Privacy Statement
Helps Outreach is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Privacy Policy applies when you make a donation or otherwise provide us with information via the Helps Outreach website located at www.helpsoutreach.org and any other domain names owned or controlled by Helps Outreach (the “Website”) or in another manner, such as via telephone, email, regular mail, social media, at a special event, in response to a solicitation, or face-to-face. By using the Helps Outreach website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Depending on the nature of your interaction with Helps Outreach, we may collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address, or telephone number. Helps Outreach may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, and gender. There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Helps Outreach. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Helps Outreach for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Helps Outreach web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Helps Outreach public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Helps Outreach does not read any of your private online communications.
Helps Outreach encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Helps Outreach so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Helps Outreach is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Helps Outreach Web site.
Use of your Personal Information
Helps Outreach collects and uses your personal information to operate the Helps Outreach Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Helps Outreach may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of activities and news at Helps Outreach.
Helps Outreach does not sell, rent or lease the data we collect to third parties. Helps Outreach may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail or arrange for donation pick-ups. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Helps Outreach, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Helps Outreach uses sensitive personal information, such as race and religion only in an aggregate manner for reporting purposes. This information is never directly tied to you as an individual.
Helps Outreach keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Helps Outreach, in order to determine what Helps Outreach services are the most popular. This data is used to help us deliver content wth broad appeal.
Helps Outreach Web site will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Helps Outreach or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Helps Outreach; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Helps Outreach, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Helps Outreach Web site use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you register with Helps Outreach site or services, a cookie helps Helps Outreach to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses and so on. When you return to the same Helps Outreach Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Helps Outreach website.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Helps Outreach services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Helps Outreach secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Helps Outreach secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Donor Privacy Policy
The privacy of your personal information is of the utmost importance to Helps Outreach. Any information gathered by Helps Outreach will be kept strictly confidential. We will only share personally identifiable information with a third party if we are required to by law or it is necessary for completing an authorized operation, for instance to process a credit card transaction. The information, which Helps Outreach gathers, is used solely to accurately credit and recognize individual donor contributions. Helps Outreach will not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to any third party. We will take special care to protect the privacy and security of your information.
Changes to this Statement
Helps Outreach will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Helps Outreach encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Helps Outreach is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Helps Outreach welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Helps Outreach has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Helps Outreach at helpsoutreach@hotmail.com We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.