Who we are
Our website address is https://www.ward03chicago.com. We are committed to protecting individual privacy and securing the personal information made available to us when you visit ward03chicago.com. This Privacy Policy describes what information is made available to us when you use our site and how that information is used and retained.
Cookies
We use web measurement and customization technologies such as cookies. You can choose not to accept cookies from any website, including ward03chicago.com, by changing your browser settings.
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.
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.
Who we share your data with
Information you choose to share with ward03chicago.com may be treated as public information. We may, for example, publish compilations of messages or comments collected through this website and official social media pages and provide them to city leaders, members of the press, or other individuals outside of the City Government. However, we exercise discretion to limit such disclosures to protect your privacy (for example, we generally do not publish last names of commenters).
Ward03chicago.com uses a third-party analytics provider (currently Google Analytics) to analyze data from cookies. The third-party analytics provider does not receive personally identifiable information through these cookies. Please review Google Analytics’ privacy policy for additional information.
Within the ward office, we restrict access to personally identifiable information to employees, contractors, and vendors subject to non-disclosure requirements who require access to this information in order to perform their official duties and exercise controls to limit what data they can view based on the specific needs of their position.
In some cases, we may share information you have provided or automatically generated information with other government agencies in response to lawful law enforcement requests. Additionally, if you seek assistance on a matter within the jurisdiction of a city agency, we may share your information with that agency for the limited purpose of addressing your request for assistance.
We do not use or share your information for commercial purposes and, except as described above, we do not exchange or otherwise disclose this information.
How long we retain your data
If you submit information via our contact form, the information can be retained indefinitely. This is so we can follow up and store communications effectively.
Links to external sites
Ward03chicag.com and other platforms and pages may link to websites created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations and individuals. When you follow a link to an external site, you are leaving ward03chicago.com and are subject to the external site’s privacy and security policies. We do not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of information contained on an external site. We also do not endorse the site’s sponsor, any views they express, or any products or services they offer.
Email Subscriptions
In order to manage ward03chicag0.com email subscription lists, we retain the names and email addresses of our email subscribers, as well as other information they may have shared with us (e.g., addresses and phone numbers), logs of emails we send, and automatically generated email data used to improve our email communications. This automatically generated email data (generated through simple tools such as “pixel tags” and link redirects) includes:
- The recipient’s email client;
- Whether the email was opened;
- If a link in the message was clicked;
- Whether an email was delivered;
- If the email was forwarded; and
- If the email was printed.
If, at any time, you wish to stop receiving our messages, simply click on the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of each email message.