I. Website Operational Information
The District is responsible for this website and the District’s services.The District may be contacted by:
- Telephone: (801) 565-4300
- Email Form
II. Individual's Personal Data and User Data
By contacting the District an individual may:- Seek access to the individual’s personal data or user data
- Request to correct or amend the individual's personal data or user data; or
- If the individual qualifies as an at-risk employee‡, request that the individual’s personal data be classified as a private record.
III. Data Privacy Ombudsperson
An individual may contact the Data Privacy Ombudsperson to file a complaint about a privacy practice of a governmental entity by using the following contact information:
- Email: privacyombudsperson@utah.gov
IV. Website User Data
The following information may be automatically collected and retained if you look or search through our web pages, or download information:- The Internet domain and Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using to access our site;
- The date and time of when you access our site; and
- Which portions of the website you visit
The data collected serve as part of our statistical analysis about the use of our websites so we may better design online services and improve access to them. We do not attempt to gain personally identifiable information about individual users and associate it with IP addresses unless explicitly stated as part of a District service. The District does not use the information automatically collected to ascertain your personally identifiable information.
Except where specified, you do not have to provide personally identifiable information to visit or download information from the District sites. Unless you choose to make your personally identifiable information available to us, the District does not collect such information from you. The District does not use or place spyware on your computer. Be aware that government agencies may request personally identifiable information from you in order to perform requested specialized services.
V. Purposes and Uses for User Data
The District collects user data for the following purposes:- IP addresses
- Date and time of visits to the site
- Portions of pages accessed
- Providing and maintaining water services (e.g., billing, usage monitoring, emergency responses).
- Communicating with you (e.g., service updates, outage notifications, billing reminders).
- Complying with legal obligations (e.g., reporting to regulators like the Public Utilities Commission).
- Improving services (e.g., analyzing usage trends for conservation programs).
- Fraud prevention and security (e.g., detecting unusual consumption patterns).
- Marketing (with consent, e.g., promoting water-saving tips).
VI. Sharing and Selling of User Data
The classes of persons and entities with whom the District shares user data includes:
- Other governmental entities, including cities, other water districts, and collaborations between water district
- Consultants who provide notices, updates, and information to the public on behalf of the District
- Other individuals when the user has expressly requested or authorized sharing of account or other information
The District does not sell user data
VII. Record Series
The user data collected on this website is included in GRS – 16597 Personal Data Analysis Records.Footnotes
* (a) “User data” means any information about a user that is automatically collected by a government website when a user accesses the government website.
(b) “User data” includes information that identifies:
†“Personal data” means information that is linked or can be reasonably linked to an identified individual or an identifiable individual. (Utah Code § 63A-19-101(24)).(i) a user as having requested or obtained specific materials or services from a government website;(ii) Internet sites visited by a user;(iii) the contents of a user's data-storage device;(iv) any identifying code linked to a user of a government website; and(v) a user's:(A) IP or Mac address; or(B) session ID. (Utah Code § 63A-19-101(38)(a) and (b)).
‡ (a) “At-risk government employee” means a current or former:
(ii) peace officer as specified in Section 53-13-102;(ii) state or federal judge of an appellate, district, justice, or juvenile court, or court commissioner;(iii) judge authorized by Title 39A, Chapter 5, Utah Code of Military Justice;(iv) judge authorized by Armed Forces, Title 10, United States Code;(v) federal prosecutor;(vi) prosecutor appointed pursuant to Armed Forces, Title 10, United States Code;(vii) law enforcement official as defined in Section 53-5-711;(viii) prosecutor authorized by Title 39A, Chapter 5, Utah Code of Military Justice; or(ix) state or local government employee who, because of the unique nature of the employee's regular work assignments or because of one or more recent credible threats directed to or against the employee, would be at immediate and substantial risk of physical harm if the employee's personal information is disclosed. (Utah Code § 63G-2-303(1)(a)).