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By visiting, using, or shopping
at the Texasnonprofits® (www.texasnonprofits.org), you
accept the policies described in this Privacy Policy.
Texasnonprofits® at www.texasnonprofits.org is owned and
operated by The Social Responsibility Institute, a Texas Foundation.
The Social Responsibility Institute can be reached at P.O.
Box 90509, San Antonio, Texas 78209. For the purposes of this
Privacy Policy, references to the Texasnonprofits® shall
include The Social Responsibility Institute and its affiliates,
directors, officers, or employees. Except where context allows
otherwise, the use of "website" or "this website" shall refer
to the Texasnonprofits® at www.texasnonprofits.org
General Privacy And Data Security
Welcome to Texasnonprofits®, at www.texasnonprofits.org.
Your rights to privacy and data security are extremely important
to us, and we do our best to keep your personal data private
and secure. We want you to have a safe and rewarding experience
while visiting our website, so we offer this Privacy Policy
to let you know how we use the information that you give to
us. In this way, you can better choose the type and amount
of information that you wish to provide. This Privacy Policy
contains the entire set of guidelines we use for protecting
the information you provide to us during a visit to www.texasnonprofits.org.
If you have any questions or comments about our guidelines
for privacy or information usage, please feel free to contact
us. These guidelines are applicable only to this domestic
website, and information submitted solely in a business capacity
is not covered by these guidelines.
Do We Gather Information About You?
At the Texasnonprofits®, we collect information to make
it easier and more satisfying for you to use our services.
Examples of the personal information that we may request include
your full name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number,
occupation, your preferences as a consumer, and (if you purchase
something from us) your credit card information. We may ask
you for similar personal information to recommend products,
services, or offers based on your previous purchases, to personalize
and register you for e-mails and newsletters if you choose
to subscribe, to maintain your account, and to optimize your
overall shopping experience at Texasnonprofits®.
When Do We Ask For The Information?
At Texasnonprofits®, we do not collect personal information
without informing you first. We may request information from
you when you (1) register yourself at Texasnonprofits®,
(2) place an order with us, (3) e-mail or call us, (4) provide
feedback in an online survey, (5) participate in a promotional
offer, (6) request e-mail notification of your order status,
(7) want to track an order you have placed with us, (8) subscribe
to a newsletter or mailing list, or (9) request online support
or assistance for our Internet-based services.
Why Do We Ask For The Information?
We want you to have a fun, rewarding, and safe experience
on our website. We need your information, in order to quickly
and correctly process your order. For instance, we need your
mailing address, so vendors can send ordered products to you,
and we need your e-mail address to send you an order confirmation.
We may also need your telephone number to confirm large orders
made via your credit card or to ask you questions about your
order.
When you visit Texasnonprofits®, we only ask you to provide
us with information that will enable us to enhance your experience
with our website, to assist you with purchases or technical
support issues, or to follow up with you after your visit.
It is always completely optional for you to provide this information;
however, we may require it if you want to purchase products
or services from us or use certain sections of our website.
How Do We Use Your Information?
The information that we collect from you will be kept confidential
and will be used only to support your customer relationship
with Texasnonprofits®. We transmit your information to
Payflow when you order a product which is a secure Processing
Service. Please see our Terms of Sale, for more information.
Payflow is bound to observe our Privacy Policy, in connection
with the use of your information. We do not sell, trade or
give away your information to unrelated third parties without
your prior consent expect under the following circumstances:
We may release customer information, if we are advised that
such release is necessary to comply with federal, state, or
local laws, or to protect the rights, property, or personal
safety of Texasnonprofits®, The Social Responsibility
Institute, its customers, employees, vendors, or other people.
This may include the release of information to other companies,
law enforcement, and other organizations.
We may aggregate your information with data from third parties
for purposes of marketing our vendors' products or our Internet-based
services. Examples of this would be disclosing that we had
100,000 visits to our website, or that customers order an
average of $200 of merchandise each day, but would not include
names, addresses, or other personally identifiable information.
This aggregated information benefits our advertisers and our
suppliers and allows us to bring new vendors and products
to you through Texasnonprofits®.
Family
Like you, we Texasnonprofits® are concerned about the
privacy and safety of children. This is especially true when
children use the Internet. The Internet can be a powerful
educational tool for children, but it can also present hazards.
We have established the following guidelines for theTexasnonprofits.org
website, so that you may feel comfortable about allowing your
children to visit us on the Internet.
Children Under 18
The Texasnonprofits® site is designed for use by adults
eighteen (18) or older. In observance of the Federal Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), Texasnonprofits®
does not knowingly solicit, collect, or distribute personal
information from children ages twelve (12) and younger, except
in certain circumstances discussed in this section. If we
later discover that we have unknowingly collected information
about a child age twelve (12) or under, we will immediately
delete the information from our databases.
