Privacy Policy

Create the Future San Diego and its program operator, the Downtown San Diego Partnership and Downtown San Diego Partnership Clean & Safe Program, appreciate your interest in our products and your visit to this website (“Site”). We use industry standard safeguards to protect the confidentiality of personal information we collect from visitors to this website. While “perfect security” is not possible on the Internet, this statement reflects our commitment to protecting the personal information you provide.

Collection and Use of Information

If you give us personal information in order to receive information in return from us, such as signing up to receive our email newsletter, we may collect and store that information. Personal information collected is accessible only by designated staff or agents of our organization who are also bound to this statement. The information enables us to fulfill your information request. We also use information you and other visitors provide in aggregate to better understand our online audience and, by extension, to enhance our Site.

In addition to the information you may provide, our computers automatically receive and record certain information from your Internet browser, including your IP address, cookie information, and the pages you request.

Under no circumstances will the Downtown San Diego Partnership or Downtown San Diego Partnership Clean & Safe Program willfully sell or provide your personal information to third parties.

The Downtown San Diego Partnership and Downtown San Diego Partnership Clean & Safe Program will not sell or rent your personal information or share your personal information with other people or nonaffiliated companies, except with your permission, or under the following circumstances:

  • We may provide the information to trusted partners who work on our behalf under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help us communicate with you about offers. These companies do not have any independent right to share this information;
  • We may respond to court orders, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
  • We may share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of the website Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law;
  • Third parties (hackers) may unlawfully access confidential transmissions.

Cookies

If you review or download information, we may monitor the visit through the use of “cookies” – pieces of information that a website transfers to your computer. Cookies are an industry standard; most major websites use them. Cookies allow us to better understand how you and other visitors use the Site and can help us tailor information to those expressed preferences.

The Downtown San Diego Partnership and Downtown San Diego Partnership Clean & Safe Program do not use cookies to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie.

Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If your browser permits, you can change your browser settings to refuse cookies. However, if you do so, you may not be able to fully utilize this Site.

This Site contains links to non-Downtown San Diego Partnership and non-Downtown San Diego Partnership Clean & Safe Program websites. The Downtown San Diego Partnership and and Downtown San Diego Partnership Clean & Safe Program make no representations or guarantees of the any privacy practices that may exist for those sites. For more information on the privacy practices of such websites, please refer to their stated policies.

Changes to This Policy

The Downtown San Diego Partnership and Downtown San Diego Partnership Clean & Safe Program will notify you if we plan to use your personal information in a manner different from the policy as stated at the time of collection through this Site. If we make any material changes in our privacy practices that affect user information already collected through the Site, we will post a notice on the Site notifying users of the change.

Our Policy Toward Children

This Site is not directed to children under the age of 18. The Downtown San Diego Partnership and Downtown San Diego Partnership Clean & Safe Program do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that their child has provided us with personal information without their consent, contact us and we will delete such information from our files. If we become aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our files.

Questions and Suggestions

If you have a question, comment, or complaint about this privacy policy, and/or our compliance with it, please contact us at [email protected].