Privacy Policy
At PLTW California, accessible at https://pltwcalifornia.org, protecting the privacy of our visitors is a top priority. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information we collect and how we use it.
If you have any questions or need more information about our Privacy Policy, please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@pltwcalifornia.org.
This Privacy Policy applies solely to our online activities and governs the information shared and/or collected on PLTW California. It does not apply to any information collected offline or through channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information We Collect
The personal information we may ask you to provide, and why we ask for it, will be made clear to you at the point we request it.
If you contact us directly, we may collect additional information such as your name, email address, phone number, the content of your message and/or attachments, and any other details you choose to provide.
When you register for an account on our site, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including:
- Providing, operating, and maintaining our website
- Improving, personalizing, and expanding our website
- Understanding and analyzing how you use our website
- Developing new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicating with you directly or through our partners, including for customer service, updates, and other website-related information, as well as for marketing and promotional purposes
- Sending you emails
- Preventing fraud
Log Files
PLTW California follows a standard procedure for using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. The information collected by log files may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamps, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is not linked to any personally identifiable information and is used for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like many websites, PLTW California uses ‘cookies’. These cookies store information about visitors’ preferences and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. This information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser types and/or other information.
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of PLTW California.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons in their advertisements and links that appear on PLTW California, which are sent directly to users’ browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites you visit.
Note that PLTW California has no access to or control over these cookies used by third-party advertisers.
Third-Party Privacy Policies
PLTW California’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. We encourage you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information, including their practices and how to opt-out of certain options.
You can disable cookies through your individual browser options.
CCPA Privacy Policy (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California consumers have the right to:
- Request that a business disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data collected about consumers.
- Request that a business delete any personal data collected about the consumer.
- Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
GDPR Privacy Policy (Data Protection Rights)
We want to ensure that you are fully aware of all your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
- The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge a small fee for this service.
- The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete any information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Children’s Information
Protecting children while using the internet is another part of our priority. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
PLTW California does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that your child provided this kind of information on our website, please contact us immediately, and we will do our best to promptly remove such information from our records.