Privacy Policy
Welcome to the Committee for Public Counsel Services’ website. The following statement applies only to the use of the CPCS website. Websites operated by other state agencies may have different policies.
A Privacy Partnership.
Your privacy with respect to the use of this website results from a partnership between the Committee for Public Counsel Services and you, the user. At this website, we attempt to protect your privacy to the maximum extent possible. This statement informs you of the information that we collect from you at this site, what we do with it, to whom it may be disseminated, and how you can access it. Based on this information, you can make an informed choice about your use of this site. You can maximize the benefits of your privacy partnership with the Committee for Public Counsel Services (“CPCS”) by making informed choices about whether to share personally identifiable information with us through this site.
Personally Identifiable Information.
We use the term “personally identifiable information” to mean any information that could reasonably be used to identify you, including but not limited to your name, address, e-mail address, birth date, financial information, or any combination of information that could be used to identify you.
Information Voluntarily Provided by You.
This site collects voluntary information from you only through the e-mails that you send through this site. E-mails sent by you to this site will contain personally identifiable information.
Information Automatically Collected and Stored by this Site.
This site does not directly collect “cookies“, but does collect and store indefinitely your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, which does not identify you as an individual. We do collect information about the date and time of your visit, whether a file you have requested exists, and how many “bytes” of information were transmitted to you over the web from this site. We use your IP address to assess the frequency of visits to this site and the popularity of its various pages and functions. We will not attempt to match any personally identifiable information that you provide to us with your IP address.
Information Automatically Collected and Stored by Our Technology Partners.
This site makes use of Google Analytics to help us better understand how users interact with our content. This requires the use of cookies. For a description of how Google makes use of these cookies, please refer to Types of cookies used by Google. Additionally, we may on occasion embed content such as a video. When this content is hosted on a site other than ours, it is possible that its host may make use of cookies or some similar technology. When you see content hosted by a third-party (e.g., Google), know that their privacy policies may apply to interaction with that content.
Dissemination of Your Personally Identifiable Information.
We do not sell any personally identifiable information collected through this website.
In addition, the information that you voluntarily submit will be disclosed only to CPCS employees or officials with a “need to know” for purposes of fulfilling their job responsibilities. They will only use the information to answer your questions, respond to any requests for assistance, and fulfill CPCS’s legal obligations. Where appropriate, we may provide the information submitted by you to the person or company that is the subject of your inquiry, or to a government agency responsible for the matters referred to in your communication.
Security.
Because this site does not encrypt incoming e-mail, you should not send information that you consider highly sensitive through this website. We use standard security measures to ensure that your personally identifiable information is not lost, misused, altered, or unintentionally destroyed. We also use software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage. Except for authorized investigations, no attempts are made to identify individual users.
Changes.
We will post changes to this statement at least 30 days before they take effect. Any information we collect under the current privacy statement will remain subject to the terms of this statement. After any changes take effect, all new information we collect, if any, will be subject to the new statement.
Definitions:
Cookies are files that a website can place on your computer. A cookie file contains unique information that a website can use to track such things as your password, lists of web pages you have visited, and the date when you last looked at a specific web page, or to identify your session at a particular website. A cookie file allows the website to recognize you as you click through pages on the site and when you later revisit the site. A website can use cookies to “remember” your preferences, and to record your browsing behavior on the web. Although you can prevent websites from placing cookies on your computer by using your browser’s preference menu, disabling cookies may affect your ability to view or interact with some websites.
Internet Protocol Address or IP Address is a series of numbers that identifies each computer and machine connected to the Internet. An IP address enables a server on a computer network to send you the file that you have requested on the Internet. The IP address disclosed to us may identify the computer from which you are accessing the Internet, or a server owned by your Internet Service Provider. Because it is machine-specific, rather than person-specific, an IP address is not, in and of itself, personally identifiable information.