Court Privacy Policy

This policy explains how the Superior Court of California, County of Tulare treats information that its web site collects and receives, including information related to your past use of services provided on the web site and information about you that is personally identifiable.

User Tracking and Data Capture Practices

In general, the Superior Court of California, County of Tulare web site collects and aggregates user information regarding use of our web sites and web pages for purposes of statistical and other analysis so as to help us improve our web sites. Among other things, Superior Court of California, County of Tulare may collect and record domain names and/or IP addresses. This tells us what services are used by distinct users, but does not tell us the individual identities of the users. In some areas of the Superior Court of California, County of Tulare web site, in order for us to provide the specific services, we do require and record personally identifiable information. This is done with users' active permission and participation. To access the Justice Partner Website users must fill out, sign the JPW User Agreement and give it to your organization's Justice Partner Website Administrator. Your organization's Justice Partner Website Administrator will keep your application on file and create your access account. The Superior Court of California, County of Tulare web site also uses "session-specific cookies" on the Justice Partner Website. A cookie is a small amount of data which often includes an anonymous unique identifier which is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. The data stored in these cookies is read by the Superior Court of California, County of Tulare web site for the purposes stated above. You can set your web browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. Some services and functionality on the Superior Court of California, County of Tulare web site may be impaired if you decline to accept cookies.

Confidentiality and Data Security

We want our site visitors to feel confident about using the Superior Court of California, County of Tulare web site and, therefore, are committed to protecting the information we collect. Unless required by law, the Superior Court of California, County of Tulare will not transfer, sell, or otherwise make available to third parties' information about, related to, or provided by users of its web site, including email and mailing addresses. We limit access to personal information about our users to those Superior Court of California, County of Tulare employees for whom we believe such access to be appropriate in light of the functions and responsibilities of their jobs. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information that is stored in our systems from unauthorized access. Our systems are configured with full 128-bit SSL-based data encryption or scrambling technologies and with firewalls to help protect confidential information, such as names, addresses, and passwords. It is crucial that, as a user, you protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer and that you always sign off when finished using a shared computer. Superior Court of California, County of Tulare will not be liable for any loss or damage relating to unauthorized access to your personal information on our system.

Use of Personal Information

We do not collect any personal information unless you voluntarily provide it by sending us e-mail, participating in a survey, or completing an on-line form. Personal information submitted will not be transferred to any non-affiliated third parties unless otherwise stated at the time of collection. When a user submits personally identifiable information it is used only for the purpose stated at the time of collection.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

The Superior Court of California, County of Tulare may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this disclaimer, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, kindly contact:

Superior Court of California, County of Tulare

Information Technology
221 S. South Mooney Blvd
Visalia, CA 93291