Privacy

Last updated October 13, 2026

Membership applications

If you apply to join the department through this website, the application asks for personal information, including your name, age, home and mailing address, phone number, email address, employment history, certifications and training, prior fire or ambulance service, citizenship and residency status, personal references, and answers to questions about criminal history. It also includes your signature.

We use this information to evaluate your application and to contact you. When you submit, your answers are emailed to the department at chiefs@tallmanfd.org.

Retention. Applications are kept indefinitely and become part of your permanent record with the department, whether or not you are accepted for membership.

We do not publish application information on this website, and we do not sell it.

Contact messages

The contact form on this website opens your own email app with a pre-filled message addressed to chiefs@tallmanfd.org. We receive only what you send.

Address lookups

The district checker, which is also part of the application, sends the address you type to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service to find its location. We do not store the address from the district checker.

Service providers

This website relies on a few outside services to operate:

• Cloudflare hosts the website, provides cookieless visitor statistics, and runs a bot-detection check (Turnstile) when you submit an application.
• Resend delivers application emails to the department.
• OpenStreetMap provides map tiles and address lookups.
• Google provides the fonts used on the site and the embedded events calendar.
• PayPal processes online donations. Donation details are entered on PayPal's site, not ours.

Questions

Email chiefs@tallmanfd.org or write to Tallman Fire Department, P.O. Box 37, Tallman, NY 10982.