Privacy Policy
Effective date: January 1, 2019
The Colorado Rural Water Association (us, we, or our) operates the www.crwa.net
website (hereinafter referred to as the Service).
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal
data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.
We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the
collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in
this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our
Terms and Conditions, accessible from www.crwa.net.
Definitions
Service
Service is the www.crwa.net website operated by The Colorado Rural Water Association.
Personal Data
Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or
from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our
possession).
Usage Data
Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from
the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
Cookies
Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).
Information Collection and Use
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve
our Service to you.
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable
information that can be used to contact or identify you (Personal Data). Personallyidentifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
• Cookies and Usage Data
• Contact Information
Usage Data
We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used (Usage Data). This
Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g.
IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time
and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other
diagnostic data.
Tracking & Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and we
hold certain information.
Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique
identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other
tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track
information and to improve and analyze our Service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our
Service.
Examples of Cookies we use:
Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various
settings.
Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
Ad Targeting Cookies. This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests. It
does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical
address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card
numbers.
Use of Data
The Colorado Rural Water Association uses the collected data for various purposes:
• To provide and maintain the Service
• To notify you about changes to our Service
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
• To provide customer care and support
• To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
• To monitor the usage of the Service
• To detect, prevent and address technical issues
• To serve interest-based advertisements
Transfer of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to – and maintained on –
computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction
where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note
that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents
your agreement to that transfer.
The Colorado Rural Water Association will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that
your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your
Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate
controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Data
Legal Requirements
The Colorado Rural Water Association may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith
belief that such action is necessary to:
• To comply with a legal obligation
• To protect and defend the rights or property of The Colorado Rural Water Association
• To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
• To protect against legal liability
As a European citizen, under GDPR, you have certain individual rights.
Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over
the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use
commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its
absolute security.
Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (Service
Providers), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to
assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our
behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Links to Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a thirdparty link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the
Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or
practices of any third-party sites or services.
Children’s Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (Children).
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of
18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with
Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data
from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information
from our servers.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by
posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change
becoming effective and update the effective date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this
Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at
crwa@crwa.net.
