United Way of the Southern Tier Privacy Policy – Feb. 2007
Our privacy policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to combine the highest-quality products and services with the highest level of integrity in dealing with our customers and partners.
This policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us, and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our website and any products and services we make available.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that United Way of the Southern Tier (UWST) does not own or control, or to people that United Way of the Southern Tier does not employ or manage.
This policy will be continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices and our customers' needs. By using our website, you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this privacy policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our website to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
We will use your information to respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to send you information you request.
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to inform you regarding activities or issues concerning the United Way of the Southern Tier or changes to this privacy policy.
How Information is Used
- To provide information or services you have requested
- To develop additional services we think may be of interest to you
- To answer questions you may have
- To deliver personalized communications and website content
- To ask for your participation in brief surveys
- To improve services of United Way of the Southern Tier
- To notify you about UWST opportunities or activities
- To grant you access to “members-only” areas of our website
Personal information we collect will be used only by United Way of the Southern Tier for the purposes listed above. We will not sell, rent, loan, or share any such information with any other organization without your consent.
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.
We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our website nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our website. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website to another website, our privacy policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link on our website, is subject to that website’s own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
Communications and Opt-Out Policy
You will always have the ability to opt not to receive email or other means of communication from UWST. United Way of the Southern Tier respects your privacy and realizes that not everyone likes to receive special announcements or information. Upon registering at the site, you have the ability to opt out from receiving email or other communications. Alternatively, after you register, if you would like to remove your name from the UWST lists you can change your registration options by using the contact information below to request that UWST remove you from its lists. Your opt-out will be effective unless or until you opt to receive email by updating your user profile. Again, please remember, once we have provided information to other organizations due to transactions initiated by you, we are not responsible for their use of the information, and you should consult their privacy and information use policies.
Information We Collect
United Way of the Southern Tier collects information in a variety of ways and through a variety of means. These include:
Website
· The “members-only” area of our website requires you to “register” with us to open an account. That type of information is explained under the “personally identifying” heading below.
· You can use most of our website without offering any information about yourself. In those cases, our web servers collect the name of the domain you used to access the Internet (such as aol.com) and the website you came from and visit next. This information is used by us to measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views, and other statistics about visitors to our website. We also use this data to monitor site performance and to make the site easier and more convenient for you to use. This information is in no way directly linked to you as an individual.
Email
· We reserve the right to keep any email sent to us.
· Any personally identifying information in that email is covered by the terms of this policy.
Personally Identifying
· Registering for a United Way of the Southern Tier online account, volunteering, and other related activities may require us to collect certain pieces of personal information.
· This information may include name, date of birth, home and work addresses, email addresses, information related to your donation and volunteer activities, and personal interests related to United Way of the Southern Tier.
· When making a donation online, you will be connected to United Way of America’s site. Please consult their privacy policy for information about security.
How the Information is Collected
United Way of the Southern Tier collects personally identifiable information when you:
· register for a United Way of the Southern Tier online account;
· use certain United Way of the Southern Tier services (volunteering, pledging, subscribing for newsletters, and so on);
· visit pages on our website; and/or
· enter promotions and drawings during the annual campaign.
United Way of the Southern Tier may also receive personally identifiable information from our business partners.
United Way of the Southern Tier may set and access “cookies” on your computer. 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.
United Way of the Southern Tier will use cookies solely for the purpose of customizing your experience on our website. We will not use cookies for tracking your personal usage of other sites in any way, although we may aggregate such data to enhance our services.
Information Sharing
- United Way of the Southern Tier will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.
- United Way of the Southern Tier may send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:
- we have your consent to share the information;
- we need to share your information to provide a product or service you have specifically requested;
- we need to send the information to companies or agencies who work on behalf of United Way of the Southern Tier to provide a product or service to you. (Unless we tell you differently, these organizations do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.); OR
- we respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process.
Members-Only Section
At this time, access to the “members-only” area of the website is restricted to UWST Board of Directors and staff. Additional parts of this section will be opened as they are developed.
Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:
· See what data we have about you, if any.
· Change/correct any data we have about you.
· Request deletion of any data we have about you.
· Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
Questions or Suggestions
If you have questions or suggestions concerning this policy, please contact info@uwst.org.
Your use of this site indicates your consent to our processing, use, disclosure and transfer of your personal information as described in this privacy statement. We may revise this privacy statement from time to time. You are responsible for checking this statement when you visit our site to review the current privacy statement. If you do not agree with the privacy statement, you should cease using the site immediately.
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for www.uwst.org.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 607-936-3753 or via e-mail.
