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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: June 30, 2026

California Forestry and Vegetation Management, Inc. (“CFVM,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is dedicated to protecting your privacy and responsibly managing your personal information. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit this website www.cfvminc.com (the “Site”), and also describes our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

1.  Applicability of this Privacy Policy

This policy applies to information that we collect on this Site, that you submit to us through the “Contact” form on the Site or by other means such as by telephone or written letters, and that is contained within any email messages between you and us.

This policy does not apply to information that may be collected by any third party, or through any social media or other online content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Site.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it.  By accessing or using this Site, you agree to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.  This policy may change from time to time, with or without notice.  Your continued use of this Site after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you may not use our Site.

2.  Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

The information we collect on or through our Site may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Site;
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us; and
  • Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research or analytical purposes;
  • We collect several types of information from and about users of our Site, including:
  • Information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, e-mail address, telephone number, website address, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“Personal Information”);
  • Information that is about you but individually does not identify you;
  • Information about your Internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Site, and usage details; and
  • Information you provide to us when you submit information to us through the Site’s “Contact” form.

We collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us;
  • Automatically as you navigate through the Site.  Information automatically collected may include usage details, IP addresses, and may also include information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies; and
  • From third parties, such as our technology service providers.

3.  Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including: details of your visits to our Site, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Site; information about your computer and Internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, browser type, referring URL, your domain name, and information that may be aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the Site, pages viewed and similar website usage information in order to help us understand how to improve the Site’s content and functionality.

4.  Cookies and Web Beacons 

Our Site or emails, and the technologies we use for automatic data collection, may contain “cookies” and/or “web beacons.”  A “cookie” is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer.  You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser.  However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Site.  Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Site.  A “web beacon” is a small visible or invisible digital image that allows us to count visitors to our Site.  Web beacons collect limited information including cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides.  The information we collect automatically helps us to improve our Site.

5.  How We Use Your Information

We will never sell your Personal Information to a third party so that they can market or advertise to you.  We will, however, use the Personal Information that we collect about you or that you provide to us:

  • To present our Site and its contents to you;
  • To provide you with information about our products and services;
  • To provide you with information that you request from us;
  • To improve our products and services, and the way we market them; and
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide your Personal Information.

6.  Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or that you provide to us as described in this Privacy Policy:

  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it (for example, if you contact us with a question and give us an email address, we will use that email address to provide information in response to your question);
  • To process the information you provide us (for example, your Personal Information may be collected by, transmitted from, or shared with the technology service providers who support our Site or certain features on the Site);
  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request; 
  • To report any suspected illegal activity to law enforcement officials and regulatory bodies, and in doing so, may disclose any relevant information to such officials and/or regulators, including, without limitation, your Personal Information, IP address(es), and your Sites usage history as provided in this Privacy Policy; and
  • We may also disclose your information in the good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable, including: to protect our rights or properties, or the rights or properties of others, or when we have reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with or damage to our rights or properties, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities.

7.  Information Collected by Third Parties

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve Interest-based advertising.  However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.  You may ask to opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (”NAI”) on the NAI’s website at https://optout.networkadvertising.org.

8.  Your California Privacy Rights

A.  California Right to Opt-Out (“Shine The Light” Rights)

At this time, we do not sell or otherwise transfer our users’ Personal Information to third parties.

Nonetheless, subject to certain limitations under California’s Shine the Light law, California residents may contact us at info@cfvminc.com, or as described at the end of this Privacy Policy, to request a list of third parties to whom we disclosed certain personal information for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes during the preceding year. The information we will provide will describe our general practices in the prior calendar year and will not be specific to you.

Your request should indicate that you are a California resident, and you must provide your full current California address, to which we will send our response. Your inquiry must specify “Shine the Light Request” in the subject line of the email or the first line of the letter, and include your California address. We are only required to respond to one such request per individual each year.  We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity and the authenticity of the request.

B.  California Right to Know

California users have a right to request disclosure of certain Personal Information we have stored about them over the past 12 months. California users may request this disclosure by contacting us via email at info@cfvminc.com with the subject line “Request to Know”, or by sending a letter to our postal address below with the same request. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable user request, we will disclose to you:

  • The categories of personal information we collected about you.
  • The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
  • Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
  • The categories of third parties with whom we have shared that personal information.
  • Certain allowable specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
  • If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
    • sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
    • disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

C.  California Right to Delete

California users have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable user request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our (their) records, unless an exception applies; provided, however, that in some cases, strictly for regulatory compliance purposes and to better evidence/honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests (and for no other purposes), we may retain certain items of your personal information on a de-identified and aggregated basis in such a manner that the data no longer identifies you.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

  • Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our obligations in connection with our contract with you.
  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
  • Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
  • Exercise free speech rights, ensure the right of another user to exercise her/his free speech rights or exercise another right provided for by law.
  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
  • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, but only if you previously provided informed consent.
  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with user expectations based on your relationship with us.
  • Comply with a legal obligation.

Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

D.  California Right to Correct

California users have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information that we may maintain about you, such as your name, mailing address, email address, phone number, age, and gender.

E.  Exercising California Access and Deletion Rights

For California residents to exercise their access, deletion, and/or correction rights described above, please submit a verifiable user request to us by either:

  • Contacting us through our Website at https://cfvminc.com/contact/;
  • Emailing us at info@cfvminc.com ; or
  • Sending your request in writing via U.S. mail to: California Forestry & Vegetation Management, Inc., 143 West Main St., Ste. 8, Merced, CA 95340.

