Santa Clara County Office of Education

Privacy Policy

The Santa Clara County Office of Education ("us", "we", or "our") operates the My Name, My Identity campaign website (the "Website"), located at https://www.mynamemyidentity.org. This Privacy Policy was last updated on .

Your privacy is important to us and we follow all legal requirements to protect your privacy. Our Privacy Policy explains how we may collect information from you, how we may share your information, and how you can limit our sharing of your information.

What do we mean by "Personal Information"?

"Personal Information" is non-public information that is personally identifiable to you and obtained in order for us to provide for you within our Website. Personal Information may include information such as your name, email address, location and other related information that you provide to us or that we obtain about you.

"Non-Personal Information" is information that is not personally identifiable to you and that we automatically collect when you access our Website with a web browser, such as Internet Protocol ("IP") address, web browser and version, operating system, etc. It may also include publicly available information that is shared between you and others.

Information Collection and Use

Generally, you control the amount and type of information you provide to us when using our Website.

As a visitor, you can browse our Website to find out more about our Website and the resources available to you. You are not required to provide us with any Personal Information as a visitor.

However, when making a pledge to the campaign or contacting us, we will ask you to provide us with certain Personal Information that can be used to identify or contact you. We collect this information for the purpose of providing the Website, identifying and communicating with you, responding to your requests/inquiries and improving our services.

Log Data

Like most websites, our servers automatically record the page requests ("Log Data") made whenever you visit our Website. Log Data includes information such as the pages of our Website that you request, the date and time of your request, your device's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, web browser type/version/language and other statistics. We use this Log Data to periodically monitor the Website's performance and to aid in troubleshooting issues or problems with the Website.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your device when you visit a website. When you visit the website again, the cookie allows that site to recognize your web browser. We use cookies to collect and store Non-Personal Information to enhance your experience while visiting the Website, like remembering your language setting or keeping you signed in.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies, refuse all third-party cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help feature on most browsers provides information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies or to notify you when receiving a new cookie.

You will not be able to use some features of our Website if you disable all cookies.

In addition, we use Google Analytics tracking software to monitor our visitors to better understand how they use the Website. This software uses cookies to track and monitor visitor engagement and usage of the Website, but will not store, save or collect Personal Information. You can read Google's privacy policy for further information [ https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ ].

Do Not Track Disclosure

We support Do Not Track ("DNT"). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, and we strive to implement and maintain reasonable, commercially acceptable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information we store, in order to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.

However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and we are unable to guarantee the absolute security of the Personal Information we have collected from you.

International Transfer

Your information, including Personal Information, may be transferred to - and maintained on - computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the information, including Personal Information, to the United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

Periodically, we may need to change our Privacy Policy. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. The updates will be posted on this page with the effective date at the top. If the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice and email you if you have provided your email address to us.

Contact Us

If you want to make a correction to your information, or you have any questions about our privacy policies, please get in touch with:

Santa Clara County Office of Education
Attn: Multilingual Education Services - Privacy
1290 Ridder Park Drive
San Jose, CA 95131