The purpose of this Website is to provide accurate and helpful information about Clinton County government services and related activities. When visiting this Website, no information is collected and stored about you unless you provide us with personally identifiable information. Unless you provide additional information, Clinton County collects only the following anonymous information as you browse through the Website: 1) the domain name and browser used to access the Internet; 2) the date and time of visits; 3) the pages visited; and 4) the address of the Website visited immediately prior to visiting this Website. We collect this information for statistical purposes and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.

You do not have to provide this Website with personally identifiable information to visit our Website. However, any personal identifiable information that you provide to us will be used to respond to your request or to analyze trends. Clinton County does not disclose, give, sell or transfer any personally identifiable information (to the extent given) to any third parties, unless: 1) we need to share the information to provide the service or information you have requested, or 2) we are authorized to do so by law.

Security of the information that you provide is very important to us. Therefore, for site security purposes and to ensure that our Website services remain available to all users, we employ software programs to monitor traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. In the event of authorized law enforcement investigations, and pursuant to any required legal process, information from these sources may be used to help identify an individual. To the extent that other websites that may be accessed through our site collect personally identifiable information about you, the information policies of those websites are not covered by this privacy policy.

This Website may use “cookies”.   A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you have visited. The only personal information a cookie can contain is the information you supply. A cookie is only a text file and cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Cookies can track user traffic patterns, recognize your computer’s browser when you return and could provide personalized content without requiring sign in. You can refuse cookies by turning them off on your browser.