The main purpose of our Web site is to provide information and services to individuals of the Internet community. Your privacy is important to us and we are committed to protecting it and to making you aware of our online practices regarding the privacy of your information.

Information Collected

Our Web site does not automatically collect any personally identifiable information from visitors. We collect personal information only when you provide it in the course of interacting with this site.  Such interaction includes subscribing to our e-mail newsletter, making online donations, or [future site enhancements such as] user profiles, message boards, chat, greeting cards, and participating in surveys. In so doing, you may be asked to provide personally identifiable information such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, or information about your interests and activities.

We also may collect information that is not personally identifiable, such as the type of browser you are using (i.e.- Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, or Opera), the type of operating system you are using (i.e. – Windows, Mac OS, Linux) and the IP address of your Internet service provider.

How Information Is Used

We may use the information you give us to provide services at your request such as periodic messages regarding events and other information we believe that you may find useful. We may use it for confirmation of donations, registrations, or other actions you take on our site.

We have never (nor will we ever) rent, sell, swap or otherwise share data or mailing lists with third party organizations. Any personal information you provide will not be disseminated by us to third parties.

We may use the information that is not personally identifiable to analyze the design and functioning of this site in order to make site improvements.

We will disclose personally identifiable information when required to do so by law.

Cookies

Our site makes limited use of cookies. If you reject cookies, you might experience limited usability in some areas of this Web site.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Security

This Web site take precautions to ensure the security of personal information and to protect it from unauthorized access.  Should this site ask for credit card information, high encryption is used to ensure a secure transmission and no financial information is revealed to, nor retained by, this Web site. on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

Links

For your convenience, we provide external links to other Web sites that you may find useful.  The appearance of these external links (nor the information, products or services contained therein) does not constitute endorsement nor do we exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at any of these other locations.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.