At Safer Society, we are committed to safeguarding your privacy. That is why we have implemented this comprehensive Privacy Policy. This policy outlines how we collect, process, and utilize your personal information. We pledge to handle your data only in ways that are fully aligned with these privacy commitments. These policies apply exclusively to the web pages owned and operated by Safer Society Foundation.
Browsing our Website
You may browse safersociety.org without revealing any personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, phone number, or e-mail address. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may collect certain information from your computer, such as your computer's IP address, through the use of cookies.
Safer Society's Use of Cookies
Safer Society utilizes cookies to enhance your experience while navigating the website. Cookies are small data files that certain websites transfer to the user's computer or device, which are often used for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is considered a standard practice across the web industry to improve website functionality and user experience. The use of cookies serves several functions, including:
Enhancing User Experience
- Saving user preferences and settings to provide a more personalized browsing experience.
- Preventing the repeated display of the same content.
- Facilitating user login and password management.
Browser Configuration
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. However, users have the option to alter their browser settings to refuse cookies. Please note that disabling cookies may impact the proper functioning of certain areas of the Safer Society website. For guidance on clearing cookies from your computer, consult the documentation for your specific internet browser.
Aggregate Data
Safer Society gathers and pools, or aggregates, certain usage information about the Site, such as the number and frequency of visitors to safersociety.org, length of stay, and other anonymous data. This data helps us determine usage levels on different parts of safersociety.org, and to conduct other internal research. We may disclose this kind of information in an aggregate form only, without any personally identifiable information, to sponsors, supporters, and other third parties. As stated above, for these uses, we do not disclose any information that could be used to identify you personally.
Registration
Certain pages on safersociety.org, such as referral requests, newsletter or other update requests, and shopping cart pages, may request that you provide some personally identifiable information to us, such as your name, address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address, or credit card number. We may ask for such information in order to fulfill your referral request, to enable you to purchase merchandise or to enable you to receive periodic information from Safer Society. We use third-party vendors to handle all our online financial transactions, as discussed in more detail in the section entitled "Financial Information."
In addition, we may use such information to analyze site usage for safersociety.org, to improve our content, to better understand our user base, and to customize the Site's content, layout, and services. Finally, we may use your e-mail address to send you updates or newsletters apprising you of recent events and developments relating to Safer Society and its mission.
Newsletter Subscription and Opt-Out Procedures:
Safer Society uses Constant Contact to send newsletters and other e-mail notifications and updates. It follows implied permission under CASL and GDPR. You may, at any time, opt-out or change your preferences or profile using the link in your newsletter. If you believe you have received an unsolicited e-mail from Safer Society, please report it using this form.
Financial Information
We work with vendors to handle all our online financial transactions, including online sales. Credit card and bank detail information that you provide is not retained on our web servers.
To ensure the maximum level of security is applied to your data, data transmitted from the Site is encrypted using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). In addition, we work only with vendors who ensure that all financial transmissions over the internet to and from their sites use SSL. None of these vendors will use your personally identifiable information for any purpose other than as authorized by you at the Site or their sites.
The following are vendors we currently work with. This list is subject to change without notice:
WPEasyCart Software
Our online store operates through WPEasyCart e-commerce software. All financial information collected to process a store purchase is transmitted securely to our payment processing service, Authorize.Net and QuickBooks Merchant Services. Financial information is used solely for the purpose of that transaction.
Surveys and Questionnaires
Occasionally we may invite you to fill in questionnaires or surveys while you are online at the Site. The data collected by the questionnaire or survey will only be used for the purpose stated on the form, and for no other purpose. You may also be given the opportunity to add your address details to our databases so we can contact you in the future
Online Comments
Safer Society invites you to submit anonymous online comments and feedback through different forms on the Site. By submitting such information, you hereby grant permission to Safer Society to use these comments on the Site or in other Safer Society materials. We may, for instance, provide compilations of your comments to individuals participating in our efforts or make comments to the press and public online. No personally identifiable information about you will be disclosed because the comment was submitted anonymously.
You may sometimes have the option of providing personally identifiable information along with your comment. If you choose to provide such personally identifiable information, none of your personally identifiable information will be included with comments without your express consent.
Who We Share Information With
If you attend a Safer Society Foundation training that is eligible for Continuing Education Credits, your name, email address, phone number, and attendance information are shared with the accrediting agency, Continuing Excellence, LLC. We do not sell, rent, or lend any information about our users or donors to any other organization.
Other Uses
We may use internal service providers to facilitate our services and, therefore, may provide some of your personally identifiable information directly to them. In addition, we may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf, such as website hosting and data analysis. These companies and individuals will only have access to the personally identifiable information needed to perform their functions and may not use it for any other purpose.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"), which uses cookies and tracking code to help analyze how visitors use the Site. The information collected, (including what browser and operating system you are using, your IP address, the pages on the Site you visit, your number of page views, and the time you spend on the Site), is transmitted to and stored by Google. Google uses this information for the purpose of evaluating visitors' use of the Site in an aggregate manner, compiling reports on website activity for website operators, and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage. Google may transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or to third parties that process information on Google's behalf. For more information, please read Google's privacy policy.
Access to Your Information
You may request a copy of any personally identifiable information that Safer Society has about you. Please contact our Web Manager using this form or write to the Web Manager, Safer Society Foundation, P.O. Box 340, Brandon, VT 05733. Safer Society does not charge for supplying this information and will reply within 40 days of receipt of your request. It will help us locate your records more easily if you can tell us something about the nature of your contact with Safer Society.
Links
Safersociety.org includes links to other websites that are not owned or managed by Safer Society Foundation. We cannot be held responsible for the privacy of data collected by these websites.
Limits on Security on the Internet
We employ different security techniques to protect your personally identifiable information from unauthorized users inside and outside of Safer Society Foundation, including standard encryption practices. You should be aware, however, that "perfect security" does not exist anywhere on the Internet.
ALTHOUGH WE BELIEVE WE TAKE APPROPRIATE MEASURES TO SAFEGUARD AGAINST UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURES OF INFORMATION, WE CANNOT ASSURE YOU THAT YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION OR YOUR E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS WITH SAFER SOCIETY FOUNDATION WILL NEVER BE DISCLOSED IN A MANNER INCONSISTENT WITH THIS POLICY, AND WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES REGARDING THE SUFFICIENCY OF OUR SECURITY MEASURES.
Always be careful and responsible regarding your personally identifiable information. We are not responsible for, and cannot control, the use by others of any information that you provide or divulge to others, purposefully or inadvertently, including your e-mail address and password to use certain features of the Site. For more information from the U.S. government on how to keep your computer safe, please go to http://www.onguardonling.gov/.
Disclaimer for Law Enforcement Purposes
We do not publish, sell, share, or rent information about you in a way different than what is disclosed in the Privacy Policy. However, we may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances. We may be required to (and you authorize us to) reveal any information about you that we possess to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe is necessary or appropriate, in connection with the investigation of a crime, mandatory reporting laws, fraud, intellectual property infringement, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us, or you, to liability. Also, if someone of any age is in immediate danger, we may disclose whatever information you have provided to the appropriate authorities.
Changes to the Policy
We may revise or update this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a revised Privacy Policy on the Site. You should refer back to this page often for the latest information and the effective date of any changes. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post a new policy on our Site and change the date at the bottom. Changes to the policy shall not apply retroactively.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, Safer Society Foundation practices, or concerns about anything on the Site, please report it using this form. Alternatively, you can send us a letter in the mail to:
Safer Society Foundation
P.O. Box 340
Brandon, VT 05733
Date: 05/13/2010