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YOUR PRIVACY

1. Does SOS Children’s Villages-USA ever collect personal information, such as my name, address or credit card information, through its web site?

To make online contribution to SOS Children’s Villages-USA, we may ask you to provide credit card or other billing information. This includes, but may not be limited to, your name, address, billing address, credit card type, number, and expiration date. In addition, to subscribe to our newsletter, you may be asked to submit personal information including name, address, and email address.

2. How is personal information used by SOS Children’s Villages-USA, and can I control its use?

Personal information will be used only internally by SOS Children’s Villages International to provide you updates on information you have requested. You do not have to disclose any personal information if you do not want to.  Simply do not use those web site services or features that require such information. Our interest is to offer you convenient online services that match your interests.

3. What are “cookies,” and does the SOS Children’s Villages-USA website use “cookies?”

A “cookie” is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from SOS Children’s Villages-USA’s web server and is stored on your computer’s hard drive. SOS Children’s Villages-USA uses cookies. In addition, when you visit our site we may automatically capture and recognize domain names.  This information is not shared with any other party.

Cookie information is used by SOS Children’s Villages-USA to keep and sometimes track information about you in order to deliver better and more personalized services and better administration of our website. For example, we may use the information for tracking which areas of our website you have visited, and how frequently. In addition, cookies help us to diagnose problems with our server. We may use domain names and e-mail addresses to gather demographic information about our user community. We may also match information obtained from cookies with other data you, or third parties, provide in order develop statistics. This type of information helps SOS Children’s Villages-USA provide services and site content that is interesting to our visitors.

Please check your computer or software manual for specifics on how cookies work on your particular computer. It is possible to block cookies from being loaded onto your computer. Please note, however, that blocking cookies can affect the performance of websites, including loading time, with your computer.

Our policy regarding personal information is simple: except as provided in this Privacy Policy, SOS Children’s Villages-USA will not give, sell or rent any personal information to third parties without telling you in advance and giving you the opportunity to tell us not to share the information. We make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy and Acceptable Use Policy whenever we ask you for personal information.

SOS Children’s Villages-USA hires third parties to provide certain administrative services – such as processing credit card transactions, preparing address labels, managing databases, and sending mailings – which requires SOS Children’s Villages-USA to provide third parties with access to certain information. We make an effort to require all third party service-providers to hold personal information in strict confidence. While we believe these other companies are upstanding and will treat your personal information responsibly, we do not own or control them.

Further, if we are compelled by law, or some other regulatory authority, SOS Children’s Villages-USA will disclose personal information. Also, if we have reason to believe that there has been some inappropriate interference with or use of the SOS Children’s Villages-USA website, or if we have reason to believe that one of our web site users may have been injured or some other party harmed, we will disclose personal information as we deem appropriate or if asked by a legal or regulatory authority.

You are under no obligation to disclose any personal information if you do not want to. If you are not comfortable with the SOS Children’s Villages-USA’s uses of information, you can choose not to use those services or features that require such information.

In order to provide certain services and materials, SOS Children’s Villages-USA contracts with other companies and individuals to support our website activities. These additional services and materials may include providing “links” to other websites from our website. Except as may be outlined in this statement, this Statement does not apply to any third-party sites. Anytime you leave the SOS Children’s Villages-USA website, we have no control regarding what information may be collected about you, nor can we control what third-parties might do with the information. SOS Children’s Villages-USA is not responsible for, and has no control over, the information collection or privacy practices of other websites. It is important that you review any privacy policies on third-party sites carefully, BEFORE you use any services or programs offered. If you cannot find or do not like a website’s privacy policy, you may choose not to offer information to that site.