Privacy Policy

 

Privacy Statement

Grace Place for Children and Families is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Privacy Policy applies when you make a donation, register for an event, or otherwise provide us with information via the Grace Place for Children and Families website located at www.graceplacenaples.org and any other domain names owned or controlled by Grace Place for Children and Families (the “Website”) or in another manner, such as via telephone, email, regular mail, social media, at a special event, in response to a solicitation, or face-to-face. By using the Grace Place for Children and Families website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Grace Place for Children and Families collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Grace Place for Children and Families also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Grace Place for Children and Families. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Grace Place for Children and Families for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Grace Place for Children and Families web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Grace Place for Children and Families public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Grace Place for Children and Families does not read any of your private online communications.

Grace Place for Children and Families encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Grace Place for Children and Families so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Grace Place for Children and Families is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Grace Place for Children and Families Web site.

Use of your Personal Information

Grace Place for Children and Families collects and uses your personal information to operate the Grace Place for Children and Families Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Grace Place for Children and Families also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Grace Place for Children and Families. Grace Place for Children and Families may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Grace Place for Children and Families does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Grace Place for Children and Families may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Grace Place for Children and Families may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Grace Place for Children and Families, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Grace Place for Children and Families does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Grace Place for Children and Families keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Grace Place for Children and Families, in order to determine what Grace Place for Children and Families services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Grace Place for Children and Families to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Grace Place for Children and Families Web site will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Grace Place for Children and Families or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Grace Place for Children and Families; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Grace Place for Children and Families, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Grace Place for Children and Families Web site use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Grace Place for Children and Families pages, or register with Grace Place for Children and Families site or services, a cookie helps Grace Place for Children and Families to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Grace Place for Children and Families Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Grace Place for Children and Families features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Grace Place for Children and Families services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Grace Place for Children and Families secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Grace Place for Children and Families secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Donor Privacy Policy

The privacy of your personal information is of the utmost importance to Grace Place for Children and Families. Any information gathered by Grace Place for Children and Families will be kept strictly confidential. We will only share personally identifiable information with a third party if we are required to by law or it is necessary for completing an authorized operation, for instance to process a credit card transaction. The information, which Grace Place for Children and Families gathers, is used solely to accurately credit and recognize individual donor contributions. Grace Place for Children and Families will not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to any third party. We will take special care to protect the privacy and security of your information.

Changes to this Statement

Grace Place for Children and Families will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Grace Place for Children and Families encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Grace Place for Children and Families is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Grace Place for Children and Families welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Grace Place for Children and Families has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Grace Place for Children and Families at info@graceplacenaples.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.