The City of Cranston World Wide Web Home Page (Cranstonri.com & Cranstonri.org) and its related pages, including their content, format, and imagery are protected by the copyright laws of the United States.
PRIVACY & SECURITY POLICY
The City of Cranston recognizes the fact that privacy is important to Internet users. Our objective is to protect the privacy of CranstonRI.com website users. This policy has been prepared to address the various issues that arise in conjunction with website use. The City encourages user participation; our goal is to provide meaningful electronic content and to make government services more accessible so you can make an informed decision about using the Site and the features and service offered through the Site (the “Services”). We reserve the right to change the provisions of this Policy at any time. We encourage you to review this Policy from time to time to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide will be used.
Incoming emails / Feedback Form or submissions are handled like other written correspondence. The information contained in the email is directed to the correct Department or agency to provide you with the fastest and most accurate response. All personal information and email addresses are used only to communicate with you regarding services requested by you. We will not sell or give this information to third parties or private organizations. In doing so, we are identifying, assessing and limiting reasonably foreseeable internal and external risks to the security, confidentiality, and/or integrity of any electronic, paper or other records containing personal information.
The City may retain for our records any communication you submit along with our response.
Web-based Statistics – For website management, we monitor our usage logs and collect statistical information to help us improve our online services. We wish to monitor the website and technical performance and to see what areas are of most and least interest so that we can strengthen our service and meet the overall needs of our users. No attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits unless there are unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
Cookies – The City of Cranston website does use cookies at the present time for our own pages on CranstonRI.com & CranstonRI.org. We use cookies to store visitors preferences, record session information, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, if you wish to block, erase, or be warned of cookies, please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn about these functions. Database queries – We do use cookies or track users of our online database searches. Information on the “type of search” may be reviewed to improve our online services.
Links to Other Sites – At our discretion, we link to other sites and servers that provide access to information and business that we view to be of interest to the local community, our regional users, and our international visitors. External links do not constitute an endorsement.
When you leave the city site, please check the Privacy and Security policy of the site you are visiting. The City is not responsible for content on external sites.
Unauthorized attempts to access our system – Unauthorized attempts to upload or change information at CranstonRI.com & CranstonRI.org are strictly prohibited and may be prosecuted by applicable Computer Crime Laws and Statutes.
City of Cranston
869 Park Avenue
Cranston, Rhode Island 02910-7286
Phone: (401) 461-1000