Collection
of Information by the NYPD
In order to improve the content and usability of
this website, the NYPD automatically collects several
categories of information from users. This information
includes the following:
1. The apparent Internet Protocol ("IP")
address of your Internet Service Provider ("ISP")
and/or your computer, if your computer has an IP address
assigned directly to it. 1
2. The apparent Fully Qualified Domain Name ("Domain
Name") of your Internet Service Provider ("ISP")
and/or your computer, if your computer has a domain
name assigned directly to it. 2
3. The type of browser (such as, for example Netscape,
Internet Explorer, Opera, Konqueror, etc.) used and
the operating system resident on a user's computer.
4. The date and time a user visited the site.
5. The web pages accessed at the site, as well as
any applications used and forms data.
6. The Uniform Resource Locator ("URL")
of the site which a user visited prior to NYPD (if
detectable), if such user did not connect directly
to NYPD, or use it as a homepage or "Portal.
The City uses this information to identify site performance
needs; to ensure compatibility with the technology
used by NYPD's visitors, and to generally add and
improve services offered on NYPD. In order to accomplish
those goals, from time to time, the City may conduct
statistical analysis of the data it collects.
The City does not collect data for commercial or
marketing purposes, 3 and the City
does not sell, exchange or otherwise distribute the
data collected by NYPD for commercial or marketing
purposes.
We use a third party to serve ads on our behalf across the Internet. The third party may also collect
anonymous information about your visits to our web site. This is primarily accomplished through the use
of a technology device, commonly referred to as a Web beacon or an Action Tag, which we place on
various web pages within our web site that allows the third party to collect anonymous information.
The third party may use information about your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide
ads about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this
practice and to know your choices about not having
this information used by the third party, "click
here". The third party reports the anonymous
data that they collect on our behalf back to us, which
we link to our customer's personally identifiable
information for the purposes of better serving you.
When we merge this data, it is treated under this
policy as personally identifiable information as described
above.
Information Submitted to NYPD
During a session on NYPD, a user may affirmatively
submit information to the City by, among other means,
electronic mail ("e-mail"), by filling in
and submitting an on-line form, or by electing to
personalize NYPD and use it as a customized portal.
Such affirmatively submitted information is stored
in a secure environment, and will be used by the City
in furtherance of its duties and/or obligations to
its citizenry (i.e., "governmental purposes").
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The governmental purposes to which affirmatively
submitted information may be put include, but are
not limited to, the following:
1. Helping the City respond to a request for information
not readily available from NYPD
2. Investigating a problem reported to the City via
NYPD 5
3. Keeping lists of parties interested in some particular
issue or facet of New York City life about which the
City anticipates issuing further information in the
future.
4. Disclosure of such information pursuant to a request
made under Freedom of Information Law ("FOIL")
or court order, if such information is not protected
by federal or state law. 6
The City does not rent or sell personally identifiable
information (i.e., information such as name, address,
phone number, e-mail, etc., that identifies a user
as a particular person), nor would the City exchange
or trade such information with third-parties without
a user's explicit permission. The City does not disclose
credit card or other personally identifiable financial
information other than as necessary to complete a
credit card or other financial transaction, or upon
explicit permission from the applicable user. All
such use by the City of financial information shall
be subject to the section of this policy on financial
issues, set forth below.
If an NYPD user has elected not to receive further
information from the City, NYPD will not send such
information. If an NYPD user has elected to receive
further communication from the City, NYPD will only
send information in categories that have been authorized.
If NYPD sends electronic
mail ("e-mail") to a user, such e-mail is
NOT confidential, 7and is
identical in nature to that information generally
available to the public and news media.
Security
In certain instances, a user may have the opportunity
to receive or create a password to access or submit
personally identifiable information. One should not
divulge a password to anyone, and the City will never
ask a user for a password in a telephone call, fax,
e-mail or other form of unsolicited communication.
When a user is finished with an application or applications
that are password protected, such user should exit
the relevant page(s). If the browser used to access
said password protected pages is a publicly-accessible
browser, users should close down the entire session
and, if applicable or possible, flush any temporary
caches or other areas where such a password might
be stored subsequent to use.
The City has integrated industry standard or better
security measures and systems into the design, implementation
and day to day operation of NYPD and its underlying
servers and networks. 8 Furthermore,
the City maintains ongoing efforts to identify and/or
block unauthorized intrusions into or onto NYPD, and
to upload to or change information on or otherwise
cause damage to NYPD or the information resident hereon
or submitted hereto. 9
Cookies
This website and NYPD generally, do not use "persistent
cookies." 10 Cookies are text
files, or entries in larger files, utilized to distinguish
between visitors to a website, and to track information
during multiple visits to a website. The City uses
"temporary cookies" 11
on some parts of NYPD, and such temporary cookies
expire upon the end of the browsing session. If a
user registers to use NYPD as a customized portal,
the City uses a persistent cookie to facilitate such
customization.
The use of cookies is a standard practice among Internet
websites. Most Internet web browsers may be customized
to reject cookies, to only accept or reject cookies
by user intervention, or to delete cookies. Rejecting
and/or removing cookies, however, may lead to loss
of functionality on those NYPD pages requiring cookies
to function fully. Additionally, if a user has created
a customized version of NYPD, the City will create
a cookie that contains the user's unique identifier
and indicator for any custom content modules requested
and, if a user elected the "remember me"
option for signing in to NYPD, the cookie will contain
a user's password. Deletion of such a cookie could
result in the loss of one's customized NYPD portal
settings.
