Policies & Ordinances
Governing Policies
These policies establish the Board's Priority Results to be achieved by the organization, the parameters in which the organization will operate, delegates certain responsibilities to the CEO, and name the governance processes by which the Board chooses to hold itself accountable.
Code of Ordinances
The Code of Ordinances serves as a culminating record of the laws, ordinances, and regulations instituted by the Board of Commissioners that govern the use, policing of, and conduct within parks and facilities.
Clean Air Ordinance
The Clean Air Ordinance prohibits smoking entirely at Park District facilities, parks, museums, and any Park District property with the exception of public golf courses where adult smoking is permitted beyond 50 feet of enclosed/partially-enclosed spaces on golf course playing fields in the company of consenting adults and absent assembly by the general public.
Privacy Policy
The Rockford Park District is committed to maintaining your online privacy. The Rockford Park District On-Line Privacy Policy applies to data collected for the Rockford Park District web site. We do not collect personal information without your permission.
Information Gathering and Cookies
If you visit our website to read or download information, such as schedules, forms, brochures, we capture and store only the domain name of your computer (for example, aol.com), your browser type and version, 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 web site to store any information on your personal computer hard drive. A cookie is a very small test 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.
Online Transactions
The Rockford Park District allows job applicants to apply for open job positions on-line. The Rockford Park District also allows on-line registration for our programs and purchase of merchandise and gift cards. Any information submitted online for these activities is subject to the same safeguards as if you had engaged in these activities in person rather than over the Internet.
Sending the Rockford Park District E-mail
We value your feedback. If you sent the Rockford Park District an email with questions or comments about our programs or services, we do collect your email address and any other information that you volunteer.
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 Rockford Park District is not responsible for privacy practices or the content of such sites.