Privacy Policy
Welcome to the official Web site of the Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake
Bay. This Web site is owned and operated by Girl Scouts of the
Chesapeake Bay, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in
Newark, Delaware.
Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay is
committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors. This privacy
policy discloses how we collect, protect, and use information you
provide us online, as well as how we protect children's privacy. By
using the pages on this site, you are accepting the practices
described in the Privacy Policy.
If our policy practices
changes in the future, we will let you know by posting the policy
changes on our web site. However, we will treat all personal
information we collect in accordance with the privacy notice in effect
at the time the information is collected.
Data Collection
Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay uses its best efforts to respect
and protect the privacy of its online visitors. At our site, we do not
collect personally identifiable information from individuals unless
they provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly. This means we do not
require you to register or provide information to us in order to view
our general site. Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay only gathers
personally identifiable data, such as names, addresses, zip/postal
codes, email addresses, etc., when voluntarily submitted by a visitor.
For example, personally identifiable information is collected in order
to process online registrations, online donations, your interest in
volunteering or your feedback. When gathered on our site, this
information is used solely by Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake
Bay.
We do not sell information you provide to us
online to third parties. We will only share personally
identifiable information with third parties when (i) the person
submitting the information authorizes us to share it; (ii) sharing the
information is a necessary operation of the site, for instance, to
process a credit card transaction, or (iii) we are required to by
law.
When your personal information is gathered for
event registration (but not adult training registration) or online
donations, you are using the services of Acteva, and the use of your
information is governed by their Privacy Policy (http://www.acteva.com/privacy.cfm).
When your personal information is gathered for online Bay Shop
purchases, the use of your information is governed by the Privacy
Policy of Yahoo (http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/).
We recommend you familiarize yourself with their respective privacy
policies when using their services. The information we receive from
these third parties we then treat according to our own policy.
Children's Privacy
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) protects the
personal information of children under the age of 13. This applies to
individually identifiable information about a child that is collected
online, such as full name, home address, email address, telephone
number or any other information that would allow someone to identify
or contact the child. The Act and Rule also cover other types of
information—for example, hobbies, interests and information collected
through cookies or other types of tracking mechanisms—when they are
tied to individually identifiable information. It is important for you
to understand this law; we encourage you to read more about COPPA.
Note to Parents on Our Privacy Policy
Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay is committed to providing a
safe, secure, and fun online experience for children who visit our
site. We are dedicated to safeguarding any personal information
collected online and to helping parents and children have positive
experiences on the Internet.
Consistent with the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, we will never
knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone
under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent.
Parents can revoke their consent and ask that information about
their children be deleted from the site by contacting our offices by
phone at 800-341-4007 or via email cbgscweb@cbgsc.org. To do this or to
review personal information collected from children, we must verify
the identity of the requesting parent. When a parent revokes consent,
we will stop collecting, using, or disclosing information from that
child. To respect the privacy of parents, information collected and
used for the sole purpose of obtaining verifiable parental consent or
providing notice is not maintained in retrievable form by the site if
parental consent is not obtained after a reasonable time.
Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay believes it is good policy not to
collect more personally identifiable information from children under
13 than is necessary for them to participate in our online activities.
In addition, be aware that all sites that are targeted to children
under 13 are prohibited by law from collecting more information than
they need.
Submissions
Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay welcomes children to learn more
about our organization and, where appropriate, participate in polls
and surveys, as well as submit comments, artwork, writings, and other
submissions for posting on our Web site. For this reason, Girl Scouts
of the Chesapeake Bay follows the guidelines for interactive
electronic media published by the Children's Advertising Review Unit
(CARU) of the Better Business Bureau for pages targeted to children
under 13. However, we encourage this be done only with their parent's
knowledge and supervision. We also encourage children to use their
first name, nickname, initials, or other alternative to full names or
screen names which correspond with an email address for any activities
which will involve public posting.
In keeping with CARU's
Principle regarding respecting and fostering the parents' role in
providing guidance for their children, we encourage parents to check
and monitor their children's use of email and other online activities
regularly. We suggest that parents and guardians review and sign the
Girl Scouts of the USA Internet Privacy
Pledge with their children.
Use of Cookies
Visitors should be aware that non-personal information and data may
be automatically collected by the Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay
Web site through the use of "cookies." "Cookies"
are small text files a Web site can use to recognize repeat visitors,
facilitate the visitor's ongoing access to and use of the site, and
allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that
will allow content improvements. Cookies are not programs that come
onto a visitor's system and damage files. Generally, cookies work by
assigning a unique number to the visitor that has no meaning outside
the assigning site.
If a visitor does not want
information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple
procedure in most browsers that allows the visitor to deny or accept
the cookie feature. Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay uses
"cookie" technology only to obtain non-personal information
from its online visitors in order to improve visitors' online
experience and facilitate their visit within our site.
Links to other Web Sites and Services
This site may be linked to other sites and services that are not maintained by Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay. These Web sites have their own privacy policies, which you should review prior to visiting them. We have no responsibility for linked Web sites and provide these links solely for the convenience and information of our visitors.
Our Security Safeguard
The safety and security of your online experience is of the utmost concern to us. We ensure the appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures are in place to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.
Credit Card Safety
Protecting the safety of your credit card information is also
important to us. Our online transactions either for Event
Registration/Online Donations or through the Bay Shop Online are
performed by third party companies (Acteva and Yahoo respectively).
They use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to protect the security
of your credit card information as it is transmitted. SSL is the
industry standard in Internet encryption technology, which is a highly
sophisticated method of scrambling data as it travels from your
computer to our Web site servers.
To make sure you are
accessing a secure server before you submit personal financial
information, look at the lower left-hand corner of your browser, or at
the far right of your address bar. If you see an unbroken key or a
closed lock (depending upon your browser), then SSL is active. To
double-check for security, look at the URL or Address line of your
browser. If you have accessed a secure server, the first characters of
the address in that line should change from "http" to
"https."
It is important for you to protect
against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be
sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.
Children
If you are under 18, you need parent/guardian permission to use a credit card to make purchases online.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can contact
us at:
Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay
225 Old
Baltimore Pike
Newark, DE 19702
Phone: 800-341-4007 or
302-456-7150
Email: cbgscweb@cbgsc.org
Thank
you for visiting our site.
