The LandWatch Monterey County web site brings you current information about LandWatch, and provides a first hand look at some of our activities. Our website also provides you with opportunities to get involved and to interact with others who share a concern about the future of Monterey County.

Personal information obtained by LandWatch on our website is kept private, and is used exclusively for purposes of maintaining membership rosters, improving the website, and notifying members by e-mail about LandWatch activities, or about important and use policy issues in Monterey County. Individuals on our list opted in to be on the list by subscribing to the LandWatch E-Newsletter, requested to be added by email, or attended an event (in-person or virtual). You can feel confident that your personal information is safe from unauthorized access and will not be used in an inappropriate manner.

Any information we gather from e-mail that you may send to us is reviewed and used to enhance the features and content of our website, or to respond to you regarding your inquiry or request for information.

Under no circumstances does LandWatch collect personal information that you do not explicitly provide to us. This includes any information that we may store in a cookie file to facilitate the functionality of our website. Personal information is not used or shared in any other way. Under no circumstances do we sell or distribute personal information to third parties. This is true with all information we collect from our website.

If at any time you want to update the contact information we have for you, or you no longer wish to receive email notices regarding site updates, land use policy issues, or other LandWatch activities, please let us know. You can contact us by sending an email to landwatch@mclw.org. Please be sure to include the name and e-mail address you use, along with a brief description of your request so that we can process your request promptly.

LandWatch may use a site statistics engine to collect information about how visitors found the LandWatch site, which pages they visit, how long they stayed at the LandWatch web site, the types of browsers they use, etc. Any such information we collect will not include any personal information about you. We will use this statistical information in order to make decisions on how to improve our site better to meet the needs of our visitors.

LandWatch reserves the right to change this statement, so visit this page from time to time to check for changes. For additional information about our website, please contact our webmaster, at: webmaster@landwatch.org.