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Privacy Policy

This policy explains the limited visitor data handled by Town of Wallkill Residents Directory and the choices available to you. The service is a private reference to public-record custodians and historical collections in Town of Wallkill, New York. It does not require an account and does not maintain a resident-record file about visitors. Searches, government portals, library collections, and sponsored results can be subject to the separate policies of the services that operate them.

Data You Give Us Directly

Names, phone numbers, and addresses entered into the search forms are sent to the outside provider that supplies those results. Our own servers do not retain a copy of those searches. If you contact us, we receive the contents of your message and use them to respond.

Data We Receive Automatically

Routine hosting logs can record an IP address, browser type, pages requested, and timestamps. We review that information in aggregate to maintain the service and understand page use. Basic analytics or advertising measurement may use cookies or similar tools where applicable.

How We Use Information

Information is used to operate the service, diagnose problems, measure traffic, and improve its pages. We do not sell visitor lists or create individual user profiles.

Links to Other Websites

Links may lead to Orange County and New York records portals, courts, libraries, archives, and third-party search services. Those organizations apply their own privacy terms to material submitted through their sites. Sponsored search results are also provided by a third party and are governed by that provider's practices.

Who May Process Data

Hosting and support providers may process ordinary server-log information on our behalf. Analytics and advertising partners can receive the automatic data described above. We disclose information when valid legal process requires disclosure and otherwise do not share it beyond these operating purposes.

How Information Is Protected

The service uses an encrypted connection, and logs are retained only for as long as the stated purposes require. There are no visitor accounts, passwords, or personal profiles maintained by this service.

Users Under 18

The service is intended for adults and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from a person under 18. If you believe a minor has sent us information, contact us so it can be removed.

Your Data Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights to ask for access, correction, or deletion of personal data a website retains. New York research located no state consumer-privacy statute applicable here, so this policy does not claim one. Because we keep very little, a request usually involves checking the contact mailbox and relevant logs, then removing information found where appropriate. Use the Contact page for a request. Public records held by Town of Wallkill, Orange County, or New York offices remain with their custodian; requests about those records must go to that office. New York FOIL, Public Officers Law article 6, ยงยง84-90, governs access to agency records, subject to its exemptions and other laws.

Updates to This Policy

We will post any revision to this policy here. Continued use after a revision means you accept the policy then in effect.