Draft for Town review - not adopted
This notice was written for the demonstration redesign and describes only how this demonstration site is built. It has not been reviewed or adopted by the Town of Sand Lake. Items in square brackets are for the Town to complete.
In short
- This website does not use analytics, advertising or tracking tools.
- This website does not set cookies.
- The forms on this demonstration site do not send or store anything.
- Type fonts are loaded from Google Fonts.
- Links to other websites take you off this site, and those sites have their own practices.
Analytics and tracking
The pages on this site do not include analytics, advertising pixels, social media widgets, chat tools, embedded videos or maps, or any other third-party script. The only script on the site is the Town's own small file that opens the site index menu, shows page sections as you scroll, filters the document library and handles the demonstration forms. It does not collect or send information about you.
Cookies and browser storage
This site does not set cookies and does not save information in your browser's local storage.
Fonts from Google Fonts
The typefaces on this site (Libre Caslon Text and Public Sans) are loaded from Google Fonts. When a page loads, your browser requests the font files from Google's servers, and Google receives the technical details any web request carries, such as your IP address and browser type. The site sends Google nothing else. [Town to decide whether to keep Google Fonts or host the font files on the Town's own server.]
Forms on this site
Every form on this demonstration site is marked "Demonstration only - this form does not send anything." Pressing a form's submit button shows a message on the page and sends nothing. No form posts to a server, and nothing you type is stored.
If the Town adopts working online forms, this section will say what each form collects, who receives it, and how long it is kept. [Town to designate.]
Hosting
Like any website, this site is delivered by a hosting provider, which handles each page request, including your IP address, to send the page to your browser. [Town to designate the host and confirm what request records it keeps and for how long.]
Links to other websites
Some links take you to websites the Town does not run, such as BAS eGov for tax bills and payments, the Rensselaer County property database, Town Hall Streams for meeting video, eCode360 for the Town Code, schools, fire departments and community groups. Once you leave this site, the other website's own privacy practices apply.
Email and phone
If you email or call a Town office using an address or number on this site, your message goes directly to that office and is handled like any other correspondence the Town receives. Records held by the Town may be subject to public access under the Freedom of Information Law; see Freedom of Information requests.
About the current Town website
On the current Town website at townofsandlake.us, the footer's "Privacy Policy" link goes to the website platform vendor's privacy policy, not to a policy of the Town. This draft is offered so the Town can publish a notice of its own.
Questions and changes
Questions about this notice can be sent to [Town to designate office and contact]. If this notice changes, the date below will change.
Draft prepared November 11, 2026. Adopted: [Town to designate].
This draft describes the demonstration site as built. The note about the current site's footer link is from townofsandlake.us, checked November 11, 2026.