PRIVACY POLICY AND SECURITY
Privacy Policy 1, Posted: December 2009
Committed to Maintaining your Privacy and Security
The Northshore Education Consortium is committed to protecting your privacy and the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes the kind of information we collect from you, how that information is used, and what kind of security measures we employ on our Web site.
We will not sell, share or rent the information you provide in any way that has not been specified in our Privacy Policy. If you have questions regarding this privacy policy, or The Northshore Education Consortium information practices, please e-mail us at jshwom@nsedu.org.
Information Collection and Use
The Northshore Education Consortium requests information from you at various points on our Website. You are under no obligation to enter any information on our Website however, in order to participate in some of the services we offer at The Northshore Education Consortium, such information collection is necessary. Below is a brief summary of the information we typically collect from you and how it is used. We will update this policy as changes occur.
Donations
When you give a financial donation to The Northshore Education Consortium, we ask that you provide us with your name, telephone number, mailing address, e-mail address and credit card information. We use a secure third party, Secure Pay, to process your donation.
Cookies and Computer Information
When you access our home page, our Web site will set a cookie on your computer that is used to detect whether your browser is capable of displaying Flash images. If you do not have cookies enabled on your browser, it will not be set. If Flash is not installed on your computer, certain portions of our Web site will not be displayed to you properly. We collect the following information about your computer configuration: browser type, operating system, IP address and the URL of the Web page you were on just prior to visiting The Northshore Education Consortium. We use this information to analyze usage trends, administer the site, and track our users' movements across our site for aggregate use. This information will not reveal, nor is it associated with your personal identity.
Information Sharing
The Northshore Education Consortium will not share donor names and addresses with any parties not affiliated with us. We use outside banking facilities to process many of our charitable donations. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing us with those services. Prior to giving a donation online, you will have an opportunity to review that company's privacy and security policy.
Other Uses and Disclosures of Information
Although unlikely, The Northshore Education Consortium may be required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide personal information about our users. We will provide this information, to the extent technically possible, upon request and receipt of the appropriate documentation. Disclosure may also occur if we consider it necessary to protect our legal rights, or if the information relates to actual or threatened harmful conduct.
Access and the Ability to Correct Your Information
The Northshore Education Consortium stores the information you provide, upon registration, at our site and for our various services in our database. If your information changes (such as your e-mail address or zip code), or if you no longer desire to volunteer or receive our newsletters, please contact jshwom@nsedu.org to change your information.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post a notice of those changes on the Privacy Policy section of our Web site so that you will always have notice of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
Security
The Northshore Education Consortium operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewalls and password protection systems. Only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our supporters. Any other particularly sensitive information, such as a donor's credit card number, is also encrypted prior to transmission.
Northshore Education Consortium
112 Sohier Road, Beverly, MA 01915 • 978.232.9755
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