PRIVACY POLICY
1. Sites covered by this Privacy Statement:
Walk Her Home is a 503c nonprofit organization. This Privacy Statement applies to all Walk Her Home owned websites and domains and the websites and domains, except that a privacy policy or statement posted on Walk Her Home websites specific to a particular Walk Her Home program or service will apply instead of this Privacy Statement.
The Walk Her Home website is hosted in the United States. If you are accessing the Walk Her Home website from the European Union, Australia, Africa, Asia or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use and disclosure that differ from United States laws, please note that you are transferring your personal data to the United States which does not have the same data protection laws as the EU and these other regions, and by providing your personal data you consent to: the use of your personal data for the uses identified in accordance with this Privacy Policy; and the transfer of your personal data to the United States as indicated above.
Links to non-Walk Her Home websites:
The Walk Her Home website may provide links to third-party websites for your convenience and information. If you access those links, you will leave the Walk Her Home website. Walk Her Home does not control those sites or their privacy practices, which may differ from Walk Her Home’s practices. We do not endorse or make any representations about third-party websites. The personal data you choose to provide to or that is collected by these third parties is not covered by the Walk Her Home Privacy Statement. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any organization before submitting your personal information.
2. Collection of personal information:
To serve you better and understand your needs and interests, the Walk Her Home website collects, exports, and uses personal information with adequate notice and consent, along with required filings with data protection authorities, when applicable. For example, when you order products or services, apply for instant credit, request information, subscribe to marketing or support materials, register yourself or your Walk Her Home products, or apply for a job at Walk Her Home, we will ask you to provide personal information to complete these transactions.The types of personal information you provide to us on these pages may include contact information such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, financial information such as your credit card number, and other unique information such as user IDs and passwords, billing and transaction information, product and service preferences, contact preferences, educational and employment background, and job interest data. If you apply for instant credit, we will ask you to provide additional sensitive personal information such as salary, and banking information. This information will be used by our financial services providers in determining whether to extend you credit.
In addition to the information you provide, Walk Her Home may also collect information during your visit to a Walk Her Home website through our Automatic Data Collection Tools, which include Web beacons, cookies, embedded Web links, and other commonly used information-gathering tools. These tools collect certain standard information that your browser sends to our website such as your browser type and language, access times, and the address of the website from which you arrived at an the Walk Her Home website. With regard to the Walk Her Home use of cookies, we use session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. Although session cookies are established, they are not capturing any behavioral or personal information, only information that is helpful to the user experience, such as whether the user’s browser has JavaScript capability. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies are being used to switch one time messages on and off and to record form completion. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited. The use of cookies by outside companies is not covered by our privacy policy. We do not have access or control over these cookies. Outside companies use session ID cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site, in order for you to use the shopping cart. Cookies, as well as the other tools listed above, may also collect information about your Internet Protocol (IP) address, clickstream behavior (i.e. the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions you take in connection with Walk Her Home websites) and product information. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web, allowing Web servers to locate and identify your computer. Computers use IP addresses to communicate on the Internet, allowing users to browse and shop. Walk Her Home may also use some of these Automatic Data Collection Tools in connection with certain emails sent from Walk Her Home and therefore may collect information using these tools when you open the email or click on a link contained in the email.
Our website includes social media features, such as the Facebook button and widgets like “Share this button” or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it. Walk Her Home also collects information from commercially available sources that it deems credible. Such information may include your name, address, email address, and demographic data. The information Walk Her Home collects from its commercial sources may be used along with the information Walk Her Home collects when you visit Walk Her Home’s websites. For example,Walk Her Home may compare the geographic information acquired from commercial sources with the IP address collected by Automatic Data Collection Tools to derive your general geographic area.
On occasion, Walk Her Home may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personal information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code).
3. How we use your information:
The information Walk Her Home collects to understand your needs and interests helpsWalk Her Home deliver a consistent and personalized experience. For example, Walk Her Home may use your information to:
assist you in completing a transaction or order
communicate with you about products and services
provide service and support
administer your account
update you on new services and benefits
provide personalized promotional offers
select content to be communicated to you
send you a newsletter
personalize someWalk Her Home websites
allow you to participate in contests and surveys
contact you for market research regardingWalk Her Home products or services
or for other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your information, or pursuant to your consent.
We will give you the opportunity to choose your privacy preferences regarding the communications we send. The testimonials posted on our website are only posted with the expressed permission of the individual or organization who provided that testimonial.
Credit card information is used only for payment processing and fraud prevention. Credit card information and other sensitive personal information required to process a credit decision is not used for any other purpose by our financial services providers orWalk Her Home and will not be kept longer than necessary for providing the services, unless you ask us to retain your credit card information for future purchases.
4. How we share your information:
Walk Her Home will not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to others except as described in this Statement.Walk Her Home shares personal information in the following ways:
Walk Her Home retains service providers and suppliers to deliver complete products, services, and customer solutions and to assistWalk Her Home with marketing and communication initiatives. These providers and suppliers include, for example, credit card processors, providers of customer support and live-help, email service providers, automated data processors, and shipping agents. Suppliers and service providers are required by contract to keep confidential the information received on behalf ofWalk Her Home and may not use it for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for Walk Her Home.
