The China Committee of Chicago Sister Cities International is committed to maintaining your online privacy. The China Committee of Chicago Sister Cities International On-Line Privacy Policy applies to data collected from the Committee of Chicago website, including all Committee departments. This Policy does not apply to the Committee’s affiliates and sister agencies, including, but not limited to, the City of Chicago, City of Shanghai, City of Shenyang, Chicago Park District, the Chicago Public Schools, the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), the Committee Colleges of Chicago, the Chicago Housing Authority and the Metropolitan Exposition and Pier Authority.  
 
We do not collect personal information without your permission. Any information that you volunteer or that we send to you in response is transferred using industry standard encryption technologies.  
 
The following explains the Committee’s privacy policy for all visitors to the ChinaChicago.com & ChicagoSisterCities.com domains.  
 
Information Gathering and Cookies 
If you visit our website to read or download information, such as events schedules, parking forms or building permits, we capture and store only the domain name of your computer (for example, aol.com) and other related information to speed up the performance of web page delivery. All information is deleted from your cache memory when you close the session and leave our site. We collect no other personal information.  
 
We do not use or set cookies on our website to store any information on your personal computer hard drive.  
 
A cookie is a very small text file inserted onto your computer by a website that you visit. When you return to the website, the cookie is then read by the site’s web server. Cookies are used for many things, from making web sites more personal to tracking your web browsing habits. 
 
Sending Email to the China Committee of Chicago Sister Cities International
We value your feedback. If you send the Committee an email with questions or comments about our programs or services, we do collect your email address and any other information that you volunteer. We do this to improve the content of our web site, and occasionally, to customize its content for the individual user. We occasionally may share this information with other nonprofit organizations such as the City of Chicago, City of Shanghai, City of Shenyang, Cook County governmental entities or the Illinois Secretary of State.
 
Sale of Data 
We do not sell data for direct mail or advertising purposes.  
 
Other Web Sites 
This site contains links to other sites. The China Committee of Chicago Sister Cities International is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites, which include, but is not limited to, the City of Chicago, the City of Shanghai, the City of Shenyang, Chicago Park District, the Chicago Public Schools, the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), the Committee Colleges of Chicago, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), the Chicago Store and the Metropolitan Exposition and Pier Authority. 

The China Committee of Chicago Sister Cities International does not warrant or make any representations as to the quality, content, accuracy, or completeness of the information, text graphics, links and other items contained on this server or any other server. Such materials have been compiled from a variety of sources, and are subject to change without notice from the China Committee of Chicago Sister Cities International.