The Administration of the City of Vestavia Hills, Alabama has published and is maintaining this web site to provide a communications tool for the benefit of the citizens of the City of Vestavia Hills, and others with an interest in our city and region. We hope the web site will facilitate communication with elected city officials, city departments and volunteers that serve the city as members of committees, boards, and commissions.

The aim of the City Administration is to create a better Vestavia Hills through the encouragement of citizen participation in the governance and support of the City. We hope the web site will contribute to this goal by timely distribution of electronic information and services to the public, not only on a local level, but also regionally, state wide, nationally and internationally.

The City of Vestavia Hills does not:

• -- collect personal information on users other than when responding to a user's request or input, or when a user submits an online form.
• -- create user profiles
• -- share any user information with any third party unless compelled by law
• -- track information about individual users or their visits
• -- use Cookies and related technology
• -- collect information for commercial or any other type of marketing
• -- send unsolicited e-mail regarding commercial offers or advertisement at any time
• -- identify the user personally from web usage data. Web usage data collected is in the form of summary statistics that is used for site management, system performance analysis and content evaluation.
• If a user chooses to supply the city with personal information either by sending e-mail to the city or by filling out and submitting an online form located on our Web site, the city may use this information to:

  o Respond to the user's message

  o Assist in obtaining the information requested by the user

  o Completing an on-line transaction ordered by the user

• The following information is gathered for each visit to the site:

  o Internet domain name and IP address

  o Type of Web browser and Operating system used to access the site

  o The date, time and duration of the visit

  o The pages visited

  o If a user links to this site from another Internet Web site, the address of that Web site.

• The city treats personal information submitted via online forms and e-mail with the same degree of confidentiality as a letter to the Mayor, Council Member or other City Official or Department.