Privacy Policy
1. What information do we collect?
We collect information from you and your computer when you register on our site, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey, fill out a form, participate in a poll, or visit pages of the website. When donating, ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number or other identifying information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
2. What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
- To personalize your experience. Your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs.
- To improve our website. We continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
- To improve our service to you. Your information helps us to more effectively respond to your service requests and support needs.
- To process transactions. Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company or organization for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering a purchased product, donation or requested service.
- To administer promotions, surveys or other site features.
- To send periodic emails. The email address you provide for website registration, mailing list enrollment, making a donation and/or order processing, may be used to send information and updates pertaining to your order or donation, as well as occasional news, updates, related product or service information, etc. about this website or other websites we control.
- Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
3. How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order, make a donation or access your personal information.
We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.
4. Do we use cookies?
Yes, cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.
We use cookies to help us remember and process transactions, understand and save your preferences for future visits, and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. Like most websites, if you turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function properly. However, you can still make donations or place orders by contacting us directly offline (see below).
5. Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
6. Third-party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
7. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
8. Online Privacy Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
9. Terms and Conditions
Please also visit our Terms and Conditions of Use section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.
10. Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions of Use.
11. Changes to our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right, to update or revise this Privacy Policy at any time without notice. Please check the Privacy Policy periodically for changes. The revised terms will be effective immediately as soon as they are posted on the website and by continuing to use the website you agree to be bound by the revised terms.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date below.
This policy was last modified on March 7, 2013.
12. Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding these terms you may contact us through our contact form:
or using the information below:
P.O. Box 12575
Albany, NY 12212-2575