The City of Hooks is committed to providing a transparent, secure, and accessible digital town square for all community members. To ensure a safe and consistent experience for our visitors, our website is governed by specific technical, legal, and privacy standards.
Please use the sections below to review the City’s official policies regarding digital accessibility, data privacy, and public information access. If you have any questions or require immediate assistance, please contact City Hall.
Notice Regarding Accessibility:
The City of Hooks makes every possible effort to make cityofhooks.org compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and is dedicated to ensuring digital accessibility for all community members. Please note that while our modern document database is fully searchable, certain historical public records, scanned PDFs, or geographic maps within this archive may not be fully optimized for screen-reading software.
Reasonable Accommodation System:
In accordance with ADA Title II rules, the City provides a Reasonable Accommodation system for any individual who encounters a technical barrier or cannot access specific information on this site.
If you encounter a barrier, please contact the City Secretary’s office:
The City’s Commitment:
The City will work to provide the requested information in an alternative format (such as a verbal summary or a physical print-out) within a reasonable timeframe to ensure equal access to all public services.
Who we are.
The City of Hooks, Texas. Our website address is: https://cityofhooks.org/
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
This website uses cookies for some functions, such as anonymous analytics or saving progress on some forms. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave a page if the form is set to save progress. These cookies will last for 30 days.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
We do not sell or share any information unless required by law.
How long we retain your data
If you submit a form, the form submission and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically, and for legal requirements.
For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this website or have left form submissions, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor form submissions may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
