Privacy Policy

Effective June 2015

It is the policy of the State of South Carolina and the Town of Surfside Beach that personal information about citizens will be collected only to the extent necessary to provide the service or benefit desired; that only appropriate information will be collected; that the citizen shall understand the reason the information is collected and be able to examine their personal record which is maintained by a public body.

A cookie is a tiny piece of text that is placed on your computer's hard drive. If your browser is set to notify you before accepting a cookie, you will receive a request for a cookie to be stored on your computer. We do not use cookies to record any personal information. Cookies may be used by some Town web applications to pass needed information from one page to the next. We want to be sure you understand that accepting a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you. We know that some citizens have concerns about cookies, but the benefit we both gain from their proper use is worthwhile. We use the statistical information gathered to measure site and server performance and continually improve the content of our site to better serve you. The Town does not use the information automatically collected to ascertain personally identifiable information.

The Town of Surfside Beach reserves the right to update its privacy policy statement as additional features are added to make the website more useful to residents. The most current policy statement will always be available here.