Rockland County Haiti Relief

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Privacy Policy

The Rockland County Haiti Relief respects the privacy of every visitor to our web site. Your privacy is a priority, and we go to great lengths to protect it. This Internet Site Privacy Policy explains our online information practices. This Policy may be changed or updated from time to time. By visiting the www.RocklandCountyHaitiRelief.org, you accept the practices described in this Policy.

USE OF CONTENT: All content on this site, including photos and documents, is provided "as is" without any endorsement or warranty, whether express or implied. In no event will Rockland County Haiti Relief be liable for any damages including, without limitation, indirect or consequential damages, or any damages whatsoever arising from the viewing or use of such content. Content other than photos may be used for non-commercial or educational purposes only. Photos may not be used without explicit permission from the photographers and/or- Rockland County Haiti Relief. Please contact us if you are interested in using these images.

WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED: Rockland County Haiti Relief does not require users to provide personally identifying information to access most of the site's content. However, non-personal information (which cannot be associated with a particular individual) may be collected during your visit. Examples of such information would be IP addresses, browser types and access times. Rockland County Haiti Relief may aggregate such information to provide summaries of use Rockland County Haiti Relief website and to better understand the interests of users as a group.

Personally identifying information may be required if users wish to make purchases, register for an event, respond to a survey or access member-organization-restricted sections of the site. Personally identifying information may include a user’s name, job roles, affiliations, phone number, postal and email addresses. This information is collected and maintained by Rockland County Haiti Relief in accord with this privacy policy. User profile information is available only to other registered users who work for Rockland County Haiti Relief or a member organization of or for those users who request their information to be made publically accessible (i.e., for our speakers bureau).

Users should use caution in submitting personal information on publically accessible sections of the website (i.e., comments, user profiles, shared documents) as such information is publicly available and may be collected and used by others without our knowledge or consent.

Rockland County Haiti Relief does not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from minors without the consent of a parent or guardian. If you believe that we might have any information from or about anyone under the age of 18, please contact us at the above addresses or phone number.

HOW INFORMATION IS USED: Rockland County Haiti Relief will not sell, exchange or release users’ personally identifying information to any third party, except to the extent necessary to comply with applicable laws or valid legal processes, to protect the rights and property of Rockland County Haiti Relief, or to provide the services or information a user has requested. The information we collect is used to 1) provide improved online content and services; 2) customize the content and/or layout of our site for each individual user; 3) to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our website and protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our website.

USE OF COOKIES: Our servers may use “cookies” (a small data file) to track a user’s activity within our site. Cookies do not gather personal information such as email addresses. The information provided by cookies allows Rockland County Haiti Relief to measure user trends (such as which domains refer users to our site) allow us to provide personalized content where available, to help diagnose problems with our servers, to administer this website more effectively and to gather broad geographic information about where users are accessing our site from. You can set your browser to refuse cookies, but this may limit your access to some features of the site.

MEMBER ORGANIZATION STAFF: Users affiliated with our member organizations, media outlets or government agencies who supply us with their telephone numbers or postal addresses online may be contacted by staff at Rockland County Haiti Relief or our member organizations regarding upcoming events or campaigns. If you do not wish to receive such contacts, please advise us by calling at info@RocklandCountyHaitiRelief.org or at 845-425-4623 and providing us with your name and contact details.

DISCLOSURE OF USER INFORMATION: Rockland County Haiti Relief may disclose user information if required 1) to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws; 2) to respond to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena, or warrant in the manner required by the requesting entity; 3) to take appropriate or necessary action against liability or fraudulent, abusive or unlawful uses; or 4) to protect the integrity of our information technology systems.

CORRECTING OR UPDATING COLLECTED INFORMATION: Upon request Rockland County Haiti Relief will make good-faith efforts to provide users with any personally identifying information about them that is gathered and maintained and to correct this information if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at the user’s request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, and would be extremely impractical.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY: From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this privacy policy. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our site periodically.