At West Coast Blood Services, your privacy is critically important to us.

Houchin Community Blood Bank is located at:

Houchin Community Blood Bank

11515 Bolthouse Drive

Bakersfield, CA 93311

+1.661.323.4222

West Coast Blood Center of Santa Clarita is located at:

West Coast Blood Center of Santa Clarita

25570 Rye Canyon 

Santa Clarita, CA 91355

+1.661.843.8181

It is West Coast Blood Services policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to hcbb.com and westcoastblood.org (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “hcbb.com/westcoastblood.org”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, West Coast Blood Services collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. West Coast Blood Services’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how West Coast Blood Services visitors use its website. From time to time, West Coast Blood Services may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

West Coast Blood Services also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://hcbb.com blog posts. West Coast Blood Services only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to West Coast Blood Services’ websites choose to interact with West Coast Blood Services in ways that require West Coast Blood Services to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that West Coast Blood Services gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at https://hcbb.com  or https://westcoastblood.org to provide a username and email address.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Houchin Community Blood Bank and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links To External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

Hcbb.com and westcoastblood.org uses Google AdWords for remarketing

Hcbb.com and westcoastblood.org uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

Aggregated Statistics

West Coast Blood Services may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Houchin Community Blood Bank may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, West Coast Blood Services does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Affiliate Disclosure

This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, West Coast Blood Services uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. West Coast Blood Services uses cookies to help West Coast Blood Services identify and track visitors, their usage of https://hcbb.com and https://westcoastblood.org , and their website access preferences. West Coast Blood Services visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using West Coast Blood Services websites, with the drawback that certain features of West Coast Blood Services’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to West Coast Blood Services use of cookies.

Business Transfers

If West Coast Blood Services, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that West Coast Blood Services goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of West Coast Blood Services may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, West Coast Blood Services may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in West Coast Blood Services sole discretion. West Coast Blood Services encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.