Privacy Policy
Welcome to the official website of Girl Scouts of Wisconsin
Southeast. This website is owned and operated by Girl Scouts of
Wisconsin Southeast, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Girl Scouts of Wisconsin
Southeast 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.gswise.org,
including our online shop.
Data Collection
Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast 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 Wisconsin Southeast 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 Wisconsin Southeast
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
Wisconsin Southeast 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 Wisconsin Southeast 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
800-565-4475 or through our Contact Us page. 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 use the Web site. 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 Wisconsin Southeast 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 or publishing. However, we encourage this be
done only with their parent's knowledge and supervision.
In keeping with the Children's Advertising Review Unit of the Better
Business Bureau (CARU) 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 e-mail
and other online activities regularly.
Use of Cookies
Visitors should be aware that non-personal information and data
may be automatically collected by the Girl Scouts of Wisconsin
Southeast Web site through the use of "cookies."
"Cookies" are small text files a Web site 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. Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast 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.
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 Wisconsin Southeast. 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.
Sometimes when you're browsing you may not notice that a Web site will
change from unsecured to secured. The address bar in some browsers
will change from white to yellow and it always shows an unbroken key
or a closed lock icon to let you know the page you're using is secure.
You can click on that lock for more security information.
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, please contact us at 800-565-4475.
Thank
you for visiting our site.
