This App is for the use of Cobb County Government for the purpose of providing services and information via the Internet. Unauthorized access or access which exceeds authorized access is punishable by law.

We will not obtain personally-identifiable information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us.

Information Collected

We collect and store only the following information about you:

Domain names; for example, "abccompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account
An IP address, which is a number automatically assigned to your computer when you are using the Internet
The pages visited within the portal
The date and time you access our site
The item you requested from the server
The Internet address of the App from which you linked directly to our site

Use

When you send us personally identifiable information (e.g., in an electronic mail message containing a question or comment, or by filling out a form that emails us this information, or by submitting a transaction through our portal), we use this information to respond to your request/transaction. Electronic forms submitted to Cobb County include the Internet Protocol (I.P.) address assigned to you by your Internet service provider. Depending on the specific service, request or transaction, Cobb County may share personally identifiable information amongst its agencies in order to provide such service, request or complete such transaction.

Public Disclosure

Information collected from the Cobb County Gov App is considered public information under the Georgia Open Records Act O.C.G.A. 50-18-70 et seq. Visitors should be aware that information collected through the portal may be subject to examination and inspection, if such information is a public record or not otherwise protected from disclosure.

Cookies

If your browser accepts cookies, we may use a cookie to determine if you are a repeat or new visitor or to understand how many different visitors come to our sites. When we examine this data, it is presented in an aggregate form. Except in the case of actual law enforcement investigations, we do not track or look at individuals' usage behavior.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of information that is sent to your browser -- along with a web page -- when you access an App There are two kinds of cookies. A session cookie is a line of text that is stored temporarily in your computer's RAM. Because a session cookie is never written to a drive, it is destroyed as soon as you close your browser. A persistent cookie is a more permanent line of text that gets saved by your browser to a file on your hard drive. Some cookies we use are persistent and some are session only. If you have your browser set to notify you before accepting cookies, the notice will tell you if the cookie expires some time in the future or not. Persistent cookies have an expiration date in the future. Session cookies have no date associated with them.

Our use of cookies

We use this information to create summary statistics which are used for App planning and maintenance and to analyze system performance. This information tells us the number of visitors to the different sections of our site and helps us understand if our site is meeting the needs of our visitors. This information is presented in an aggregate form. Other potential uses of cookies on our web servers are to provide functionality for Web-based applications, or connecting a payment system. Beyond these uses for cookies on Cobb County Web sites and Apps, we do not share any cookie information with any third party.

Links to Other Sites

The documents posted on this App may contain hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by other public and private organizations. These links and pointers are provided for visitors' convenience. Cobb County Government does not control or guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of any linked information from non-Cobb County Government sites.

Security

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, Cobb County web servers employ industry-standard methods to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on Cobb County servers are strictly prohibited and may be punishable by law.

In the specific context of this security monitoring, there is no expectation of privacy.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

Revisions to these guidelines are subject to change. It is therefore recommended that you refer back to them periodically.