The San Bernardino County Treasurer-Tax Collector/Public Administrator’s office
maintains this website as a public service. This privacy policy pertains only to
information gathered through the use of www.mytaxcollector.com or www.mypublicadministrator.com.
This policy does not apply to the use of any other website maintained or provided
by the County of San Bernardino.
Information Gathered Through the Use of this Site
1. Personal Information - During the course of making an electronic payment to the
San Bernardino County Tax Collector, personal information is gathered from you to
complete the transaction. This information includes your name, address, phone number
and other financial information necessary to complete the transaction. This information
is passed through a secure connection to our third party payment processor, Official
Payments Corporation, for the execution of the transaction. No personal information
of yours is maintained through this website. Inquiries into the status of or details
about a specific transaction are made exclusively through Official Payments Corp.
Other personal information is gathered should you choose to subscribe to our e-mail
reminder service or submit information to us through one of our online forms. This
information is used solely for responding to your inquiry or providing you with
requested information.
2. Non Personal Information – Other non-personal information is gathered through
the use of this site which could include, but is not limited to, the IP Address
of your computer, pages visited, or browser type. This information is primarily
used to assess and improve the performance of our site, but could also be used to
investigate or prevent fraud.
Disclosure of Information
The San Bernardino County Treasurer-Tax Collector/Public Administrator will under
no circumstance sell any of your personal information to any third parties. The
County of San Bernardino, a government entity, is subject to the California Public
Records Act as described in Government Code Sections 6250 – 6270. Correspondence
with our office may be subject to disclosure under the guidelines of the Public
Records Act as this correspondence becomes part of the public record. E-mail addresses
gathered for the purpose of providing helpful information to you will not be shared
in any way unless formally subpoenaed through legal action. While our office does
not see this as a likely occurrence, we cannot guarantee that this information would
not be requested under some unforeseen extraordinary circumstance.