Data and terms

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No IP addresses.

BCG Notify is published by BCG Water LLC and runs under the same privacy policy and terms of use as everything else we publish. This page adds only the detail specific to this site, because this one collects less than a normal website does.

Last updated August 25, 2026

The governing documents. Read these first. This page does not replace them and does not contradict them. BCG Water privacy policy BCG Water terms of use

What this site records

Anonymous usage data only, so we can tell which parts of this are useful and which county to build next.

Which page you are on, and which site you came from, if any.
Which things you click. Which county you choose, which documents you open, which filters you use, which links you follow away from here.
If you use the tier calculator: whether you worked from a metered figure, case production or tonnage, the water to wine ratio applied, and a volume band such as "30k to 300k". The figure you type is not recorded. Your production volume never leaves your browser.
Your browser window size, so we can tell whether the layout is working on phones.
A country and state code, derived by our host from your connection.

Where this site collects less than our policy allows

Our privacy policy permits collecting IP address, browser type, device type, pages viewed and access times, and permits cookies strictly necessary for signing in to the client portal. This site does less than that, deliberately:

No cookies at all. None are set, so there is no cookie banner and nothing to consent to.
Your IP address is never stored. It is used once, in memory, to produce a short one way hash so a returning visit can be told from a new one within a single day. The salt for that hash changes daily, so the value cannot recognise anyone tomorrow. The address itself is never written down.
No third party trackers of any kind. No analytics service, no advertising pixels, no social widgets. The collector is ours and the data goes to our own database.
One item in browser storage, a random session identifier held in sessionStorage, which lets several clicks in one visit count as one visit. It is not a cookie, it contains nothing about you, and your browser discards it when you close the tab.

Usage records are kept for up to 24 months and then deleted.

A limit worth being straight about

California residents have the right to request deletion of personal information. For the usage data above there is nothing to delete on request, because none of it is linked to anything that could identify you. We could not find your records if we tried. If you have emailed us, that correspondence is identifiable and we can find and delete it. Ask at compliance@bcgwater.com.

On the guidance itself

Our terms of use say it plainly and it is worth repeating here, because this site gives regulatory information people may act on. Everything here is general. It is not engineering advice, legal advice, or a compliance determination for any specific facility. The tier calculator produces an estimate, not a determination. Your category and your deadlines are set by your regional water board and communicated in your own permit or Notice of Applicability, not by this page.

Where published sources disagree with each other, we mark the conflict on the page rather than quietly picking a side, and where something comes from a secondary source we label it unverified. That labelling tells you which statements you can lean on and which you should confirm before acting on them. Please use it.

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