Privacy Statement

BY USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO AND ACCEPT THE FOLLOWING PRIVACY STATEMENT:

E-mail Messages: E-mail messages, sent to any County of Rockland address, will be treated the same as any other written communication. They may be subject to public inspection or legal disclosure and may be saved for a period of time before they are destroyed. E-mail or other information requests sent to the County website may be maintained in order to respond to the request, forward that request to the appropriate agency, or to provide the web designer with valuable customer feedback to assist in improving the site. E-mail addresses obtained as a result of a request to the county site will not be sold or given to private companies for marketing purposes.

Electronic Forms: Any other information provided by a visitor at the request of an agency, department, division or any other office of the County of Rockland government, such as the completion and electronic filing of a form, will be considered to be voluntarily provided by the visitor and will be treated in the same manner as information provided in written form or in person during a visit to the agency. Information provided may be subject to public inspection and legal disclosure and may be saved for a period of time before it is destroyed. It may be shared with another public agency or contracted service provider for appropriate action.

Public Access to Your Personal Information: You do not need to provide personal information about yourself in order to use this county website. If you choose to provide us with personal information about yourself in an e-mail to the Office of the County Executive, Rockland County Legislature, department, division, agency or any other County office or to someone else, or by filling out a form with personal information and submitting it through this website, we caution you that the law may consider that e-mail or information as a public or government record and require us to comply with lawful demands for public access to it. We will not provide any personal information about you to any third party except as required by law.

Security: Although the County of Rockland has taken security precautions to safeguard the security of data in this Web site, we caution you that e-mail on the Internet is often insecure and subject to eavesdropping, and it is not possible to achieve perfect security protection for information maintained in a website. Accordingly, we cannot assure you that the security measures we have taken will always prove successful. By your use of this website, you accept this risk.

Surveys: Surveys will be used for the purpose stated. If personally identifiable information is collected it may be subject to public inspection and legal disclosure and may be saved for a period of time before it is destroyed.