Web Bugs (a/k/a Web Beacons)
NYPD does not use web bugs12 on
its web pages or in any html e-mail generated by use
of the portal, or otherwise sent from NYPD, for any
purpose other than to identify site performance needs;
to ensure compatibility with the technology used by
NYPD's visitors, and to generally add and improve
services offered on NYPD.
Children
No applications on NYPD specifically solicit information
from minors or seek to determine whether the visitor
is a minor. Consequently, because such information
will not be specifically identified as being from
minors, users of NYPD should be aware that personally
identifiable information submitted to NYPD by minors
will be subject to being treated in the same manner
as information given by an adult and may become subject
to FOIL.
The City strongly believes that parental supervision
is an important factor in Internet use by minors.
Therefore, NYPD asks parents to guide their minor
children when children are asked to provide any personal
information online. NYPD further asks that children
ask for and receive their parent's permission before
providing any information online.
Health Care Information
Any agency providing personally identifiable health
care information via NYPD will be required to certify
that its health care data handling and security procedures
are compliant with the Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA").
If such data and security services are provided to
such agency(ies) by a third-party provider, the agency(ies)
shall be responsible for such third party's compliance
with HIPAA.
Third Party Links
NYPD provides links to, and may be linked from, local,
State and federal government agencies, and from, or
to, other websites. The existence and/or provision
of those links neither constitutes nor implies endorsement
of the destination or departure website(s) or of the
content, viewpoint, accuracy, opinions, policy(ies),
product(s), accessibility or privacy policy of said
destination or departure website(s). Nor does any
link between NYPD and a third-party website imply
sponsorship of such website, or the creator of such
website.
Some content on portions of NYPD resides on servers
run by third parties. 13 Each agency
providing content for NYPD is bound by NYPD's privacy
policy. Any agency using a third-party host, ISP,
ASP or other combination of third-party transport,
storage, content or application provision services
shall be responsible for such third party's compliance
with NYPD's privacy policy.
Intellectual Property
The content of NYPD's webpages is copyrighted, and
contain some third party images/graphics that are
used with permission. Users are notified, therefore,
that one should presume the need to obtain permission
from the copyright holder before reproducing or otherwise
using images/graphics from this website.
NYPD may change this policy
from time to time, and reserves the right to do so
without notice.
Privacy Statement Footnotes
1 An IP address is a numeric
value assigned to an Internet Service Provider, a
computer network, an individual computer or router,
or a firewall (collectively, "users") so
that other computers on the Internet may direct Internet
message or other traffic to such users. Until the
IP addressing system is changed, an IP address will
take the form of XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX, where the X's are
numbers between 1 and 9, and 0 for some positions.
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2 A Domain Name is an alphanumeric
value that represents the plain language (English
or such other local language as is relevant) translation
of the IP address assigned to a specific user or collection
of users. For example, if a user had an IP address
of 123.123.123.123, the Domain Name that represented
that address might beWWW.HOME.COM.
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3 Commercial and non-commercial
marketing purposes include, for the purposes of this
policy, Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail (colloquially
known as "SPAM" e-mail), targeted e-mail
for the purpose of selling products, or the sale or
exchange of personally identifiable information between
parties that anticipate receiving valuta in exchange
for such information.
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4 The City of New York's duties
and obligations toward its citizens are set forth
in the City Charter and in all applicable and relevant
local, state and federal law.
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5 The material you submit
may be seen by various people. We may enter the information
you send into our electronic database, to share with
our attorneys and investigators involved in law enforcement
or public policy development. We may also share it
with a variety of other government agencies enforcing
consumer protection, competition, and other laws.
You may be contacted by any of those agencies.
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6 Pursuant to Article 6 of
NYS Public Officers Law 87, certain categories of
information may be exempt from such disclosure under
FOIL including, but not limited to, records whose
disclosure would constitute an unwarranted invasion
of personal privacy under 89(2) of Article 6, or might
endanger the life or safety of any person.
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7 E-mail is generally not
secure against interception. If a communication is
very sensitive, or includes personal information like
a bank account, charge card, or social security number,
it is more prudent to send such communication by postal
mail (i.e., "snailmail") instead.
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8 The City maintains user
registration information behind a "firewall"
and limits accessibility to such information to only
those few employees that have special access rights
to production systems. Sensitive information submitted
by users is transmitted by Secure Socket Layer ("SSL")
technology and encrypted.
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9 For site security purposes
and to ensure that this service remains available
to all users, the City employs software programs to
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, and such other federal,
state or local law as is applicable.
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10 Persistent cookies are
cookie files that remain upon a user's hard drive
until affirmatively removed, or until expired as provided
for by a pre-set expiration date.
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11 Temporary or "Session
Cookies" are cookie files that last or are valid
only during an active communications connection, measured
from beginning to end, between computer or applications
(or some combination thereof) over a network.
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12 A web bug is a clear,
camouflaged or otherwise invisible graphics image
format ("GIF") file placed upon a web page
or in hyper text markup language ("HTML")
e-mail and used to monitor who is reading a web page
or the relevant email. Web bugs can also be used for
other monitoring purposes such a profiling of the
affected party.
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13 These third parties are
computers, computer networks, ISPs, or application
service providers ("ASPs") that are non-governmental
in nature and have direct control of what information
is automatically gathered, whether cookies are used,
and how voluntarily provided information is used.
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