CA.gov Terms Scorecard

Grade A+ — Highly protective (score 100/100)

CA.gov maintains a highly protective privacy policy that explicitly prohibits the sale of personal information and provides users with rights to access, correct, and delete their data.

Government portal with strong privacy protections and no commercial data sale.

Terms at a glance

Sells your data
NO
Forced arbitration
NO
Trains AI on your content
NO
Collects biometric data
NO
Shares data with government
LIKELY
Easy to cancel
NO
Tells you before changes
NO
Deletes data on request
YES

What the terms actually say

Collection and Management, Principle 8

no Personal Information is sold or distributed

The state explicitly commits that it does not sell or distribute your personal information.

Collection and Management, Principle 11

Individuals who provide Personal Information to CA.gov or CDT personnel have the right to request: access to their Personal Information, deletion of their Personal Information

You have the right to request that the state provide you with your data or delete it entirely.

Collection and Management, Principle 3

the CA.gov website is anonymizing that information and only part of device IP addresses are being used.

The website takes steps to anonymize your IP address so that Google Analytics cannot identify you individually.

Collection and Management, Principle 4

Except for authorized law enforcement investigations or as required by law, your e-mail will not be shared with any other organizations.

Your email is kept private unless a legal process or law enforcement investigation requires its disclosure.

Collection and Management, Principle 5

records containing Personal Information may be disclosed only as required or permitted by law

The state may disclose your information if required by the Public Records Act or other legal mandates.

Last reviewed 2026-07-27 under rubric v3.5.

Other scorecards