims or other restrictions or limitations
on fair use or display. The compiled information presented on this
WWW site is considered public information and may be distributed
or copied. However, use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits
is requested.
Privacy
All City of Warwick, Rhode Island computer systems are
subject to monitoring at all times to assure proper functioning
of the systems, to provide security for the computer systems' operations
and the information contained therein, to prevent unauthorized use,
and to deter and investigate violations of the law. There is no
reasonable expectation of privacy in the use of this public computer
system, save in areas designated and labeled as being presented
by our secure server.
We may collect some or all of the following information about visitors
who view or download information from our websites:
- Information Definition
- Date Date the visit occurred.
- Time Time the visit occurred.
- Client IP Unique Internet Protocol (IP) address of the website
visitor. IP address recorded is normally that of the visitor's
Internet Service Provider, e.g., aol.com if the visitor connects
from an America Online account.
- Server IP Unique Internet Protocol (IP) address of the Rhode
Island State Government web server accessed.
- HTTP Status Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) error code,
e.g., "404 Requested Page Not Found."
- HTTP Request URL Identifies the web page or file requested
by the website visitor.
- Bytes Sent Amount of data sent from the web server to website
visitor during that connection.
- Bytes Received Amount of data sent from website visitor to
the web server.
- User Agent Type of web browser or other client software that
made request to the web server.
- Referrer Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that referred to the
requested file.
- Protocol Version Version of HTTP used by the visitor's web
browser software
The information we collect is used to improve the content of our
Web services and help us understand how people are using our services.
We analyze our web site logs to continually improve the value of
the materials available on our site. The information in our web
site logs is not personally identifiable, and we make no attempt
to link it with the individuals that browse our web site. Some of
this statistical information, such as a running count of the number
of visitors, may be displayed on the website or shared with other
state governments to aid in the provision of better service to the
public.
The e-Towne
Crier is warwickri.gov's real-time chatroom. Real-time chat
technology permits users to do such things as provide one-on-one
discussions, in "real" time, and to hold online meetings.
The e-Towne Square is
warwickri.gov's online forum by which users may post questions,
recommendations, or any other information relevant to the City of
Warwick for an extended period. Once the forum has depleted its
memory capacity, the oldest posts will be culled from the system.
In order to utilize either the e-Towne Crier or the e-Towne Square,
certain information must be collected and maintained. In addition
to IP address, browser type, date and time of the visit, and the
referring webpage, transcripts of the chats and forum posts are
saved for statistical, demographic, and/or customer service purposes.
Some information is also collected through chat surveys and forum
posts on a volunteer basis.
The users of either the e-Towne Crier or the e-Towne Square agree
not to post or transmit any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive,
defamatory, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material of any
kind, including, but not limited to, any material which encourages
conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, violate the rights
of others, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national
or international law. The user will be responsible for, and indemnify
and hold harmless the City of Warwick, Rhode Island against, any
claim arising from any material that the user posts or transmits.
Although the CIty of Warwick, Rhode Island may from time to time
monitor or review discussions, chats, postings, transmissions, and
bulletin boards at warwickri.gov, the City of Warwick, Rhode Island
is NOT under any obligation to do so. The user acknowledges that
the City of Warwick, Rhode Island does not control the information
available on either the e-Towne Crier or the e-Towne Square and
that any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other
information or content presented or disseminated on either the e-Towne
Crier or the e-Towne Square are those of their respective authors
who are solely liable for their content. Any violation of these
rules by the user of either the e-Towne Crier or the e-Towne Square,
grants the City of Warwick, Rhode Island the right to edit, refuse
to post, or remove said material from warwickri.gov.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files which a web server may ask
your web browser to store, and to send back to the web server when
needed. Cookies may be used to store a transaction identifier or
other information a user may provide. We use cookies in the following
ways:
Complex transactions: Cookies are used to store and retrieve unique
transaction identifiers or other server-generated or user-provided
information in complex, multi-page web applications. This allows
us to distinguish between different users, and to use information
provided at one stage of an application at a later time (for instance,
items placed in a 'shopping cart' might need to be displayed on
a later 'check-out' screen). When we use cookies in this way, the
cookie is stored on your web browser only temporarily; the cookie
is destroyed at the end of the transaction or at the end of the
browser session.
Customized Services: Cookies may also be used to automatically
identify a particular user to the system, in order to provide a
customized service, such as a personalized web page. In this case,
a cookie containing a unique user identifier will be permanently
stored on your web browser. We do not store sensitive information
in such cookies; only a unique user identifier or generic preference
values are stored. Personal information you give us for processing
a transaction or using one of our personalization features, may
be stored on our secure web server. Personal information that you
give us for processing a transaction or using one of our personalization
features, may be stored on our secure web server, retained only
as long as necessary and properly disposed of by destruction under
the City of Warwick, Rhode Island Title 38 Access to Public Records
law.
We do not use cookies in order to track your visit to our website.
The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will
tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies
or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you
to take full advantage of many City of Warwick, Rhode Island e-government
services, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
The City of Warwick, Rhode Island does use cookies to note new
and repeat visitors for statistical purposes. We do not use cookies
to keep a database of personally-identifying information about visitors
when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information
to us. Indeed, we do not maintain any information at all that can
personally identify a user of our websites.
No other attempts are made to identify individual users or their
usage habits. Raw data logs are used for no other purpose than those
stated above and are scheduled for frequent and regular destruction.
The City of Warwick, Rhode Island makes no guarantee or warranty
that servers not managed or controlled by the City of Warwick, Rhode
Island that are linked to this WWW site are not using cookies or
collecting personally-identifying data.
Security
For site security purposes and to ensure that WWW service
remains available to all users, the City of Warwick, Rhode Island
computer system employs software programs which can monitor network
traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information,
or otherwise cause damage. 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. The
City of Warwick, Rhode Island website content materials are provided
for public use on computer systems located within the City of Warwick,
Rhode Island and for the use and benefit of citizens of Rhode Island
and others. Any person choosing to use this system or seeking access
to information or materials on this system is subject to Rhode Island
jurisdiction. Any dispute arising therefrom shall be decided under
the laws and in the courts of Rhode Island.
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