Privacy Policy

Last modified: 11/29/2023

 

Introduction

Martin & McCoy LLC dba Virga Labs (“Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

 

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you access or use the website https://www.crbpost2026dmdu.org/ and various related websites and services (collectively, the “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy and all of the terms incorporated herein by reference. By using the Website and/or submitting or collecting any personal data via the Website, you accept and expressly consent and agree to our practices surrounding the collection, use, and sharing of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT CONSENT AND AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU CANNOT, AND WE DO NOT AUTHORIZE YOU TO, ACCESS, BROWSE, OR USE THE WEBSITE.

 

Our processing of personal information, such as your name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number, will be undertaken consistent with the requirements of applicable privacy laws, including, but not limited to, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act of 2021, the Colorado Privacy Act of 2021, and the Utah Consumer Privacy Act of 2022, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”), the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”), and Mexican Federal Law on Protection of Personal Data in Possession of Individuals (“LFPDPP”).

 

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, then you may not use the Website. By accessing or using the Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of the Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

 

This Website is offered and available only to users who are 18 years of age or older, and reside in the United States or any of its territories or possessions, or in Mexico. By using the Website, you represent and warrant that you are of legal age to form a binding contract with the Company and meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements. If you do not meet all of these requirements, you must not access or use the Website.

 

NOTICE CONCERNING SUBMISSION OF DATA OR OTHER INFORMATION IN THIS SITE:

If you voluntarily provide this Website with personal information, by sending an e-mail, by inserting data on this Website, or by filling out a form and submitting it through our Website, you are indicating voluntary consent for Bureau of Reclamation to use the information you are submitting to respond to your message and to help us provide you with the information and services that you have requested or utilizing the data you have provided for consideration by the Company and any governmental agencies or non-governmental organizations utilizing such data to perform analysis.  Your submission, including personal information, may be shared with Federal or State agencies, or others if necessary to address matters raised in your submission as allowed by applicable systems of records or as otherwise required or authorized by statute, including requests from Congress, Freedom of Information Act requests from private individuals or companies, judicial authorities with a judge’s order, for law enforcement purposes, for routine government agency uses subject to the Privacy Act, or under our access and public record rules. If a government agency utilizes your data, there may be separate protections or requests for information as to how such data is used directly with those government agencies. The Company is not responsible for how third-parties, including governmental agencies or non-governmental organizations, utilize the data that is provided by you.  Please note, the Company works continuously to set out and implement procedures to regulate the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of protected information. See the remainder of our Privacy Policy below for complete information about our compliance with applicable law. Any comments that you submit which public comment is requested will be made public, including any personally identifiable information you choose to include in your submission. We may share non-personally identifiable information with others, including the public, in aggregated form, in partial or edited form, or verbatim.

 

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of the Website, including information:

• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, e-mail address, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);

• That is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or

• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access the Website, and usage details.

 

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.

• Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

• From third parties, for example, our business partners and service providers.

 

Information You Provide to Us 

The information we collect on or through the Website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on the Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use the Website, using our services, posting or submitting material or data, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with the Website, or request further services or assistance through our Support Desk.

• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.

• Your search queries on the Website.

• Operational strategies that you submit for modeling in RiverWare in our Amazon Web Service infrastructure.

• Database queries, including your query parameters.

 

You also may provide information to be published, displayed, shared, downloaded, uploaded, and/or distributed (hereinafter, collectively, “posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

 

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies 

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

•  Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.

• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

 

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

• Web Beacons. Pages of the Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

 

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including third party links to other sites, on the Website are served by third-parties, including content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

 

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about such content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

 

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.

• To provide you with information, or services that you request from us.

• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

• To provide you with notices about your account.

• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.

• To notify you about changes to our Website or any services we offer or provide through it.

• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.

• To provide support through bug fixes, technical assistance, improvement requests and other types of support.

• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

• For any other purpose with your consent.

