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.
Thank you for visiting our site.
Social Media Policy
Please read GSWISE's Social Media Guidelines and Disclaimer (below) before participating on GSWISE's social media channels or participating on social media as a member of GSWISE.
Social Media Disclaimer
The opinions and or views expressed on Girl Scouts of
Wisconsin Southeast’s social media platforms, including, but not
limited to, our blog, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn and
YouTube pages, represent the thoughts of individual bloggers and
online communities, and not those necessarily of Girl Scouts of
Wisconsin Southeast or any of its corporate affiliates or any of their
respective directors, officers, employees, or members of its
respective board of directors. The opinions and views expressed on
these pages do not in any way reflect the views of the site they are
posted on, other sites affiliated with the site, the staff involved
with maintaining the site or any members of the site.
While Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast makes reasonable efforts to
monitor and/or moderate content posted on its social media platforms,
we cannot moderate all comments immediately and cannot always respond
in a timely manner to online requests for information.
Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast reserves the sole right to review,
edit and/or delete any comments it deems are inappropriate. Comments
including but not limited to the following may be deleted or edited by
the moderators:
- Abusive or hurtful comments about a blogger or another participant
- Off-topic and redundant comments (this includes promotion of events, groups, pages, websites, organizations and programs not related to or affiliated with the Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast)
- Comments that use foul language or "hate speech" (for example, including but not limited to racial, ethnic or gender bashing language)
- Personal attacks or defamatory statements or comments (i.e., making negative, personal, or untrue comments about a participant)
- Comments that violate the privacy of our girl and adult members and their families
All links to other websites found linked from Girl Scouts of
Wisconsin Southeast social media sites are provided as a service to
readers, but such linkage does not constitute endorsement of those
sites by Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast, and as such we are not
responsible for the content of external websites.
By
submitting content to any of Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast’s
social media sites, you understand and acknowledge that this
information is available to the public, and that Girl Scouts of
Wisconsin Southeast may use this information for internal and external
promotional and fundraising purposes. Please note that other
participants may use your posted information beyond the control of
Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast. If you do not wish to have the
information you have made available via our social media sites used,
published, copied and/or reprinted, please do not post on these
pages.
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Rights reserved. The GIRL SCOUTS name, mark, and all associated
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