Only a California resident or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that is authorized by a California resident to act on their behalf may make a verifiable California user request related to their personal information. An authorized agent may make a request on your behalf by contacting us at info@cfvminc.com  with the subject “Proxy Request” together with detailed information about you.  Please note that we will take steps to verify any such request with you, and may deny the request if it cannot be verified.

California residents may only make a verifiable user request for access twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable user request must:

  • Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify that you are: (1) the California resident about whom we collected personal information; or (2) an authorized representative; and
  • Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

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 that the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable user request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable user request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

California users may designate an authorized agent under the California Consumer Privacy Act to act on their behalf by sending a letter to the email or postal addresses above with a signed letter that includes the name, email address, and date of birth of the user for verification, along with either the user’s signed designation of the authorized agent or a court order or similar legal document designating the authorized agent as acting for the user (for example, a power of attorney or letters testamentary).

F.  Response Timing and Format

We endeavor to respond to all verifiable user requests within forty-five (45) days of the receipt thereof. If we require more time (up to ninety (90) days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the twelve (12) month period preceding the receipt of your verifiable request. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable user request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

G.  Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against California residents for exercising any of their privacy rights set forth above. In particular, we will not:

  • Deny you goods or services;
  • Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties;
  • Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services; and/or
  • Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

H.  Do Not Track (DNT) Signals

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do Not Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Notice.

California law requires us to let you know how we respond to web browser DNT signals. Because there currently is not an industry or legal standard for recognizing or honoring DNT signals, we do not respond to them at this time.

9.  Site Policy Regarding Children Under the Age of 18 and Non-US Residents

The Site is intended to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and CCPA. COPPA requires that web site operators never knowingly collect PI from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. The Site is not intended for minors under the age of 18 and we do not knowingly collect, use, disclose, or sell PI from minors under the age of 18, including children under the age of 13. Only adults age 18 or over are permitted to use the Site.

By using the Site, you agree to provide us with accurate information concerning your age or identity if we request it. You also agree not to assist children under the age of 18 in accessing the Site or to attempt to contact children under 18 through the Site.

If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.  If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us via email at info@cfvminc.com.

This Site is located within the United States, and we currently do not sell products for delivery outside of California. Nonetheless, users outside of the United States are advised that this Site and the services advertised on this Site are targeted for users in the United States of America. Please be aware that if you are located in the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, or elsewhere outside of the United States, any information you enter on this Site will be transferred outside of the country where you are to the United States of America, which may not offer an equivalent level of protection to that required in the country where you reside.  European Union residents, in particular, are advised that the United States of America uses a sectoral model of privacy protection that relies on a mix of legislation, governmental regulation, and self-regulation. Article 26 of the European Union’s Data Protection Directive (Directive 95/46/EC, 1995 O.J. (L 281) 31) allows for transfer of personal data from the European Union to a third country if the individual has unambiguously given his consent to the transfer of personal information, regardless of the third country’s level of protection.  By using this Site or by contacting us through a contact form, you consent to the transfer of all such information to the United States of America which may not offer an equivalent level of protection to that required in the European Union and to the processing of that information by us on our servers located in the United States of America in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

10.  Governing Law, Jurisdiction, and Limitation of Actions

This Privacy Policy, and any disputes arising out of it, will be governed by the laws of the State of California, regardless of its conflict of law principles or those of the jurisdiction where you live or in any other jurisdiction. You and we agree to submit any disputes arising under this Privacy Policy to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Superior Court of Merced County, California, or, if federal court jurisdiction exists, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, Fresno Division. You and we agree to waive any jurisdictional, venue, or inconvenient forum objections to such courts (without affecting either party’s rights to remove a case to federal court if permissible), as well as (1) waive any right to a jury trial and (2) waive any right to bring a class action or private attorney general claim. Any law or regulation providing that the language of a contract shall be construed against the drafter shall not apply to this Privacy Policy. This paragraph will be interpreted as broadly as applicable law permits.

WHEN YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU ARE AGREEING TO THE DISPUTE RESOLUTION POLICY SET FORTH IN OUR TERMS OF USE.  THAT SECTION INCLUDES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: (1) THAT CERTAIN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY MUST BE BROUGHT IN THE FEDERAL AND STATE COURTS OF THE COUNTY OF MERCED, CALIFORNIA; (2) THAT YOUR CLAIM(S) WILL BE FOREVER WAIVED AND BARRED UNLESS FILED WITHIN ONE YEAR OF THE TIME IN WHICH THE EVENT(S) GIVING RISE TO SUCH CLAIM(S) BEGAN; (3) THAT YOU WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO BRING, JOIN, OR PARTICIPATE AS A PLAINTIFF OR A CLASS MEMBER IN A CLASS ACTION SUIT, PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION, OR MULTI-PARTY ARBITRATION BROUGHT AGAINST US, ANY PERSON OR ENTITY RELATED TO US, OR A SERVICE PROVIDER USED BY US TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES; AND (4) THAT YOU IRREVOCABLY WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO HAVE YOUR CLAIMS AGAINST US TRIED TO A JURY.

Please read the “Governing Law and Dispute Resolution” section of our Terms of Use.

11.  Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Site and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

12.  Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us via: