Privacy policy for SF.gov

General policy

Information collection

We do not collect personal information about you when you visit our website.

We collect limited non-personally identifying information your browser makes available automatically whenever you visit a website. This information includes the Internet Address of your computer or network, the date, time, and page you visited on our site, your browser and operating system, and the referring page (the last webpage you visited before clicking on a link to our site).

We use this aggregated anonymized information from all of our visitors to measure server performance and improve the content of our site.

We sometimes track the keywords that are entered into our search engine to measure interest in specific topics, but we do not track which terms a particular user enters.

Information you provide

When you fill out a form on SF.gov, like when you sign up for a newsletter or apply for a permit, the information you submit will be used in the context of that form.

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your information. However, no data transmission over the internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Anonymous website feedback you provide through our optional online feedback form is used to help us enhance our web site. We may share that information with City and County of San Francisco employees and contractors for that purpose.

We do not give, share, sell, rent or transfer any personal information to a third party.

Site analytics

We use a tool called "Google Analytics" to help understand how visitors interact with our website so that we can improve the website. We do not collect personal information from Google.

You can read the Google Privacy Policy and description of Google Technologies for information about Google Analytics and how Google uses information it collects.

You can choose not to have your data collected by Google Analytics by downloading their opt-out browser add-on.

Links

Our website contains links to third-party sites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices and encourage you to review their policies.

Site security

We monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or to otherwise cause damage to the site. Anyone using this website expressly consents to such monitoring.

We take appropriate security measures to protect unauthorized access, alteration or destruction of data.

Policy changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We expect most such changes to be minor, but we will post those changes as they occur.