From time to time,Walk Her Home participates in marketing initiatives with other companies. As part of these initiatives, certainWalk Her Home services and marketing communications are delivered at the same time as those from other companies. Some of these services and communications offer you the option to share personal information with both Walk Her Home and the other companies participating in these initiatives. For example, you may receive marketing communications from Walk Her Home and other companies or have the opportunity to register online for software products from multiple companies. If you choose to provide personal information only to Walk Her Home,Walk Her Home will not share this information with the other companies participating in that marketing initiative. If you choose to provide personal information to the other companies, that personal information will be handled according to the privacy policy of those companies.
Except as described in this Statement, Walk Her Home will not share the personal information you provide to Walk Her Home with non-Walk Her Home third parties without your permission, unless to: (i) respond to duly authorized information requests of police and governmental authorities, (ii) comply with any law, regulation, subpoena, or court order, (iii) help prevent fraud or to enforce or protect the rights and properties ofWalk Her Home or its subsidiaries, (iv) protect the personal safety of Walk Her Home employees and third parties on Walk Her Home property, or (v) when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect your safety or the safety of others.
Circumstances may arise where, whether for strategic or other business reasons, Walk Her Home decides to sell, buy, merge, or otherwise reorganize operations in some countries. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal information to prospective or actual purchasers, or the receipt of it from sellers. It isWalk Her Home’s practice to seek appropriate protection for information in these types of transactions.
5. Children’s privacy:
Walk Her Home does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen (13) without requiring parental consent, and does not target its websites to children under age thirteen. Any person who provides information to us represents that they are thirteen (13) years of age or older. We encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. If you have any questions or concerns in this matter, please contact us. If you believe we have inadvertently collected personally identifiable information from a child under age thirteen (13), please encourage the parent of the child to contact us, and we will provide the parent an opportunity to review the data inadvertently collected, and further provide the parent an opportunity to have such data deleted and agree to prevent its further use or collection.
6. Your choices and selecting your privacy preferences:
Walk Her Home gives you the choice of receiving a variety of information that complements our products and services. You can subscribe to receive certain product-specific and service-specific information and also choose to receive Walk Her Home general communications. We give you a choice regarding delivery of Walk Her Home general communications by postal mail, email and telephone.
You can make or change your choices about receiving either subscription or general communications at the data collection point or by using other methods, which are listed in the following sections. This option does not apply to communications primarily for the purpose of administering order completion, contracts, support, product safety warnings, driver updates, or other administrative and transactional notices as the primary purpose of these communications is not promotional in nature.
The email communications that you receive from Walk Her Home will be provided in accordance with this statement. Some email communications may utilize automatic data collection tools.
Subscription communications include email newsletters, software updates, etc. that may be expressly requested by you or which you consented to receive. After you request such communications, you may opt out of receiving them by using one of the following methods:
Select the email “opt out” or “unsubscribe” link, or follow the opt-out instructions included in each subscription communication.
Return to the web page(s) where you originally registered your preferences and follow the opt-out instructions.
Write to Walk Her Home. Be sure to provide your name, email and postal address, and specific relevant information aboutWalk Her Home subscriptions that you no longer wish to receive.
Please be aware that when you opt out of receiving certain subscription communications, it may affect the services you have chosen to receive from Walk Her Home where accepting the communications is a condition of receiving the services.
7. Access to and accuracy of your information:
Walk Her Home strives to keep your personal information accurately recorded. We have implemented technology, management processes, and policies to help maintain data accuracy.Walk Her Home provides individuals with reasonable access to personal information that they provided to Walk Her Home and the reasonable ability to review and correct it or ask for anonymization, blockage, or deletion, as applicable. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity, such as requiring a password and user ID, before granting access to your data. To view and change the personal information that you directly provided to Walk Her Home, contact Walk Her Home Privacy Office.
8. Keeping your personal information secure:
Walk Her Home takes seriously the trust you place in us. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, to maintain data accuracy, and to ensure the appropriate use of the information, Walk Her Home utilizes appropriate physical, technical, and administrative procedures to safeguard the information we collect.
We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption when collecting or transferring sensitive information such as credit card information. SSL encryption is designed to make the information unreadable by anyone but us. This security measure is working when you see the symbol of either an unbroken key or a closed lock (depending on your browser) at the top or bottom of your browser window.
Credit card numbers are used only for processing payments and are not used for other purposes. As part of real-time payment processing, Walk Her Home subscribes to a fraud management service. This service gives you and Walk Her Home an extra level of security to guard against credit card fraud and to protect your financial data.
For the protection of victims of human trafficking, all names and details pertaining to specific cases have been changed.
9. Data Retention & Security:
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services, please contact us using the Contact Information provided in the last paragraph of this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is capable of being rendered perfectly secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our website, you can contact us as described in the last paragraph of this Privacy Policy. The personal information collected when you make a contribution or purchase items by credit card is kept for the purposes of tracking your order and to provide a receipt of the transaction, and as covered in the above section, this information is protected in by the methods described in the above paragraph, and further, this information is stored on an encrypted, secure server managed by a third-party commercial credit card processing institution.
10. Changes to this statement:
If we change our privacy statement, we will post the revised statement here with an updated revision date. If we make significant changes to our statement, we may also notify you by other means, such as sending an email or posting a notice on our home page.
11. Contacting us:
We value your opinions. If you have comments or questions about our privacy statement, please send them to v or write to us at the following address:
Walk Her Home
104 Portsmouth Circle
Glenn Mills, PA 19342
singram@walkherhome.org