Privacy Notice Table Of Contents:
Privacy Seals:
Your privacy is important to us. By participating in the Council of Better Business Bureau's BBBOnLine® Privacy Program we have made a commitment to meet the program's strict requirements regarding how we treat your information and have it verified by BBBOnLine. Further information about this program is available at www.bbbonline.org.
Our Commitment to Data Security:
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. For example, we always use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer financial data exchanged with our site.
Children International's Commitment to Privacy:
Your privacy is important to us. Children International does not rent, sell or exchange our mailing lists nor any information submitted through this website. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our home page and at every point that personally identifiable information may be requested.
The Information We Collect:
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Children International website. For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes only the consumer's domain name, but not the e-mail address (where possible). For non-sponsoring visitors, we collect only the domain name but not the e-mail address of visitors to our Web page, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, information volunteered by the consumer, such as personal sponsor information, survey information and/or site registrations and e-mail addresses of opt-in subscribers. The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web page, to notify consumers about updates to our website, and is used by us to contact potential and current sponsors for Children International's marketing purposes. This information is not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.
On some pages, you can sign up to sponsor children, make special contributions, make inquiries regarding your sponsored child, or register to receive materials. The types of personal information collected at these pages may include some or all of the following:
Name
Address
Email address (for those who choose to opt-in their e-mail addresses)
Phone number
Credit/Debit Card Information (for those who sponsor children online or choose to make payments online)
How We Use Information:
We use the information you provide about yourself to complete that specific request. We may also use the information you submit to provide you with additional information about our sponsorship program or other programs we have to offer. If you do not wish to receive information beyond what you have specifically requested, you may indicate that when you submit your request or at any time thereafter as outlined in the section "How to Access to Review and/or Correct Your Information."
We use e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail that we receive, and we use opted-in e-mail addresses for marketing purposes with the permission of the consumer. Children International does not rent, sell or exchange our mailing lists nor any information submitted through this website. We never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
Children International gives you the opportunity to use our Tell-a-Friend feature to inform a friend or family member about our site. We will ask you for the friend or family member's name and email address so that we may automatically send them a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. This information will only be used for this purpose and will not be maintained in retrievable format.
We also give visitors to our site the opportunity to make a donation to Children International in someone else's name. We will ask you for the name of the person for whom you are making a donation and an address where a gift card will be sent. This information will be deleted after the acknowledgment for the donation has been sent.
With respect to cookies: we use cookies to record session information, such as sponsorship transactions, in a secure manner. A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. Some Children International pages use cookies so that we can better serve you when you return to our site. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it or not.
This site contains links to other sites. Children International is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
With respect to ad servers: we do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.
Our Commitment to Children's Privacy:
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important to Children International. For that reason, and in accordance with COPPA (the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1999), we do not knowingly collect or maintain information at our website from children who are younger than 13. No part of our website is intended to attract anyone under age 13. For further information about children's privacy, you may want to review the following links:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/index.html
http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/index.html
How to Access to Review and/or Correct Your Information:
Upon request we provide site visitors (those who sponsor and those who simply request free information) with access to all information that we maintain about them, financial information (e.g., credit card account information) that we maintain about them, unique identifier information (e.g., customer number or password) that we maintain about them, transaction information (e.g., dates on which customers made contributions or sponsored children, amounts and types of contributions or sponsorships) that we maintain about them, and contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number) that we maintain about them. Consumers can access this information by sending us an e-mail at children@children.org , calling us at (800) 888-3089 or writing to us at:
Children International
2000 East Red Bridge Road
Kansas City, MO 64131
Upon request we offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information, financial information, unique identifiers or transaction information. Consumers can have this information corrected by sending us an email at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number or writing to us at the above address.
By notifying us whenever you have a change to any of the information - e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, etc. - you will help us make prompt and efficient changes to your records. This helps us keep our administrative costs low and use more of the funds contributed to help children. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before making corrections.
If you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please send us an e-mail at children@children.org or call us toll-free in the U.S. at (800) 888-3089. You may also send a fax to (816) 942-3714. If you choose to write to us, our mailing address is:
Questions
Children International
P.O. Box 219055
Kansas City, MO 64121
Please be aware that writing to us at the mailing address above may result in a somewhat slower response because our mail is processed by a banking facility to ensure the security of any contributions sent to that address.
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will contact you before we use your data for these new purposes to notify you of the policy change and to provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. We will also post the policy changes to our website 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 website periodically.
If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above address or phone number. You may also contact:
The DMA's Committee on Ethical Business Practices at mgoldberger@the-dma.org, BBBOnline, or the Federal Trade Commisssion by phone at 202.FTC-HELP (202.382.4357) or electronically at www.ftc.gov/ftc/complaint.htm.
Your privacy is important to us. Children International values our relationship with all our sponsors and donors who, by their financial support, enable us to provide important and much-needed benefits to the children we serve. Thank you.
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