Your privacy is important to us. Our ongoing commitment to the protection of your privacy is essential to maintaining the relationship of trust that exists between iam-thesolution.org and all of our users and visitors to this Web site. This privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") is intended to help you understand our online information security practices.
You may have accessed I Am The Solution directly by visiting our Web site, the home page of which is located at www.iam-thesolution.org, or through the Families First Web site at www.familiesfirst.org. This notice applies to all information you submit to I Am The Solution through the iam-thesolution.org Web site. Please note that we cannot be responsible for the information you submit directly to third parties, including our Partners, who may have their own posted policies regarding the collection and use of your information. We urge you to review the policies of our Partners through whom you may access our services.
The types of information including without limitation, personal information ("Information") we may collect are:
By submitting Information through our Web site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and you expressly consent to the processing of your Information according to this Privacy Policy and you agree to the I Am The Solution Terms of Service located at http://www.iam-thesolution.org/pages/terms (the "Terms of Service").
Your Information may be processed by us in the country where it was collected as well as other countries (including the United States) where laws regarding processing of Information may be less stringent than the laws in your country.
We do not sell, rent or trade our volunteer, administrator, nonprofit, or general newsletter email addresses to outside parties. We use the Information we collect about you to facilitate the volunteering process and to provide information to you about iam-thesolution.org and related industry topics. We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive.
Please be aware that, to the extent required to provide our services, we share your Information with volunteers, Agencies, or our Partners, as applicable. We also reserve the right to use your Information to send you e-mails regarding system downtime and/or changes to this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Service, and you are not permitted to opt out of receiving these e-mail messages. We will also use Information for the purpose you provide, for instance to sign you up for the Adopt-A-Zip-Code program.
Otherwise we use your Information in the following ways:
We welcome users of all ages, including children under the age of thirteen. Due to our status as a non-profit organization, we are not required to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). However, we strongly encourage our volunteers aged thirteen and under to use our services only with parental consent and supervision.
Cookies are tiny data files that Web sites commonly write to your hard drive when you visit them so that they can remember you when you visit. A cookie file contains information that can identify you anonymously and maintain your account's privacy. Our site uses cookies to maintain a user's identity between sessions so that the site can be personalized based on user preferences or a user's history. You can set your Web browser to prompt you before you accept a cookie, accept cookies automatically or reject all cookies. However, if you choose not to accept cookies from this Web site, then you may not be able to access and use all or part of this Web site or benefit from the information and services which it offers.
Occasionally, we or our Partners hire third-party service providers to help provide or improve the services we offer you. Sometimes it is necessary for these providers to have access to the Information we collect about you. In those cases, we take reasonable steps to ensure that these providers do not use or otherwise disclose any Information we collect about you except for the purpose of fulfilling their service obligations to us and our Partners.
We share aggregate information about our users with certain third parties. This information shows user activity as a whole rather than on an individual basis; such aggregate information cannot be used to individually identify you. We use aggregated information we collect about users to continue to improve our service for you.
In the unlikely event that iam-thesolution.org undergoes a sale or transfer of all or substantially all of its assets, the acquiring entity will be subject to this Privacy Policy in its use of your personally identifiable Information. In addition, in the further unlikely event that iam-thesolution.org is adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent (a) there will be no further use or disclosure of your personally identifiable Information by iam-thesolution.org and (b) your personally identifiable Information will be destroyed. In addition, there will be no use or disclosure of your personally identifiable Information by any entity that acquires assets of iam-thesolution.org pursuant to such bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings.
Due to factors beyond our control, however, we cannot fully ensure that your Information will not be disclosed to third parties. For example, we may be legally obligated to disclose Information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may circumvent our security measures to unlawfully intercept or access your Personal Information.
This site contains links to other sites. I Am The Solution is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
If you are a user with a personal account, you may review and make changes to all of your Information that we collect and maintain online by simply inputting your username and password where indicated on the Web site.
Once you login in, you may make any changes or correct factual errors in your account by changing the information on your login page. This option is available 24 hours a day to better safeguard your Information, subject to downtime for standard maintenance and support. You do not need to contact us to access your record or to make any changes. If you have problems changing your Information, please email us.
Subscriptions to iam-thesolution.org newsletters are optional and we allow Agencies, subscribers or other users to unsubscribe from newsletters at any time. In each newsletter we provide instructions regarding how to opt-out from receiving future newsletter mailings. You can also email us to remove your name from our newsletter subscription data base and ensure that you will cease receiving future newsletters from us.
We may also use our email lists for sending out other outbound communications such as tool upgrades/enhancements or membership news. Registered members are required to receive these communications.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of Information, we have put in place reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the Information we collect online.
As part of the Terms of Service, this Privacy Policy is subject to occasional amendment, in accordance with the terms of the Terms of Service.
We appreciate your questions or comments about this privacy statement, the practices of this Web site, or your dealings with iam-thesolution.org. Email us.
Effective Date: December 19, 2008
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