If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit: The Internet domain (for example, "ABCcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account) and IP address (a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website; the type of browser and operating system used to access our site; the date and time you access our site; the pages you visit; if you linked to our website from another website, the address of that website. We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors; learning about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use helps us improve the website and the services we offer.

Cookies (CA)

This website utilizes temporary ("session") cookies. These cookies are set to expire upon the end of your browsing session. In order to enter the Parks website you must first pass through a splash page that is hosted by nyc.gov. This splash page provides the user with a temporary session cookie that allows access to the Parks website hosted at http://nycgovparks.org. Temporary session cookies must be enabled to view the Parks website.

How voluntarily provided information is used

If you voluntarily send us information, it will be used for governmental purposes. These purposes may include, without limitation, helping us respond to your request for information; to look into a problem you are bringing to our attention; or to keep lists of interested people (e.g. prospective employees). We will not rent or sell information identifying you as a particular person (name, address, phone number, etc.) to third parties without your permission. We will also not disclose credit card information, except for purposes related to your credit card transaction, or with your permission, or as required by law.

Children

We ask parents to guide their children when children are asked to provide personal information on line. We ask children to get their parents' permission before providing any information on line.

nyc.gov/parks reserves the right to change this policy without notice