Oak Park Township Privacy Policy

Oak Park Township provides you with this privacy policy in order to disclose the information gathering and dissemination practices for this website. This policy may be modified at any time without notice, so please check back periodically.

Who we are: Oak Park Township provides locally-governed supportive services to the community

Our website address is: https://oakparktownship.org.

Disclaimer

By accessing this Website you accept and agree to be bound by the following terms. If you do not accept any of the terms as follows, do not use the Website.

Oak Park Township provides this information on an “AS IS” basis without any warranties of any kind, either express or implied. Oak Park Township, to the extent permitted by law, disclaims all warranties, included but not limited to: warranties of title, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement of third party rights. Oak Park Township makes no warranties about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or timeliness of the material and links presented on the Website.

Your use of the Oak Park Township Website is at your own risk. If you are dissatisfied with any of the contents of this Website or with the Terms and Conditions, our Privacy Policy or any other policies, your sole remedy is to discontinue use of the Website.

Oak Park Township does not warrant that this Website will operate without error or that this Website and its server are free of computer viruses or other harmful code. Oak Park Township is not responsible for any costs associated with servicing or replacing your equipment or data due to your use of this Website. In no event will Oak Park Township be liable to any user or other third party for any damages resulting from the use or inability to use the Website or the materials contained therein. This disclaimer and limitation includes direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages or lost profits, and applies whether based on warranty, contract, tort , or any other legal theory, regardless of whether Oak Park Township is advised of the possibility of such damages.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

Visitors to this website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Oak Park Township will collect no personal information (such as name, address, telephone number, email address, etc.) about visitors to this Website, unless you voluntarily provide it to us by sending us an email through our Contact forms. If you email us comments or questions, we use the information you provide uses software to collect information submitted on the Contact forms on this Website. The user consents to the Township’s collection of contact information including, but not limited to: Name, Address, Email Address, Phone Number, and submitted Content and/or Images. This contact information can be used by Oak Park Township to reply to questions or comments submitted through our Contact forms. Please understand that personally identifiable information sent via the Internet can be intercepted. You may, therefore, wish to carefully consider the advisability of sending sensitive, personal information via the Internet.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

This Website contains links to third party websites that are maintained by others. These links are provided solely as a convenience to our users, and are not an endorsement by Oak Park Township of the contents on such third-party Websites. Oak Park Township is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites and does not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third-party sites. If you decide to access linked third-party Websites, you do so at your own risk. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Oak Park Township does not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any information posted by third parties, or endorse any opinions expressed by them. You acknowledge that any reliance on material so posted will be at your own risk.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold Oak Park Township, its trustees, directors, employees, agents and staff from and against any claims, actions or demands, including with out limitation reasonable legal fees, alleging or resulting from your use of the contents of this Website or of any third-party inks from this Website.

Analytics

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Oak Park Township, 105 S. Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60302

Main number: 708-383-8005

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold Oak Park Township, its trustees, directors, employees, agents and staff from and against any claims, actions or demands, including with out limitation reasonable legal fees, alleging or resulting from your use of the contents of this Website or of any third-party inks from this Website.