Privacy Policy for Uncivilservants.org

We take your privacy seriously, but we won't make promises we can't keep.

By registering for this website, you agree to this Privacy Policy, as well as our Terms of Service and our Assumption of Risk, Waiver and Release Agreement.

“We,” means Transportation Alternatives, Inc. and other cooperating organizations, including any of our board members, cooperating attorneys, employees or volunteers.

“You,” means you, your personal representatives and next of kin.

We're going to call the text and photographs you provide “content.”

Complaints and Content

The content you provide us using our website may be made public in any way we see fit, including by:

•  publishing it on our web page for anyone to see,

•  submitting it in complaints, information requests or lawsuits,

•  including it in press releases, and

•  encouraging media outlets to reproduce it.

When we distribute or publish your content, it may be identified with the user name that you are required to provide.

We like to think that the permit abusers you identify will respond maturely and appropriately.   Unfortunately, that may not always be the case – see our Assumption of Risk, Waiver and Release Agreement.

Because permit abusers may find ways to retaliate against you, please don't put personal information in your complaint, and don't include yourself (or your reflection) in your pictures.   Also, please don't select a username that tends to identify you.

Private Information We Collect

We require you to provide an NYC zip code and your borough when you register.   We may expand the information we require or request in this registration form in the future.   You may also optionally provide your email address to us when making a complaint.   We will store and use your email address to provide updates about your complaints, to provide updates about the website generally, or in other ways that you authorize.   You may opt out of any or all uses of your email address at any time.  

Whenever you connect to our site, your browser sends certain information to us, including the web page you are accessing as well as your Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your query and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.     We set cookies, or small files that reside on your computer, which your browser sends back to us whenever you connect to our website – we do this because it is the most efficient and reliable way for our server to know you are the same person from click to click.

We may record the information your browser provides.   We might do this, for instance, because it would help us track use of our website or detect that there are problems with the website.

We will not deliberately provide any of your private information to anyone else unless: (1) we are legally compelled to do so, or (2) we are investigating or reporting a security breach.   We will ask our service providers to adopt a similar policy.   As a practical reality, however, we have little control over what our service providers may do with the information provided by your browser.   For instance, many service providers will cheerfully provide information to law enforcement officers on the basis of a simple request.

Information Security

We will make a serious effort to prevent accidental release of the information we've agreed to keep private, and to protect all data we collect from damage or destruction.    However, nobody can make absolute promises about data security, and there is only so much that we can do, given the limited resources of a not-for-profit service staffed primarily by volunteers.

Changes to This Policy

We may change this policy from time to time.   When we do this, the revised policy will be posted at this same web page.