Your privacy is important to the California Lottery. Employees of the California Lottery are prohibited from disclosing any information you provide, except as provided by law. No personally identifying information (such as your name, address or phone number) will ever be captured by visiting this Web site, unless you voluntarily choose to provide it. Personal information voluntarily provided by you is used primarily for informational purposes. When personal information is stored by the Lottery it is in a secure location and is accessible only to designated staff.

The California Lottery collects and stores the following information, in order to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site and to help us make our site more accessible and useful to visitors:

• The name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com if you are connecting from an America Online account);
• The date and time of your access; what links you access on our site;
• The Internet address of the web site from which you linked directly to our site;
• The current Internet address (this is the network address-not your e-mail address), browser brand and version number and computer operating system.

If you visit our site just to read or download information such as game rules or press releases, winning numbers, or to use one of our interactive applications which does not require you to enter any personal information, we collect no further details except those listed above.

If you use one of our interactive applications that require you to enter personal information:

• Any information that you provide to the California Lottery, such as an address to send information, is stored and treated securely. The California Lottery uses a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of the personal information collected, and that information is contained within secured networks accessible only by a limited number of personnel who have agreed to comply with the California Lottery's privacy and security policies. Although we cannot guarantee the confidentiality of the information provided, the California Lottery will not voluntarily disclose any personal information collected except 1) when required by law to do so, 2) when disclosure is necessary to protect the California Lottery's rights or property, or 3) during emergencies when the California Lottery believes physical safety is at risk.

If you identify yourself by sending an e-mail:

• Your e-mail address may be retained for further communication with you and for Lottery marketing purposes (promotional information, marketing surveys, jackpot alerts and other internal uses).

Surveys

When you voluntarily provide us with personal information as part of an online survey, we use it to perform various quantitative and qualitative analyses to improve customer service and satisfaction. We may forward the information collected to contract personnel to perform the actual analysis. You are under no obligation to participate in such surveys. Non-participation will not inhibit your use of our web site in any way. The survey uses a persistent cookie to determine whether the user has previously completed the current survey.

Other Information

Our site search function uses cookies that are non-persistent (and invalid after 5 minutes), contain no personally identifiable information, and are encrypted (a cookie is a small data file that can be stored on disk or resides in the memory of your computer and contains information about you that is pertinent to a Web site).

This site contains links to other sites. The California Lottery is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Contacting the Lottery

If you have any questions about this privacy notice, the practices of this site, or your dealings with the site you should contact the California Lottery, 600 North 10th Street, Sacramento, CA 95811.