Legal Statement

Thank you for visiting the Official Website of the Borough of Fair Lawn, NJ

The Official Website of the Borough, NJ provides links to many websites that are not controlled, maintained, or regulated by the Borough. The Website and all pages linked to the Website or from the Website are provided on an "as is, as available" basis. The Borough makes no warranties, expressed or implied, including without limitation, those of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to any information or use of information contained in the Website, or linked from the Website or to the Website.

Terms of Use

By visiting the Official Website of the Borough of Fair Lawn, New Jersey, users agree that they will not use the Website for any unlawful activity or use it in any way that would violate the following terms and conditions.

Indemnification and Limitation of Liability

The visitors and users of this website agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the members of Borough of Fair Lawn, its officers, employees, agents, successors and assignees (the "Indemnified Parties") from and against any and all liabilities, claims, demands, actions, damages, costs, and expenses (including attorneys' fees), regardless of outcome, caused by, arising out of, or otherwise sustained as the result of the use of these sites and the Borough’s technology.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE, SHALL THE BOROUGH BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE BOROUGH’S WEBSITES. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Privacy Policy

It is the policy of the State of New Jersey that government records are open for public inspection as provided in the New Jersey General Statutes and may be amended from time to time. When you use our Website, you are acknowledging that personal information you provide is subject to New Jersey's Public Records Laws as stated in the New Jersey General Statutes. The Borough may be required to disclose that information under certain circumstances. You do not have to give the Borough personal information to visit our website or download our publications. The Borough collects no personal information about you when you visit the Borough’s website unless you choose to provide this information to the Borough. The Borough will use the information that you voluntarily provide to us to notify you of selected content changes or new publications. The Borough may also use this information to conduct statistical analyses of user activities in order to measure user interest in the information the Borough provides and how the Borough provides it. However, the Borough does collect and store some non-personal information automatically. The Borough uses this non-personal information in aggregate to count the number of and types of visitors to the different pages on our Website, and to help us make our Website more useful to visitors like you.

Disclaimer Regarding Accuracy of Information

The Borough of Fair Lawn does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy, adequacy, quality, completeness or suitability of any information for any purpose; that any information will be free of infection of viruses, worms, trojan horses or other destructive contamination; that the information presented will not be objectionable to some individuals or that this service will remain uninterrupted.

The Borough of Fair Lawn, its agents or employees shall not be held liable to anyone for any errors, omissions or inaccuracies under any circumstances. The entire risk for utilizing the information contained on the Website or linked to the Website rests solely with the users of the Website.

Site Security

When you use your credit card, debit card, or on-line banking to conduct business with the Borough on the Website, the Borough does our best to protect the integrity and privacy of your account information with advanced technologies. Our systems use Internet data encryption technology, known as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, and Secure Electronic Transactions (SET). However, even with advanced technologies, it is not always possible to prevent unauthorized access or unauthorized disclosure. The entire risk contained on the Website rests solely with the users of the Website.

Intrusion Detection

For security purposes and to help ensure this service remains available to you, the Borough uses special software programs for monitoring network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise to cause damage to this government computer system. These programs collect no information that would directly identify individuals, but they do collect information that could help us identify someone attempting to tamper with the website.

If you use the website, you should understand that all activities may be monitored and recorded. Anyone using this system expressly consents to such monitoring.

WARNING - If such monitoring reveals possible evidence or information of criminal or suspicious activity, monitoring records may be provided to law enforcement officials. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, the Borough makes no other attempts to identify individual users or their usage habits. The Borough only uses raw monitoring data logs for determining trends in usage patterns and in diagnosing system problems.