Privacy Policy Introduction The City of East Chicago is committed to maintaining your online privacy. The City of East Chicago On-Line Privacy Policy applies to data collected from the City of East Chicago website, including all City departments. This Policy does not apply to the City's sister agencies, including the School City of East Chicago. We do not collect personal information without your permission. Any information that you volunteer or that we send to you in response is transferred using industry standard encryption technologies. The following explains the City's privacy policy for all visitors to the eastchicago.com domain. Information Gathering and Cookies If you visit our website to read or download information, such as events schedules, parking forms or building permits, we capture and store only the domain name of your computer (for example, aol.com) and other related information to speed up the performance of web page delivery. All information is deleted from your cache memory when you close the session and leave our site. We collect no other personal information. We do not use or set cookies on our website to store any information on your personal computer hard drive. A cookie is a very small text file inserted onto your computer by a website that you visit. When you return to the website, the cookie is then read by the site's web server. Cookies are used for many things, from making web sites more personal to tracking your web browsing habits. On-line Transactions Coming soon. Sending the City of East Chicago Email We value your feedback. If you send the City an email with questions or comments about our programs or services, we do collect your email address and any other information that you volunteer. We do this to improve the content of our website, and occasionally, to customize its content for the individual user. We occasionally will share this information with other nonprofit organizations such as Lake County governmental entities or other state agencies. Sale of Data We do not sell data for direct mail or advertising purposes. Other Web Sites This site contains links to other sites. The City of East Chicago is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites.