This Web site is owned and operated by The Sacramento River Portal. We recognize that visitors to our site may be concerned about the information they provide to us and how we treat that information. The Sacramento River Portal is committed to honoring our constituents' privacy preferences.

To this end, we support the following principles:

Consumer Choice

We believe a visitor to our site is the one to best determine:

• When—and under what conditions—to provide "personally identifiable information" (e.g. data that may be used to identify, contact, or locate a person).
• When such information may be shared with other organizations.
• When to remain anonymous.

Informed Consent

If personally identifiable information is collected, we believe a visitor to our site has the right to:

• Know when we are collecting personal information.
• Know what personal information is collected, and the purpose of collection.
• Expect the opportunity to choose whether or not personal information will be provided to any third parties.
• Expect reasonable steps to be taken to protect personal information from unauthorized use.
• Review the accuracy of personal information and update it.

PRIVACY POLICY

Personal Information Collected
In general, when you visit our Web sites and access information you remain anonymous. We do not require you to register or provide personal information to us to view our site.

There are occasions when we will ask for additional information. We do this to better understand and respond to your needs, and provide you with services that may be valuable to you. For example,

Links to Third Party Sites
We provide links to third party sites. Since we do not control those Web sites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these third party sites.

Cookies
What are "Cookies"?
"Cookies" are small files sent from a Web server to your computer through your browser program. There are two types of cookies: non-persistent and persistent cookies.

Use of Cookies
At this time, we do not utilize cookies on this site.

Questions
The Sacramento River Portal welcomes comments and questions on this policy. We are dedicated to protecting your personal information, and will make every reasonable effort to keep that information secure.

If you have any questions, please contact us at webmaster@sacramentoriverportal.org

The information you provide to us will also be covered by this policy.

Due to the rapidly evolving technologies on the Internet, we may occasionally update this policy. All revisions will be posted to this site. A revised Privacy Policy will apply only to data collected subsequent to its effective date.

Last Revision: September 5, 2002