Privacy Policy
Welcome to the official Web site of Girl Scouts Western Ohio.
This Web site is owned and operated by Girl Scouts of Western
Ohio, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio is committed to protecting the
privacy of our visitors. This privacy policy discloses how we
collect, protect, and use information you provide us online, as
well as how we protect children's privacy. By using the pages on
this site, you are accepting the practices described in the
Privacy Policy.
If our policy practices change in the future, we will let you
know by posting the policy changes on our Web site. However, we
will treat all personal information we collect in accordance
with the privacy notice in effect at the time the information is
collected.
Girl Scouts' online properties comprise of, but are not limited
to, all pages found under www.girlscoutsofwesternohio.org,
including our online shop.
DATA COLLECTION
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio uses its best efforts to respect and
protect the privacy of its online visitors. 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 Western Ohio
only gathers personally identifiable data, such as names,
addresses, zip/postal codes, email addresses, etc., when
voluntarily submitted by a visitor. For example, personally
identifiable information is collected in order to process online
transactions, online donations, or job applications. This
information is used solely by Girl Scouts of Western Ohio or
other entities who are involved in the operation of this site
for internal purposes. We do not sell information you provide to
us online to third parties. We will only share personally
identifiable information with third parties when (i) the person
submitting the information authorizes us to share it; (ii)
sharing the information is a necessary operation of the site,
for instance, to process a credit card transaction, or (iii) we
are required to by law. Girl Scouts of Western Ohio has no
control over or responsibility for the data collection and use
practices of third parties that process online transactions.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) protects
the personal information of children under the age of 13. This
applies to individually identifiable information about a child
that is collected online, such as full name, home address, email
address, telephone number or any other information that would
allow someone to identify or contact the child. The Act and Rule
also cover other types of information—for example, hobbies,
interests and information collected through cookies or other
types of tracking mechanisms—when they are tied to individually
identifiable information. It is important for you to understand
this law; we encourage you to read more about COPPA.
Note to Parents on Our Privacy Policy
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio is committed to providing a safe,
secure, and fun online experience for children who visit our
site. We are dedicated to safeguarding any personal information
collected online and to helping parents and children have
positive experiences on the Internet. Consistent with the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, we will never
knowingly request personally identifiable information from
anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental
consent.
Parents can revoke their consent and ask that information about
their children be deleted from the site by contacting our
offices by phone at (800) 537-6241 or via email. To do this or
to review personal 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.
Girl
Scouts believes it is good policy not to collect more personally
identifiable information from children under 13 than is
necessary for them to participate in our online activities. In
addition, be aware that all sites that are targeted to children
under 13 are prohibited by law from collecting more information
than they need.
Submissions
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio 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 Web site. For
this reason, Girl Scouts of Western Ohio 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.
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES AND SERVICES
This site may be linked to other sites and services that are not
maintained by Girl Scouts of Western Ohio. These Web sites have
their own privacy policies, which you should review prior to
visiting them. We have no responsibility for linked Web sites
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 ensure the appropriate physical,
electronic, and managerial procedures are in place 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. We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to
protect the security of your credit card information as it is
transmitted to us. SSL is the industry standard in Internet
encryption technology, which is a highly sophisticated method of
scrambling data as it travels from your computer to our Web site
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 personal financial information, look at
the lower left-hand corner of your browser. If you see an
unbroken key or a closed lock (depending upon your browser),
then SSL is active. To double-check for security, look at the
URL or Address line of your browser. If you have accessed a
secure server, the first characters of the address in that line
should change from "http" to "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 Western Ohio
4930 Cornell Road
Cincinnati, OH 45242
513-489-1025 or 800-537-6241
Thank you for visiting our site.
OF WESTERN OHIO