 

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please contact us at support@crbpost2026dmdu.org. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

 

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our user, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

 

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.

• To contractors, service providers, the Bureau of Reclamation, and other third parties we use to support our business.

• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred.

• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.

• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

• With your consent.

 

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

• To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements between you and the Company.

• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others.

 

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly. For more information on cookies, including how to control your cookie settings and preferences, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

 

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

 

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see  California Rights Section for more information.

 

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.

You may also send us an email at support@crbpost2026dmdu.org to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not be able to delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our terms of use.

 

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see the California Right Section for more information.

 

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

 

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

 

Information Provided on Behalf of Children and Others

The Website is not intended for use by children. Individuals under the age of 18 may not use the Website. Company does not knowingly collect any information from children. If you are under 18, do not attempt to register for or use the Website or send us any personal information. By accessing, using and/or submitting information through the Website, you represent that you are not younger than 18 and that you have authority to do so. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a minor child, you may, in compliance with this Privacy Policy, use the Website on behalf of such minor child. Information you provide through the Website on behalf of a minor child will be treated as personal information as provided herein. If you use the Website on behalf of another person, regardless of age, you represent and warrant that you have authority to do so.

 

MEXICO PRIVACY RIGHTS

Purpose of Use of Personal Data

The information shall be used to provide background on the services provided and to render the services offered by the Company.

 

To comply with the purpose indicated in this privacy notice, we collect your personal identification data directly on the Website, or by other electronic means such as web portals, or other communication channels such as mobile applications, telephone lines, and all as other resources permitted by Law.

 

The personal data that we collect consists of:

Your full name, date of birth, age;

Your contact details including phone, address and e-mail address.

 

We do not collect Sensitive Personal Information (information that reveals racial or ethnic origin, present and future health status, genetic information, religious, philosophical or moral beliefs, union membership, political opinions, sexual preference).

 

Transfer

We may transfer the personal data in our possession to subcontracted parties, affiliates or subsidiaries that are involved in the fulfillment of the provision of services that we offer.

 

We agree not to transfer your personal data to third parties without your consent, except for the exceptions described in the preceding paragraph and contemplated in Article 37 of LFPDPP, as well as to undertake this transfer as set forth in that Law.

 

If the User does not express his objection for the transfer of his personal data, it shall be understood that he has granted his consent to do so.

 

Protection Of Personal Data

In order to safeguard the information that you provide to us; we agree to process the personal data under strict security measures, in accordance with the governing laws and regulations, implementing administrative, legal and technological security standards to prevent loss of information and ensure its confidentiality.

 

Personal data is protected and managed with strict confidentiality, except for data required by order of a Government or Judicial authority and data found in publicly available sources and data provided by users themselves in the opinion and/or comments sections published on the Website.

 

Exclusion of Liability of External Sites

The Website is managed under the responsibility of the Company and may contain hyperlinks or hypertexts, banners, advertising, and/or images that when used by users will redirect to other portals or websites that could be owned by third parties.  The information and/or sensitive personal data that users provide to third parties responsible for those portals and are not regulated by this Privacy Notice and management for such information is not our the responsibility thus, the data that is provided must comply with  the conditions of the Privacy Notices contained in each one of them.

 

Information provided by the User on social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, or any others, is not form part of the personal data or information subject to the protection of this Privacy Notice therefore, its management is not under the Company’s responsibility.  Management of personal data by social media services and other platforms that may handle your information is independent and different from the Company’s thus, the User should consult the respective privacy notices, as well as the terms or conditions of service or use of those networks.

 

Limitation of Use, Revocation of Consent And Deletion of Personal Data

To restrict the use of your personal data, revoke your consent for use of your personal data or delete your personal data, you must send your request to the following email address support@crbpost2026dmdu.org, indicating in detail the restriction on the use of your personal data or its removal from the Website.  You agree to the use of your personal data in accordance with this privacy notice, unless otherwise communicated.

