The City of St. Peters, Missouri, is dedicated to protecting the personal and financial information of anyone who visits our website. In the course of specific exchanges with you, we may need to collect and maintain certain information. The purpose of this privacy policy is to provide you with a description of the type of information we collect and how we use that information. Fill out this form if you have any questions.

Technical Information Collected:

When you visit our website, our server automatically collects a limited amount of information essential for the operation and security of our website.

When you visit our website to read pages or download information such as reports or city forms, we automatically collect and store the following information:

• The name of the Domain from which you entered the Internet (for example, "XYZcompany.com", if you use a private Internet access account).
• IP address of user.
• The date and time you access our site.
• The pages you visit.
• Downloaded information.

This information is used to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of the City of St. Peters website, and to help us make our site more useful to our visitors.

Personal Information Collected:

The City of St. Peters, Missouri, does not collect personally identifying information about individuals except when specifically and knowingly provided by such individuals. Collected personal information will only be used by authorized City of St. Peters staff to fulfill the purpose for which it was originally collected or for a use consistent with that purpose. We do not disclose your information to other public bodies or individuals except as authorized by law.

Information Sharing:

At no time will the City of St. Peters sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease any information collected on our site.

Email and Service Requests:

You may choose to send us personally identifying information such as an email message containing a request for information. We use what you provide only to help us gather the information you request and to respond to your message. Information you submit may be viewed by various staff members within the City of St. Peters depending on the nature of your request.

Email addresses may be used by the City of St. Peters to directly promote events, services, public surveys and editorial consultations with users (i.e., City of St. Peters citizens).

Security:

To use certain online services on our website, you must provide some personal information. For your protection, we have implemented Transport Layer Security/Secure Socket Layer (TLS/SSL). TLS/SSL encrypts data - which means it is encoded when you transmit it and decoded when we receive it. We also have acquired a certificate identifying us as a valid organization.

In this way SSL and the certification process provide:

Identity - proof of who we are
Security - insurance that your transmission will not be read by outside parties
Integrity - insurance that your transmission will not be tampered with along its path

The City of St. Peters restricts access to your information to those City of St. Peters employees who reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to guard your personal information.

Links to Other Websites:

Please be aware that when you click on links that take you to third-party websites, you will be subject to their respective privacy policy. While the City of St. Peters supports the protection of privacy on the Internet, we cannot be responsible for the actions of third parties. We encourage you to read the posted privacy statement whenever interacting with any website.

Contact us if you have any questions.