Information collection
- We do not collect personal information about you when you visit our website.
- We collect limited non-personally identifying information your browser makes available automatically whenever you visit a website. This information includes the Internet Address of your computer or network, the date, time, and page you visited on our site, your browser and operating system, and the referring page (the last webpage you visited before clicking on a link to our site).
- We use this aggregated anonymous information from all our visitors to measure server performance and improve the content of our site.
- We track the keywords that are entered into our search engine to measure interest in specific topics, but we do not track which terms a particular user enters.
Information you provide
- Information volunteered by you through your filling out of our optional online feedback form is used to help us enhance our website and may be shared with City and County of San Francisco employees and contractors for that purpose.
- We do not give, share, sell, rent, or transfer any personal information to a third party.
- Information you provide via disclosure forms may be made available on our websites.
- The Ethics Commission relies on third-party websites to present some content or provide some services. The privacy policies of those websites may apply in some instances when you use the Ethics Commission’s website. These sites and policies include:
- CityBase privacy policy (for payment collection)
- CloudFlare privacy policy (for caching the website worldwide)
- DocuSign privacy policy (for public forms)
- Emma privacy policy (for Interested Persons email subscription)
- Google privacy policy (for YouTube)
- Granicus privacy policy (for SFGovTV)
- Jetpack privacy policy (for website backup and feedback forms)
- Microsoft privacy policy (for backend data processing)
- NetFile, Inc. privacy policy (for electronic filing)
- NextRequest (for public records requests)
- Siteground privacy policy (for hosting the Commission’s website)
- Tableau privacy policy (for interactive dashboards)
- Tyler Technologies privacy policy (for SF OpenData datasets published on Socrata)
- Twitter privacy policy (for social media postings)
- WebEx privacy policy (for online Commission Meetings, trainings and meetings)
- WordPress.com privacy policy (for Commission’s content management)
Site analytics
- We use a tool called “Google Analytics” to help understand how visitors interact with our websites so that the site can be improved.
- You can read Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy for Google Analytics.
- You can choose not to have your data collected by Google Analytics by downloading their opt-out browser add-on.
- We use a tool called “JetPack” to help understand how visitors interact with our websites so that the site can be improved.
- You can read JetPack Terms of Use.
- We use a tool called “CloudFlare” that places cookies in your browser to maximize network resources, manage traffic, and protects our websites from malicious traffic.
- You can read “Understanding the CloudFlare Cookies”
Links
- The City and County of San Francisco uses link and search capabilities to navigate publicly available information from agencies that are not part of the City and County of San Francisco website and over whom the City exercises no control.
Site security
- We monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or to otherwise cause damage to the site. Anyone using this website expressly consents to such monitoring.
- We take appropriate security measures to protect unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction of data.
Policy changes
Please note this Privacy Policy can change from time to time. We expect most such changes to be minor, but we will post those changes as they occur.