Privacy Policy
Welcome to the official
website of Girl Scouts, San Diego-Imperial Council, Inc. (henceforth
“Girl Scouts San Diego”), a 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization headquartered in San Diego, California.
Girl Scouts San Diego
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 website. 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 San
Diego’s online properties comprise of, but are not limited to,
all pages found under www.sdgirlscouts.org.
Data Collection
Girl Scouts San Diego
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.
Personally identifiable
data, such as names, addresses, Zip/postal codes, email addresses,
etc., is gathered only when voluntarily submitted by a visitor. For
example, personally identifiable information is collected in order to
process online transactions or online donations. Girl Scouts San
Diego partners with Girl Scouts of the USA for online registration.
This information is
used solely by Girl Scouts San Diego and Girl Scouts of the USA 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 San Diego 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 San Diego
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 or photos about their children
be deleted from the site by contacting our offices by phone at (800)
643-4798 or via email.
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 and/or photos of 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
participate in our online activities. 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.
Use of Cookies
Visitors should be
aware that non-personal information and data may be automatically
collected by the Girl Scouts San Diego website through the use of
cookies. Cookies are small text files a website 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 San Diego 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
San Diego. These websites have their own privacy policies, which you
should review prior to visiting them. We have no responsibility for
linked websites 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 only
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant
third party payment processors for all merchant transactions. All
transactions processed by Girl Scouts San Diego are transmitted and
stored using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to protect the
security of your credit card information as it is transmitted to us.
To make sure you are
accessing our secure server before you submit personal financial
information, look at the lower left-hand corner of your browser. If
you see an unbroken key or a closed lock (depending upon your
browser), then SSL is active. To double-check for security, look at
the URL or Address line of your browser. 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.
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, you can contact us at:
Girl Scouts, San Diego-Imperial Council, Inc.
1231 Upas Street
San Diego, CA 92103
Phone: (800) 643-4798 or (619) 298-8391
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. PST.
E-mail: info@sdgirlscouts.org
You can e-mail us your question and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Thank you for visiting our site.
