PURPOSE
The following Terms of Use and Privacy Statement applies to all websites of Borough of Brooklawn agencies listed at brooklawn-nj.com and all subdomains.
Please note, that each department within the Borough of Brooklawn may have additional privacy and use policies specific to the mission and needs of their work. Be sure to review those policies as you access additional sites within the Borough of Brooklawn.
TERMS OF USE
By using this website, you agree to and accept the following terms of use:
Disclaimer- Information
The Borough of Brooklawn, its officers, employees or agents shall not be liable for damages or losses of any kind arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of information, including but not limited to, damages or losses caused by reliance on the accuracy or timeliness of any such information, or damages incurred from the viewing, distributing, or copying of those materials.
The materials and information provided on brooklawn-nj.com and all subdomains are provided “as is.” No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents of this website and its hyperlinks to other Internet resources.
Disclaimer- Endorsements
Reference in this website to any specific commercial products, processes or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public, and does not constitute an endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the Borough of Brooklawn, or its offices, boards, employees or agents.
Disclaimer- Links to Other Web Sites
This website may contain links to other websites which are not owned, operated, controlled, or reviewed by the Borough of Brooklawn.
When you link to one of these sites, you are no longer on the Borough of Brooklawn website or any of its subdomains, and we disclaim any liability or obligation to you or any other person that may result from your access to or reliance upon any information contained in these websites, including any alleged infringement of copyright or trademark.
When you link to another website, you are subject to the legal terms and privacy rules of that new website.
Intrusion Detection
All Borough of Brooklawn computer systems are subject to monitoring at all times to assure proper functioning of the systems, to provide security for the computer system’s operation and information contained therein, to prevent unauthorized use, and to deter violations of law.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in the use of this website. By using this website, you agree to and accept the following privacy statement:
E-mail Messages
E-mail messages, sent to any Borough of Brooklawn 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 Borough of Brooklawn website or any of its subdomains 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 this website 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 any agency, department, division, or any other office of the Borough of Brooklawn 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 website. If you choose to provide us with personal information about yourself in an e-mail to the Board of Chosen Freeholders, or any department, division, agency or any other Borough office or to someone else; when signing up for a newsletter; or by filling out an online form with personal information and submitting it through this website or any of its subdomains, 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.
Children’s Privacy
This website does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Child” or “Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child/Children has/have provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we are aware that we have collected personal information from children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Potential Disclosure of Personal Information
We will not provide any personal information about you to any third party except as required by law. The Borough of Brooklawn may disclose information in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: comply with a legal obligation; protect and defend the rights or property of the Borough of Brooklawn Board of Chosen Freeholders; prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the website or any of its subdomains; protect the personal safety of users of the website or the public; and protect against legal liability.
Usage Data
We may also collect information on how the website is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). The Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser version, the pages of the website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
Tracking and Cookies Data
This website uses cookies through Google Analytics to track activity on this website and hold certain information. A cookie is a piece of data sent between a web server (such as brooklawn-nj.com) to your web browser. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of the website.
Security
Although the Borough of Brooklawn has taken security precautions to safeguard the security of data in this website or any of its subdomains, 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 on a website. Accordingly, we cannot assure you that the security measures we have taken will always prove successful. We cannot guarantee the confidentiality of unencrypted messages. By your use of this website and any of its subdomains, you accept this risk.
Survey
Surveys will be used for the purpose stated. If personally identifiable information is collected, it may be subject to public inspection and legal disclosure. It also may be saved for a period of time before it is destroyed.
Responsibility
The Borough of Brooklawn reserves the right to change or amend this policy statement at any time to comply with changes in Borough procedures or for any other reasons.
Internal Monitoring and Audit
The Borough of Brooklawn, in conjunction with Borough Counsel, may support a review process to monitor internal compliance with this website’s Terms of Use and Privacy Statement. The review process will take into consideration applicable laws, regulations and interpretations, as well as Borough and State policies including compliance and agreements.