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Privacy Statement
Worcester County Food Bank shares your concerns
about privacy on the Internet. In order to better protect your privacy,
Worcester County Food Bank has provided this notice explaining its
online information practices and the choices you can make about
the way your information is collected and used on the Site. Furthermore,
this Privacy Policy, being part of the Terms, works in conjunction
with the Terms and Conditions of Use, but does not modify or supercede
it.
In the course of using the Site, Worcester County Food Bank may
ask you for your name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone
number, fax number as well as other relevant information. Worcester
County Food Bank also may collect certain non-personally identifiable
information when you visit many of our web pages such as the type
of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the
type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows '98 or Mac
OS), the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America
Online, Earthlink), aggregate data about the number of visits to
the Site and/or aggregate data about the pages visited.
Worcester County Food Bank uses the non-personally identifiable
information ("Aggregate Data") to improve the design and
content of the Site and to enable Worcester County Food Bank to
personalize your Internet experience. Worcester County Food Bank
may use the Aggregate Data to analyze Site usage as well as create
services and/or products to fit your needs. Also, Worcester County
Food Bank shares this Aggregate Data with Worcester County Food
Bank's related entities, advertisers, partners and/or other third
party vendors. Worcester County Food Bank shall own such Aggregate
Data and maintain copies of such as part of its records.
Except as otherwise indicated, Worcester County Food Bank uses the
personally identifiable information ("Personal Information")
you provide about yourself: (a) to respond to any of your inquiries
or questions about our services; (b) for internal marketing purposes
and as part of Worcester County Food Bank's donor database; (c)
to provide you additional and updated information, materials and
other advertisements regarding the Worcester County Food Bank services;
(d) to offer you other materials and/or information that Worcester
County Food Bank believes may be of interest to you; (e) to cooperate
with government officials or parties in litigation under process
of law, or as otherwise required by law; (f) to protect the security
or integrity of the Site; (g) to protect against a threat of safety
or destruction of property; and/or (h) to protect against legal
liability. In all cases, however, Worcester County Food Bank agents,
employees and contractors who have access to Personal Information
are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent
with this Privacy Policy. Furthermore, Worcester County Food Bank
encourages all its business Partners to adopt and adhere to standards
of protection consistent with this Privacy Policy. Worcester County
Food Bank will not use the Personal Information, except as set forth
herein, without your permission; provided, however, Worcester County
Food Bank shall own all such Personal Information and maintain copies
of such as part of its records. If you do not wish to receive any
such information or to allow Worcester County Food Bank the right
to use your personally identifiable information as described, please
contact Worcester County Food Bank in the manner identified in the
"Opt-Out" section below. The Aggregate Data and Personal
Information may be transferred, distributed or sold as part of Worcester
County Food Bank or its assets.
You may choose not to receive such information and/or to allow Worcester
County Food Bank to use your information in the manner described
above by simply notifying Worcester County Food Bank directly at
www.foodbank.org or at 508-842-3663.
Upon receipt and processing of an "opt out" request, Worcester
County Food Bank will, within its commercially reasonable amount
of time, remove your information from any future marketing communications.
Worcester County Food Bank has implemented security measures to
help protect against the risk of loss, misuse and alteration of
any information under Worcester County Food Bank's control. Worcester
County Food Bank protects your online order information by using
Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") technology. SSL encrypts
your order information to avoid the decoding of that information
by anyone other than Worcester County Food Bank. Nevertheless, such
security measures may not prevent all loss, misuse or alteration
of information on the Site, and Worcester County Food Bank is not
responsible for any damages or liabilities relating to any such
security failures. You understand that data and communications,
including e-mail and other electronic communications, may be accessed
by unauthorized third parties when communicated over the Internet.
Furthermore, the Site contains links to other web sites. Worcester
County Food Bank is not responsible for nor can Worcester County
Food Bank ensure the privacy practices or content of such other
sites.
Like other web sites, Worcester County Food Bank uses your IP address
to help diagnose problems with Worcester County Food Bank's servers,
to administer the Site and for security purposes.
"Cookies" are pieces of data sent from a Web server to
a Web browser that enable a Web server to identify users that visit
a site hosted by that server. Worcester County Food Bank may use
Cookies in order to identify you to our site so that Worcester County
Food Bank can provide more customized information and services to
you. In addition, our site may contain advertisements that may contain
Cookies. In general, if you choose, you can disable the use of Cookies
by reviewing your browser's preferences and options.
Worcester County Food Bank may change this Privacy Policy at any
time, consistent with the terms set forth in the Terms and Conditions
of Use, by posting the changed or amended Privacy Policy on the
Site. Your continued viewing of or use of this Site following the
posting of any changes to this Privacy Policy will signify your
assent to any such changes or amendments.
You may contact Worcester County Food Bank with questions or comments
regarding this Privacy Policy, updating any personally identifiable
information or anything else related to Worcester County Food Bank
and/or this Site at www.wcfb.org.
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