The City of Woodstock, Office of the Development Commisioner (Economic Development ) respects the privacy of its web site visitors. Our goal is to protect your information on the Internet in the same way we protect it in all the other ways we interact with you -- in our office; through mail correspondence; and, on the phone. Staff adhere to strict policies that protect the confidentiality of any personally identifiable information such as names, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers.

Specifics of how the Economic Development Department gathers and uses Internet information are outlined below. If there are any questions or concerns not addressed here, please e-mail our office.

Thank you for visiting the City of Woodstock, Economic Development Department web site and familiarizing yourself with its Privacy Policy. 

1. Access to the City of Woodstock, Economic Development Department web site, and use of many of its services features -- for example, the interactive Real Estate search -- typically do not require providing any personal information whatsoever.

2. “Cookie” technology captures summary - not individual - information on visitor use patterns. This is computer code that tracks “traffic” so we can determine how effective a given page is in meeting informational or service needs. Apart from providing a performance measure for the Department's web site, the data is otherwise meaningless.

3. A cookie contains no information that personally identifies visitors to the web site and is strictly geared to providing internal performance data. The City of Woodstock, Economic Development Department knows nothing of an Internet visitors browsing path once he or she has left www.WoodstockNow.com . 

4. The only personally identifying information arising from your use of the City of Woodstock, Economic Development web site is what you supply to us on a voluntary basis. For example, this could be in connection with the following:

-- registering for our Site Selection Cost Estimator; or, 
-- submitting comments, suggestions or questions through e-mail.

5. The City of Woodstock, Economic Development Department will not sell, rent, trade or otherwise disclose to third parties the personal information you provide.