The Joe Foss Institute respects your privacy. This Policy summarizes the information that we collect through this Web site and how this information may be used. The Policy also provides you with detail on how you can best protect your personal information.
What information do we collect? We collect information from you when you register on our site, subscribe to our newsletter, fill out a form or make a donation.
When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information, military background or school affiliation. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
What do we use your information for? Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
• To improve our ability to serve you (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your requests and support needs)
• To process transactions
Your contact information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, express or implied, other than for the express purpose of delivering the service requested. Our online donations are processed through Network for Good, a not-for-profit a 501(c)(3) organization created to handle contributions for organizations like ours.
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
• To send periodic emails
The email address you give us may be used to send you information and periodic updates.
• To take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and where necessary, kept up-to-date.
Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
Do we use cookies? Yes. Cookies are small files that a site transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser that enables the site's or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information about your visit. You have the ability to disable cookies, via your Web browser, at any time, and to not allow our site (or any other the site) to use cookies.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties? We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our Web site, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.
Your personal information will generally be stored in a Joe Foss database maintained by our service providers. These databases are stored on servers located in the United States. Joe Foss maintains reasonable safeguards to protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of your personal information. For example, we use secure socket layer (SSL) technology to transfer personal information over the Internet. Although we use security measures to help protect your personal information against unauthorized disclosure, misuse or alteration, we cannot guarantee the security of information provided over the Internet and will not be responsible for breaches of security beyond our reasonable control.
Third party links Occasionally, at our discretion, we may link to third party Web sites on our site. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites and you should research the Privacy Policies of these separate sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
California Online Privacy Protection Act ComplianceBecause we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not knowingly collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our Web site, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older. If your child has submitted personal information on our website and you would like this information deleted, please request this deletion by contacting us at the contact address listed below.
Online Privacy Policy Only This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our Web site and not to information collected offline.
If you have questions about this Policy, or regarding the use of your personal information, please contact us by sending a letter to the address below, or by sending us an e-mail to:
info@joefoss.com.
Your Consent By using our site and entering your personal information into it, you consent to our Web site's Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the use of your personal information as described in this Policy, please do not use this site or enter your personal information. You may also contact us and ask that your personal information be removed.
Access to Your Personal InformationYou may review, correct and update the personal information you provide to us by contacting us at the address below.
Retention of Your Personal Information The Joe Foss Institute retains the personal information collected on its website as long as necessary to provide the services, products and information you request, or as permitted by applicable law.
Changes to our Privacy Policy If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.
This policy was last modified on 3/2/10.
Contacting Us If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.
The Joe Foss Institute
14415 N. 73rd St., Suite 109
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
United States of America
info@joefoss.com
(480) 348-0316
