Privacy

Introduction

The Chicago Office of Tourism (“COT”) is committed to maintaining your online privacy. The COT On-Line Privacy Policy applies to data collected from the www.chicagofashionresource.com, chicagofashionresource.org, chicagofashion.us, fashionfocuschicago.com and fashionfocuschicago.org websites.

We do not collect personal information without your permission.

The following explains the City’s privacy policy for all visitors to the chicagofashionresource.com, chicagofashionresource.org, chicagofashion.us, fashionfocuschicago.com and fashionfocuschicago.org domains.

Information Gathering and Cookies

If you visit our website to read or download information, such as events schedules, maps, designer, boutique or event information, we capture and store only the domain name of your computer (for example, aol.com) and other related information to speed up the performance of web page delivery. All information is deleted from your cache memory when you close the session and leave our site. We collect no other personal information unless you expressly request or submit a form to register for the industry database portion of this site.

We do not use or set cookies on our website to store any information on your personal computer hard drive.

A cookie is a very small text file inserted onto your computer by a website that you visit. When you return to the website, the cookie is then read by the site’s web server. Cookies are used for many things, from making web sites more personal to tracking your web browsing habits.

Sending COT Email

We value your feedback. If you send COT an email with questions or comments about our programs or services, we do collect your email address and any other information that you volunteer unless you request not to be added to our list.

Sale of Data

We do not sell data for direct mail or advertising purposes.

Other Web Sites

This site contains links to other sites. COT is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites.