Privacy Policy

City of Lebanon Electronics Communications Privacy Policy

The City of Lebanon, Missouri is committed to protecting your online privacy and the confidentiality of personal information you may provide while interacting with us online. 

This policy applies only to the official City of Lebanon, Missouri, website and to 3rd-party sites that provide Internet related services under contract. Following a link to any other website, even the site of another governmental agency, you are subject to the privacy policy of that site. Ensure that the privacy policy of each of these sites if you have concerns about how they handle personally identifiable information.

This policy may be updated without notice, so please check back from time to time.


Automatic Collection of Information

No personally identifiable information is collected about visitors who simply browse this site or who download information from it. Our web servers maintain logs of user activity in order to help us manage the website. Information stored in these logs does not identify you personally. The logs store such things as the domain name and IP address from which you accessed our website; the type of browser and operating system you used; the date and time you accessed our site; the pages you visited; and the country or region of the world from which you accessed this site. If you participate in a survey or send us an email, your email address and the other information you volunteered will be collected.

Visitors who request services through this site may be required to furnish additional information in order to provide the service requested. The additional information collected will be no more specific than if the visitor were requesting the service by any other means, including by telephone or an in-person visit to a city facility. We may share this information with another government agency or organization if that is required to provide the help you are requesting.

Security of Your Personal Information

No website can protect itself against all scenarios however, every effort is made to protect any sensitive personal information used on this site. 

We will not rent, sell or give away any information identifying you individually (name, address, phone number, etc.) to third parties for marketing or mailing list purposes. 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. 

Personally Identifiable Information Available From This Website

As a governmental agency, we are governed by Missouri open records laws. It's important for you to understand that most business you conduct with the City of Lebanon, as well as with state and county governments, becomes a public record. Public records as defined by state law, and not made confidential elsewhere in the Missouri Code, are accessible upon request and may be posted for electronic access through this website. This includes most city permits you have applied for, property you have registered with the county recorder of deeds, and requests for a city service. These same records, as well as the information contained therein, have long been open for public inspection by anyone requesting them in person, by mail or by telephone at the appropriate government office. All information on this website is public information. 

Social Media User Agreement

The following User Agreement (”Agreement”) governs the use of official City of Lebanon social media sites and pages to include social networking pages, web blogs and file sharing sites, along with all policies applicable to the city’s web presence.

Please read the rules contained in this Agreement carefully. You can access this Agreement any time. Your use of any aspect of the Web sites will constitute your agreement to comply with these rules. If you cannot agree with these rules, please do not use the Web sites.

The Agreement may be modified from time to time; the date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page, so check back often. Continued access of the Web site by you will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Agreement.

Your failure to follow these rules, whether listed below or in bulletins posted at various points in the Web site, may result in suspension or termination of your access to the Web site, without notice. 

Comments by Others Are Not Endorsed

The City of Lebanon does not endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the comments, opinions, or statements posted on the Web site. Any information or material placed online, including advice and opinions, are the views and responsibility of those making the comments and do not necessarily represent the views of City of Lebanon, or its third party service providers. By submitting a comment for posting, you agree that City of Lebanon 
and its third party service providers are not responsible, and shall have no liability to you, with respect to any information or materials posted by others, including defamatory, offensive or illicit material, even material that violates this Agreement.

Editing & Deletions

The City of Lebanon reserves the right, but undertakes no duty, to review, edit, move or delete any material submitted as a comment to the information provided for display or placed on the social media web sites in its sole discretion, without notice. Comments submitted to these sites will be reviewed and a representative sample may be posted on the Web site, or in the case of social networking sites, inappropriate comments may be deleted at the sole discretion of the City of Lebanon. We hope to receive submissions from all viewpoints, but we ask that all participants agree to the following Terms of Participation:

Disclaimer

Reference herein to any specific commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the City of Lebanon. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the City of Lebanon, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes. With respect to documents available from this server, neither the City of Lebanon nor any of its employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, including the warranties of merchant ability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights.