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Connecticut Association of Nonprofits Privacy Statement
Connecticut
Association of Nonprofits Privacy Policy
The
Connecticut Association of Nonprofits is committed to respecting your
privacy. This privacy policy governs our collection and use of personal and
business information collected from visitors to our website, through our
email and regular mail correspondence, telephone calls, and faxes, and
reflects our policies toward privacy in respect to all other means of
gathering and disseminating data.
Our policy
is to use any and all data collected by any means, whether through the
internet, email, our online database and/or any interactive forms or surveys
only for such uses that are important to our organization and our cause, in
light of the professional standards required and expected from nonprofit
organizations.
Connecticut Association of Nonprofits reserves the right to change this
policy whenever deemed necessary without prior notification. Should changes
be made, they will be posted on this Privacy Notice with the date of
revision.
Information posted about our members on the website consists only of
organization name, city, and sector. We do, however, maintain internal lists
of members and contacts. Because your physical mail and e-mail addresses are
confidential, we never share either type of list with outside parties, and
only key Connecticut Association of Nonprofits personnel and certain
technical contractors are allowed access to the areas of the computer
systems in which we store our lists. Lists are accessed only for the purpose
of upgrading our computer systems or distributing Connecticut Association of
Nonprofits newsletters, publicity campaigns, alerts, correspondence, event
notifications, or other professional communications that help us accomplish
our mission as a nonprofit organization.
Visitors to the Website and
Website Security
The
Connecticut Association of Nonprofits’ website collects information about
each visitor to our website in these ways:
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through your IP
address
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through cookies
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through online forms
for posting employment, events, training, and consultant items in our
web-enabled database
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through any
correspondence you send us via mail to our online posted mailing
address, our online listed emails, and through other forms not
associated with the database
Detail
about these methods of information collection follows:
IP Addresses
Your IP
address does not reveal any personal information about you or your
activities. Our web server host logs all IP addresses of all visitors to
automate information collection concerning web traffic, usage, length of
time visitors stayed, new visitors, entry and exit points, and the like. It
is also used as statistical information for reporting and to find ways to
improve web usability.
Cookies
Our
website
uses cookies to gather information about traffic and to enhance your visit
to our site. A cookie is:
“A message given to a Web browser by a
Web server. The browser stores the message in a text file. The message
is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page
from the server.”
— Definition from Webopedia at:
http://www.pcwebopedia.com/TERM/c/cookie.html,
accessed 02/20/2004.
Cookies
are used to customize web pages to provide the user with preferences. They
can be deactivated in your browser if you wish by configuring your browser’s
preferences not to accept them. No information gathered by any cookies we
have on our site is used to disseminate information about your personal use
of the Internet, nor is it ever used for any marketing or advertising
purposes.
Online Forms
Online
forms are generated by our database to gather information about you and your
organization when you register as an author, post an employment opportunity,
an event, a training, or if you register as a consultant. None of this
information is shared with 3rd parties, except that which is intended to be
shown on results pages as delineated on the form. If you post information
that is available on the web, and wish to have it removed or corrected,
please contact us, and we will comply with your request as soon as possible.
Correspondence
None of
your contact information or any of your correspondence that you send via
regular mail, online through forms, through email, or any other means is
ever sold to third parties under any circumstances, and is used only to
conduct our daily business in accomplishing our mission under our policies
as a nonprofit entity.
Connecticut Association of
Nonprofits Sharing Practices
None of
the information we collect is shared with any 3rd-parties except as
aggregated statistics for organizational performance reporting purposes,
capturing and defining web traffic patterns, and website improvement.
Information of this kind is never used to track or monitor individual users.
Our purpose is to provide communications and collaboration with and among
nonprofits, to improve the information flow to the nonprofit community, and
to improve the content and usability of our website, programs, products, and
services.
If you
send us questions about our website content or any of our areas of
operation, we may forward your request for information to parties who would
be able to assist you, or we may respond to you with that information in
kind. You may at any time request us not to do so, and we will comply with
that request, except as we are required by legal regulations or a court
order to do so. It is unlikely we will contact you for verification, but we
reserve the right to do so, should it become necessary. If you contact us by
email or phone, we may ask you to verify your personal information so that
we may respond to your inquiry with an assurance of your identity.
Our online
database is protected by various means and levels of security put in place
to safeguard data integrity and to prevent unauthorized access and/or use of
its systems. These security measures have been designed to provide the user
with reasonable protection of private information entrusted to our
possession.
Opt In/Opt Out
At the
present time, Connecticut Association of Nonprofits does not have an Opt
In/Opt list management system, so in order to be added or removed from our
contact/distribution lists, you will have to notify us of your wishes by
either calling us at 860-525-5080 or by emailing us at one of the email
addresses on our email page at:
http://www.ctnonprofits.org/pages/About/Email.asp. We will be
instituting an Opt In/Opt Out list in the near future, and at that time you
will be able to do this automatically.
Links to Other Websites
Connecticut Association of Nonprofits serves as an information clearinghouse
for nonprofits across the state, and our website links to many other
websites at the national, regional, state, and local levels. Although we
work hard to make sure we are linking to appropriate sites, and take full
responsibility for the content of our site and our own privacy policy, we
are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of sites to
which we link.
Online Surveys
Occasionally we may ask you to participate in online surveys in the interest
of accomplishing our mission. Such surveys are always on a volunteer basis,
and it is not necessary for you to fill it out. Should you decide to fill a
survey out, the types of information that are collected may include
demographics such as zip codes, age group, services received or provided,
etc. However, none of this information will be collected on any one
individual or that can be used to identify any one individual. Survey
information is used in the aggregate to improve our organizational and
online services.
Corrections to Personal Information
If your
personal or your organization’s information needs to be updated, contact us
at
860-525-5080,
or email the appropriate contact found on
http://www.ctnonprofits.org/pages/About/Email.asp.
Online Purchases
Connecticut Association of Nonprofits may provide you with links to
affiliate sites to allow you to purchase items related to nonprofit concerns
and activities. Any transaction conducted as a result of those links is not
conducted on our site, but is conducted on the site of the seller or the
company managing the transaction through their online ecommerce functions.
Therefore, Connecticut Association of Nonprofits does not either see or
collect any personal information about you, your transaction, and/or your
credit card. All transactions and transaction details are between the
purchaser and the company, and Connecticut Association of Nonprofits makes
no guarantee about these transactions. Buyers are responsible to be fully
informed about sellers' and/or companies managing online transactions
policies, and will hold Connecticut Association of Nonprofits harmless of
all disputes between the buyer and the seller/transaction management
company.
Contacting Us
If you
believe that your personal and/or private information is being used for a
purpose other than its intended purpose, or if you have any questions about
our Privacy Policy or the practices of our site, contact either Ron Cretaro
(Executive Director) at
rcretaro@ctnonprofits.org, or Karen Maciorowski (Chief Operating Officer)
at
karenm@ctnonprofits.org, and they will address it immediately.
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