The privacy of your personal information is important to us. This notice describes how information about you may be used and disclosed. Please remember that this policy covers only the data collection and use practices for www.CTAF.org and www.CTAF.com, the official web-site of the California Technology Assessment Forum.
Protecting Your Personal Information
The California Technology Assessment Forum and the Blue Shield of California Foundation understand the importance of keeping your personal information private. This is a notice of our confidentiality and privacy practices, our legal duties and your rights concerning your personal information. We protect your personal information in electronic, written and oral forms. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
The Information We Collect
Our web server automatically captures your domain name, the IP address of the web page from which you enter our web-site, the pages you visit on our web-site and the amount of time you spend here. We do not collect any information that can reveal your personal identity unless you voluntarily provide it when you use interactive features on our web-site.
Use of the Information this Web-Site Gathers/Tracks
Any personally identifiable information you give us will be used only to provide the product, service or information you have requested or for which you registered. Your personally-identifiable information, including your e-mail address, will not be sold, rented, licensed, or otherwise shared with third parties unless you specifically consent to let us do so or under the following circumstances: i) We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; or ii) We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. We won't send you any unsolicited commercial e-mail ("spam"). The non-personally identifiable information we gather in aggregate form may be used to improve our web-site.
Making Changes to the Information You Provide to Us
At any time, you can change, update, or remove from our servers personal information that you voluntarily provided.
Cookies
When you visit our web-site, we may place a cookie on your computer that will allow us to customize and enhance your experience on our web-site, make improvements to our web-site, or to report web-site activity. Our cookies will not be used to track your activity on any third party web-sites or to send spam, nor will our cookies provide us with any personally identifiable information about you.
Sites We Link To
If you choose to use any of the links on our web-site, such as those to our sponsors and other third party resources, you will be leaving our web-site and going to a new web-site. Protection of your privacy at those other web-sites will be governed by the privacy policy at those web-sites -- please take the time to read their privacy policies.
Changes to this Policy
We may modify or change our privacy practices from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way that we treat personal information by sending a notice to your e-mail address or by placing a prominent notice on our web-site.
Contacting Us
If you receive any unwanted e-mail from this web-site, please contact us at www.webteam@blueshieldca.com
If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us at: www.info@ctaf.org, 50 Beale St., San Francisco, CA 94105