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Car-Free Diet Privacy Policy

Personal Information

Under the following conditions Arlington County, which sponsors the Car-Free Diet website, is committed to ensuring the security of personal information voluntarily submitted to the website and the privacy of information collected through website logs.

Arlington County's privacy policy.

Browsing

No personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified) is required to browse the Car-Free Diet website or any other website offered as part of the Car-Free Diet program.

Contact Us

Contact us” is the primary means of communication with staff for a website visitor. Questions, comments and suggestions voluntarily submitted to the Car-Free Diet website through electronic mail may be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. Email communication is directed to appropriate staff. The information will only be maintained as an active file as long as needed to respond to the request. However, information may be archived for historical purposes, but will not be used beyond the stated purpose of the communication and will not be shared or distributed to third parties with any identifiable personal information.

Website Logs

Website logs are used to provide use data for analysis. The logs do not contain personally identifiable information and no attempt is made to link the logged information with the individuals who actually browse the site. By using the Car-Free Diet website, browsers give Arlington County permission to collect such information about them as an anonymous user for the purpose of calculating aggregate site statistics.

Cookies

Cookies, a piece of text placed on the customer’s computer hard drive to help analyze web traffic or customer visits to a particular site, may be used in portions of the website. In addition, cookies allow a web application to respond to the customer as an individual by remembering information about preferences, likes and dislikes.

Accepting a cookie in no way gives access to your computer or any personal information about you, other than the data you chose to share. This practice is strictly enforced. You may set your web browser to notify you of cookie placement requests or decline cookies completely. You can delete the files that contain cookies. The files are stored as part of your Web browser.

Interactive Services

Personal information required to use some online services such as email notification will be treated as confidential. Information that may be collected includes name, and email address. Such interactive services are entirely voluntary. Once a customer provides personally identifiable information the data is secured through state of the art technology. The data will be kept for as long as either required by law, or is relevant for the purposes for which it was collected.

Security

The Car-Free Diet website uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) for secure transmissions. TLS applies encryption between two communicating applications, such as the customer’s browser and the server. When data is transmitted over the Internet, it is encrypted at the sending end and then decrypted at the receiving end. All communication with the Car-Free Diet website is conducted using a secure connection. In general, you can determine whether you are on a secure site by looking at the address bar. A locked padlock icon indicates that you are connected securely.

Privacy

The Car-Free Diet website and other Car-Free Diet program initiatives will not sell, rent or lease or otherwise disclose your personally identifiable information. Information may be shared with entities who are contractually acting on behalf of the County. Such entities are governed by this privacy policy with respect to the use of this data and are bound by the appropriate confidentiality agreements.

Legal Access to Personal Information

Federal law enforcement officials may under certain circumstances obtain access to subscriber databases and archived information under the federal Patriot Act (Public Law 107-56). Federal law prohibits Arlington County from informing you if federal law enforcement officials have obtained these records.

As a public entity Arlington County is required to respond to requests under the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA, §2.2-3700, et seq., VA Code Ann.). Personal information such as name and email address submitted for opt-in electronic notification may not be withheld unless specifically requested at sign up.

Notwithstanding any other statements or representations here or elsewhere on the Car-Free Diet website, Arlington County reserves its right to disclose any information in its possession if it is required to do so by law, or if it believes, in good faith, that such a disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, defend its rights or property, or to respond to an emergency situation.

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Arlington’s Bicycle & Pedestrian Counters

Bikes counted

View Counter Data
110 Trail
658
14th Street Bridge
2333
Arlington Mill Trail
296
Ballston Connector
0
Bluemont Connector
328
CC Connector
743
Clarendon EB bike lane
199
Custis Bon Air Park
957
Custis Rosslyn
1001
Eads NB
39
Eads SB
60
Fairfax EB bike lane
114
Fairfax WB
135
Joyce St NB
67
Joyce St SB
0
Key Bridge East
918
Key Bridge West
435
Military NB bike lane
34
Military SB bike lane
29
MVT Airport South
2098
Quincy NB bike lane
100
Quincy SB bike lane
64
Roosevelt Bridge
295
Rosslyn Bikeometer
0
TR Island Bridge
1025
WOD Bon Air Park
0
WOD Bon Air West
0
WOD Columbia Pike
859
Wilson WB bike lane
215

Peds counted

View Counter Data
110 Trail
715
14th Street Bridge
0
Arlington Mill Trail
1058
Ballston Connector
0
Bluemont Connector
1448
CC Connector
837
Custis Bon Air Park
895
Custis Rosslyn
935
Eads NB
0
Eads SB
0
Fairfax WB
0
Joyce St NB
67
Joyce St SB
0
Key Bridge East
2458
Key Bridge West
614
MVT Airport South
883
Roosevelt Bridge
355
TR Island Bridge
1821
WOD Bon Air Park
0
WOD Bon Air West
0
WOD Columbia Pike
777

All counters, YTD

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Year to Date
1032461