What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our website you may provide us with two types of
information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that
is collected on an individual basis and website use information
collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide
We may request that you voluntarily supply us with personal information,
including your email address, postal address, home or work telephone
number and other personal information for such purposes as
correspondence, placing an order, requesting an estimate, or
participating in online surveys.
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the
content of your email messages together with your email address and our
responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic
communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received
by mail and telephone.
Website Use Information
Similar to other websites, our site may utilize a standard technology
called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and web
server logs to collect information about how our website is used.
Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the
date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our website,
and the sites visited just before and just after ours. This information
is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is
associated with you as an individual.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of
administering our business activities, providing service and support and
making available other products and services to our customers and
prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we
collect to notify you about important changes to our website, new
services and special offers we think you will find valuable. The lists
used to send you product and service offers are developed and managed
under our traditional standards designed to safeguard the security and
privacy of all personal information provided by our users. You may at
any time to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers.
What Are Cookies?
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.
How Do We Use Information Collected From Cookies?
We use website browser software tools such as cookies and web server
logs to gather information about our website users' browsing activities,
in order to constantly improve our website and better serve our users.
This information assists us to design and arrange our web pages in the
most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our website to
better meet the needs of our users and prospective users.
Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The
information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to
our website as they move from one page to another. Web server logs
allow us to count how many people visit our website and evaluate our
website's visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture
your individual email address or any personally identifying information
about you.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may use the information we collect to notify you about
important changes to our website, new services and special offers we
think you will find valuable. As a user of our website, you will be
given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these
offers by clicking on a response box when you receive such an offer or
by sending us an email request.
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
When you send confidential personal information to us on our website, a
secure server software which we have licensed encrypts all information
you input before it is sent to us. The information is scrambled en route
and decoded once it reaches our website.
Other email that you may send to us may not be secure unless we advise
you that security measures will be in place prior to your transmitting
the information. For that reason, we ask that you do not send
confidential information such as Social Security, credit card, or
account numbers to us through an unsecured email.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
Information Security -- We utilize encryption/security software to
safeguard the confidentiality of personal information we collect from
unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or
destruction.
Evaluation of Information Protection Practices -- Periodically, our
operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with
organization policies and procedures governing the security,
confidentiality and quality of our information.
Employee Access, Training and Expectations -- Our organization values,
ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the
protection of user information. In general, our business practices limit
employee access to confidential information, and limit the use and
disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and
transactions.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all your personally identifiable information
that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing us using
the contact form provided to you within the site structure of our
website.
Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
We may provide aggregate information about our customers, sales, website
traffic patterns and related website information to our affiliates or
reputable third parties, but this information will not include
personally identifying data, except as otherwise provided in this
privacy policy.
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
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.
Permission to Use of Materials
The right to download and store or output the materials in our website
is granted for the user's personal use only, and materials may not be
reproduced in any edited form. Any other reproduction, transmission,
performance, display or editing of these materials by any means
mechanical or electronic without our express written permission is
strictly prohibited. Users wishing to obtain permission to reprint or
reproduce any materials appearing on this site may contact us directly.
We are grateful for your donation and support of our organization. If
you have made an error in making your donation or change your mind about
contributing to our organization please contact us. Refunds are
returned using the original method of payment. If you made your donation
by credit card, your refund will be credited to that same credit card.
Automated Recurring Donation Cancellation
Ongoing support is important to enabling projects to continue their
work, so we encourage donors to continue to contribute to projects over
time. But if you must cancel your recurring donation, please notify us.