Privacy Policy
This website is owned by Girl Scouts of Central Indiana, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered Indianapolis, Indiana. Our online properties comprise of, but are not limited to, all pages found under www.girlscoutsindiana.org. This privacy policy applies to these sites and other sites, mobile apps or other online services we operate that link to this policy (collectively, referred to below as the site).
Girl Scouts of Central Indiana is committed to respecting and
protecting the privacy of our visitors. This privacy policy discloses
how we collect, protect, and use information you provide or we collect
online, as well as how we protect children's privacy. If our policy
practices change in the future, we will let you know by posting our
revised privacy policy on our website. By using the pages on this site
or other services covered by the posted Privacy Policy, you are
accepting the practices described in the Privacy Policy.
Information Collection
Personally Identifiable Information. At
our site, we do not collect personally identifiable information from
individuals unless they provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly.
This means we do not require you to register or provide information to
us in order to view our site. Girl Scouts of Central Indiana only
gathers personally identifiable data on our site, such as names,
addresses, Zip/postal codes, email addresses, etc., when voluntarily
submitted by a visitor. Once collected, we may combine this
information with other information collected from external sources.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information. Girl Scouts of Central
Indiana may automatically collect certain technical information from
your computer such as your Internet service provider, your Internet
Protocol address, your browser type, your operating system, the pages
viewed, the pages viewed immediately before and after accessing the
website, and the search terms entered to get to our site. This
information allows us to improve and customize our services. We and
our service providers may collect this information using “cookies,”
which are small text files that many websites save on your computer,
or similar technologies. See the section on “Use of Cookies and
Similar Technology” below for more information.
Use and
Sharing of Personally Identifiable Information
The personally
identifiable information you provide is used by Girl Scouts of Central
Indiana and other entities who are involved in the operation of this
site or who provide support for the Girl Scouts of Central Indiana and
Girl Scouts of the USA mission and programs, for general business
purposes and for the purposes for which you provided the information.
General business purposes include, for example, Girl Scouts of Central
Indiana and Girl Scouts of the USA membership activities, program
participation, marketing, promotions, and fundraising activities and
communications. The purposes for which you provide information
includes our use of your personally identifiable information to
process online transactions, purchases, and donations, facilitate
participation in Girl Scouts of the USA and Girl Scouts of Central
Indiana programs, promotions and services, or process job
applications. We do not sell information you provide to us online
with third parties. We may share personally identifiable information
with third parties including: (i) with other Girl Scout Councils and
Girl Scout troops for administrative purposes relating to a child’s
activities with another Council or their troop; (ii) when the person
submitting the information authorizes us to share it; (iii) when
sharing the information is with a service provider in furtherance of
our operations or the operation of the site, for instance, to process
a purchase or other transaction you make; (iv) to facilitate
participation in Girl Scouts of the USA and Girl Scouts of Central
Indiana programs, promotions, and services, or to engage in fund
raising, marketing communications and promotions; (v) to comply with
legal processes such as a subpoena or court order or to otherwise
protect your or our legal rights; or (vi) for other purposes for which
you provided the information. Girl Scouts of Central Indiana has no
control over or responsibility for the data collection and use
practices of third parties that process online transactions. For
example, if you make a purchase on our site using a PayPal account or
similar account of a third party payment provider, certain information
is transmitted to the payment provider and is subject to the third
party’s own privacy policy.
Please note that Girl Scouts of the USA provides operational support
for the site and may collect and use personally identifiable
information you provide to the site and other information collected by
the site as described in this policy. Girl Scouts of the USA will use
any information it collects for the purposes described in this policy
and in a manner consistent with its own privacy policy, which is
available here. Girl Scouts of Central Indiana and Girl Scouts of the
USA are each responsible for their own information handling
practices.
Children’s Privacy
Girl Scouts of
Central Indiana is committed to providing a safe, secure, and fun
online experience for children who visit our site. We are dedicated to
safeguarding any personally identifiable information collected online
and to helping parents and children have positive experiences on the Internet.
We will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. With parental consent, we may collect information from children under the age of 13 such as: name, address, email address, account information, and user generated content. This information allows us to fulfill a requested transaction and facilitate participation in online programs, keep records, undertake certain marketing activities, or to otherwise customize or enhance the website experience for children.
Children under the age of 13 may be able to make certain content such as user generated content visible to others or the public. This could include, for example, a webpage or parts of webpages operated by children that have been designed for group or public viewing. However, absent parental consent, children under 13 would be allowed to display only limited information such as a first name or unique user name or other information that does not allow for online contacting by third parties.
Regardless of what information is displayed, parents can revoke
their consent and ask that information about their children be deleted
from the site by contacting our offices by phone at 317.924.6800 (Toll
Free: 855.GSCIN.4U) or via email at GirlScouts@girlscoutsindiana.org.
To do this or to review personally identifiable information collected
from children, we must verify the identity of the requesting parent.
When a parent revokes consent, we will stop collecting, using, or
disclosing information from that child. To respect the privacy of
parents, information collected and used for the sole purpose of
obtaining verifiable parental consent or providing notice is not
maintained in retrievable form by the site if parental consent is not
obtained after a reasonable time.
Submissions
Girl
Scouts of Central Indiana welcomes children to learn more about our
organization and, where appropriate, participate in polls and surveys,
as well as submit comments, artwork, writings, and other submissions
for posting on our website. For this reason, Girl Scouts of Central
Indiana follows the guidelines for interactive electronic media
published by the Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the
Better Business Bureau for pages targeted to children under 13.
However, we encourage this be done only with their parent's knowledge
and supervision. We also encourage children to use an alias (e.g.,
"Bookworm", "Skater", etc.), first name, nickname,
initials, or other alternative to full names or screen names which
correspond with an email address for any activities which will involve
public posting.
In keeping with CARU's Principle regarding respecting and fostering
the parents' role in providing guidance for their children, we
encourage parents to check and monitor their children's use of email
and other online activities regularly.
Use of Cookie and
Similar Technologies
Visitors should be aware that non-personal
information and data may be automatically collected by the Girl Scouts
of Central Indiana website through the use of "cookies" or
other similar technologies such as web beacons. "Cookies"
are small text files a website can use to recognize repeat visitors,
facilitate the visitor's ongoing access to and use of the site, and
allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that
will allow content improvements. Cookies are not programs that come
onto a visitor's system and damage files. Generally, cookies work by
assigning a unique number to the visitor that has no meaning outside
the assigning site. If a visitor does not want information collected
through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most
browsers that allows the visitor to deny or accept the cookie feature.
“Web beacons” are a small snippet of code embedded in webpages
typically used to monitor activity on a webpage and transfer or
collect information, such as information about your Internet Protocol
address, the URL of the page on which the beacon is located, the
browser type that is accessing the site, and the ID number of cookies
placed on your computer.
Girl Scouts of Central Indiana uses "cookie" technology only to obtain non-personal information from its online visitors in order to improve visitors' online experience and facilitate their visit within our site. Girl Scouts of Central Indiana may use web beacons to improve website services, conduct website analytics, first party advertising relating to us and our sponsors, and to optimize the browsing experience.
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (that is, not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you on this or other websites. Read more information about this practice at http://www.networkadvertising.org and http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies.
Links to Other Websites and Services
This site may be linked
to other sites and services that are not maintained by Girl Scouts of
Central Indiana. These websites have their own privacy policies, which
you should review prior to visiting them. We have no responsibility
for linked websites and provide these links solely for the convenience
and information of our visitors.
Our Security Safeguard
The safety and security of your online
experience is of the utmost concern to us. We take measures to
implement reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures
to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data
security, and correctly use the information we collect online.
Credit Card Safety
Protecting the safety of your credit card
information is also important to us. For card transactions we process,
we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to protect the security
of your credit card information as it is transmitted to us. SSL is an
Internet encryption technology, and a method of scrambling data as it
travels from your computer to our website servers. We also encrypt
your credit card number when we store your order and whenever we
transfer that information to participating merchants.
To make
sure you are accessing our secure server before you submit sensitive
information, check the document for your browser for indication of an
SSL connection (most browsers utilize an unbroken or closed padlock).
Verify that SSL is active before submitting sensitive information to
our server. To double-check, verify that the URL or Address line of
your browser for our site begins with "https."
It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.
Children
If you are under 18, you need parent/guardian
permission to use a credit card to make purchases online.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Privacy
Policy, you can contact us at:
Girl Scouts of Central
Indiana
2611 Waterfront Pkwy E Dr. Suite 100
Indianapolis,
IN 46214
Toll Free: 855.GSCIN.4U
Monday-Friday, 8:30
a.m.-5:30 p.m., Eastern Time.
Email
You can email us your question at GirlScouts@girlscoutsindiana.org and we will get
back to you as soon as possible.
Thank you for visiting our site.
This Privacy Policy was last updated in September 2015.
