About Privacy and Security at the Official Town of Dedham Web Site

This World Wide Web (WWW) site is provided as a public service of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts. Information presented within this site is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested. When you visit this site to browse, you do so anonymously. We collect only summary information about the numbers of individuals who visit our web site, what those visitors look at, and the city/town and state from which the contact was made. This system uses industry-standard software to create summary statistics, which are used for such things as assessing what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas. For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this system employs industry-standard methods to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. No other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.

Unauthorized attempts to upload information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.