Summer Search Privacy Policy

This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for Summer Search. Summer Search knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly.

This notice describes our privacy policy and applies to all information received by Summer Search, both online and offline, on any Platform (‘Platform’ includes the Summer Search website and mobile applications), as well as any electronic, written, or oral communications.

Information Collection and Use

Summer Search will not sell, share, trade or rent email addresses or other personal information with any entity, nor send mailings to our constituents on behalf of other organizations, in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.

We reserve the right to disclose personally identifiable information as may be required by law; to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal process; if we determine that such disclosure is necessary to assert or protect our legal rights or property, or to protect the legal rights or property of others; to prevent harm to any person; or in connection with an actual or proposed merger or other transaction or proceeding involving a transfer of all or part of the programs or assets to which the information pertains.

We also reserve the right to disclose personal information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Summer Search’s Terms and Conditions or other agreements, or as otherwise required or permitted by law.

We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners, sponsors, and donors. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

Links

The Summer Search website contains links to other sites and this privacy statement applies solely to information collected directly on this website. Please be aware that Summer Search does not claim any responsibility for the privacy practices of such other sites or third party applications. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.

Website Donor Privacy

Credit card transactions on the Summer Search website are processed by a third-party service provider; we will only use that information to process the donation and acknowledge the gift.

Surveys

Occasionally, Summer Search requests information from users through surveys using other sites or third-party applications and are, therefore, governed by their own privacy policies. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user can choose whether or not to disclose this information.

Website Registration

In order to use some features of this website, users must first complete the registration form. During registration, users may be required to give their contact information and/or other personally identifiable information. This information is used to contact users about Summer Search and the topics on our site for which they have expressed interest and to enable users to retrieve lost passwords. This information may be captured on other sites or third-party applications and therefore, governed by their own privacy policies.

Newsletter and Other Email Communications

Summer Search may communicate with you by sending electronic newsletters, invitations or other email notices. These services are provided through third-party providers and therefore, governed by their own privacy policies. Summer Search will only send these types of communications to you if you have expressed an interest in the organization.

If you received a message in error, or no longer wish to receive communications from Summer Search, you may opt-out of future mailings by selecting “unsubscribe” at the bottom of each message. If users elect to use our “Send This to a Friend” function, we ask them for the friend’s email address. Summer Search will automatically send friends a one-time e-mail message inviting them to visit the site. Summer Search stores this information temporarily for the sole purpose of sending this one-time message.

Web Statistics

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use for reporting and sponsorship purposes. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Security

This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information, and we have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control.

Updating Personal Information

If a user’s personal contact information changes or if a user no longer desires to be a part of our web community we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update, or remove that the personal data that was provided to us. There are two ways users can make these changes:

Questions

Any questions regarding the Summer Search privacy policy should be directed to:

Summer Search
304 12th Street, Suite 4A
Oakland, CA 94607
info@summersearch.org.

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