 

Means To Exercise Arco Rights (Access, Rectification, Cancellation and Objection)

Under Mexican Law ( LFPDPP) you have ARCO rights (rights to Access, Rectify, Cancel and Object to the use of your personal data), which you can exercise by making your request to the following e-mail address support@crbpost2026dmdu.org, containing the following information:

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Name of the data owner.

Data owner's address or e-mail address to be used for responses to the request.

Documents evidencing identity or authorization to represent you in the request.

Description of personal data with respect to which any of the ARCO rights are intended to be exercised.

Any other element allowing the location of the personal data and to attend the request, requirements contemplated in Article 29 of LFPDPP.

 

(To attend this request a Transparency Unit shall be designated)

For the attention of ARCO Rights, a request must be filed through the Transparency Unit. Such a request can be sent to support@crbpost2026dmdu.org with the subject line stating “ARCO Rights Transparency Unit Mexico.”

 

Use of Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information that are sent by the website to your browser and which purpose is to determine your preferences when you use our services on our Website, as well as to track certain behaviors or activities carried out by you within our site.  The  information is stored on your computer's hard drive. The information collected is anonymous and can be shared with third parties to improve your browsing experience and send advertising based on your interests. This data do not include any type of official identification information.

 

We and other providers that are part of our Website, including Google, use source cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) are used to report ad impressions, other uses of advertising services, and interactions with ad impressions related with the visits to a website. The user can choose not to have his data collected.

 

Notification of Changes to the Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice may change or be updated periodically, in accordance with Mexican Law LFPDPP.  Modifications of internal policies or new requirements for provision of our services or modifications to this Privacy Notice will be available and may be consulted on the Website.

 

 

 

NEVADA PRIVACY RIGHTS

We do not sell your name, email address, phone number, address, or other information that identifies you to nonaffiliated third parties. Nevada residents have the right to request that we not sell this information in the future. To make such a request, you may contact us at e-mail: support@crbpost2026dmdu.org.

 

 

 

EUROPEAN PRIVACY RIGHTS

As the Internet is a global environment, collecting and processing personal information may involve the transmission of this data internationally, including into and/or outside of the United States. Therefore, by communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to your personal data being processed in this way.

 

Specifically, if you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that by using our services, your personal information may be transferred to the United States or other third-countries, the privacy laws of which may be deemed by your country to have inadequate data protection. If you are located outside of the United States and voluntarily submit personal information to us, you thereby consent to the general use of such information as provided in this Privacy Policy and to the transfer of that information to, and/or storage of that information in, the United States or other third-countries.

 

If you reside in the European Union, you have certain rights under the GDPR, including:

●          The right to be informed of the personal information we collect and how we process and use that data;

●          The right to request access to your personal information;

●          The right to request that inaccurate personal information be rectified, or completed if incomplete;

●          The right to request erasure of your personal information;

●          The right to restrict our processing or use of your personal information;

●          The right to obtain and reuse your personal information for your own purposes;

●          The right to object to our processing or transferring your personal information;

●          The right to withdraw your consent for us to use your personal information; and

●          The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority under the GDPR.

 

We have a legitimate interest in collecting and processing your information for the purposes we have outlined in this Privacy Policy and so that we can optimize your experience with our services. We retain and store your personal information only for as long as we have a legitimate purpose to do so and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

 

In response to receiving a request for one of the rights set forth above, we will timely comply with the request within the time periods set forth in the GDPR for each right. Several of the above rights are not absolute and apply only in certain circumstances.  We will comply with requests for those rights as set forth in the GDPR. We are intent on resolving any issues relating to our handling of your Personal Information, and you may contact us at any time regarding any questions or concerns.

 

On occasion, we may make certain decisions about you based on automated processing of your personal information.   

 

 

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

Information We Collect

Our Website and the Company’s services collect information in a manner that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, device, or household (“personal information”).  In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information from its consumers within the last twelve (12) months: