Privacy Policy | Girl Scouts

Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona (GSSOAZ) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in Tucson, Arizona.

GSSOAZ is committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors. This privacy policy discloses how we collect, protect, and use information you provide us online, as well as how we protect children's privacy. By using the pages on this site, you are accepting the practices described in the Privacy Policy.

If our policy practices change in the future, we will let you know by posting the policy changes on our website. However, we will treat all personal information we collect in accordance with the privacy notice in effect at the time the information is collected. GSSOAZ online properties comprise of but are not limited to, all pages found under www.girlscoutssoaz.org.

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GSSOAZ uses its best efforts to respect and protect the privacy of its online visitors. At our site, we do not collect personally identifiable information from individuals unless they provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly. This means we do not require you to register or provide information to us in order to view our site.

Personally identifiable data, such as names, addresses, zip/postal codes, email addresses, etc., is gathered only when voluntarily submitted by a visitor. For example, personally identifiable information is collected in order to process online transactions or online donations. GSSOAZ partners with Girl Scouts of the USA for online registration.

This information is used solely by GSSOAZ and Girl Scouts of the USA or other entities who are involved in the operation of this site for internal purposes. We do not sell the information you provide to us online to third parties. We will only share personally identifiable information with third parties when (i) the person submitting the information authorizes us to share it; (ii) sharing the information is a necessary operation of the site, for instance, to process a credit card transaction, or (iii) we are required to by law. GSSOAZ has no control over or responsibility for the data collection and use practices of third parties that process online transactions.

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The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) protects the personal information of children under the age of 13. This applies to individually identifiable information about a child that is collected online, such as full name, home address, email address, telephone number, or any other information that would allow someone to identify or contact the child. The Act and Rule also cover other types of information—for example, hobbies, interests, and information collected through cookies or other types of tracking mechanisms – when they are tied to individually identifiable information. It is important for you to understand this law; we encourage you to read more about COPPA.

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GSSOAZ is committed to providing a safe, secure, and fun online experience for children who visit our site. We are dedicated to safeguarding any personal information collected online and to helping parents and children have positive experiences on the Internet. Consistent with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent.

Parents can revoke their consent and ask that information or photos about their children be deleted from the site by contacting our offices by phone at (800) 631-6782. To do this or to review personal information collected from children, we must verify the identity of the requesting parent. When a parent revokes consent, we will stop collecting, using, or disclosing information and/or photos of that child. To respect the privacy of parents, information collected and used for the sole purpose of obtaining verifiable parental consent or providing notice is not maintained in retrievable form by the site if parental consent is not obtained after a reasonable time.

Girl Scouts believes it is good policy not to collect more personally identifiable information from children under 13 than is necessary for them to participate in our online activities. In addition, be aware that all sites that are targeted to children under 13 are prohibited by law from collecting more information than they need.

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Visitors should be aware that non-personal information and data may be automatically collected by the GSSOAZ website through the use of cookies. Cookies are small text files a website can use to recognize repeat visitors, facilitate the visitor's ongoing access to and use of the site, and allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements. Cookies are not programs that come onto a visitor's system and damage files. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to the visitor that has no meaning outside the assigned site. If a visitor does not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the visitor to deny or accept the cookie feature. GSSOAZ uses cookie technology only to obtain non-personal information from its online visitors in order to improve visitors' online experience and facilitate their visit to our site.

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This site may be linked to other sites and services that are not maintained by GSSOAZ. These websites have their own privacy policies, which you should review prior to visiting them. We have no responsibility for linked websites and provide these links solely for the convenience and information of our visitors.

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The safety and security of your online experience is of the utmost concern to us. We ensure the appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures are in place to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.

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Protecting the safety of your credit card information is also important to us. We use only Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant third-party payment processors for all merchant transactions. All transactions processed by GSSOAZ are transmitted and stored using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to protect the security of your credit card information as it is transmitted to us.

To make sure you are accessing our secure server before you submit personal financial information, look at the lower left-hand corner of your browser. If you see an unbroken key or a closed lock (depending on your browser), then SSL is active. To double-check for security, look at the URL or Address line of your browser. If you have accessed a secure server, the first characters of the address in that line should change from "http" to "https."

It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

If you are under 18, you need parent/guardian permission to use a credit card to make purchases online.

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