The City of Northampton website and its contents are provided solely to facilitate public access to information. The City of Northampton and its employees will make every effort to ensure that information on this website is accurate and up-to-date. The City of Northampton does not, however, guarantee the accuracy, currency, quality, completeness or reliability of this information. In any situation where the official printed publications of the City differ from the text contained in this website, the official printed publications shall take precedence.

The City of Northampton will not assume any legal liability for any misrepresentations, errors, or omissions that may occur. Further, the City of Northampton and its employees shall not be held liable for any damages resulting from any use of this website or from reliance on information contained within. The content of this web site is subject to change without notice.

The City of Northampton website contains many links to other websites for the convenience of its users. The City of Northampton does not guarantee the accuracy, currency, quality, completeness, reliability, or suitability of such information and assumes no liability for any misrepresentations that may occur on these external sites. Further the City of Northampton does not endorse any opinions or products associated with any of these external sites.

Any attempt to modify, destroy or damage this website, or its contents, or to use this website in ways not intended, is strictly prohibited and punishable according to the relevant statutes of Massachusetts and federal law.

Communications to the City of Northampton via this web site shall in no way be deemed to constitute legal or official notice to the City of Northampton, its agencies, departments, boards, commissions, officers, employees, representatives or agents with respect to any existing, pending or future claim or cause of action against the City of Northampton or any of its agencies, departments, boards, commissions, officers, employees, representatives or agents where notice is required by federal, state or local law. No communications to the City of Northampton via this web site shall be deemed to constitute legal or official notice for any purpose.

This web site and the contents are intended only for the individual, non-commercial use of web site users. No user of this web site may resell, republish, print, download or copy any portion of this web site or the contents for commercial use without the prior written consent of the City of Northampton, except that reasonable copying or printing of its contents for individual, non-commercial use is permitted. All City and email addresses whether visibly published as a contact address or programmed into the functionality of this site, are provided and maintained by the City of Northampton solely for its official use. They may not be bought, sold, leased or used for any non-official government communication. Any other use constitutes abuse and may be subject to prosecution.

Your right to privacy is important to the City of Northampton. Therefore, the City does not collect personal identifying information from users of its website unless it is voluntarily supplied. In situations where personal or identifying information is collected (i.e. email messages, voluntary mailing lists), this information will not be released unless required to do so by the Massachusetts Public Record Law. With certain exceptions, e-mails and letters to City officials and departments are public documents under State law.

When you visit the City of Northampton web site, non-personal data about your visit may be automatically collected. This may include information such as:

IP address and domain name
Operating system
Type of browser
Date, time and length of visit
Web pages visited
Referring web site

For more information or to report inaccuracies or out-of-date material, please email the webmaster.

mayor@northamptonma.gov