We are committed to safeguarding your privacy online. This Privacy Policy applies to your information that we collect and receive on and through this Site; it does not apply to practices of businesses that we do not own or control or people we do not employ.
At no time will we sell or otherwise distribute your information or your personally-identifiable data without your permission. You can visit this Site without revealing who you are or providing any personal information about yourself.
By using this Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Please read the following Privacy Policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you use this Site and its services. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices.
This Site contains links to other websites. These include links to websites that we think may be of interest to you. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
We collect the email addresses of people who communicate with us via email. We also collect information provided to us by people who create an account on this Site. Collected information includes the following: name, address, email address, telephone number and country. Any information you provide by adding information to your profile, posting, blogging, or commenting will also be collected. We do not collect any credit card information or other sensitive financial information, as that is handled by Paypal.
All financial transactions on this Site are processed on our behalf by PayPal. For information regarding the privacy policies of those companies, please refer to the following: http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside
The Site has extensive privacy settings which each user can make to control how their personal information is (or is not) displayed. This includes birthday/birthdate, email addresses, and other information you provide in creating your user profile. Marshall PTSA takes no responsibility for the display of any of your personal information on this Site that is controllable by the user. Each user is expected to make their own privacy settings in accordance with their wishes.
All electronic communications received, either via email to non-personal addresses, or via the online contact system, are logged and retained for a period from the date of receipt, until such time as information is no longer needed or required by law. Communications from existing Site customers are automatically linked to their respective user account. Secure information (such as your password) is held only on the server in encrypted form, and is not retrievable by Site Administrators. The Site has an automated forgotten password retrieval system, and in the case of a user who forgets their username and/or password, our Site Administrators can provide the username (tied to a specific email address), and can reset your password to allow you to gain access. If you ask our Site Administrators to reset your password, you must log on immediately and change it to a password that only you know.
All information provided by people in any of the above-listed ways or otherwise becomes the property of the Marshall PTSA once received and may be used and disclosed as permitted by this Privacy Policy. If you choose to connect your Facebook account to this site, you are responsible for setting the privacy settings on both this site and on Facebook as you desire. The Marshall PTSA takes no responsibility for the privacy of any information which you provide on the Discussion Forums, in Blogs, or on comments you make to articles in the Home section. You understand that anything you post on this Site is publicly available, and anyone can choose to repost such information in any way. If you have provided personal information, we may aggregate such information with other users' information to prepare reports on Site usage, purchase history or other factors for use in Marshall PTSA management and Site improvement. We will never disseminate such information to anyone outside of Marshall PTSA. Those reports are aggregated and include no personally-identifying information.
We may use your personal information to send you direct email communications about events and information which we think you may be interested, however in most cases, we will use our Constant Contact email distribution system. If you sign up for one or more of our Constant Contact email distribution lists, you will receive emails in accordance with the subject areas (such as the GCM Blast) to which you subscribe. You can adjust your email subscriptions easily, as every email you receive will have links to unsubscribe or change your subscription options.
We do not share, sell, trade or rent your personal information to third parties for any reason.
You may at any time choose not to receive direct emails from us by changing the setting in your user profile or by contacting us at communications@gcmptsa.org. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may continue to contact you for the purpose of communicating information relating to this Site, as well as to facilitate, complete, or confirm any transaction that you may enter into or to respond to your inquiry or request.
We may place "cookies" on your personal computer. "Cookies" are small identifiers sent from a website server and stored on your computer’s hard drive, similar to a license plate, that help us to recognize you if you visit this Site again. Also, this Site uses cookies to track how you found this Site. Cookies are not designed to be used to get data from your hard drive, your email or any other personal data about you. To protect your privacy, we do not use cookies to store or transmit any personal information about you on the Internet. You can reject cookies by changing your browser settings, but please be aware that if you reject our cookies it is possible that some Site pages may not properly load, your access to certain information might be denied or you might have to enter information about yourself more than once.
This Site has reasonable security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
We do not at this time use any third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements when you visit this Site, however we reserve the right to do so in the future. These companies use non-personally identifiable information regarding your visit to this Site and other websites, such as the user IP address, pages viewed, date and time of your visit, and number of times you have viewed an advertisement (but not your name, address, or other personal information), to serve advertisements to you on this Site and other websites that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to this Site, our third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on your Internet browser.
If we choose to use third-party advertising, we will use clear GIFs or pixel tags to help manage our online advertising. These clear GIFs enable our advertisement serving company to recognize a browser's cookie when a browser visits this Site. This allows us to learn which banner advertisements bring users to this Site. The information we collect and share through this technology is not personally identifiable.
To learn more about these practices and your choices about not having this information used by these companies please click here.
Please be aware that we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will update this Privacy Policy on this Site, so be sure to check back here frequently.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, you may contact us at communications@gcmptsa.org. You may also use the Contact Us page on this Site.
