Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the City of Danville, Virginia Economic Development web site and for reviewing our privacy policy. We will collect no personal information about you except for statistical purposes when you visit our web site unless you choose to provide that information to us. We do not give, share, sell, or transfer any personal information to a third party without consent.

Cookies: To help make our web site more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we use a standard feature of browser software, called a “cookie”, to assign each visitor a unique, random number that resides on your computer. The cookie does not identify the visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to access our site. Unless you voluntarily identify yourself, we won’t know who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer as the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. A cookie cannot read unrelated data off your computer. We use cookies to help us deliver a better, more personalized service. For example, we use cookies to track the pages and services on our web site visited by our users. We can build a better web site if we know which pages and features our users are visiting and how often.

Links: The purpose of the City’s Economic Development web (ED) site is to provide information about the City’s from an Economic Development perspective. The ED web site may provide links to Web sites outside the ED Web site that also serves this purpose. The City is not responsible for and does not endorse the information on any linked web site unless the ED web site states otherwise. The following criteria will be used to decide whether to grant requests for City web site links.
The ED web site will provide links to web sites for:
1_Governmental and educational institutions.
2_Organizations with some relationship to the City (including but not limited to: organizations contracting with the City, organizations sponsoring City activities or programs, and organizations participating in City activities or programs).
3_Generally recognized community organizations
4_Organizations providing information about art, cultural, and sporting activities in the City’s area.
5_Organizations providing information about employment opportunities in the City’s area.
6_Organizations providing information about tourist attractions in the City’s area.
The ED web site will not provide links to a web site for:
1_Candidates for local, state or federal offices.
2_Political organizations or other organizations advocating a position on a local, state or federal issue.
3_Corporate or other for-profit organizations unless they fit any of the criteria stated above.
4_Individual or personal home pages.

Statistical Information: We analyze user traffic patterns on our web portal from information automatically provided by your browser when you visit our site. We use the statistical information gathered in the web log files to measure site and server performance and continually improve the content of our sites to better serve you. The City does not use the information automatically collected to ascertain personally identifiable information.

The information collected in the web log files includes the following:

The date and time of the visit. If the web site was reached by using a link from another web site, the name of the referring site is recorded.
If the web site was reached using web search software, the word or phrase searched for is recorded.
The type of computer operating system used.
The type of web browser software used.
The Internet domain name each visitor uses. This is the name of the visitor’s Internet Service Provider.
The Internet Protocol address (IP address) of the computer used to access the web site. This number is needed by the web server to send each page to the visitor who requested it.

The data collected in these log files is analyzed to determine how visitors use the web site. This includes, but is not limited to:

Counting the number of visitors for a given time period.
Measuring the average number of pages viewed during each visit.
Measuring the average length of time each visit lasts.
Identifying the most frequently visited pages.
Understanding how visitors reach the site, and how they navigate within the site.

Information provided by you: Information volunteered by you through your filling out of our optional online feedback form is used to help us enhance our web sites. We do not sell, rent, or publish any of our visitors’ personal or private information. We do not reveal specific information about subscribers or other personally identifiable data to unaffiliated third parties for their independent use, except if required to do so by the Virginia Freedom of Information Act or other law. In addition, we endeavor to restrict employee access to any personal information except where necessary to perform required duties.

Site security: CivicPlus, the City of Danville third party web hosting vendor, monitors network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or to otherwise cause damage to the site. Anyone using this web site expressly consents to such monitoring. CivicPlus has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under ours and their control. CivicPlus is located in Manhattan, Kansas.

IMMUNITIES RESERVED: Nothing contained herein shall be interpreted to waive, in whole or in part, the City’s governmental immunities (whether statutory or common-law). All such immunities in contract and in tort are hereby reserved.

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The City of Danville, Virginia Government makes no representations about the suitability of the information contained in the documents and related graphics published on this server for any purpose. All such documents and related graphics are provided “as is” without warranty of any kind. City Of Danville hereby disclaims all warranties and conditions with regard to this information, including all implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. In no event shall the City of Danville Government be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortuous action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of information available from this server.

The documents and related graphics published on this server could include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the information herein. The City of Danville Government may make improvements and/or changes in the document(s) described herein at any time. Notices Regarding Software, Documents and Services Available on this Website: In no event shall the City of Danville Government be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortuous action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of software, documents, provision of or failure to provide services, or information available from this server