The City of Blue Springs, Missouri is committed to protecting your online privacy and the confidentiality of personal information you may provide while interacting with us online. This policy seeks to clarify our efforts and activities on the subject of privacy and related topics.

This privacy policy applies only to the official City of Blue Springs, Missouri website (www.bluespringsgov.com) and to third-party sites that provide Internet related services for the City of Blue Springs, Missouri under contract. When you follow a link to any other website, even the site of another governmental agency, you are subject to the privacy policy of that site. You should check the privacy policy of each of these sites if you have concerns about how they handle personally identifiable information.

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

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.

We use this information to learn how many visitors we have, where they are coming from, which parts of our website are of most interest to visitors, and other facts that will help us improve the website and the services we offer. If you send us personal information we value your feedback. 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.

While no website can protect itself against all eventualities, every effort is made to protect any sensitive personal information you give us. This site uses a secure server for conducting online financial transactions. All credit card and other payment information you transmit to us will be protected by encryption technology, provided that your browser is properly configured and your computer is operating properly. The encrypted information is shared only with our bank and a credit card clearinghouse, both of which also operate secured servers. Access to these records is limited to a very small number of employees who need it in order to perform a specific job.

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.

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 Blue Springs, 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.

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or about the website in general, you may contact the City of Blue Springs Webmaster.