What Information Do We Collect? When you
visit our website you may provide us with two types of
information: personal information you knowingly choose to
disclose that is collected on an individual basis and website
use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and
others browse our website.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide We
may request that you voluntarily supply us with personal
information, including your email address, postal address,
home or work telephone number and other personal information
for such purposes as correspondence, placing an order,
requesting an estimate, or participating in online surveys. If
you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain
the content of your email messages together with your email
address and our responses. We provide the same protections for
these electronic communications that we employ in the
maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.
Website Use Information Similar to other
websites, our site may utilize a standard technology called
"cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and web
server logs to collect information about how our website is
used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may
include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time
spent at our website, and the sites visited just before and
just after ours. This information is collected on an aggregate
basis. None of this information is associated with you as an
individual.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to
Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of
administering our business activities, providing service and
support and making available other products and services to
our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may
also use the information we collect to notify you about
important changes to our website, new services and special
offers we think you will find valuable. The lists used to send
you product and service offers are developed and managed under
our traditional standards designed to safeguard the security
and privacy of all personal information provided by our users.
You may at any time to notify us of your desire not to receive
these offers.
What Are Cookies? Cookies are a feature of
web browser software that allows web servers to recognize the
computer used to access a website. Cookies are small pieces of
data that are stored by a user's web browser on the user's
hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user
accesses on one web page to simplify subsequent interactions
with that website by the same user or to use the information
to streamline the user's transactions on related web pages.
This makes it easier for a user to move from web page to web
page and to complete commercial transactions over the
Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier
and more personalized.
How Do We Use Information Collected From Cookies?
We use website browser software tools such as cookies and web
server logs to gather information about our website users'
browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our
website and better serve our users. This information assists
us to design and arrange our web pages in the most
user-friendly manner and to continually improve our website to
better meet the needs of our users and prospective users.
Cookies help us collect important business and technical
statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the
paths followed by users to our website as they move from one
page to another. Web server logs allow us to count how many
people visit our website and evaluate our website's visitor
capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture your
individual email address or any personally identifying
information about you.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may use the information we collect to notify
you about important changes to our website, new services and
special offers we think you will find valuable. As a user of
our website, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of
your desire not to receive these offers by clicking on a
response box when you receive such an offer or by sending us
an email request.
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
When you send confidential personal information to us on our
website, a secure server software which we have licensed
encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us.
The information is scrambled en route and decoded once it
reaches our website. Other email that you may send to us may
not be secure unless we advise you that security measures will
be in place prior to your transmitting the information. For
that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential
information such as Social Security, credit card, or account
numbers to us through an unsecured email.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
Information Security -- We utilize encryption/security
software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal
information we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure
and accidental loss, alteration or destruction. Evaluation of
Information Protection Practices -- Periodically, our
operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance
with organization policies and procedures governing the
security, confidentiality and quality of our information.
Employee Access, Training and Expectations -- Our organization
values, ethical standards, policies and practices are
committed to the protection of user information. In general,
our business practices limit employee access to confidential
information, and limit the use and disclosure of such
information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all your personally identifiable
information that we collect online and maintain in our
database by emailing us using the contact form provided to you
within the site structure of our website.
Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
We may provide aggregate information about our customers,
sales, website traffic patterns and related website
information to our affiliates or reputable third parties, but
this information will not include personally identifying data,
except as otherwise provided in this privacy policy.
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of
Information?
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so,
in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law
requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.
Permission to Use of Materials The right to
download and store or output the materials in our website is
granted for the user's personal use only, and materials may
not be reproduced in any edited form. Any other reproduction,
transmission, performance, display or editing of these
materials by any means mechanical or electronic without our
express written permission is strictly prohibited. Users
wishing to obtain permission to reprint or reproduce any
materials appearing on this site may contact us directly.
We are grateful for your involvementand support of our
organization. If you have made an error in making your
involvementor change your mind about contributing to our
organization please contact us. Refunds are returned using the
original method of payment. If you made your involvementby credit
card, your refund will be credited to that same credit card.
Automated Recurring Donation Cancellation
Ongoing support is important to enabling projects to continue
their work, so we encourage donors to continue to contribute to
projects over time. But if you must cancel your recurring
donation, please notify us.
