The Citizen Watershed Monitoring Network ("Monitoring Network") is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. We've structured our Web site ("Site") so you can visit monitoringnetwork.org without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information.

Awareness. Monitoring Network provides this Online Privacy Statement to make you aware of our privacy policy, practices and of the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available from the bottom of every page on the Site.

What we collect. If you visit our Site to read or download information, we collect and store only the following information about you: the name of the domain from which you access the Internet; the date and time you access our site; and the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our site. We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.

Monitoring Network will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us.

Once you choose to provide us personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified), you can be assured that it will only be used to support your relationship with Monitoring Network. We will handle the information we learn about you from your visit to our Web site in the following manner. The information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting our Site.

Who we share it with. Monitoring Network will not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to others. Unless we have your permission or are required by law, we will only share the personal data you provide online with other entities affiliated with the Monitoring Network such as the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary. Such entities and/or non-profit organizations are governed by our privacy policies with respect to the use of this data and are bound by the appropriate confidentiality agreements.

Choice. Monitoring Network will not use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without first letting you know and offering you a choice. Local country laws and policies are applied where they differ from those in the U.S.

Your permission is always secured first, should we ever share your information with third parties that are not acting on our behalf and governed by our privacy policy. If you have comments or questions about our privacy policy, please send an email to privacy@monitoringnetwork.org.

Cookies. Monitoring Network DOES NOT use cookies that store information on your computer's hard drive.