PRIVACY POLICY
The Family Advocates is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Family Advocates web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Family Advocates website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Family Advocates collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Family Advocates also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Family Advocates. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Family Advocates for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Family Advocates web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through the Family Advocates public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Family Advocates does not read any of your private online communications.
Family Advocates encourages you to review the privacy statements of web sites you choose to link to from Family Advocates so that you can understand how those web sites collect, use and share your information. Family Advocates is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on web sites outside of Family Advocates web sites.
USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Family Advocates collects and uses your personal information to operate the Family Advocates web site and deliver the services you have requested. Family Advocates also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Family Advocates and its affiliates. Family Advocates may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Family Advocates does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Family Advocates may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Family Advocates may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Family Advocates, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Family Advocates does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Family Advocates keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Family Advocates, in order to determine what Family Advocates services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Family Advocates to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Family Advocates web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Family Advocates or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Family Advocates; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Family Advocates, or the public.
USE OF COOKIES
Family Advocates web site use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Family Advocates pages, or register with Family Advocates site or services, a cookie helps Family Advocates to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Family Advocates Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Family Advocates features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Family Advocates services or web sites you visit.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Family Advocates secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Family Advocates secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
Family Advocates will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Family Advocates encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Family Advocates is protecting your information.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Family Advocates welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Family Advocates has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Family Advocates at info@strongandsafe.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
DONATION REFUND POLICY
If you have made an error in making your donation or change your mind about contributing to Family Advocates, we will honor your request for a refund made within 7 days of your donation.
To request a refund, call +1 (208) 345-3345.