Surfrider Spirit Sessions puts high priority on protecting your privacy.
When you give us personal information about yourself (such as name, email address or postal address), we will use this information only within our organization. We do not share, sell or rent our lists to commercial vendors or other organizations. You will not be added to any third party e-mail list without your express consent.
1. What Personally Identifiable Information of Yours Do We Collect?
Personally Identifiable Information means information that tells us something about who you are, such as your name, phone number, email address, mailing address, or even credit card number (if, for example, you use a credit card to make a donation). We only collect personal information from you if you provide us with your personal information, and we only collect the personal information that you voluntarily provide to us. If you are simply visiting our site, to read or download information for example, the only information that we may collect would be the IP address of the computer you used to access our website; the date and time you accessed our site; and if you visited our site using a link from another site, the web address of the site you linked from.
2. Who Are We?
We are Surfrider Spirit Sessions, an IRS 501(c)(3) Hawaii non-profit organization that aims to create and deliver holistic, ocean-based experiential education, mentoring programs and activities that connect, enhance, and fill in the gaps within existing nonprofit programs serving adjudicated, at-risk, or vulnerable youth, and to teach ocean awareness and environmental sensitivity to the general community. We are responsible for any information collected through our web sites. Our organizational homepage is located at http://www.surferspirit.org. If you have questions or concerns about the information we collect, you can contact us in the manner provided in Section 5 below.
3. How Your Information May Be Used.
We may use non-personal information about your visit to our website to track your and others' use of our website. This allows us to determine which of our features are the most popular so we can better serve our organization’s goals. If we use the personal information that you voluntarily give to us we do so to provide you with information about our organization and ways in which you can assist and support our organization’s goals. We may use your personal information to send you email alerts, newsletters, information about volunteering and mentoring opportunities, and fundraising campaigns, or to solicit donations. If you prefer not to get emails and newsletters from us, or that we not contact you in any other way, then you should not provide us with your name and email address. Or you can opt out of future emails and other contacts by notifying us in the manner provided in Section 5 below that you wish to opt-out of some or all such contacts.
4. Surfrider Spirit Sessions and the Children's Online Privacy Act.
We are committed to complying fully with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. Our website is not directed to children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you should not provide any information to us through this website. If you are aware that children under the age of thirteen are providing information to us through our website, please contact us immediately in the manner set forth in Section 5 below
5. How You Can Access, Change, or Remove Information We Have About You and-or Opt-Out of Future Communications from Us.
Now, or at any time in the future, you can check on what personal information we have collected and maintain about you, correct or change that information, or ask that your personal information be removed from our files. You can also opt-out of future contacts so that we do not send you any emails, messages or solicitations. You can do this by contacting us through email at: admin@surferspirit.org, or by writing to us at: Surfrider Spirit Sessions, PO Box 16777, Kailua, HI 96734. If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our privacy policy or any other aspect of our website, please contact us via email at: admin@surferspirit.org, or by writing to us at: Surfrider Spirit Sessions, PO Box 16777, Kailua, HI 96734.
6. What Kind of Security Procedures Are In Place to Protect Against the Loss, Misuse, or Alteration of Your Information?
If we collect any personally identifiable information from you we store it on secure servers and we employ other security measures to guard against the unauthorized access or disclosure of the information. We accept credit card donations only via PayPal, which employs a secure server. If you want to know what security measures PayPal employs to protect your personally identifiable information, you should read PayPal’s privacy policy available through the Privacy link at www.paypal.com.
7. How "Cookies" May Be Used on Our Website.
Our web site may use "cookie" technology to provide you with a better experience when you visit and then return to our website. Cookie technology reminds us who you are and how you used our website in the past. The "cookie" is placed in your computer and is read when you return to our web site. Cookies let us take you to the information and features you are particularly interested in. They also let us track your and others' usage of our web site, so we know which parts of our site are most popular. You can reject cookies or cancel them later. If you would like your browser to reject cookies, you can instruct your browser to do so. The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable existing cookies. If you remove or disable cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of all our website features.
8. How Do We Ensure Secure Donations?
We use PayPal to process your credit card donations. You can read more about how PayPal protects your credit card and other personally identifiable information that you provide to the PayPal site when you donate to us by going to PayPal’s Security and Protection policy webpage located at www.paypal.com.
9. Changes in Our Privacy Policy.
Should our privacy practices change, we will promptly amend this privacy policy web page. We recommend that you check back and review this policy from time to time to ensure you are aware of any updates.
10. Privacy Practices of Other Sites
For your convenience our website site may contain links, or addresses, that you can simply click to open other useful sites. These are third party websites. We do not control the content or privacy policy of these third party sites. This Privacy Policy only addresses the collection and use of information provided through the Surfrider Spirit Sessions website, not information you might provide to third party sites that are linked from the Surfrider Spirit Sessions website. Carefully review the privacy policies of these third party sites before you use them and before you provide them with information about yourself. Surfrider Spirit Sessions cannot assume liability for what these third party websites may do with your personal information.
