Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency (MRWPCA) is committed to protecting your on-line privacy and the confidentiality of personal information you may provide while interacting with the Groundwater Replenishment Project web site and email server.

Collection of Personal Information
MRWPCA does not automatically collect personally identifiable information about visitors who do no more than browse the web site or download information from it. We do not release information about the collection of IP addresses to any third party, except under court order. While we maintain logs of user activity in order to help us manage the web site, the information stored in these logs does not identify users personally. The logs store such things as the domain name and IP addresses used to access our web site; the type of browsers and operating systems used by site visitors; the date and time of site visits; and the pages accessed. MRWPCA may use this information to help improve the web site and its features.

Personal Information You Send
MRWPCA values both your use of this site and feedback you provide. If you participate in a survey or send us an email, your email address and the other information you volunteer will be collected. In addition, visitors who request information through this site may be required to furnish additional information to enable us to provide the information requested. The additional information collected will be no more specific than if the visitor were requesting the service by any other means, including by telephone or an in-person visit to a MRWPCA facility. We may share this information with other public agencies or organizations if such action is required to provide the assistance you are requesting.

Security of Your Personal Information
With the importance of protecting user personal information in mind, we do not rent, sell or give away any information identifying you individually to third parties for marketing or mailing list purposes without your permission.

Public Records
As a public agency, most business you conduct with MRWPCA becomes a public record and is open for public inspection. Public records may be posted on the web site for electronic access. Records posted on the web site are also available for public inspection by requests made in person, by mail or by telephone at the appropriate MRWPCA office.

Cookies
MRWPCA makes reasonable efforts to avoid the use of "cookies," the data files stored on your computer by your web browser that provide information about you. Cookies may be used on our site when needed to maintain the functionality of an interactive application and are used only during the session in which you access the interactive application. Cookies created on your computer by using this web site do not contain personal information and do not identify you individually. The cookie feature is used to store a temporary identifying tag on your computer. Depending on the settings of your browser or other methods, you can refuse or delete cookie files from your computer. Turning off the cookie option may limit your access to interactive applications of the web site. MRWPCA is not responsible for any damages arising from the transmission of information as a result of cookies created by the web site.

Sending E-Mail
If you send an email that includes personal information, we normally will use the information only to respond to your message. However, we may forward your email to another agency if we believe that agency is better prepared to answer your question. We do not use information received in emails to create personal profiles, and we do not give or sell email information to others for commercial purposes. If you send us a threat or a message that describes or promotes unlawful activity, we will forward the email to the appropriate law enforcement authorities.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically
We may analyze user traffic patterns on our web site from information automatically provided by your browser when you visit our site. This information includes the IP address of your computer or network, the date, time and page(s) you visited on our site, your browser and operating system, and the referring page (the last web page you visited before accessing our web site). We may also use the aggregated information from all of our visitors to measure server performance and improve the content of our web site.

Links to Other Sites
MRWPCA may provide links to web pages that are not part of our web site. The privacy policies and procedures described here do not necessarily apply to those sites. We suggest that site visitors contact these sites directly for information on their data collection and privacy policies.

Site Security
We monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or to otherwise cause damage to the web site. Anyone using the web site expressly consents to such monitoring.