Privacy Policy

The Colorado Office of Public Guardianship is committed to protecting your privacy and providing access to resources whilst ensuring a safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Colorado Office of Public Guardianship website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Colorado Office of Public Guardianship website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

 

Collection of your Personal Information

Colorado Office of Public Guardianship, collects personally identifiable information, if provided by you in form submission, such as your e-mail address, name, or telephone number. Colorado Office of Public Guardianship also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, state, city, and country. Colorado Office of Public Guardianship does enable secure access in encrypted sessions for visitors to register and complete applications for guardianship. These application requests may include certain personal & protected health information.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Colorado Office of Public Guardianship This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Colorado Office of Public Guardianship for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the website.

Colorado Office of Public Guardianship encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from this website, so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Colorado Office of Public Guardianship is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Colorado Office of Public Guardianship website.

 

Use of your Personal Information

Colorado Office of Public Guardianship, collects and uses your personal information to operate the Colorado Office of Public Guardianship website and deliver the services you have requested. Colorado Office of Public Guardianship also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of application status changes and services available from Colorado Office of Public Guardianship. Colorado Office of Public Guardianship may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Colorado Office of Public Guardianship does not sell, rent or lease its contact lists to third parties. Colorado Office of Public Guardianship may share data with trusted registered and validated partners to help us perform the guardianship application process. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Colorado Office of Public Guardianship, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Colorado Office of Public Guardianship does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as religion, or political affiliations. Colorado Office of Public Guardianship keeps track of the website pages our customers visit in order to determine usability of our website. This data is used to deliver content to browser-users whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

The Colorado Office of Public Guardianship website will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Colorado Office of Public Guardianship, and or; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Colorado Office of Public Guardianship, and or; (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Colorado Office of Public Guardianship, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Colorado Office of Public Guardianship website use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your accessing device, if permitted by a webpage server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and your device and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Colorado Office of Public Guardianship’s pages, or register with the Colorado Office of Public Guardianship website or services, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as role, address, contact details and so on. When you return to the Colorado Office of Public Guardianship website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use any Colorado Office of Public Guardianship website features that you customized.

You retain the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers accept cookies by default, but you can normally modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Colorado Office of Public Guardianship website services. To place a request for Permanent Deletion of your information & data from the Colorado Office of Public Guardianship website and software application, please visit https://colorado-opg.org/contact-us/.

 

Security of your Personal Information

Colorado Office of Public Guardianship secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Colorado Office of Public Guardianship secures any personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information is transmitted during the process of applications it is protected through use of cryptographic protocols that authenticate data transfer between servers, systems, applications and users (TLS). Credit card information is not recorded or retained on any Colorado Office of Public Guardianship system or software application.

CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) + GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation):

As related to the California Consumer Privacy Act and the General Data Protection Regulation policies and requirements, Colorado Office of Public Guardianship states:

We will permanently delete all personal information and data that has been stored on any Colorado Office of Public Guardianship website or software application, if requested by the individual.
We will not resell or share your personal information and data with any un-validated third-party.
We will not retain backups with your personal information and data for more than ONE (1) year, unless required by Colorado statute.
In the event of an identified data breach of a Colorado Office of Public Guardianship system or application, you will notified within THREE (3) business days of when the data breach was initially identified. You will also be informed of what personal information and data was compromised as a result of the data breach.
In the event of an identified data breach, the appropriate State Attorney General and the appropriate EU GDPR representative will be informed within THREE (3) business days of the breach, as well as what personal information and data was compromised as a result of the data breach.

 

Changes to this Statement

Colorado Office of Public Guardianship, will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Colorado Office of Public Guardianship encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Colorado Office of Public Guardianship is protecting your information.

 

Contact Information

Colorado Office of Public Guardianship welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Colorado Office of Public Guardianship has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Colorado Office of Public Guardianship at info@colorado-opg.org or mail to:

Colorado Office of Public Guardianship, Director.

1300 Broadway Denver, CO, 80203.

We will use commercially reasonable efforts to respond promptly and determine and remedy any problems.