I. General

Tioga County Government respects the privacy of every individual who visits our website. This Privacy Statement outlines the information Tioga County will collect and how Tioga County will use that information.

II. Personally Identifiable Information

When you visit Tioga County websites, we will not collect any personally identifiable information about you (such as your name, address, telephone number, social security number or e-mail address) unless you provide it to us voluntarily. Tioga County may request personally identifiable information from you in order to provide requested specialized services.

III. Use of Personally Identifiable Information

Tioga County may store and process your personally identifiable information to better understand your needs and how we may improve our electronic services, and we may use your personally identifiable information to contact you if so requested by you (for example, we may send you a questionnaire or we may respond to your comments or requests for information). Tioga County will not give your personally identifiable information to any outside organization unless required by law or court order to do so.

IV. Non-Personally Identifiable Information

Tioga County may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. Examples of this type of information include IP address, time of visit, the type of internet browser or computer operating system you are using and the domain name of the website from which you linked to our site. Tioga County uses this information to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. We also use it to gather broad demographic information about our users in general. This information does not contain anything that can identify users personally. Tioga County will not attempt to tie any personally identifiable information on individual users to non-personally identifiable information. We do not sell any personally identifiable information collected through this web site. However, once you voluntarily submit personally identifiable information to us through an e-mail or on-line forms, its dissemination is governed by the Public Officers Law, and other applicable laws and regulations. For this reason, part or all of the information you send us may be provided to a member of the public in response to a public records request. In addition, the information that you voluntarily submit will be disclosed only to County employees or officials with a "need to know" for purposes of fulfilling their job responsibilities. They will only use the information to answer your questions, respond to any requests for assistance, and fulfill the County’s legal obligations. Where appropriate, we may provide the information submitted by you to the person or company that is the subject of your inquiry, or to a government agency responsible for the matters referred to in your communication.

V. Security

Tioga County is committed to keeping secure the data you provide us and will take reasonable precautions to protect your personally identifiable information from loss, misuse or alteration.

VI. Non-Tioga County Websites

Tioga County links to various non-Tioga County websites. Tioga County is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of websites to which it may provide links to. A link does not constitute an endorsement of the content, view point, accuracy, opinions, policies, products, services or accessibility of that website. Once you link to another website from this website, including one maintained by the County, you are subject to the terms and condition of that website, including, but not limited to, its privacy policy.　 Our provision of these links does not imply approval of the listed destinations, warrant the accuracy of any information in those destinations, constitute endorsement of the entities to whose sites the links are made, or endorse any of the opinions expressed on any of these outside Web sites. These Web sites operate under the auspices and at the direction of their respective owners. If you have a question or comment about any of these sites, please contact them directly on their site. Tioga County recommends that visitors to non-County sites be cautious about providing personally identifiable information without a clear understanding of how the information will be used.

VII. Contacting Us Regarding Your Personally Identifiable Information

If you have submitted personally identifiable information through a Tioga County website or if someone else has submitted your personally identifiable information through a Tioga County website, and you would like to have that information deleted from our databases, please contact us by clicking here.