Privacy is a fundamental right to every individual and protecting the personal privacy of individuals who use the Internet is our priority. We appreciate the opportunity to describe to you the policies we have in place to safeguard the privacy of individuals who visit this website. If you have any questions or concerns about the privacy policy or other issues related to the Internet, please feel free to contact either my Webmaster to let us know your opinions.

The Southwest DC website is stored on the web server of WebsUSA. The server used by WebsUSA collects and stores only the following information:

• The name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com if you are connecting from an American Online account)
• The date and time you access this site
• The Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to this site or the Internet address of the computer used to link to this site
  

This information is used for site management purposes. The WebsUSA server uses software programs to create summary statistics using this information. These statistics are used for such purposes as:

• assessing the number of visitors to websites
• what information is of most or least interest
• determining technical design specifications, and
• identifying system performance or problem areas.

NOTICE: We do not collect or maintain personal information about you when you visit the Southwest DC website.

If you send an email message or complete a form containing personal information, we collect and store the following information:

• Any personal information which you choose to provide such as mailing address, phone number, etc. as well as comments on community issues. We do not and will not obtain personally-identifying information about you without your explicit permission.
• Information collected in this manner is used by our staff or affiliates solely to respond to you appropriately regarding your inquiry.
• If you are requesting assistance with a Southwest neighborhood matter, it may be necessary for our staff to share the information you provided with the respective community leaders from which you are requesting assistance in order to respond to your request.

This site contains links to other sites external to the Southwest DC website. If you follow links that take you to a location outside of the "swdc.org" domain, you will have left the Southwest DC web server and will need to refer to that site's privacy policy.