Privacy Policy

Southern Yosemite Visitors Bureau, dba Visit Yosemite | Madera County (VYMC), has created this privacy policy in order to demonstrate our commitment to privacy. Your privacy on the Visit Yosemite | Madera County web site (the “Site”) is of great importance to us. Because we sometimes gather important information from our users, we have established a means to communicate to our users how we use and handle the information collected. This Privacy Policy discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices.

Collected Information Visit Yosemite | Madera County permits users of the Site to input certain personally identifiable information (“User Information”). We use the User Information to provide products and services requested by the user (the “Products and Services”) and to send users information regarding Visit Yosemite | Madera County and Products and Services.

We use cookies on the Site. “Cookies” are small pieces of information stored by your browser on your device (such as a computer or mobile phone). Cookies can make our Site or our advertisements more useful by allowing us to personalize information for visitors and by storing information about customer preferences on our Site as well as your location. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and many websites use them to provide useful features for their customers. Cookies do not contain any User Information.

As a user of the Site, we may collect certain information about you, including (a) your internet address (and your general location based on your internet address), and (b) your interactions with our advertisements. This information is logged to help diagnose problems with our servers and to administer the Site in order to improve the quality of the Site and of the Products and Services, as well as to monitor how effective our advertisements are at inspiring you to visit Yosemite | Madera County. We may also track and analyze non-identifying and aggregate usage and volume statistical information from our users; use such information internally for purposes of Southern Yosemite Visitors Bureau and provide such information to agents or contractors of Visit Yosemite | Madera County to provide services for us. Southern Yosemite Visitors Bureau does not sell or rent this statistical information to third parties. We may share non-personal information (such as general location data collected from mobile devices by cookies) to monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

Correcting Information Inaccuracies You may review, update or correct any information provided by you through this website by sending us an email at ysvb@yosemitethisyear.com or writing to us at the address noted below:
Visit Yosemite | Madera County
40343 Highway 41
Oakhurst, CA 93644

Personal Data: Access and Request Deletion

To request your personal information on file or the deletion of your personal data from the system please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by emailing us at ysvb@yosemitethisyear.com.
Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.

Protecting Information We use industry standard methods to protect any personal information (name, address, phone number and email address) information you may share with us in the course of registering for our electronic communications.

Participation in contests, sweepstakes, raffles, games or similar promotions sponsored by YMC or by third parties also requires the disclosure of personally identifiable information. We may share that information with third-party sponsors of the contests, sweepstakes, raffles, games or similar promotions. This information is subject to usage outlined above. In addition, you should carefully review the rules of each contest, sweepstakes, raffle, game or similar promotion in which you participate. This privacy policy applies to the treatment and use of your personally identifiable information.

Third Party Sites: The Site may contain links to other sites on the internet. Visit Yosemite | Madera County is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of: the user agreement of or the content of such sites. You will need to check the user agreement and the privacy policy statement of such other sites to understand their policies and practices. In interacting with such sites you may be sharing private information with such sites. It is your responsibility to keep such information private and confidential.

Last Updated: January 2020