Privacy Policy

Effective January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) affords new privacy rights to California residents.  Please click HERE for information. 

PRIVACY POLICY

Visit Arroyo Grande takes your privacy seriously. Our privacy policy is clear: we will collect no personally identifiable information about you when you visit our website or use our services unless you choose to provide that information to us.

What this Privacy Policy Covers

This privacy policy covers this website’s treatment of personally identifiable information that Visit Arroyo Grande collects when you are on this website and when you use this website’s services. This privacy policy does not describe information collection policies on other websites, including those linked to or from this website.

Children’s Issues

This website is not directed to children under 13 years of age, and children under 13 years of age shall not use the website or services offered by this website to submit any individually identifiable information about themselves.

What Type of Information We Collect

Visit Arroyo Grande does not collect any personally identifiable information about you through this website other than information that you affirmatively choose to submit to us. Visit Arroyo Grande may automatically collect aggregate information about the use of its website, including which pages are most frequently visited, how many visitors we receive daily, and how long visitors stay on each page.

How We Use the Information We Collect

The personally identifiable information we collect from and about you may be used to provide e-mail-based newsletters and other information to you as you request and to notify you from time to time about services offered by Visit Arroyo Grande or other entities associated with Visit Arroyo Grande.

With Whom We Share Information

We may disclose information about you if we have a good-faith belief that we are required to do so by law or legal process, to respond to claims, or to protect the rights, property or safety of Visit Arroyo Grande or others.

Links to Other Sites

Visit Arroyo Grande provides links to many websites in business listings, events, blog posts and content pages. We recommend sites based on the value they may provide to our users and the privacy policies of those websites might differ from ours.

Personal information collected from other sources

We supplement the personal information we collect directly with information collected from third parties:

MailChimp

MailChimp collects information on user traffic to our website. This information may include, but is not limited to, the date and time of your visit to our website, any site from which you may have been referred to our website, the type of computer browser you are using, the identity of your internet provider and the specific computer address (Internet Protocol or IP Address) assigned to your computer. Personal data such as name, email address and marketing preferences are passed through MailChimp, which is an email marketing platform. For further details, please see MailChimp’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.

Google (Including YouTube.com)

We utilize Google to analyze our website traffic patterns and behavior in an anonymous fashion. The information that Google captures may include, but is not limited to, the date and time of your visit to our website, any pages you visit within our site, any site from which you may have been referred to our website, the type of computer browser you are using, the identity of your internet provider and the specific computer address (Internet Protocol or IP Address) assigned to your computer. Any individual contact information you provide is not transmitted to Google by our site. For further details, please see Google’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Visit Arroyo Grande may revise and update this privacy policy at any time by posting such revised privacy policy at: Privacy Policy.  Your continued usage of this website will mean you accept those changes.

Other Terms and Conditions

Visit Arroyo Grande’s “General Terms and Conditions of Use” are available at: Terms & Conditions.

Last Update

This Privacy Policy was last updated on March 24, 2023.

Contact Information

Questions or comments regarding this privacy policy should be sent by e-mail to: Sheridan Bohlken, Recreation Services Director, City of Arroyo Grande; sbohlken@arroyogrande.org, or by U.S. Mail: Recreation Services Attn.: Sheridan Bohlken, 1221 Ash St., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420