Information You Provide
A name, phone number, or address entered into a search form is sent to the provider that delivers that result service. Middletown Residents Directory does not retain a copy of those searches on its own servers. If a visitor sends a message, the message supplies the information used to respond.
Information Collected Automatically
Like most hosted services, the site may receive routine server-log information, such as an IP address, browser type, pages requested, and timestamps. That information is reviewed in aggregate for operation, security, and page-use trends. Cookies or comparable tools may be used for essential analytics and, when applicable, advertising measurement.
How Information Is Used
The limited information described above supports site operation, error correction, traffic measurement, and content maintenance. Visitor lists are not sold, and the site does not create individual user profiles from search activity.
External Sites and Providers
Links lead to City, county, State, library, archive, and third-party services. A destination’s own privacy policy controls any information submitted there. The same applies to sponsored search results supplied by another company, rather than by Middletown Residents Directory.
Service Providers and Disclosure
Hosting and support providers may process the routine log data needed to operate the service. Analytics and advertising partners can receive the automatic information described above. Information is disclosed only when a valid legal process requires disclosure or when another lawful requirement applies.
Security and Retention
The service uses an encrypted connection and keeps logs only for the operational, security, and measurement purposes described here. There are no visitor accounts, passwords, or website profiles to maintain. New York’s SHIELD Act, General Business Law Article 39-F, including §§899-aa and 899-bb, requires reasonable safeguards and breach-notification duties for private information held by businesses. That law supports data minimization; it does not authorize collecting or republishing sensitive information.
Visitors Under 18
The site is intended for adults and is not directed to children. It does not knowingly collect personal information from a person under 18. If a minor has sent information through a message, contact the site and the information will be removed where it is held.
Your Privacy Choices
A visitor may request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information retained by this website. Because the site keeps very little, the request normally concerns a contact message or routine log information. Use the Contact page for that purpose. This website’s records are separate from government records held by the City of Middletown, Orange County, or New York State.
For an existing City record, use the Middletown City FOIL route under Public Officers Law Article 6, §§84-90, or contact the specific custodian. A public-record request does not require an agency to create a new record, and exemptions can require redaction or denial. Safety-related address concerns may need the New York Address Confidentiality Program or confidential voter-registration process instead of an ordinary correction request. Those routes protect a substitute address and must never be used to uncover an actual protected location.
Changes to This Policy
Revisions will appear on this page. Continued use after a revised policy is posted indicates acceptance of the updated terms.