We do not independently gather or use any individually identifiable information about our users from our web site.

Your Control Over Your Data

We will provide you with access to your personal data upon your verified request to us.

It is not our practice to gather personally identifiable data, except in limited instances as noted in this document. Therefore, our ability to provide you with your data is limited to those cases in which you have provided us with personally identifiable information and where that information is attached in some manner to the data.

You have the right to correct any errors in your data.

You may have your personal data erased from our records, if it exists.

You may also object to us processing your personal data and you may download a copy of your data, if such data exist in our records.

Please note: While these options are available to you, as noted we do not routinely gather information that can be identified with any individual. Therefore, our ability to delete your records or provide a copy for you to download is limited to those cases in which there is some verifiable means to connecting records to you.

Mailing Lists

We allow visitors the opportunity to enter and send us contact information to be included on our email or postal mailing lists to receive information about events and publications we produce for news and information about activities by our partner and sponsor organizations. These may include email messages and mailings sent via the United States Postal Services. The address lists are securely maintained and the information is not, subject to limitations noted below, provided (either directly shared nor sold) to any outside entity. The address lists are not maintained on our website; they are stored securely with password protection on an specific computer and are backed up on an external hard drive and securely on cloud-based storage.

Information Gathered Routinely

Software running on our hosting service records certain information about visitors, including the IP address of their computers at the time of their visits, the type of browsers and operating systems they are using, entry and exit pages, and dates and times of their visits. We only review this information to determine the general geographic origin of our visitors and do not connect it to individual visitors. We do not retain any of these data for more than three days at a time, at which time they are automatically deleted. We use Google Analytics to record and analyze certain information about our visitors. The data gathered are not identifiable to any individual, but do allow those with access to this information to discern specific domains, countries, browser types, and operating systems used by site visitors. These data may or may not be linked to a particular IP address, which, along with a date and time of access that might be recorded, would be the only means of identifying a particular user. We will delete such records from the part of the Google Analytics database we can control if you are able to provide us with the IP addresses, dates, and times of visits to our site. The Google general privacy policy is located at https://policies.google.com/privacy, and the requirements we follow to use Google Analytics, including its privacy policy, are located at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html. We use ipstack.com to validate and identify some information about certain IP addresses that are being used to access our site. ipstack.com only provides us with geographical information linked to those particular IP addresses that are flagged by our website operating system based on certain activities that take place during a visit. ipstack.com is wholly responsible for whatever information it gathers about you; we receive only geolocation information based on the IP address you are using to access our site. These geolocation data are only maintained by our website operating system for three days, at which time they are automatically deleted. The ipstack.com privacy policy is located at https://ipstack.com/privacy.

Information Gathered When You Make an Inquiry

If you write to us via email with an inquiry, we will have a record of the email address you sent the inquiry from and any information about yourself that you may include. We will use this information to communicate with you in regard to your inquiry, but unless you specifically ask us to use it in some other way, such as being included on our email list, we will only maintain that information in received and sent email folders. Such information will only be shared with one or more third parties if such sharing is necessary in fulfilling a request you make of us and for which you have authorized us to release such information. For example, if you inquire about planning an event and ask us to have potential vendors contact you, we will necessarily share your contact information with appropriate vendors to fulfill your request.

Right to Have Your Information Deleted

Except under limited circumstances in which we may be legally required to maintain your records (such as under a court order, for example), we will delete any information we maintain about you upon your request. Each email we send to those on our mailing list has a link to notify us if the recipient wishes to be removed from the list, and we honor such requests promptly. If you want records of emails you may have exchanged with us to be deleted, you may send an email to info@visitsanpedro.org. As a security measure to ensure such removal requests are authentic, the record removal request email must be sent from the address whose records are to be removed. Thus, if you have communicated with us using more than one email address, and want them removed, we require you to send a separate email for each address to be removed, and each sent from the account that is to be removed. If you have been registered for an account on our website and wish to no longer have authenticated access, you may delete your account and all content related to your account will be automatically deleted from the operating website. These data will remain in our database backup for approximately four days, at which time they will be deleted automatically.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping and other functional purposes related to the use of websites. We use cookies on this site. They are located on your computer, not on our website or in any of our files (except session cookies, as noted below). We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. We do not have access to the cookies on your computer, other than if you visit our site subsequent to a previous visit in which a cookie has been installed on your computer, our content management system reads the contents of the cookie and may use the data stored in it to make certain adjustments to the website's functions according to your preferences or history as recorded in the cookie. We may use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.

Links

This web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Visit San Pedro or its parent organization, Southern California Education, Tourism, & Cultural Organization. Please be aware that we, the Southern California Education, Tourism, and Cultural Organization, have no control over and, therefore, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you click a link on our site, you might be going to a different site over which we have no control. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every web site you visit that might collect personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this website.

Business Transitions

In the event SoCal ETC or Visit San Pedro goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another organization, or transfer of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email and a prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Changes in this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement and notices on the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: info@VisitSanPedro.org. Last updated and effective 10/25/2019.