If you visit or use the Village of Ottawa Hills’ website, you accept these terms and conditions; please read them carefully. All content on this website, including text, graphics, logos, button icons and images, is the property of or licensed by the Village of Ottawa Hills and is protected by United States and international copyright laws. The selection, arrangement, and presentation of all materials on this website (including information in the public domain), and the overall design of this website is the exclusive property of the Village of Ottawa Hills and is protected by United States and international copyright laws.

By using this website, you agree to be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your personal information, including any user name and password, and for restricting access to your computer. You further agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You should notify the Village of Ottawa Hills immediately if you believe there has been an unauthorized use of your account or password or any other breach of this site's security.

Information on this website is believed to be accurate but is not guaranteed. Portions of the Village of Ottawa Hills website's information may be incorrect or outdated. Any person that relies on any information obtained from the Village of Ottawa Hills’ website system does so at his or her own risk. The Village of Ottawa Hills is neither responsible nor liable for any viruses or other contamination of your system nor for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions arising out of your use of this website or with respect to the material contained on the website, including without limitation, any material posted on this website. This website and all materials contained on it are distributed and transmitted "as is" without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including without limitation, warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The Village of Ottawa Hills is not responsible for any special, indirect, incidental or consequential damages that may arise from the use of, or the inability to use, the website and/or the materials contained on the website whether the materials contained on the website are provided by the Village of Ottawa Hills or a third party.

Cookies are pieces of information generated by our web server and stored on your computer to enable certain transactions such as personalizing your account with the Village of Ottawa Hills, participating in e-commerce, signing up for an online newsletter or other e-government service. The use of cookies or similar technology is an industry standard, and this web site, like many other web sites, uses them to provide useful features for our users. Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify you, although they do identify your computer. Although it may alter the quality of your service, you may block cookies or remove cookies through your browser settings or simply wait for the cookies to expire.

Visitors to the Village of Ottawa Hills website should be aware that, subject to specific statutory exceptions, information received in connection with the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the Village of Ottawa Hills, including but not limited to electronic data, are public records under State of Ohio law. Certain types of information (such as electronic payment information) are exempt from disclosure as public records. For further information, please see Ohio Revised Code §§1347 and 149.43.

Links to external websites will let you leave the Village of Ottawa Hills’ website. The Village of Ottawa Hills is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by the Village of Ottawa Hills of the site. The linked sites are not under the control of the Village of Ottawa Hills, and the Village of Ottawa Hills is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites.

The Village of Ottawa Hills is committed to safeguarding the integrity of it database and ensuring that this service remains available to all users. The Village of Ottawa Hills monitors network traffic through commercial software designed to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise damage the system. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable by law. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Reasonable steps have been taken to protect private information, but this policy should not be construed as warranting a fail-proof security system.

The Village of Ottawa Hills’ website will not collect personally identifiable information (such as name, address, telephone number, etc.) unless you provide such information voluntarily. We may ask for such information so that we can tailor interactive features of this web site to your specific interests and needs (including periodically forwarding information that matches your selected interests). You are free to provide or not to provide the requested information. If you choose not to provide this type of information, you can still visit most of the web site, but you may be unable to participate in certain online features.

When filling out a form or application, contacting the Village of Ottawa Hills, participating in e-commerce or other use of this site, you agree to provide accurate and complete information, and, in the case of registration or accounts, to keep this information current and complete.

The Village of Ottawa Hills may use your email address to respond to you. Please be informed that email sent through your own mail program is not normally secured by encryption nor protected by confidentiality. You should not send personal or sensitive information by email unless you wish to assume the risk that an unauthorized person may learn your email address or information as your email is transmitted.

In order to generate usage statistics to help us improve our web site, we automatically collect certain information on every visitor to the web site. However, this information does not disclose "personal identifiers" (such as name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, etc.). Each time a request is made to view a page within this web site, our web site creates a log file capturing generic user information, Examples of this type of information includes the type of browser and operating system you use, the date and time you visited the site, the webpages or services you accessed and the website you visited prior to coming to the Village of Ottawa Hills website. This data is collected for analytical and statistical purposes to help better manage the site and better serve you.

As a condition of your use of the Village of Ottawa Hills website, you warrant to the Village of Ottawa Hills you will not use the Village of Ottawa Hills website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the Village of Ottawa Hills website in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the website or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the website. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Village of Ottawa Hills’ websites.