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Privacy Policy

Because we understand that you are concerned about the privacy of information, we provide the following information concerning the collection, use, and security of your information that will help protect your privacy.  

How can you reach us? 

City of Chicago Office of Inspector General Office
740 N. Sedgwick St., Suite 200
Chicago, Illinois 60654 

Email:talk2ig@igchicago.org

Telephone: (833) 825-5244 

Fax: (773) 478-3949  

What information do we collect from our website visitors? 

  • The domain names, but not the email addresses of visitors to our website 
  • The email addresses of those who communicate with us via email 
  • Aggregate information on what pages users access or visit 
  • Information volunteered by users, such as survey information and/or site registrations 
  • IP addresses 
  • Date and time of user visits  

OIG uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website so we can improve its design and functionality. Google Analytics sets one or more cookies on your computer so that it can recognize your computer if you visit the site in the future. These cookies do not collect personally identifiable information.  

How do we use cookies? 

The cookie that is installed on your computer when you visit certain pages on our site contains only a token (a string of alphanumeric characters) generated to maintain your session within our secured pages. The token in the cookie does not contain any comprehensible information. We use cookies to record session information. The information is not stored. We do not share this information with other organizations for commercial purposes. 

How is this information used? 

The collected information is used: 

  • To improve the content of our website 
  • To notify visitors about updates to our website 
  • By us to contact consumers for marketing purposes 
  • To generate Intakes, which OIG uses as the basis for investigations, audits, reviews, and other work products. 
  • To process job applications 
  • To process FOIA requests 
  • To process speaker requests 
  • To process political contact reporting 

We collect the email addresses of visitors to our website when visitors provide them, the email addresses of those who communicate with us via email, and information volunteered by users of our website, such as survey information, contract information and/or site registrations. This information may become a public record once it is collected and it may be subject to public inspection and copying if not otherwise protected by federal or state law. 

New uses 

From time to time, we may use visitor information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes to our website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back to our website periodically. 

How is our information secured? 

We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities as well as our technical infrastructure to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site. 

Email subscriber privacy policy

By completing a subscription form you agree to receive email communications from the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General. We do not share our email list with any other departments or persons.