Effective Date: May 21, 2025
Website Privacy Policy
The County of Charles City respects your privacy. We do not collect any personally identifiable information. If at some point you decide to contact us via electronic message, it is kept in strict confidence.
We do not disclose, sell, share, or trade information from our website. Any information recorded from your electronic message is used solely to respond to/fulfill your online request.
This site does not place or enable “cookies” on your computer. However, the county does analyze our website activity by tracking your movements through the site. This is done by collecting your IP address and the date and time when you access the site. This information is used to track the number of visits to our site and to identify our most popular pages. This helps us improve the performance and value of the materials available on this website.
If you have any questions regarding this privacy statement, this site’s practices, or your interaction with this website, please contact our webmaster.
Types of Data We Collect
We collect information you provide (like your name and address) during registration or transactions and data on usage patterns as you navigate our site, use our services, or read our emails. We aim to protect your personal information by collecting only what is necessary to deliver our services.
Cookies
To make our website more responsive, we use cookies—small files stored on your computer—to assign each visitor a unique number. Cookies identify the computer, not the person unless you voluntarily provide your information. They cannot access other data on your computer. We use cookies to improve and personalize our service, such as tracking which pages and features are visited most often. This helps us enhance our website based on user activity.
Information on Browsing and IP Address
When you visit our website, our server automatically collects basic information about your computer, including your browser type, operating system, screen resolution, referring website, and IP address. Your IP address helps identify your computer so we can deliver the web pages you want to see. We use this information for system administration and troubleshooting.
Public Disclosure Notice
In Virginia, laws ensure government transparency and public access to state records and information. However, there are exceptions to protect individual privacy and other needs, as outlined by state and federal laws.
Any information collected on this site becomes a public record and may be inspected and copied by the public unless a legal exemption applies.
Other Important Disclosures
Remember that our communities are public spaces, so avoid posting anything you don’t want everyone to see. Do not share credit card numbers, product keys, confidential information, or anything covered by a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in blogs, discussions, or other public areas.