Privacy

Your use of the California Public Employers Labor Relations Association’s (CALPELRA’s) web site (www.calpelra.org) and related applications is voluntary. By using the site or providing your personal information to CALPELRA, you agree to the collection and use of the information as set forth in this privacy policy.

What CALPELRA Collects

CALPELRA collects personally identifiable information including but not limited to full names (first, last, and any middle), physical address, e-mail address, telephone number, device information, browser information, other identifiers, or payment information when you:

• Enter your information with CALPELRA online;
• Save your information with CALPELRA online;
• Subscribe to or receive our e-mail messages;
• Register for CAPELRA’s programs;
• Attend virtual or in-person trainings and other programs;
• Submit evaluations of our programs;
• Enter a prize drawing associated with any of our programs;
• Communicate with CALPELRA through social media; and/or
• Visit our web site (see discussion of cookies below).

We may use your personally identifiable information for any of the following:

• To display information, trainings, or services that may be of interest to you;
• To customize the content of our web site or related applications;
• To learn your preferences and improve your web site experience;
• To identify and address problems with our web site;
• To analyze our users’ areas of interest;
• To protect the integrity of our web site and related applications; and/or
• To contact you for CALPELRA-related business.

You have the right to opt out of receiving communications from us (see Communication Opt Out below).

What CALPELRA Shares

We may share your personally identifiable information in the following ways:

• If you join CALPELRA as a Member or Friend, unless you opt out of being included in the member directory, we list information you have provided to us including your name, title, agency, phone number, e-mail address, and photo in our Member Directory. This Directory is accessible to other CALPELRA Members and Friends through CALPELRA’s web site.
• If you register for CALPELRA’s Annual Conference, unless you opt out entirely or choose to suppress specific information, we will share your name, agency, title, and e-mail address with others who attend the Annual Conference
• If you register for CALPELRA’s Annual Conference we will share your name, title, agency, and department with CALPELRA’s Annual Conference Exhibitors and Sponsors; we also will share your e-mail address with Annual Conference Exhibitors and Sponsors if you authorize us to do so when you register for the Conference.
• If you request professional credit for attending our programs (e.g. MCLE, HRCI, or SHRM credit), we will share information regarding your identity and details regarding your participation in our programs as required by the State Bar, HRCI, SHRM, or similar credit-granting organization.
• We may contract with other companies to provide services to CALPELRA and users of our web site and related applications (e.g., e-mail distribution, payment processing, subscription management, other data management, etc.). We will provide those companies with the information they need to render the services. Our agreements with those companies state that they may use the personally identifiable information about our users only to provide the services we request.
• We may share information in response to a subpoena, court order, or when required by law. We also may share information to assist in fraud or other criminal investigations or as needed to protect our rights and interests (e.g., to protect against malware, phishing, or similar intrusions).

Data Retention: Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are stored by a browser on your computer or mobile device. They allow web sites to store such things as user preferences. Cookies enable a web site to to recognize a user and respond appropriately.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our web site and cannot be switched off. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our web site or use a shopping cart. 

• RequestVerificationToken: This cookie is essential for our site to stop cross-site request forgery. Duration: session.
• login: This cookie stores your authentication status after login. Duration: session.
• ASP.NET_SessionId: This cookie stores additional information about your authentication status. Duration: session.
• Asi.Web.Browser.CookiesEnabled: This cookie stores a value indicating whether your browser allows cookies. Duration: session.
• cookieconsent_status: This cookie stores your response when you choose to accept or reject cookies. Duration: 12 months.
• AnonymousCartID: This cookies stores cart information when you choose to add an item to the cart before logging in. Duration: 14 days.

Analytical, Performance Cookies

We may use Google Analytics to collect anonymized data about users in order to help us improve our website. These cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors, where the visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.  You may choose to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics cookies across all websites.

• _ga: Used to distinguish users. Duration: session.
• _gid: Used to distinguish users. Duration: session.
• _gat: Used to throttle request rate. Duration: session.
• AMP_TOKEN: Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Duration: session.
• _dc_gtm_<property-id>: Contains campaign-related information for the user. Duration: session.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies are used to provide enhanced functionality of our web site, to make it easier to use, and to recognize you when you return to our web site. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences. When you reject cookies on our site these cookies will not be placed.

Targeting Cookies

These cookies record your visit to our web site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. When you reject cookies on our site these cookies will not be placed.

Third-Party Cookies

Our web site may contain links to other third-party web sites or technologies that may place additional cookies that are out of our control and not covered by this cookie policy. These third parties may set cookies on your computer once you click on the link or video player.  Please read the privacy policies for these sites to learn more.

Rejecting, Disabling, Deleting Cookies

Rejecting cookies on our web site will block all cookies not considered strictly necessary. Disabling or deleting cookies placed by our web site may result in reduced functionality. For example, rejecting cookies will block your access to CALPELRA videos that are stored on Vimeo.

Our web site is not set up to respond to "do not track" features that some browsers include, and we do not honor these requests.

Security

We use a variety of technologies and processes to protect our users’ data. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information submitted through our web site and related applications. 

Reviewing Or Changing Information Provided

To review or make changes to information you have previously provided to CALPELRA, log into your account on this web site and navigate to MyCALPELRA.

Opting Out Of Communication

You may view and change your communication preferences, including opting out, by logging into your account on this web site and navigating to MyCALPELRA. You also may unsubscribe from specific communication lists using the appropriate link in the applicable e-mail communication.

To opt out of having your information shared with others as described in this policy, you may also contact us by e-mail ([email protected]) or postal mail (39899 Balentine Drive, Suite 368 Newark, California 94560). You may also contact us by telephone at (925) 400-6320. 

Changes To This Policy

This policy is subject to change in the future. If we make material changes to the policy regarding how we use or collect your personal information, the revised policy will be posted on our web site with a new effective date. By continuing to use the site, you accept the policy revisions.

Effective Date: April 28, 2024