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.

Our Policy

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 submitting information to the Council, you are accepting the practices described in the Privacy Policy.

Unless you voluntarily provide certain information, Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay does not collect personally identifiable information. We do not require you to register or provide information to view our web site or to obtain information about the Council’s programs.

Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay only gathers personally identifiable data, such as names, addresses, zip/postal codes, email addresses, and telephone/cell phone numbers, when they are submitted. For example, personally identifiable information is collected to process membership and activity registrations, online transactions, donations, interest in volunteering, or employment applications. This information is used solely by Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay or other entities involved in the operation of this the Council's website for internal purposes.

Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay never sells or rents its mailing lists or other personal information to outside parties or organizations. We will only share information when: (1) you authorize us to share information, (2) sharing the information is necessary to the Council's operations such as processing a credit card, or (3) we are required to disclose information by law.

We may collect non-personally identifiable information to evaluate and improve our website. We use this information anonymously and only in the aggregate.
We may use what are referred to in electronic commerce as "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. You may be able to prevent your computer from accepting cookies, to have your computer inform you when you receive a new cookie, or to disable cookies altogether by reviewing the instructions on the "HELP" portion of the toolbar on your internet browser.

Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay cares about the safety and security of your transaction and we work hard to keep your information secure.

For example, our information security policies:

Govern the retention of sensitive information;
Restrict access to information systems; and
Specify password requirements.
Additionally, your credit card number is retained only until your online order, registration or donation has been processed. At that time, we destroy all records of your credit card information.

Further, we restrict the use of such information and require that it be kept secure. We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) which is the industry standard for secure commercial transactions. This encrypts all your personal information including credit card number, name and address and makes it difficult for anyone else to intercept the credit card information you send. Companies that we work with to process credit card transaction also use high-grade encryption and security protocols.

The Council’s Privacy Notice
You have the following rights regarding your personal data that the Council has obtained:
(a) You may opt out of the processing of your personal data for targeted
advertising by the Council. The council uses targeted advertising to alert you to events that it conducts and that may be of interest to you.
(b) You may ask for confirmation whether the Council is processing your
personal data and for access to your personal data.
(c) You may request the correction of inaccuracies in your personal data.
(d) You may ask for the deletion of our personal data.
(e) You may request that your personal data be provided to you in a format that
allows you to transmit it to another entity without hindrance.
(f) You may appeal the Council’s decision not to grant the requests described in
sub paragraphs (a) through (e) above.

To complete these requests, please utilize the Girl Scouts Privacy Portal.

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.

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 caregivers 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 by contacting our offices by phone at 800-341-4007 or via email. 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 if parental consent is not obtained after a reasonable time.

Girl Scouts 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 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.

We do not use our website to sell merchandise or services to, nor do we solicit contributions from, children under the age of 18. Parents or guardians must purchase products or services, or make donations on behalf of children.

Persons under 18, need parent/guardian permission to use a credit card to make purchases online.

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.

Data Collection

When your personal information is gathered for online donations, you are using the services of Google, and the use of your information is governed by their Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en). When your personal information is gathered for online Bay Shop purchases, the use of your information is governed by the Privacy Policy of Square (https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/privacy-no-account). 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.

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 (Hybris, Google, and Square 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.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can contact us at:

Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay
1051 Sharpless Rd. Hockessin, DE 19707
Phone: 800-341-4007
Email: MemberCare@cbgsc.org

To make a data privacy request, please utilize the Girl Scouts Privacy Portal.

Thank you for visiting our site.