Thank you for visiting The Housing Authority of the City of Port Arthur’s Web site and reviewing our privacy policy. Our privacy policy is clear: We will collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us.
Here is how we handle information about your visit to our website:
Port Arthur Housing Authority’s Internet Security Policy
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through our 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 (i.e., “yourcompany.com”) and IP address (an IP address is 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 (i.e., Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Safari)
- The date and time you access our site;
- The pages you visit; and
- If you linked to our website from another website, and the address of that website.
We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors — to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.
If You Send Us Personal Information
If you choose to provide us with personal information by sending an e-mail or by filling out a form with your personal information and submitting it through our website, we use that information to respond to your message and help us provide you with the requested information. We do not collect personal information for any other purposes. The information you provide is not given to any private organizations or private persons. The Housing Authority of the City of Port Arthur does not collect or use information for commercial marketing.
Links to Other Sites
Our website has links to the websites of many other federal agencies (HUD, EPA, DOE, etc.) and private organizations, with their permission. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site