PRIVACY STATEMENT (effective January 1, 2005)
Your personal information
• We do not sell member information to third parties.
• We do not share member information with outside parties who may wish to market their products to you.
• You control the amount of personal information sent with each donation. You can donate completely anonymously, if you desire.
• Within The Giving Zone, we safeguard your personal information with great care.
• We are committed to protecting your sensitive information in every donation you make.
Marketing
As stated above, we do not sell nor give your information to any outside party, other than what you allow us to send along with each donation you make.
Occasionally, however, we receive requests to forward email messages from charitable and non-profit organizations to our members.
You can control what types of these forwarded emails you receive through us by selecting among the various options on the Member Personal Information page.
Your account defaults to receiving email messages only from The Giving Zone.
About cookies
Cookies are pieces of data assigned by a Web server to the browser on your PC.
We use cookies to make your online session with us easier to manage, and you cannot login to The Giving Zone in if your browser is set to reject cookies.
As a matter of security, we do not embed your login name, password, or other personal information in our cookies.
We recommend that you complete your online work and then log out by clicking the
log out link on any page inside the member section before surfing to other sites or turning off your PC.
Privacy and security during your online sessions
The information you provide to us online is protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL technology).
SSL is the leading security protocol for data transfer on the Internet.
This technology scrambles your account information as it moves between your PC's browser and our computer systems.
When information is scrambled, or encrypted in this way, it becomes nearly impossible for anyone other than us to read it.
This secure session helps protect the safety and confidentiality of your information when you donate through us online.
More information
If you have any further questions about our privacy policy, please email them to
Member Services and we will respond promptly.
