Collection of Information by GVMC.GOV.IN In order to improve the content and usability of this website, the City of GREATER VIASKHAPATNAM MUNICIPAL CORPORATION (the "City") 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 GVMC.GOV.IN (if detectable), if Such user did not connect directly to GVMC.GOV.IN, 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 GVMC.GOV.IN's visitors, and to generally add and improve services offered on GVMC.GOV.IN 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 GVMC.GOV.IN for commercial or marketing purposes. Information Submitted to GVMC.GOV.IN During a session on GVMC.GOV.IN, 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 GVMC.GOV.IN 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"). 4 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 GVMC.GOV.IN 2. Investigating a problem reported to the City via GVMC.GOV.IN 5 3. Keeping lists of parties interested in some particular issue or facet of GREATER VISAKHAPATNAM MUNICIPAL CORPORATION City life about which The City anticipates issuing further information in the future. 4. Disclosure of such information pursuant to a request made under  Court order, if such information is not protected by Central 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 GVMC.GOV.IN user has elected not to receive further information from the City, GVMC.GOV.IN will not send such Information. If an GVMC.GOV.IN user has elected to receive further communication from the City, GREATER VISAKHAPATNAM MUNICIPAL CORPORATION Will only send information in categories that have been authorized. If GVMC.GOV.IN 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 GVMC.GOV.IN and its underlying servers and networks. 8 Furthermore, the City maintains ongoing efforts to identify and/or Block unauthorized intrusions into or onto GVMC.GOV.IN, and to upload to or change information on or otherwise cause Damage to GVMC.GOV.IN or the information resident hereon or submitted hereto. 9 Cook Cookies This website and GVMC.GOV.IN 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 GVMC.GOV.IN, and such temporary cookies expire upon the end of The browsing session. If a user registers to use GVMC.GOV.IN 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 GVMC.GOV.IN pages requiring cookies to function fully. Additionally, if a user has created A customized version of GVMC.GOV.IN, 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 GVMC.GOV.IN, the Cookie will contain a user's password. Deletion of such a cookie could result in the loss of one's customized GVMC.GOV.IN portal settings. Web Bugs (a/k/a Web Beacons) GVMC.GOV.IN does not use web bugs 12 on its web pages or in any html e-mail generated by use of the portal, or otherwise sent From GVMC.GOV.IN, for any purpose other than to identify site performance needs; to ensure compatibility with the technology Used by GVMC.GOV.IN's visitors, and to generally add and improve services offered on GVMC.GOV.IN. Children No applications on GVMC.GOV.IN 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 GVMC.GOV.IN should be Aware that personally identifiable information submitted to GVMC.GOV.IN 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, GVMC.GOV.IN Ask parents to guide their minor children when children are asked to provide any personal information online. GVMC.GOV.IN Further asks that children ask for and receive their parent's permission before providing any information online.  Third Party Links          GVMC.GOV.IN provides links to, and may be linked from, local, State and Central 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 GVMC.GOV.IN and a third-party website imply sponsorship of such website, or The creator of such website.          Some content on portions of GVMC.GOV.IN resides on servers run by third parties. 13 Each agency providing content for GVMC.GOV.IN is Bound by GVMC.GOV.IN'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 GVMC.GOV.IN's privacy policy. Intellectual Property The content of GVMC.GOV.IN'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. GVMC.GOV.IN may change this policy from time to time, and reserves the right to do so without notice.

	Privacy Statement Footnotes
	^1An 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. Go Back ^2A 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. Go Back ^3Commercial 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. Go Back ^4 The City of GREATER VISAKHAPATNAM MUNICIPAL CORPORATION 's duties and obligations toward its citizens are set forth in the City Charter and in all applicable and relevant local, state and Central law. Go Back ^5The 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. Go Back ^7E-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. Go Back ^8The 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. Go Back ^10Persistent 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. Go Back ^11Temporary 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. Go Back ^12A 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. Go Back ^13These 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. Go Back