Disclaimer & Terms of Use

All information provided on the FindARide.org web portal, including all subdomains, is strictly for information purposes only. While every effort is made to ensure that the information provided herein is accurate there may be instances of inaccurate information for which FindARide.org and Hopelink disclaims responsibility, and to which you consent to this disclaimer by your continued use of the site.

Further, by your continued use of the website you explicitly agree that information provided herein is not nor should ever be relied upon as emergency, legal, financial, or professional services. This web portal is provided for convenience of information dissemination only and is not intended nor should it be relied upon for any other purpose. As the user, you hold FindARide.org and Hopelink harmless of any liability that may arise out of the use of FindARide.org or other Hopelink provided online services. 

Information privacy

This website gathers personal information when it is relevant and necessary, fair and to the extent possible with the knowledge and consent of the individual, to accomplish Hopelink business. We only obtain this information through legal means. When Hopelink collects personal information from you, we:

• Tell you why we are collecting this personal information.
• Limit the amount of your personal information that we collect to that which is necessary for the stated purpose for which it was collected.
• Take steps to use your personal information to the stated purpose for which it was collected.
• Take steps to ensure that, at the time of collection, your personal information is accurate, complete and current.
• Provide your personal information only to authorized Hopelink employees and private contractors or public organizations on a need-to-know basis and as a result of a public disclosure request as required by the Public Records Act.
• Legally required or permitted by law; or
• Needed to complete your transaction with the county.
• Retain personal information only as long as necessary to conduct county business in accordance with records retention schedules.
• Dispose of personal information in a secure manner that prevents unauthorized disclosure.
• Take organizational, technological, and physical measures to securely safeguard personal information.

Information specific to the Internet

Hopelink may track information, such as user hits, visits and sessions; however this information cannot be linked to a specific person.

Cookies are another example of anonymous information that we may use. Cookies are small text files that are placed on a user's computer by a Web server. We occasionally use cookies to tailor information to the needs of a user's specific browser. Our Web server is not able to determine any data about you nor does it do anything with these cookies.

Personal information collected on certain Hopelink webpages is data that you provide to us about yourself. Providing personal information to us on our website is purely voluntary. This information is used to better serve you. Should you choose not to provide personal information to Hopelink on a website, you may provide this information to us in another way, such as visiting a Hopelink office during normal business hours or, for some county services, completing your business by mail or telephone.

When Hopelink collects personal information from children using our website, it complies with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

This website has links to other websites, including government agencies, nonprofit organizations and private businesses. When you link to one of these external websites, you are no longer on Hopelink's website and this privacy notice no longer applies. Instead, you are subject to the privacy notice or other terms and conditions of that website.

Review and correct your personal information

Upon request to Hopelink, you may review your personal information that the agency maintains about you and ask that agency to correct any inaccuracies.