Last verified Jul. 2026

Privacy Policy

Who we are, and what this covers

Colorado Water Rights (cowaterrights.com) is an independent reference site about Colorado water law, operated from Colorado, United States ("we", "us", "our"). It is not a law firm and provides no legal services — see the disclaimer and terms of use.

This Privacy Policy covers the website at cowaterrights.com and the single server function that handles the email form. It does not cover the third-party websites we link to — the Colorado Division of Water Resources, the Colorado General Assembly, the courts and the other sources we cite — which are governed by their own policies. The site is directed to a United States audience.

Summary of key points

• One field, freely given. The only personal information we receive is an email address you type into the guide form yourself. No name, no address, no phone number, no account.
• No cookies of ours, no analytics, no trackers. This site sets no cookies of its own, stores nothing in your browser, and runs no analytics, advertising or tracking scripts. The only JavaScript we include is the few lines that submit the email form; our host, Cloudflare, may additionally serve a small script that reveals email addresses to real visitors while hiding them from automated scrapers. Pages also carry inert JSON-LD structured-data blocks, which execute nothing.
• No database. Your address is not written to any database we operate. It exists as an email in our inbox and in our email provider's delivery logs.
• Never sold or shared. We do not sell, rent, trade or otherwise disclose your address to anyone, and we have no advertising or referral partners.
• Leave whenever you like. Every email has an unsubscribe link. To have your address deleted outright, email us and we will remove it.

What we collect, and when

The email form

Pages on this site carry a form offering the owner's guide and change alerts. Through it we receive exactly one piece of personal information: the email address you enter. The form also contains a hidden field that is invisible to human visitors and exists solely to catch spam bots; it collects nothing from real people.

When you submit the form, our server sends two emails through our delivery provider, Resend: a confirmation to you, and a notification to our own inbox containing your address. The form writes to no database. Our record of your sign-up is that notification email, plus the delivery logs Resend keeps as our provider.

Email you send us directly

If you email us — a correction, a question, a deletion request — we receive whatever you put in that message, and we keep it in our inbox so we can reply and, in the case of corrections, keep a record of why a page changed.

Information handled automatically by our host

This site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes technical information needed to deliver and protect the site, including your IP address, browser user agent and the pages requested, and it may set a strictly necessary security cookie at the network layer to distinguish visitors from bots. That happens at the platform level, not by our choice of any analytics product: we do not receive analytics, dashboards or visitor reports from it, and we do not use it to identify you. Cloudflare privacy policy

What we do not do

• No analytics. No Google Analytics, no Plausible, no Fathom, no server-side visitor tracking of our own.
• No advertising. No ad networks, no retargeting pixels, no affiliate tracking. The site carries no advertisements at all.
• No browser storage. We set no cookies, and we store nothing in localStorage or sessionStorage — not even a theme preference. Dark mode follows your operating system setting.
• No accounts, no logins, no profiles.
• No payments. Nothing on this site is for sale, so we never see payment details.
• No data brokers. We buy no personal data and we enrich nothing.

How we use what we receive

Your email address is used for two things only: to send you the owner's guide, and to send an occasional short email when Colorado water rules change. That is the entire purpose, and we will not repurpose it. If we ever want to use it for something else, we will ask first.

Who processes data on our behalf

Both act as service providers on our behalf. Beyond them, we disclose personal information only if we are legally required to — a valid subpoena, court order or other lawful demand — and we would rather tell you first where we are permitted to.

Do we sell or share personal data?

No. We do not sell personal data, we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, and we do not run advertising. If that ever changed, we would say so on this page before it happened and give you a way to opt out.

How long we keep it

We keep your address until you ask us to delete it or unsubscribe. Sign-up and correction emails stay in our inbox, and Resend retains delivery logs under its own retention schedule. When you ask for deletion, we remove your address from our list and delete the notification email.

Your choices and rights

• Unsubscribe using the link in any email. It works immediately.
• Ask what we hold about you, and we will tell you — which, realistically, will be one email address and any messages you have sent us.
• Ask us to correct or delete it, and we will.

Email corrections@cowaterrights.com for any of these. We honor these requests for everyone who asks, whatever state or country you live in, and we will not charge you or make you create an account to exercise them.

Marketing email, and what we must do before sending any

United States law governing commercial email requires that every message include a working unsubscribe mechanism and a valid physical postal address for the sender. Our emails carry an unsubscribe path. We do not currently publish a postal address, so before we send marketing email at any scale we will include a compliant postal address in every message. We would rather say that plainly here than send mail that falls short of it.

Children

This site is intended for adults dealing with property, wells and water rights. It is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has sent us an address, email us and we will delete it.

Security

The site is served over HTTPS, and the only personal data we hold sits in mail systems operated by established providers. No system is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee that transmission over the internet is free of risk. The best protection here is structural: we collect almost nothing, so there is almost nothing to lose.

A note about the public records this site teaches you to use

Colorado water and well permit records are public, and some of them contain individuals' names and postal addresses. We do not collect, copy, host or republish those records, and we do not reproduce anyone's personal details on this site. Where we explain how to search them — the well permit tutorial, for instance — the purpose is a property you are actually dealing with, not looking people up.

Changes to this policy

If we change what we collect or what we do with it, we will update this page and change the effective date at the top, in the same release as the change itself. Material changes affecting people already on the list will be sent by email.

Contact

Email corrections@cowaterrights.com with any privacy question, or to have your address removed. See also our terms of use, the disclaimer, and about this site.