Privacy Policy

Terms & Conditions of Use

The Martin County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller’s Office (hereinafter referred to as “the Clerk and Comptroller’s Office”) provides this website as a public service. Information sent to the Clerk and Comptroller’s Office and presented on this website is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Only those items that are confidential will be treated as confidential. Also, all information submitted to the Clerk and Comptroller’s Office via this site shall be deemed and remain the property of the Martin County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller, except those submissions made under separate legal contract. The Clerk and Comptroller’s Office shall be free to use, for any purpose, any ideas, concepts, or techniques contained in information provided to the Clerk and Comptroller’s Office for and through this site. User access and use of this site constitutes acceptance of these terms and conditions. These terms and conditions may be updated periodically without notice to the user.

Email Privacy & Florida Law

Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in writing.

Disclaimer of Content

The Martin County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller’s Office makes every effort to keep its content accurate and timely. However, we cannot and do not guarantee the information furnished on the site is current nor completely without errors.

Disclaimer of Liability

This website contains links to other websites. Links to those sites should not be construed as endorsements of those sites. This site 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 fitness for a particular purpose. The Martin County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller is not responsible for any special, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages that may arise from the use of, or the inability to use, the site and/or the materials contained on the site whether the materials contained on the site are provided by the Clerk’s Office, or a third party. You agree to indemnify and hold the Clerk and Comptroller’s Office and its subsidiaries, affiliates, telecommunications providers, service providers, officers, employees, and agents harmless from any claim, liability, loss, expense, or demand, including attorneys’ fees, related to a user’s violation of the terms and conditions or the use of the services and information provided at this web site.

Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the Martin County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller website. Your privacy is very important to us. Simply stated, our policy is to collect no personal information about you when you visit the Martin County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller website, unless you affirmatively choose to make such information available to us.

When you visit www.martinclerk.com, the Web server automatically recognizes only the Internet domain and IP address from which you accessed the site. This information does not result in the identification of your personal e-mail address or other personal information.

In addition, information is only gathered regarding the volume and timing of access to the site by collecting information on the date, time and pages you visited while at the site. This is done so that the content of the site can be improved. This information is not shared with other organizations. Again, only aggregate information is collected, and your personal information is not identified.

If you choose to share personal information, such as by subscribing to an e-newsletter, sending a message, or filling out an electronic form with personal information, the information will only be used for the purposes you authorized. Some of this information may be saved for a designated period of time in order to comply with the state of Florida's archiving policies. However, information will not be disclosed to third parties or other government agencies, unless required by state or federal law. If information is required by law to be disclosed about you, then every effort to notify you about the disclosure in advance will be taken.

If you have other questions about www.martinclerk.com's privacy policies or have suggestions on how these policies can be improved, please feel free to call 772-288-5985.

Accessibility Policy

Thank you for visiting www.martinclerk.com. Accessibility for visitors to the website is very important to us. Simply stated, this site uses accessibility guidelines set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). A primary mission of the W3C has been to maintain the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Further details are outlined below. The Clerk and Comptroller’s Office has made a commitment to its customers to provide up-to-date and accurate information. In an effort to ensure access to as many of our residents as possible, we have attempted to meet Conformance Level A for the Web Content Guidelines. After the implementation of our initial design, the entire site was tested for compliance.

We have taken the following steps wherever possible to make this site available to those with disabilities.

Compliance Guidelines Used

  • Provided equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content.
    • Provided a text equivalent for every non-text element (e.g., via "alt", "longdesc", or in element content). This includes images, graphical representations of text (including symbols), image map regions, animations (e.g., animated GIFs), applets and programmatic objects, ascii art, frames, scripts, images used as list bullets, spacers, graphical buttons, sounds (played with or without user interaction), stand-alone audio files, audio tracks of video, and video.
    • Provided redundant text links for each active region of a server-side image map.
    • Until user agents can automatically read aloud the text equivalent of a visual track, provided an auditory description of the important information of the visual track of a multimedia presentation.
    • For any time-based multimedia presentation (e.g., a movie or animation), synchronized equivalent alternatives (e.g., captions or auditory descriptions of the visual track) with the presentation.
  • Ensured that all information conveyed with color is also available without color, for example from context or markup.
  • Clearly identified changes in the natural language of a document's text and any text equivalents (e.g., captions).
  • Created tables that transform gracefully.
    • For data tables, identified row and column headers.
    • For data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers, used markup to associate data cells and header cells.
  • Ensured that pages featuring new technologies transform gracefully.
    • Organized documents so they may be read without style sheets. For example, when an HTML document is rendered without associated style sheets, it must still be possible to read the document.
    • Ensured that equivalents for dynamic content are updated when the dynamic content changes.
    • Ensured that pages are usable when scripts, applets, or other programmatic objects are turned off or not supported. If this is not possible, provided equivalent information on an alternative accessible page.
  • Until user agents allow users to control flickering, avoided causing the screen to flicker.
  • Made programmatic elements such as scripts and applets directly accessible or compatible with assistive technologies.
  • Provided client-side image maps instead of server-side image maps except where the regions cannot be defined with an available geometric shape.
  • If, after best efforts, an accessible page was not possible, provided a link to an alternative page that uses W3C technologies, is accessible, has equivalent information (or functionality), and is updated as often as the inaccessible (original) page.
  • Titled each frame to facilitate frame identification and navigation.
  • Used the clearest and simplest language appropriate for the site's content.

Ensuring Compliance

Extensive testing was done prior to launch to identify and determine accessibility problems on our website. Every effort was and is made to make the site accessible today.

Remaining Problems

Although we have attempted to be diligent in providing equal access to the Clerk and Comptroller’s website, we are aware that some areas may need additional improvements. Distributed content management and the large size of the Clerk and Comptroller’s site may have allowed pages with limited accessibility to remain and your assistance is greatly appreciated in alerting us so that we may update those sections. If you have difficulty accessing any information on this site, please report any site malfunctions by email to the Webmaster.