Privacy Policy

This policy outlines how the Town of Christiansburg gathers information on its website and the technology used to ensure that your information is private and secure. The Town of Christiansburg reserves the right to change these policies and the corresponding information on this page at any time without prior notice.

What information is collected?

The Town of Christiansburg collects the following information from visitors to its website: the Internet Protocol (IP) address, type of browser used, operating system, date and time of the visit, and the addresses of the pages on this website to which you link during a visit to the Town’s website. 

How is the collected information used?

The Town of Christiansburg uses a third party service to analyze website activity, track the number of visits and identify the website’s most popular pages. This helps the Town improve content and user experience. We cannot and do not associate any of this information with individual persons, distribute this information, or use it in any manner other than for statistical analysis in improving our website to better serve our visitors.

Does this website place a cookie on your computer?

Our website does not place cookies on users’ computers.

Is my information kept confidential when I email the Town?

Any email or other correspondence sent to a member of Town Council, or any other public official and/or employee of the Town, in the transaction of public business is considered a public record, and these records are subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. This means that Virginia law generally requires the Town to provide a copy of any such email, upon request, for inspection and copying to any citizen of the Commonwealth or to any member of the news media unless such record is specifically exempted by the Act. 

Town Mailing Lists

Information provided to the Town to subscribe to mailing lists or receive other email notices, including a person’s email address, may be accessed by the public under certain circumstances. 

External links

The Town provides some links on its website that lead to resources on other websites. The Town is not responsible for the privacy practices of the websites to which we link. 

When a link on the Town’s website directs you to a third party's site, the Town encourages you to read that third party's privacy statement to learn of that party's privacy practices.

Your comments

If you have questions regarding this privacy statement, the practices of the Town’s website, or your interaction with the Town’s website, please contact us at info@christiansburg.org.