Introduction. Modern information and communication technologies plays a fundamental role in the activities of an organization like Palm Beach Harvest . We are located in the United States and our principal activity is non profit food surplus collection.
Protecting your privacy is important to us. We hope the following statement ("Privacy Statement") will help you understand how Palm Beach Harvest collects, uses and safeguards the personal information you provide to us on our Web site.
Information Collection. When you browse the Palm Beach Harvest Web site at www.palmbeachharvest.org and have not registered for any donation or online service from Palm Beach Harvest, you browse anonymously. Personal information such as your name, address, phone number or e mail address is not collected as you browse.
Similarly, Palm Beach Harvest does not use "cookies" to collect information about how our site is used. (See "About Cookies," below.) In contrast to our site, sites which use cookies collect information, such as the server your computer is logged onto, your browser type (e.g., Netscape or Internet Explorer), and whether you responded to a banner ad or e mail and is typically collected and tracked in aggregate. This information is used by these sites for the purpose of measuring response rates to banner ads and e mail offers. In the event Palm Beach Harvest should begin using "cookies" it would be noted as a change to our Privacy Statement as noted below.
Registration for Online Products and Services. In order to provide you with a particular product or service online, we may request that you voluntarily supply us with personal information, including your e mail address and date of birth, telephone number, for purposes such as correspondence, site registration, checking your donation status online, making a purchase or participating in online surveys, and enabling us to provide an online product or service to you in an efficient manner.
If you are known to us as a registered Palm Beach Harvest online contributor, we may combine information about your use of www.palmbeachharvest.org and the online product or service you utilize with certain other online and offline information we have about you as an Palm Beach Harvest contributor and information you have provided to us as well as information available from external sources, such as census bureau data, in order to customize your online experience and present you with relevant online and offline offers and updates. To access the table of personal data collected and purposes for which they are used, please click here
Information Use. We may use information you have given us to, for example, to provide a service, ensure proper recognition for your contributions, measure consumer interest in our various services and inform you about products and services. If you have provided your e mail address to us or to a company we've partnered with to make their products and services available to you, we may send you e mail offers. We may also send you e mail news about upcoming events, food drives and related opportunities to help with food related needs if you have provided your e mail address to a third party and have actively chosen or requested, on an opt in basis, to receive e mail offers from other parties. These offers may be based on information you provided in your initial donation with us, in surveys, from information that may indicate purchasing preferences and lifestyle, as well as information available from external sources, such as census bureau data. These e mail offers and news comes directly from Palm Beach Harvest. You can opt out from receiving e mail news from Palm Beach Harvest as described below in the section, "Declining E mail Offers."
When we send e mails to you, we may be able to identify information about your e mail address, such as whether you can read graphic rich html e mails. If your e mail address is html enabled, we may choose to send you graphic rich html e mails.
Please note that we may disclose our visitors' personal data to our subsidiaries or other organizations, including your e mail address. We may also send you offers on behalf of such organizations. Keep in mind that if you take advantage of an offer from a Palm Beach Harvest business partner and become their customer, they may independently wish to send offers to you. In this case, you will need to inform them separately if you wish to decline receiving future offers from them.
Our Web site enables you to communicate with other visitors or to post information to be accessed by others. When you do so, other visitors may collect your data. Our Web site does not include links to third party Web service providers.
Our goal is to deliver opportunities to people who we believe will find them of value. Offers to help those in need are developed and managed under strict conditions designed to safeguard the security and privacy of our patrons personal information.
Declining E mail Offers. Palm Beach Harvest provides customers with an easy means to decline receiving e mail offers or news about upcoming events. Although some customers tell us they appreciate receiving notice of these carefully designed opportunities, we recognize the importance of providing you with choices. At any time, you may request to discontinue receiving these offers and news from us by simply replying to the e mail and informing us of your preferences. All e mail offers that you receive from Palm Beach Harvest will inform you of how to decline receiving further e mail offers. Additionally, you may set or change your e mail preferences online at any time by contacting us at info@palmbeachharvest.org .
Children. We at Palm Beach Harvest do not use our Web site, www.palmbeachharvest.org, to knowingly solicit data from or market to children under the age of 13. We do provide information about our personal data practices in relation to children on our home page and wherever we knowingly collect personal data from children on our Web site.
Commitment to Privacy. Palm Beach Harvest is actively involved with current industry initiatives to preserve individual privacy rights on the Internet and in all aspects of electronic commerce. We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification, unlawful destruction or accidental loss. All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with, the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data. We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to governmental agencies and institutions and authorities except as required by law or other regulation. This Palm Beach Harvest Privacy Statement applies only to our United States customers and U.S. visitors to our Web site. If you are a U.S. customer and have questions about our online Privacy Statement or your account, please call us at (561) 689-4090, or please send us e mail at the following email address: info@palmbeachharvest.org . You may also request a copy of the Privacy Statement we posted prior to the Web updates made to this document. Palm Beach Harvest Web sites in non U.S. markets have developed Internet privacy statements that are fully consistent with this Privacy Statement. These may be modified as needed for particular products and services, or to conform to local laws or customs around the world.
Direct Mail and Newsletters. If you would like to decline receiving Palm Beach Harvest mail or Newsletters in the United States, if you would like information about your account, or if you have a question or concern, please call:(561) 689-4090, or please send us e mail at: info@palmbeachharvest.org , or you can contact the following representative by regular mail at the following address:
Organization Name: Palm Beach Harvest
Address: 1715 Tiffany Drive East
City, Zip: West Palm Beach , 33407
State: FL
Country: USA
Controller: Jeanette McMahon
Web Sites(s): www.palmbeachharvest.org
Linked Internet Sites. You should be aware that other Internet sites to which you link from Palm Beach Harvest's Web site at www.palmbeachharvest.org might contain privacy provisions that differ from the provisions of our Privacy Statement.
About Cookies. Cookies were originally designed to help a Web site distinguish a user's browser as a previous visitor and thus save and remember any preferences that may have been set while the user was browsing the site. A cookie is a small string of text that a Web site can send to your browser. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses, or capture your e mail address. Currently, Web sites use cookies to enhance the user's visit; in general, cookies can securely store a user's ID and password, personalize home pages, identify which parts of a site have been visited or keep track of selections in a "shopping cart."
If you are just browsing a Web site, a cookie identifies only your browser. If you become a registered online customer of a site (with a designated user ID and password), cookies can be used to provide customized information that the operators of the site believe will be of value to you based on preferences indicated, other information they have about you as a customer, as well as information available from external sources such as the census bureau. It is possible to set your browser to inform you when a cookie is being placed. This way, you have the opportunity to decide whether to accept the cookie. If you are just browsing our Web site and are not a registered online customer, you do not have to accept a cookie and you may continue visiting the Web site.
Changes to the Privacy Statement. Changes to our Privacy Statement will be noted at the following link:__________________________________ here so that you can be fully informed about the privacy protections we provide and your choices with regard to our use of personal information for marketing purposes.
Date last revised: 06/28/2004
Section: Information Use
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