City of Blue Lake ("Blue Lake") operates bluelake.ca.gov and may operate other websites. It is Blue Lake's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Like most website operators, Blue Lake collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Blue Lake's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Blue Lake's visitors use its website. From time to time, Blue Lake may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Blue Lake also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on bluelake.ca.gov blogs/sites. Blue Lake only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Blue Lake's websites choose to interact with Blue Lake in ways that require Blue Lake to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Blue Lake gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at bluelake.ca.gov to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Blue Lake are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Blue Lake collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Blue Lake. Blue Lake does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Blue Lake may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Blue Lake may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Blue Lake does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Blue Lake discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Blue Lake's behalf or to provide services available at Blue Lake's websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Blue Lake's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Blue Lake will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Blue Lake discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Blue Lake believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Blue Lake, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Blue Lake website and have supplied your email address, Blue Lake may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Blue Lake and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Blue Lake takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Blue Lake uses cookies to help Blue Lake identify and track visitors, their usage of Blue Lake website, and their website access preferences. Blue Lake visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Blue Lake's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Blue Lake's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Blue Lake may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Blue Lake's sole discretion. Blue Lake encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a bluelake.ca.gov account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Last Updated 05/10/2018
