Disclosure
We will not sell, share, rent or disclose your personal data to any third party. We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to government institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation. Raw data may be used for statistical or comparative analyses prepared by or on behalf of the City of Kitchener provided that such data will not be associated to an identified individual or business.

Cookies
We do use cookies on our Web site. A "cookie" is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer, placed there by a Web server for future access and retrieval of stored information. By themselves, cookies are completely harmless, and as their name implies, they offer surfers a treat by retrieving information exclusively pertaining to that user. All our employees and processors who have access to your personal data and are associated with the processing of that data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your personal data.

Purpose Specification and Data Collection
You can access our Web site home page and browse our site http://www.kitchener.ca without disclosing personal data. We collect your personal data only with your knowledge or your consent. Our Web site logs information about you that is automatically recognised by the Web server, such as your IP address, domain name. We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Links
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by the City of Kitchener web site. Be aware that the City of Kitchener is not responsible for the privacy practices of web sites linked to from this site. The City of Kitchener makes every effort to ensure the links listed are current and are indeed linked to the appropriate site. If there is a link to a site with questionable content appropriate action will be taken. We encourage you to read the posted privacy statement whenever interacting with any web site.

All user information is maintained in a secure environment. Only authorized personnel of the City of Kitchener, who need the information to perform a specific task (for example, billing, shipping or Customer Service personnel) are granted access to personally identifiable information and only allowed access to it when absolutely necessary, and then under strict guidelines as to what use may be made of such details.