Privacy Policy

The Village of Riverwoods is committed to maintaining your online privacy. The Village of Riverwoods On-Line Privacy Policy applies to personal information collected from the Village of Riverwoods website, including all Village departments. Personal information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, a home or other physical address and an email address or other contact information. In general, you can visit our website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself.

We do not collect personal information without your permission. For any information that you volunteer or that we send to you in response, we intend to take reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the personal information that you share with us from unauthorized access or disclosure.

The following explains the Village's privacy policy for all visitors to the VillageofRiverwoods.com domain.

If you visit our website to read or download information, such as events schedules, forms or building permits, 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.

If you submit your email address to the Village and do not opt out of receiving the Village Voice by email, the Village will assume that you no longer wish to receive a paper copy of the Village Voice by mail. The Village will add your email address to the CTY emergency broadcast system as an additional channel to contact you in case of emergency.

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.

We value your feedback. If you send the Village an email with questions or comments about our programs or services, we do collect your email address and any other information that you volunteer. We do this to improve the content of our website, and occasionally, to customize its content for the individual user. We occasionally will share this information with other nonprofit organizations active in our community, such as the Riverwoods Residents Association and Arts & Riverwoods.

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

This site contains links to other sites. The Village of Riverwoods is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites, which include the Deerfield/Bannockburn/Riverwoods Chamber of Commerce, Arts & Riverwoods, Riverwoods Preservation Council, Orphans of the Storm, Theater in the Woods, the Northern Suburban Special Recreation Association, Brentwood North Healthcare Center, Riverwoods Montessori School and Lake County, among others.

By using this website, you consent to the terms of our Privacy Policy and to our processing of personal information for the purposes given above as well as those explained when we ask to collect personal Information on our website. Should the Privacy Policy change, we intend to take every reasonable step to ensure that these changes are brought to your attention by posting all changes prominently on our website for a reasonable period of time.