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Thank you for visiting the County of San Mateo and reviewing our privacy policy. We will collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us. We do not share, sell, or transfer any personal information.
We do not use cookies to track information. A cookie is a file that is placed on your hard drive from some websites that you visit, sometimes without the knowledge of the user. If you want to guarantee that no cookies are being used, you can turn off cookies in your browser's preferences.
We analyze user traffic patterns on our website automatically through your browser. This information includes the IP address of your computer or network, current date, current time, your browser and operating system, the page(s) you visited on our website, and the referring page (page that you came from). At times, we may track the keywords entered into our search engines from all users to find out which topics are popular, although we don't track specific words that any one user enters.
We only use this information to measure server performance, to improve website content, and to guarantee a high level of security for all users. Unauthorized attempts to upload or modify information in any way are forbidden. Users who are visiting the County of San Mateo website are also expressly consenting to this monitoring of network traffic.
The County of San Mateo uses link and search capabilities to navigate public information posted on the Internet. The privacy policies here do not necessarily apply to those websites. You may either contact the sites you visit or read their privacy policy statements to find out what their data collection and distribution polices are.
Information presented on this website is collected, maintained, and provided for the convenience of the reader. While every effort is made to keep such information accurate and up to date, the County of San Mateo does not certify the authenticity of information that originates from third parties.
Under no circumstances shall the County of San Mateo be liable for any actions taken or omissions made from reliance on any information contained herein from whatever source nor shall the City and County be liable for any other consequences from any such reliance.
The San Mateo County website has links to many external sites, and in a few cases links to private organizations. You are subject to that site's privacy policy when you leave our site.
Reference in this website to any specific commercial products, process, service, manufacturer, or company does not constitute its endorsement or recommendation by San Mateo County. San Mateo County is not responsible for the contents of any external Web page referenced from this server.
When visiting our website, your Web browser may produce pop-up advertisements. These advertisements were most likely produced by other websites you visited or by third-party software installed on your computer. San Mateo County does not endorse or recommend products or services shown in pop-up advertisement on your computer screen while visiting our site.
The San Mateo County website has been designed to accommodate all users. This includes persons without audio or visual capabilities, those using text-based browsers, those with helper applications missing, and those with disabilities. When necessary, we are pleased to provide an alternative medium for accessing information about our programs and services. If you have any suggestions for improving the accessibility features of our website, please contact [email protected].
This website has been designed for use with assistive technologies such as screen readers. In addition, all images on our website are accompanied by a word image tag that will be visible if your browser supports the alt-text function. The alt tags that have been chosen are intended to be an intuitive means of description, and an aid in navigation through the site.
Descriptions of photographs that contribute to the content of Web pages will be provided. Select the symbol "D" to view a description of these photographs. The description is typically two or three sentences long and may contain hyperlinks. When finished with the description, the user can select Return to be taken back to the photograph.
Some layout tables are used on this site. However, all content makes sense when the page is linearized. Where tables are used for the presentation of data, table cells are associated with headers to facilitate navigation with screen readers. Also, each data table has a summary that provides additional information about the table's contents.
Throughout this website documents are posted in Portable Document Format (PDF). All hyperlinks to PDF documents will include the abbreviation "PDF" within the hyperlink description.
For users unable to view this format, a second text-accessible version is available whenever possible. For documents depicting graphical information, it is not possible to post a text-only version. If a Web page has an online form that is not accessible, contact information will be provided on that page to obtain an accessible version of the form. Please call or email the office listed for assistance in obtaining or filling out the form.
The San Mateo County website has provided text transcriptions or descriptions with a closed-captioned (CC) hyperlink for all audio and video clips. These transcriptions can be viewed by selecting the CC hyperlink found next to all audio and video clips. | 
