Privacy Statement

The Syracuse Police Department is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to our company website and governs data collection and usage.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our website. By using this website, you consent to the policies described in this statement. This policy may change from time to time, and all changes are effective immediately. Your continued use of this website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so check the policy periodically for updates.

Collection of Your Personal Information
This department collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. This department also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by this website. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of this Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

This department is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on any other websites.

Use of Your Personal Information
This department collects and uses your personal information for advertising purposes and delivery of the services that may have been requested. This department also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from this department and its affiliates. This department may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

This department does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. This department may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

This department does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

This department will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law.

Minors
We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors. If you are a minor, do not use or provide any information on this website, make any purchases through the website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a minor without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a minor, please contact us at the contact information located within the website.

Use of Cookies
The website uses “cookies” to help this department personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

Security of Your Personal Information
This department secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. This department secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.