General Statement of Privacy
Saint Louise House is committed to respecting your privacy and protecting any personally identifiable information that you provide to Saint Louise House. Except as indicated below, API will not sell, rent or share any personally identifiable information that you provide without your consent.
Collection of Non-Personally Identifiable Information
Our web servers automatically capture non-personally identifiable information including, but limited to, your domain name, the IP address of the web page from which you enter our site, the pages that you visit on our site, the click-through rates, and the amount of time that you spend here. However, the individual user will remain anonymous. We may use and analyze this data for trends and to improve our site. Any non-personally identifiable information that we give to third parties will be provided in aggregate form only.
Collection of Personally Identifiable Information
On this site, Saint Louise House asks for and collects your personal information as it pertains to making a donation, volunteering, and applying to the program. Saint Louise House will use its best efforts to respect and protect the privacy of our online visitors. All personally identifiable information that we collect from Web site users is provided voluntarily and knowingly through emails from the site and on secured forms. As a user, you are not required to register or provide personal information in order to view our site.
Your personally identifiable information is collected to process online donations (through a payment processor), volunteer applications, participant applications for the program, and information queries sent via our Web site to our email server. Personally identifiable information may also be collected at the time of signing up to receive email updates which you opt-in to receive and from which you can opt-out at any time.
The information collected through the program application gives us details about candidates, their family and their needs. We use this information to evaluate additional resources and referrals the program might be able to make that are outside of Saint Louise House. This information may be used by us to determine how to best serve the candidates’ needs and those of their families, but is not collected to be shared with third parties.
We may use and disclose your personal information for the following purposes:
- To our employees, volunteers and contractors who provide services to you;
- To organizations that perform services for us or on our behalf, including, without limitation, credit card payment processors;
- To protect the site and our rights; to protect ourselves against liability or prevent fraudulent activity; or, where necessary, to permit us to pursue available remedies or limit any damages that we may sustain;
- In connection with a merger, spin-off, or other corporate reorganization, where the information is provided to the new controlling entity in the regular course of business;
- In order to comply with court orders or with requests by law enforcement agencies, to protect the rights, property, and safety of our web site and other users of the site, or if we believe in good faith that a law, regulation, rule or guideline requires it.
Although Saint Louise House strives to ensure that the personal information that we provide to outside organizations is protected, the data collection and use practices of third parties is outside the control of Saint Louise House.
Bulletin Board
You understand and agree that Saint Louise House is not responsible for any information that you provide on a bulletin board or other open forums and recognize that others may collect and use any information that you provide.
Privacy with Respect to Minors
Saint Louise House does not knowingly collect or use information from children under the age of 13 without the consent of a parent or guardian.
Cookies
When you visit our web site, we may place a cookie on your computer that will allow us to track your visit to our site and help us to improve the site. The cookies will not provide Saint Louise House with any personally identifiable information about you.
Other Web Sites and Links
Saint Louise House’s web site contains links to other web sites. If you choose to use any of these links, you will be leaving Saint Louise House’s web site and going to a new web site. Protection of your privacy at these linked sites will be governed by the privacy policy at that site. You should take the time to read the privacy policies at these sites. Unless otherwise explicitly stated, we are not responsible for the privacy practices such sites or the use of any information that you provide.
Security
If you send Saint Louise House credit card information, Saint Louise House will encrypt this information between your computer and our server. Other information that you send to this site, including e-mail messages, will not be encrypted unless we advise you otherwise.
Although our site has industry standard security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information that is under our control, Saint Louise House cannot guarantee complete security.
International User
Irrespective of your domicile or place of doing business, by using this web site, you agree that Saint Louise House may collect, use and transfer your information as described in this Privacy Policy Statement.
Changes to Policy
This policy may change over time. Your continued use of the site after these changes are posted constitutes your agreement to the changes with regard to information collected.