Web, Title VI, and Other Policies
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Title VI Program Plan
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in programs and activities receiving Federal financial assistance. Specifically, Title VI provides that "no person in the United States shall on the ground of race, color or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance" (42 U.S.C. Section 2000d).
COI is committed to ensuring that no person is excluded from participation in or denied the benefits of its transportation services on the basis of race, color, or national origin, as protected by Title VI in Federal Transit Administration (FTS) Circular 4702.1.A. This plan was developed to guide COI in its administration and management of Title VI-related activities.
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Facts About The Americans With Disabilities Act
Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which became effective July 26, 1992, prohibits private employers, state and local governments, employment agencies and labor unions from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, hiring, firing, advancement, compensation, job training and other terms, conditions and privileges of employment. Title V, among other things, provides further clarification of the disabilities covered by the ADA and provisions barring retaliation and coercion. Visit the Americans with Disabilities Act website here.
Definitions
An individual with a disability is a person who:
- has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities (which is essentially an everyday activity an average person can perform with little or no difficulty, like walking, speaking, hearing, seeing, breathing, etc.);
- has a record of such an impairment; or
- is regarded as having such an impairment.
With regard to determining whether a person has a physical or mental impairment that is substantially limiting, the extent, duration and import of the impairment will be examined. For example, a short-term condition such as a broken ankle is generally not considered a disability as defined by the ADA. Furthermore, the use of mitigating measures must be taken into consideration in determining whether an impairment is substantially limiting. Some examples of mitigating measures include eyeglasses, medication, hearing aids, walkers, or canes. If a person has little or no difficulty participating in a major life activity with the use of a mitigating measure, then that person does not have an ADA-qualifying disability.
Under the ADA, the term disability does not include:
- transvestism, transsexualism, pedophilia, exhibitionism, voyeurism, gender disability disorders not resulting from physical impairments, or other sexual behavior disorders;
- compulsive gambling, kleptomania or pyromania; or
- psychoactive substance abuse disorders occurring due to the current use of illegal drugs.
A qualified employee or applicant with a disability is an individual who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the job in question. Reasonable accommodation may include, but is not limited to:
- making existing facilities used by employees readily accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities;
- job restructuring, modifying work schedules, reassignment to a vacant position;
- acquiring or modifying equipment or devices, adjusting or modifying examinations, training materials, or policies, and providing qualified readers or interpreters.
An employer is required to make an accommodation to the known disability of a qualified applicant or employee if it would not impose an “undue hardship” on the operation of the employer’s business. Undue hardship is defined as an action requiring significant difficulty or expense when considered in light of factors such as the nature and expense of the accommodation needed, an employer’s size, financial resources and the type and structure of an employer’s operation. An employer is not required to provide the “best” accommodation or even one that an employee prefers as long as the accommodation provided is one that works and results in the employee having an equal opportunity to perform the essential functions of the job in question.
Pre-employment Inquiries and Medical Examinations
Employers may not ask job applicants about the existence, nature or severity of a disability. However, applicants may be asked about their ability to perform specific job functions, including requesting an applicant to demonstrate or describe how he or she would perform each function. A discussion whether to hire an applicant can only be based on the applicant’s ability to perform the essential functions of a particular job and not marginal functions. A job offer may be conditioned on the results of a medical examination, but only if the examination is required for all entering employees in similar jobs. Medical examinations of employees must be job related and consistent with the employer’s business needs.
Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Employees and applicants currently engaging in the illegal use of drugs are not covered by the ADA, when an employer acts on the basis of such use. However, the ADA does cover those qualifying applicants and employees who have either successfully completed a drug rehabilitation program or who are currently participating in such a program, provided that there is no current use of illegal drugs. Tests for illegal drugs are not subject to the ADA’s restrictions on medical examinations.
The ADA does not cover an employee or applicant who is an alcoholic where the current use of alcohol would interfere with employment responsibilities or where employment would threaten the property or the safety of others due to current alcohol abuse. Employers may hold illegal drug users and alcoholics to the same performance standards as other employees.
Acts of Discrimination
Discrimination includes but is not limited to:
- limiting, segregating or classifying an applicant or employee in a manner that adversely affects that applicant or employee because of a disability.
- participating in any arrangement or agreement that adversely affects an applicant or employee based on a disability, such as relationships with labor unions, benefit programs or training programs.
- creating administrative standards that adversely affect applicants or employees based on a disability; that foster discrimination in the workplace; or that adversely affect applicants or employees based on a relationship with another qualifying individual.
- refusing to make reasonable accommodating measures where no undue hardship is present or denying job applicants or employees employment opportunities based on the necessity of making reasonable accommodations.
- using qualification criteria that screen out or tend to screen out individuals with disabilities.
EEOC Enforcement of the ADA
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations to enforce the provisions of Title I of the ADA on July 26, 1991. The provisions originally became effective on July 26, 1992 and covered employers with 25 or more employees. On July 26, 1994 the threshold dropped to include employers with 15 or more employees for each working day in each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year. Part time employees are included in this calculation. Employment agencies, recruiters and other agents of an employer are covered by the ADA.
