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Our Privacy Policy was developed to provide a high level of integrity when dealing with our Web users, donors and partners. This policy will help you understand how we collect, use and safeguard the information you give to us and to help you in making informed decision when using our site. This statement will be continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices and our users' needs.
What information do we collect?
When visiting our Web site you may provide us with personal information that you voluntarily choose to disclose on an individual basis and Web site use information that is collected on an aggregate basis as you browse our website.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Credit Card Information
If you donate or purchase tickets or merchandise from us, you may need to give personal information and authorization to obtain information from various credit services. For example, you may be asked to provide your name, address, e-mail address, credit card information and phone number.
E-mail Corresponding
If you correspond with us through email, your email message, your email address and our responses may be retained by us. We protect this information in the same way that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail or telephone.
Website Use Information
Our Website utilizes a technology called "cookies" and Web server logs to collect information about how our Web site is used. The information gathered may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
The personal information that you provide to us is used for purposes of administering our business activities and providing customer service to our donors, customers and prospective donors and customers. We may use the information to notify you of special events that we think you will find valuable. The lists used for this purpose are developed and managed under our traditional standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy of our users' personal information. If you do not want to receive these offers you will be given the opportunity to notify us to remove you. In no instance do we share personal information with third parties.
What Do We Do With Information Collected from Cookies?
We use cookies and logs to gather information about our Web site users' browsing activities, in order to improve our Web site and better serve our users. This makes it possible for us to continually improve our Web site and make it more user-friendly.
Cookies collect important statistics. This information lets us trace the paths of users of our Web site as they move from one page to another. Logs allow us to count how many people visit our Web site and evaluate our Web site's visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture your individual email address or any personally identifying information about you although they do permit us to send focused information or other such responses to you.
Information Transmission Security
All of the personal credit card information you provide through our Web site is processed by secure server software which we have licensed to encrypt all information you input before it is sent to us. The information is scrambled and decoded once it reaches our Web site.
If you are not advised that security measures will be in place prior to your transmitting the information may not be secure. Because of this we ask that you do not send confidential information such as Social Security or account numbers to us through an unsecured email.
Protecting Information
Information Security
In order to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction we use encryption/security software.
Evaluation of Security Practices
Our operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with corporate policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of our information.
Employee Access
We limit employee access to confidential information, and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and transaction.
Other Information
You may request access to all information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing us.
We may provide aggregate information about our customers, sales, Web site traffic patterns and related information to our third parties, but this information will not include personally identifying data, except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy.
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so.
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or from our Web site nor the information it contains. This privacy policy is only effective when using our Web site and is no longer in effect when you use a link to go from our Web site to another Web site.
Your Consent
By using our Web site you give consent to collection and use of personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. Changes to our policy will be posted on our Web site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.