In our shopping area, we post a noticeable warning that purchases
can be made only by those eighteen (18) and older. When a
customer registers with Texasnonprofits® or orders a product,
we ask the customer to provide personal information that includes
their date of birth, because our policy is to sell only to
those eighteen (18) and older. Should someone under eighteen
(18) register with our site, but not make a purchase, note
that no information collected or stored from a child under
eighteen (18) is distributed, or used for any other purpose
than those discussed in this section. All other information
that may be submitted by the child is erased before it is
written to our database and is never disclosed to third parties.
It is our policy not to knowingly send advertisements or mailings
of any kind to children under eighteen (18), even with parental
consent.
If you are concerned that your child has entered personal
information without your consent, you may contact us at info@texasnonprofits.org.
We will investigate further and take prompt action in conformity
with this Privacy Policy.
How Can You Keep From Receiving Marketing Materials From
Us
We want to provide you with the highest level of service and
products, and one way we do this is to send our customers
information about our various products and services or the
products and services of others. Only Texasnonprofits®
and its agents and vendors (who are bound to honor the terms
of this Privacy Policy) will send you these marketing materials,
which may arrive via e-mail or postal mail. If you do not
want to be a part of these promotional mailings, just inform
us at an appropriate time, such as when you create an account
or during checkout. If at first you want to receive information
on such products and services, but later change your mind,
you can easily "unsubscribe" from further marketing from us
by notifying us by replying to the e-mail.
Product Reviews
Texasnonprofits® may give customers the opportunity to
submit or post reviews of merchandise that they have purchased
on our website. In order to post a review, you must submit
your full name, order history, e-mail address, and other necessary
information. This information will not be used to add you
to our mailing lists.
Security
At Texasnonprofits®, we do our best to provide a safe
and worry-free shopping experience for you. Through Payflow,
we use the industry standard for Internet security - Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL 128-bit) encryption - to scramble your
personal and credit card information, as you transmit it to
us over the Internet. This encryption technology currently
makes it impossible for anyone to read your information while
it is in transit. We protect all of your personal information,
including your name, address, password, and credit card information.
You will know that you are in the "secure" area of our site
when you click on the Checkout button. The "http" portion
of our web address changes to "https," signaling that a secure
connection is being used. Also, look for special symbols at
the bottom of your browser to indicate that you're in a Web
site's secure area. Netscape uses a highlighted key or a closed
padlock. Internet Explorer shows a closed padlock. Some browsers
let you know that you're moving in or out of a secure area
by notifying you with a special pop-up window that requires
you to click "ok" before continuing.
Your Account?
Creating an account at the time of registration makes shopping
at Texasnonprofits® faster and easier, because our customers
do not have to reenter certain information each time they
visit our website or make a purchase.
Storing your credit card number as part of your account is
another matter. We do not keep your credit-card information
on file, so you will need to re-enter it every time you make
a purchase.
You can help protect your personal information by keeping
your password in a secure place and by making sure you log
off completely after using your account.
We want to make sure that your Personally Identifiable information
is accurate, and we want to give you the opportunity to review
and confirm the accuracy of your information. You can review,
modify, or delete your account information anytime
Cookies
In Internet language, a "cookie" is a tiny bit of text or
electronic information that contains a random identification
number. Many websites put a cookie on your computer's hard
drive, so that it can recognize your browser at a later time.
Please note that the only cookie that our site places on your
hard drive is one that allows us to view generic, anonymous
information about the visitors to our site. In other words,
it lets us track the source of our visitors. It does NOT provide
us with any personal information about any visitor. Put another
way, we do not use cookies in the traditional sense -- that
is, we do not place a cookie on your hard drive so that our
site recognizes who you are and what you might be likely to
buy (the way other sites commonly do it). Instead, we ask
you to register when you first start using the site.
Advertisers and Other Websites
Due to the nature of our business, Texasnonprofits® may
display ads from unaffiliated companies from time to time
on this website. We do not provide personal information to
these advertisers. The ad companies may receive aggregated,
anonymous information about ad viewing by Internet users who
visit our site. This information may be associated with your
web browser, but it will not be associated with your name
or e-mail address without your permission. In other words,
companies may know when you visit places online, but they
still won't know who you are unless you tell them.
Texasnonprofits® contains hypertext links to other websites.
BE AWARE that if you visit another site, for instance by clicking
on one of the ads posted on the Texasnonprofits® website,
the other site may collect personal information from you.
This can be done through formal requests, sweepstakes, and
other means that may differ from the means we use at Texasnonprofits®.
WE ARE NOT REPONSIBLE FOR HOW OTHER WEBSITE OWNERS USE YOUR
INFORMATION. Thus, it is very important that you read each
website's Privacy Policy before providing your personal information.
By visiting, using, or shopping at Texasnonprofits® (www.txnp.org),
you accept the policies outlined in this Privacy Policy.
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