Filing A Charge
Charges of employment discrimination on the basis of disability, based on actions occurring on or after July 26, 1992, may be filed at any field office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Field offices are located in 50 cities throughout the United States and are listed in most telephone directories under U.S. Government. Information on all EEOC-enforced laws may be obtained by calling toll free on 800-669-4000. EEOC’s toll free TTY number is 800-669-6820. For TTY calls from the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area, dial (202) 663-4494.
Retaliation or Coercion
No person may discriminate against a qualifying applicant or employee for filing or participating in the investigation of a claim under the ADA. Any form of interference, coercion or intimidation in the exercise of the rights provided for under the ADA are prohibited.
PRIVACY POLICY
- Visit our website at http://www.comop.org, or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice
- Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events
- names
- email addresses
- phone numbers
- mailing addresses
- contact preferences
- usernames
- volunteer preference
- contact message
- Log and Usage Data. Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our Services and which we record in log files. Depending on how you interact with us, this log data may include your IP address, device information, browser type, and settings and information about your activity in the Services (such as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files viewed, searches, and other actions you take such as which features you use), device event information (such as system activity, error reports (sometimes called "crash dumps"), and hardware settings).
- Device Data. We collect device data such as information about your computer, phone, tablet, or other device you use to access the Services. Depending on the device used, this device data may include information such as your IP address (or proxy server), device and application identification numbers, location, browser type, hardware model, Internet service provider and/or mobile carrier, operating system, and system configuration information.
- Location Data. We collect location data such as information about your device's location, which can be either precise or imprecise. How much information we collect depends on the type and settings of the device you use to access the Services. For example, we may use GPS and other technologies to collect geolocation data that tells us your current location (based on your IP address). You can opt out of allowing us to collect this information either by refusing access to the information or by disabling your Location setting on your device. However, if you choose to opt out, you may not be able to use certain aspects of the Services.
We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:
- To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may process your information to provide you with the requested service.
- To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may process your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the requested service.
- To send administrative information to you. We may process your information to send you details about our products and services, changes to our terms and policies, and other similar information.
- To fulfill and manage your orders. We may process your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Services.
- To enable user-to-user communications. We may process your information if you choose to use any of our offerings that allow for communication with another user.
- To request feedback. We may process your information when necessary to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our Services.
- To send you marketing and promotional communications. We may process the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt out of our marketing emails at any time. For more information, see "WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?" below.
- To deliver targeted advertising to you. We may process your information to develop and display personalized content and advertising tailored to your interests, location, and more.
- To post testimonials. We post testimonials on our Services that may contain personal information.
- To protect our Services. We may process your information as part of our efforts to keep our Services safe and secure, including fraud monitoring and prevention.
- To evaluate and improve our Services, products, marketing, and your experience. We may process your information when we believe it is necessary to identify usage trends, determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our Services, products, marketing, and your experience.
- To identify usage trends. We may process information about how you use our Services to better understand how they are being used so we can improve them.
- To determine the effectiveness of our marketing and promotional campaigns. We may process your information to better understand how to provide marketing and promotional campaigns that are most relevant to you.
- To comply with our legal obligations. We may process your information to comply with our legal obligations, respond to legal requests, and exercise, establish, or defend our legal rights.
- other business purposes. we may reevaluate collected data to use if future needs arise. Such as newsletter interest, location for an advocacy group, etc.
- Affiliate Marketing Programs
- Ad Networks
- Data Analytics Services
- Social Networks
- Sales & Marketing Tools
- Testing Tools
- Website Hosting Service Providers
- Facebook Pixels
- Google Analytics
- Google Ad Sense
- Cloud Computing Services
- Communication & Collaboration Tools
- Data Storage Service Providers
- Finance & Accounting Tools
- Government Entities
- Order Fulfillment Service Providers
- Payment Processors
- Performance Monitoring Tools
- Product Engineering & Design Tools
- Retargeting Platforms
- User Account Registration & Authentication Services
- Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- When we use Google Maps Platform APIs. We may share your information with certain Google Maps Platform APIs (e.g., Google Maps API, Places API). We obtain and store on your device ("cache") your location. You may revoke your consent anytime by contacting us at the contact details provided at the end of this document.
- Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy notice. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
- Business Partners. We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
Category | Examples | Collected |
A. Identifiers
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Contact details, such as real name, alias, postal address, telephone or mobile contact number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, and account name
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YES
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B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute
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Name, contact information, education, employment, employment history, and financial information
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YES
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C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law
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Gender and date of birth
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YES
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D. Commercial information
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Transaction information, purchase history, financial details, and payment information
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YES
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E. Biometric information
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Fingerprints and voiceprints
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YES
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F. Internet or other similar network activity
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Browsing history, search history, online behavior, interest data, and interactions with our and other websites, applications, systems, and advertisements
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YES
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G. Geolocation data
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Device location
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YES
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H. Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information
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Images and audio, video or call recordings created in connection with our business activities
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YES
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I. Professional or employment-related information
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Business contact details in order to provide you our Services at a business level or job title, work history, and professional qualifications if you apply for a job with us
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YES
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J. Education Information
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Student records and directory information
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YES
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K. Inferences drawn from other personal information
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Inferences drawn from any of the collected personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics
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NO
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L. Sensitive Personal Information |
NO
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- Category A - As long as the user has an account with us
- Category B - As long as the user has an account with us
- Category C - As long as the user has an account with us
- Category D - As long as the user has an account with us
- Category E - As long as the user has an account with us
- Category F - As long as the user has an account with us
- Category G - As long as the user has an account with us
- Category H - As long as the user has an account with us
- Category I - As long as the user has an account with us
- Category J - As long as the user has an account with us
- Receiving help through our customer support channels;
- Participation in customer surveys or contests; and
- Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.
- Targeting cookies/Marketing cookies
- Social media cookies
- Beacons/Pixels/Tags
- Click redirects: __________.
- Social media plugins: __________. We use social media features, such as a "Like" button, and widgets, such as a "Share" button, in our Services. Such features may process your Internet Protocol (IP) address and track which page you are visiting on our website. We may place a cookie to enable the feature to work correctly. If you are logged in on a certain social media platform and you interact with a widget or button belonging to that social media platform, this information may be recorded to your profile of such social media platform. To avoid this, you should log out from that social media platform before accessing or using the Services. Social media features and widgets may be hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Services. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy notices of the companies that provide them. By clicking on one of these buttons, you agree to the use of this plugin and consequently the transfer of personal information to the corresponding social media service. We have no control over the essence and extent of these transmitted data or their additional processing.
Community Options, Inc. has disclosed the following categories of personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months:
Community Options, Inc. has sold or shared the following categories of personal information to third parties in the preceding twelve (12) months:
- Data Analytics Services
- Social Networks
- Ad Networks
- Affiliate Marketing Programs
- Data Analytics Services
- Social Networks
- User Account Registration & Authentication Services
- Retargeting Platforms
- whether we collect and use your personal information;
- the categories of personal information that we collect;
- the purposes for which the collected personal information is used;
- whether we sell or share personal information to third parties;
- the categories of personal information that we sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose;
- the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose;
- the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information; and
- the specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.
- You may object to the processing of your personal information.
- You may request correction of your personal data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant, or ask to restrict the processing of the information.
- You can designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with the CCPA.
- Right to be informed whether or not we are processing your personal data
- Right to access your personal data
- Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
- Right to request deletion of your personal data
- Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us
- Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects ("profiling")
COOKIE POLICY
Analytics and customization cookies:
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you.
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Purpose: | Records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user |
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Service: | Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
Name: | jot |
Purpose: | __________ |
Provider: | syndication.twitter.com |
Service: | __________ |
Country: | United States |
Type: | pixel_tracker |
Expires in: | session |
Name: | _ga_# |
Purpose: | Used to distinguish individual users by means of designation of a randomly generated number as client identifier, which allows calculation of visits and sessions |
Provider: | .comop.org |
Service: | Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
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Purpose: | Used to distinguish individual users by means of designation of a randomly generated number as client identifier, which allows calculation of visits and sessions |
Provider: | www.comop.org |
Service: | Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
Name: | _ga_# |
Purpose: | Used to distinguish individual users by means of designation of a randomly generated number as client identifier, which allows calculation of visits and sessions |
Provider: | .www.comop.org |
Service: | Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
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Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
Advertising cookies:
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
Name: | td |
Purpose: | Used to deliver targeted adverts to users based on browsing activity. It is a HTTP cookie. |
Provider: | www.googletagmanager.com |
Service: | UnrulyX View Service Privacy Policy |
Country: | United States |
Type: | pixel_tracker |
Expires in: | session |
Name: | _fbp |
Purpose: | Facebook tracking pixel used to identify visitors for personalized advertising. |
Provider: | .comop.org |
Service: | Facebook View Service Privacy Policy |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
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Name: | _gcl_au |
Purpose: | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
Provider: | .comop.org |
Service: | AdSense View Service Privacy Policy |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 2 months 29 days |
Name: | fr |
Purpose: | Used by Facebook to collect a unique browser and user ID, used for targeted advertising. |
Provider: | .facebook.com |
Service: | Facebook View Service Privacy Policy |
Country: | United States |
Type: | server_cookie |
Expires in: | 2 months 29 days |
Unclassified cookies:
These are cookies that have not yet been categorized. We are in the process of classifying these cookies with the help of their providers.
Name: | WIDGET::local::assignments |
Purpose: | __________ |
Provider: | w.soundcloud.com |
Service: | __________ |
Country: | United States |
Type: | html_local_storage |
Expires in: | persistent |
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