Privacy Policy

Effective as of June 24, 2022

As the owner of this website, :http://califuniavisit.com/ (the “Site”), we understand that your privacy is of critical importance.  Protecting your information is our priority. This Privacy Policy applies to http://califuniavisit.com and visitcalifunia@gmail.com and Califunia™ & ©, and describes what information we collect from you via the Site and how we use and disclose such information. 

Collected Information

The Site does not collect personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us (like sending us an email). The Site does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must get permission to use the Site from a parent or guardian.

Our Use of Cookies

The Site uses “cookies” to help personalize user experience. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.  Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.  For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

• Advertising – we use cookies [to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you]
• Analysis – we use cookies [to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services]

Interest-Based Advertising

Advertising Privacy Statement

The Site allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the Website. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the Website. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to record your general location, measure the effectiveness of their advertisements, and to personalize the advertising content you see including serving you advertisements.

The Site does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. However, please note that if an advertiser asks the Site to show an advertisement to a certain audience or audience segment and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the Website, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.

Privacy policies of other websites

The Sites contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, and we cannot control the activities of other advertisers or web sites.  If you click on a link to another websites, you should consult the respective privacy policies of these websites, third-party ad servers or ad networks, and read their privacy policy.

Sale of Business or Assets

In the event that the Site is acquired by or merged sold with a third-party entity resulting in a substantial change of control, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.

Analysis

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can, however, obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences(Firefox);

(c) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);

(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and

(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including our Site. Some features of the Site may cease to be available to you.

Special Note to International Users

The Site is hosted in the United States and is intended for and directed to Users in the United States. If you are a User accessing the Website from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure that differ from United States laws please be advised that, through your continued use of the Website, which is governed by U.S. law, this Privacy Notice, and our respective Terms of Use, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you consent to that transfer.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted on the Site, with the “Effective Date” posted at the top of the Policy. We may revise and update this Privacy Policy if our practices change, as technology changes, or as we add new services or change existing ones. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, or we are going to use any personal information in a manner that is materially different from that stated in our Privacy Policy at the time we collected such information, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to consent to the change. If you do not consent, your personal information will be used as agreed to under the terms of the privacy policy in effect at the time we obtained that information. By using our Site or services after the Effective Date, you are deemed to consent to our then-current privacy policy. We will use information previously obtained in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was obtained from you.

User-Generated Content

IF YOU DO NOT WANT US TO USE OR REPUBLISH YOUR POSTED TEXT, PHOTO, VIDEO OR OTHER MATERIALS (collectively "CONTENT") AS CONTEMPLATED BELOW, THEN PLEASE DON'T RESPOND TO OUR QUESTIONS/POSTS OR OTHERWISE POST CONTENT ON OR VIA OUR OFFICIAL BRAND PRESENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS. EXAMPLES OF OUR OFFICIAL BRAND PRESENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS INCLUDE THE VISIT CALIFORNIA FACEBOOK PAGE VISIT CALIFORNIA PINTEREST PAGE, VISITCALIFORNIA INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT, AND THE VISITCA TWITTER ACCOUNTS.

By posting or otherwise making available any Content, or otherwise responding to or communicating with us on or via our official brand presence on social media platforms/sites and branded hashtags (including, without limitation, Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, Instagram, Google+, Flickr, LinkedIn, YouTube and Pinterest, collectively "Social Media Platforms") you represent and warrant that you are eighteen (18) years of age or older and that you agree to the following terms and conditions:

You irrevocably grant us, and our affiliates, licensees and assigns, a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted right and license to copy, reproduce, modify, edit, adapt, translate, create derivative works of, publish, post, distribute, publicly perform, sublicense, or otherwise provide to others, your Content in any and all media, formats and channels (now in existence or hereinafter developed) for any purpose, including advertising and commercial purposes.

Important Note: we may also use any ideas, suggestions, developments, and/or other material embodied in your posted Content as we see fit without any compensation or attribution to you. We will, however, attempt to credit you as the author/source of the Content and you agree that we may identify you as the author/source of the Content by referring to your Social Media Platform handle or identifier as we see appropriate.

You represent and warrant that the Content does not violate or infringe any rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, copyright, trademark, and\or rights of publicity and privacy.

Important Note: If any third-party content is included in your posted Content, you must obtain permission from the content owner and attribute/credit such content to the owner.  By posting Content you represent and warrant that you have the permission of the content owner to do so.

• Don't post any Content that is disruptive, abusive, vulgar, profane, obscene, hateful, threatening, harassing defamatory, or which discloses personally identifiable information or private or personal matters concerning any person;
• Don't post any Content that you don't have the right to post/transmit (and grant us the rights above) under applicable law or under contractual or fiduciary relationship;
• Don't impersonate any person, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
• You represent that all testimonials, endorsements and/or advertisements contained in your posted  Content are truthful, accurate and represent your opinion and personal experience.
• You agree to hold the  Commission (sometimes referred to herein as "us" or "our") and our affiliates, agents and licensees (collectively, "Indemnitees") harmless, and defend and indemnify the  Indemnitees from any claim, disputes, demands, proceedings, cause of  action, judgments, damages, liabilities, losses, costs or expense of any  kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed which may arise out of or are in any way connected with  your posted Content and/or your use of our official brand presence on Social Media Platforms. 
• These terms shall be governed  by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California without giving effect to principles of conflict of laws. In no event will we be liable hereunder for extraordinary, consequential, indirect or punitive damages, including lost profits.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of this Site, please contact us at visitcalifunia@gmail.com