Privacy Policy

• Collection of personally identifiable information is limited to only that which is reasonably necessary to provide proper service and/or response.
• This site never collects or maintain information from those known to be under 13, and no part of this web site is structured to attract anyone under 13.
• The Village of Oak Park accepts email, online form submissions, written and verbal communications from anyone and/or any organization. These communications may be shared within the government, and may, depending on the subject matter, be retained in agency files. Sharing of these emails or form data is generally limited to those individuals who are responsible for or with oversight of the subject matter contained in the email. Emails received are not used to create a master list for unsolicited contacts by the Village of Oak Park. Information from Village files is subject to information requests made under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act and as otherwise required by law.
• The Village of Oak Park never sells, markets, trades or otherwise shares personally identifiable information with any third party.

This web site collects and stores the name of the domain and host from which users access the Internet (for example, comcast.net or princeton.edu); the Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer being used; the browser software and operating system of the user; the date and time of site access; and the Internet address of the web site from which a user linked directly to the site. This information is used to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of the site to help make the site more useful. The Village of Oak Park does not link the log data collected to the personal information that users submit online.

Cookies are information files that web browser place on a computer when it user visits a web site The Village of Oak Park does not use cookies to track visitors on this site. However, secure on-line transactions, such as parking citation payments, vehicle sticker purchases and utility bill payments, may require the use of cookies.

This web site was created and is maintained by the Village of Oak Park, Illinois, and is intended to be a non-public forum, the purpose of which is to provide access to local government departments, services, programs and information. The user assumes all risks related to use of this information. In no event will the Village of Oak Park be liable to the user or to any third party for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary damages or lost profit resulting from any use or misuse of this data.

No one may use the Village of Oak Park seal, logos, designs, slogans, images, trademarks or service marks contained in this site without specific, written permission from the Village of Oak Park. Village staff maintains this official web site. While every effort is made to keep content accurate and up-to-date, the Village cannot guarantee that all information will be entirely current. Anyone who sees something on the web site that should be corrected or updated is urged to email village@oak-park.us. Be sure to give the full URL of the web page in your message.

This site contains links to other sites and servers. The Village of Oak Park is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Once a visitor to this site links to another site, he or she is subject to the privacy policy of the new site. The appearance of external links on this site does not constitute endorsement by the Village of Oak Park of external websites or the information, products or services contained therein.

The Village of Oak Park believes there are reasonable and desirable needs for links to websites outside the span of control of the municipality when these sites help further the goals of the Village by providing useful government-related information. Links are provided to web sites within the following guidelines:

• Websites owned and operated by local, state, federal government and educational agencies.
• Websites owned and operated by utilities that serve the residents of the Village of Oak Park and by franchise are granted such authority.
• Websites of organizations that receive direct financial support from the Village as partners in pursuit of governmental purposes.
• Websites of hospitals located in Oak Park providing emergency public services.

To ensure the continued government-related purposes of the Village of Oak Park website, links generally are not provided to any other for-profit business or non-profit organization not meeting the above criteria, nor any for-profit website or website containing advertising. In order to avoid the appearance of Village endorsement of, or involvement with, political content, links are not made to websites that are associated with, sponsored by or serving a candidate for elected office, or any political party or organization supporting or seeking to defeat any candidate for elective office or ballot proposal.

Questions, comments or concerns regarding the privacy policy and/or practices of Village of Oak Park web site should be sent via email to village@oak-park.us.