Local Planning Council of Ventura County is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Local Planning Council of Ventura County site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Local Planning Council of Ventura County site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Local Planning Council of Ventura County collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Local Planning Council of Ventura County also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Local Planning Council of Ventura County. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Local Planning Council of Ventura County for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Local Planning Council of Ventura County site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Local Planning Council of Ventura County public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Local Planning Council of Ventura County does not read any of your private online communications.

Local Planning Council of Ventura County encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Local Planning Council of Ventura County so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Local Planning Council of Ventura County is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Local Planning Council of Ventura County and Local Planning Council of Ventura County family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Local Planning Council of Ventura County collects and uses your personal information to operate the Local Planning Council of Ventura County Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Local Planning Council of Ventura County also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Local Planning Council of Ventura County and its affiliates. Local Planning Council of Ventura County may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Local Planning Council of Ventura County does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Local Planning Council of Ventura County may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Local Planning Council of Ventura County may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Local Planning Council of Ventura County, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Local Planning Council of Ventura County does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Local Planning Council of Ventura County keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Local Planning Council of Ventura County, in order to determine what Local Planning Council of Ventura County services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Local Planning Council of Ventura County to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Local Planning Council of Ventura County Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Local Planning Council of Ventura County or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Local Planning Council of Ventura County; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Local Planning Council of Ventura County, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Local Planning Council of Ventura County Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Local Planning Council of Ventura County pages, or register with Local Planning Council of Ventura County site or services, a cookie helps Local Planning Council of Ventura County to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Local Planning Council of Ventura County Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Local Planning Council of Ventura County features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Local Planning Council of Ventura County services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Local Planning Council of Ventura County secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Local Planning Council of Ventura County secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Local Planning Council of Ventura County will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Local Planning Council of Ventura County encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Local Planning Council of Ventura County is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Local Planning Council of Ventura County welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Local Planning Council of Ventura County has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Local Planning Council of Ventura County at mfriel@vcoe.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.