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Privacy policy

The California Office of Data & Innovation (ODI), which hosts abortion.ca.gov, is committed to promoting and protecting the privacy rights of individuals, as enumerated in Article 1 of the California Constitution, the Information Practices Act of 1977, and other state and federal laws.

It is the policy of ODI to limit the collection and safeguard the privacy of personal information collected or maintained by ODI. ODI’s information management practices conform to the requirements of the Information Practices Act (Civil Code Section 1798 et seq.), the Public Records Act (Government Code Section 6250 et seq.), Government Code Sections 11015.5 and 11019.9, and other applicable laws pertaining to information privacy. This Privacy Policy only applies to the abortion.ca.gov website run by ODI.

“Personal information” is information about a natural person that identifies or describes an individual, including, but not limited to, his or her name, social security number, physical description, home address, home telephone number, education, financial matters, and medical or employment history, readily identifiable to that specific individual. A domain name or Internet Protocol address is not considered personal information; however, it is considered “electronically collected personal information.”

“Electronically collected personal information” is any information that is maintained by an agency that identifies or describes an individual user, including, but not limited to, his or her name, social security number, physical description, home address, home telephone number, education, financial matters, medical or employment history, password, electronic mail address, and information that reveals any network location or identity, but excludes any information manually submitted to a state agency by a user, whether electronically or in written form, and information on or relating to individuals who are users, serving in a business capacity, including, but not limited to, business owners, officers, or principals of that business.

We do not collect any personal information or electronically collected personal information on the abortion.ca.gov website.

This site adheres to the California Department of Technology’s principles for the collection and management of personal information.

If you do nothing during your visit to the website but browse or download information, we may automatically collect and store the following information about your visit:

  1. The type of browser and operating system you used;
  2. The date and time you visited this website;
  3. The web pages or services you accessed at this website;
  4. The state the web page visitor was in when the page was viewed

The information we automatically collect or store is used to improve the content of our web services and to help us understand how people are using our services. This information does not identify you personally and is used for gathering aggregate website statistics. The information we automatically collect and store in our logs about your visit helps us to analyze our website to continually improve the value of the materials available. Our website logs do not identify a visitor by personal information, and we make no attempt to link other websites with the individuals that browse our website.
ODI will provide additional explanations of this privacy policy, if requested. If any individuals have any further questions about this privacy policy, they are encouraged to contact the ODI by email at info@innovation.ca.gov or by mail to:

California Office of Data & Innovation

401 I Street, Ste 200

Sacramento, CA 95814