This online privacy policy tells you about the information Victories of the Heart collects through our website, www.victoriesoftheheart.org
(the "Website"), how we use that information and how you can opt out of
certain uses of information we may collect. If you have any questions
about our privacy policy or our use of your information, you can e-mail
us at admin@victoriesoftheheart.org.
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING ANY OF victoriesoftheheart.org
SERVICES. BY USING ANY SUCH SERVICES AND/OR NAVIGATING THROUGH THE
WEBSITE YOU ARE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THIS
POLICY AND THAT YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE
TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, SIMPLY EXIT THIS PAGE
WITHOUT ACCESSING OR USING ANY OF OUR SERVICES.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on October 11, 2007.
Below you will find information on a number of topics, including:
- What personally identifiable information of yours is collected from you through the Website;
- How the collected information is used;
- With whom such information may be shared;
- What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information;
- The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control;
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information
A Special Note About Children.
Children
are not eligible to use our service and we ask that minors (under the
age of 13) do not submit any personal information to us or use the
service. victoriesoftheheart.org
does not collect or maintain information from those actually known to
be under the age of 13, and no part of our Website is structured to
attract anyone under the age of 13.
General Information Collection and Use
victoriesoftheheart.org
is the sole owner of the information collected on the Website. We will
not sell, share or rent this information to others in ways different
from what is disclosed in this policy, without first obtaining your
consent. Generally, we request this information when registering
visitors to the Website or when visitors to the Website and/or
registered users request a particular service. This information
collected is used to register the user for the selected service and to
contact the user about such service (e.g. e-mail address). Information
required to be submitted to become a registered user may include name,
e-mail address, license number and street address (as well as other
types of information).
Customer Service Correspondence
If
you send us correspondence, including e-mails and faxes, we may retain
such information in the records of your account. We may also retain
customer service correspondence and other correspondence from victoriesoftheheart.org
to you. We retain these records in order to measure and improve our
customer service, and to investigate potential fraud and violations of
our Terms of Use Agreement. We may, over time, delete these records if
permitted by law.
Cookies
A "cookie" is a
piece of data stored on a user's hard drive containing information
about the user. As part of offering and providing personalized
services, we may use cookies in an effort to save you time while on our
Website. If a user rejects the cookie, he or she may still have limited
use of the Website. Generally we use cookies to: - Remind us who you are and to access your account information;
- Track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Website;
- Estimate our audience size and measure certain traffic patterns.
IP Addresses
Every
computer connected to the Internet is given an IP address. We use IP
addresses to analyze trends, administer the Website, track users'
movement and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP
addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information, and
our web servers do not record the e-mail addresses of our visitors.
Sharing
As
a general rule, except as described in this privacy policy, we will not
disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we
have your permission or under special circumstances (such as when we
believe the law requires it). We may disclose or share aggregated
demographic information with certain partners, affiliates and
advertisers, however, except as described above, this is not linked to
any personal information that can identify any individual person or
company. In addition, victoriesoftheheart.org
may disclose account or other personal information when we have reason
to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify,
contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury
to or interference with victoriesoftheheart.org's rights or property, other Website users or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.
victoriesoftheheart.org may also release personal information to appropriate governmental authorities under the following circumstances: - Where
release is required by law (for example, a subpoena) or regulation, or
is requested by a government agency conducting investigations or
proceedings;
- Where our records indicate a company may be
engaged in fraudulent activity or other deceptive practices that a
governmental agency should be made aware of.
As with any other business, it is possible that victoriesoftheheart.org
in the future could merge with or be acquired by another company. If
such an acquisition occurs, the successor company would have access to
the information maintained by victoriesoftheheart.org,
including customer account information, but would continue to be bound
by this Privacy Policy unless and until it is amended as described
herein.
Links
This Website may contain
links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible
for the privacy practices of such other websites, as this privacy
policy applies solely to the Website. We encourage our users to remain
vigilant when they leave our Website and to read the privacy statements
of each and every website that collects personally identifiable
information.
Surveys
From time-to-time our
Website may request information from users via surveys. Participation
in these surveys, to the extent we run any, is completely voluntary and
the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this
information. Information requested may include contact information
(such as name and shipping address) and demographic information (such
as zip code and age level). Survey information will be used for
purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of the
Website.
Security
This Website takes
numerous precautions to protect our users' information. When users
submit sensitive information via the Website (e.g. credit card
information), such information is protected both on- and offline. We
encrypt certain sensitive information using Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
technology to ensure that our visitors' information is safe as it is
sent over the Internet to our server. SSL works by using a private key
to encrypt data that is transferred over the SSL connection. In
addition, all of our users' sensitive information is restricted in our
offices. While victoriesoftheheart.org
employs commercially reasonable security measures to protect our data
and seeks to partner with companies which do the same, we cannot
absolutely guarantee the security of any data transmission over the
Internet or any wireless network. Unfortunately, no data transmission
over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100%
secure, and we therefore are not responsible for any breach of security
or for any actions of any third parties that may receive any such
information.
Correction/Updating Personal Information
If your personally identifiable information changes at any time, please send an e-mail to admin@victoriesoftheheart.org.
Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to "opt-out" of receiving communications from victoriesoftheheart.org by sending us an e-mail at admin@victoriesoftheheart.org.
Notification of Changes
If
we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes
under the appropriate link on the "home page" of our Website so our
users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it
and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. The new terms
shall be effective immediately upon being posted on the Website. It is
the responsibility of each user to review the latest terms from time to
time, and if any user does not agree with any updates to the privacy
policy, such user should immediately cease use of the Website and any
purchased services.