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Privacy

Reading this site needs no personal information. Here is what happens when you use it.

At a Glance

  • No personal data neededReading this site requires no personal information and no registration. No personal data is collected beyond standard, short-lived technical logs.
  • No cookies, ads or trackingThis site sets no cookies and uses no analytics, advertising or cross-site tracking.
  • Nothing sold or sharedVisitor data is never sold or shared.
  • No third-party requests by defaultPages load only from this site. The exceptions are a Tableau Public view, only after you choose to load it, and the Assistant page, which contacts Amazon Cognito and the assistant service when you sign in and ask a question.

Tableau Public Views

  • Loaded only on requestOn Explore the Data, a view loads only after you choose Load Interactive View. Loading contacts public.tableau.com, a third-party service with its own privacy policy. It receives your IP address and may set its own cookies.
  • Remembered for this session onlyThe choice is kept in your browser’s session storage and cleared when you close the tab. It is never sent to this site. Turn Off stops loading views at any time.
  • Explore the Data

Planning Assistant

  • Restricted to authenticated usersThe assistant runs on this site’s Assistant page. Only approved users who sign in (Amazon Cognito, with an authenticator app) can use it. Signing in contacts Amazon Cognito, and asking a question contacts the project’s assistant service on Amazon Web Services. Your sign-in is kept only for the current browser tab.
  • Conversations may be loggedLogs are kept for quality and security. They are not used for any other purpose and are not shared.
  • Not for personal dataThe assistant is an explanation tool for the project’s methods and documents. Do not enter passwords, credentials, API keys, personally sensitive information, or confidential project details.
  • About the Assistant

Formal Public Comments

  • Not collected hereFormal public comments do not belong on this site or in the assistant. To make your voice count in an official process, use the accountable municipal channels. Website and assistant activity is never treated as formal public input.

Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act

  • Data minimizationOnly what is needed is collected.
  • Purpose limitationData is used only for the purpose it was collected for. Assistant logs serve quality and security, nothing else.
  • Time-limited retentionTechnical logs are kept for a limited time.
The posture this site practices under the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA).