Privacy Policy
Welcome to the official Web site (the “Site”)
of Girl Scouts of Connecticut, Inc. (sometimes called “GSOFCT”) This Web site is owned and operated by Girl Scouts of
Connecticut, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut.
Girl Scouts of Connecticut is committed to protecting the privacy of our Site visitors
and users. This privacy policy (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 Privacy Policy practices change in the future, we will let you know by
posting the Privacy Policy changes on our Site. However, we will treat all
personal information we collect in accordance with the privacy policy in effect
at the time the information is collected.
DATA COLLECTION
Girl Scouts of Connecticut uses reasonable safeguards to respect and protect
the privacy of its Site 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 Connecticut
only gathers personally identifiable data on the Site, such as names,
addresses, zip/postal codes, email addresses, etc., when voluntarily submitted to
us by a Site visitor. For example, personally identifiable information is collected
on the Site in order to process online transactions or online donations. This
information is used solely by Girl Scouts of Connecticut or other
entities (including without limitation GSUSA) that we contract with 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 (a) 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 and (b) GSUSA. Girl
Scouts of Connecticut has no control over or responsibility for the data
collection and use practices of third parties that process online transactions.
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES AND SERVICES
This Site may be linked to other sites and services that are not maintained by GSOFCT
or GSUSA. This linked 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 as part of our reasonable
safeguards to protect 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.
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 Connecticut 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. 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.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can contact us at:
Girl Scouts of Connecticut
340 Washington
St
Hartford, CT
06106
(860) 522-0163
(800) 922-2770
Thank you for visiting our site.
