Privacy Policy

The Baltimore City Office of the Sheriff and its subsidiaries are committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. The Web site is structured so that you can visit the Baltimore City Office of the Sheriff on the Web without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information.

Once you choose to provide personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified), you can be assured that it will only be used for the intended purposes.

This statement regarding the privacy of the personally identifiable information you provide online covers the four foundation principles of fair information: Awareness, Access, Security, and Oversight.

Awareness
The Baltimore City Office of the Sheriff provides this Online Privacy Statement to make you aware of the privacy policy, practices and of the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, it is available on the homepage.
What information is collected?

On some Baltimore City Office of the Sheriff pages, you can submit personal information through forms or via e-mail links. The types of personal information collected at these pages.

In order to tailor subsequent communications to you and continuously improve services, you may also be asked you to provide information regarding your personal or professional interests, demographics, experience with city services and more detailed contact preferences.

How Will This Information Be Used?
The Baltimore City Office of the Sheriff uses your information to better understand your needs and provide you with better service. Specifically, your information is used to communicate back to you, to update you on services and benefits and personalize the Baltimore City Sheriff Web site for you.

Will this information be shared?
The Baltimore City Office of the Sheriff will not sell, rent or lease your personally identifiable information to others. Unless required by law, the city will only share the personal data you provide online with other City of Baltimore entities and/or business partners who are acting on behalf of the Baltimore City Office of the Sheriff for the uses described in “How will this information be used?”. Such entities and/or business partners are governed by privacy policies with respect to the use of this data and are bound by the appropriate confidentiality agreements.

Access
Links to third party Web sites on the site are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave the Baltimore City Office of the Sheriff Web site. The Office of the Sheriff has not reviewed all of these third party sites and does not control or is not responsible for any of these sites, their content or their privacy policy. Thus, the Office of the Sheriff does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or products or materials found there. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to this site, you do so at your own risk.

Security
The Baltimore City Office of the Sheriff is committed to ensuring the security of your information. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data accuracy and ensure the appropriate use of information, appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures have been put into place to safeguard and secure the information collected online.

Furthermore, this site takes reasonable measures to maintain the confidentiality of all personal information collected. Additionally, it takes similar measures to protect email addresses that you provide through the website.

Oversight
If you have comments or questions about our privacy policy, please contact our technology office at Website Contact Form