Kane County is committed to preserving your privacy and security while viewing our website at https://www.kanecountyil.gov/​. This policy addresses the following privacy and security practices during your visit to the County's website.

This Privacy Policy and Web Disclaimer explains the information contained herein regarding our online practices only; and, does not apply to non-county websites that you may visit from this website. You are encouraged to review the Privacy Policy and Web Disclaimer in order to learn how the information is collected and utilized.

 

 

We collect information about your visit in order to better serve you in the future. The information that we collect does not personally identify you. We can tell the computer, browser, and web service that you are utilizing. In addition, the date, time, and pages that you visit are collected. If a known security or virus threat should occur, we may collect information regarding the web content that you have viewed.

 

We may also collect information that you provide us when utilizing interactive forms and functions. This information may include such things as name, address, telephone number, and other personal, and business data.

 

At any time when assessing our site(s), any user while online may "opt-out" of further Email contact from us (while still allowing access to our sites). For further information about opting-out, contact us at the Email address or postal address located under Site Comments.

 

 

Our principal purpose for collecting personal information online is to provide you with a better online experience, as well as to address security and virus concerns. We collect information to:

 

Kane County may share personally identifiable information you provide to us online with representatives within the County of Kane's Administration and related entities, other government agencies, or other named representatives as needed to speed your request or transaction. In a government-wide effort to combat security and virus threats, we may share some information we collect automatically, such as IP addresses, with other government agencies.

 

Also, the law may require us to share collected information with authorized law enforcement, homeland security, and the national security activities. See the Privacy Act of 1974 below. We do, however, endeavor to restrict employee access to any personal information except where necessary to perform required duties.

 

 

A "Cookie" is a small text file stored on your computer that makes it easy for you to move around a website without continually re-entering your name, password, and/or preferences. We do not use cookies to record any personal information. Cookies are used by some County web applications to pass needed information from one page to the next. Rejecting a cookie in these applications may render the application useless.

 

 

Properly securing the information we collect online is a primary commitment. To help us accomplish this, we take the following steps to:

 

 

Tampering with the Kane County website is against the law. Depending upon the offense, it is punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1996, and amended in 2001 by the USA PATRIOT Act, and in 2008 by the Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act, and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act. Unauthorized attempts to modify any information stored on this system, to defeat or circumvent security features, or to utilize this system for other than the intended purpose are prohibited and may result in criminal prosecution.