Children’s Friend and Family Services is committed to protecting your privacy and the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes the kind of information we collect from you, how that information is used, and what kind of security measures we employ on our Web site.
We will not sell, share or rent the information you provide in any way that has not been specified in our Privacy Policy. If you have questions regarding this privacy policy, or Children’s Friend and Family Services information practices, please e-mail us at rpelletier@childrensfriend.net.
Children’s Friend and Family Services requests information from you at various points on our Website. You are under no obligation to enter any information on our Website however, in order to participate in some of the services we offer at Children’s Friend and Family Services, such information collection is necessary. Below is a brief summary of the information we typically collect from you and how it is used. We will update this policy as changes occur.
When you give a financial donation to Children’s Friend and Family Services, we ask that you provide us with your name, telephone number, mailing address, e-mail address and credit card information. We use a secure third party to process your donation.
We collect the following information about your computer configuration: browser type, operating system, IP address and the URL of the Web page you were on just prior to visiting Children’s Friend and Family Services. We use this information to analyze usage trends, administer the site, and track our users’ movements across our site for aggregate use. This information will not reveal, nor is it associated with your personal identity.
Children’s Friend and Family Services will not share donor names and addresses with any parties not affiliated with us. We use outside banking facilities to process our credit card charitable donations. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing us with those services. Prior to giving a donation online, you will have an opportunity to review that company’s privacy and security policy.
Although unlikely, Children’s Friend and Family Services may be required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide personal information about our users. We will provide this information, to the extent technically possible, upon request and receipt of the appropriate documentation. Disclosure may also occur if we consider it necessary to protect our legal rights or if the information relates to actual or threatened harmful conduct.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post a notice of those changes on the Privacy Policy section of our Web site so that you will always have notice of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
Children’s Friend and Family Services operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewalls and password protection systems. Only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our supporters. Any other particularly sensitive information, such as a donor’s credit card number, is also encrypted prior to transmission.
