The California Association of Ratepayers for Energy Savings (“CARES”) owns and operates CaresCalifornia.org. We believe in transparency and are committed to respecting your privacy, including how we treat your personal information. This policy explains our privacy practices for this website. This website and its contents are the property of CARES. Any use of this website constitutes acceptance of the terms of the following policy, including any amendments and/or revisions, which may be made by CARES at any time in its sole discretion.
We collect personal information that you volunteer. We obtain personal information from visitors to this website who choose to provide us with information that identifies them. You may elect to provide us with information that identifies you (e.g. name, e-mail address, mailing address, zip code, and/or phone number) when you register, communicate with us, or share website content with others. We may use your information to, for example, populate our member list or allow us to respond to you if you request information. We collect such volunteered information only as necessary to fulfill the purpose of each visitor’s and/or member’s interaction with us.
We collect usage information. For each visitor to our website, we collect internet traffic related information, such as your internet service provider, browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor access to this website. Our purpose in collecting this information is to better understand how our visitors use this website (e.g. to evaluate site traffic, determine the most popular content and posts, etc.) to help us improve this site and the services that we provide through it. We may provide such information to our employees, contractors, and agents to enable them to perform certain website-related services on our behalf.
We protect your personal information. We do not disclose, sell, trade, or rent personal information to others. We are committed to protecting the privacy of users of this website and our members. All personal information that we obtain is held in a secure database. We are not, and cannot be, responsible for the security of any such database.
We use cookies to customize your experience. We use cookies to help us analyze our traffic, to provide social media features, and to customize user preferences. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising, and analytics partners. The information we gather does not usually contain personally identifiable information about you, but it can give you a more personalized experience. We currently use the following cookies, tracking, and analytics services: Google Analytics, Cloudfare, and WordPress. You can set your browser to refuse cookies before using our website, but some parts of the website may not work properly if you choose to do so. If you continue to use the website without changing your settings, you consent to our use of cookies and other third party tools on the website.
We do not control third-party sites. This website contains links to third-party websites. We are not and cannot be responsible for the contents, information, security, or privacy practices and procedures of such other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of all the destination websites that you visit. If you elect to link to third-party websites, you may receive cookies from those third-parties. We do not control third-party cookies and they are not subject to this privacy policy.
We are pleased to answer questions about our privacy policy. We are committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of our website visitors and members. If you have any questions about our privacy policies and procedures, please feel free to contact us:
California Association of Ratepayers for Energy Savings (CARES)
One Embarcadero Center Unit 2697
San Francisco, CA 94126
[email protected]
