Privacy Policy
This Web site is owned by Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas, Inc. (“GSNETX”), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered Dallas, Texas. Our online properties are comprised of, but are not limited to, all pages found under www.gsnetx.org and www.texascookietime.org . This privacy policy applies to these sites and other sites, mobile apps or other online services we operate that link to this policy (collectively, referred to below as the site).
GSNETX is committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of our visitors. This privacy policy discloses how we collect, protect, and use information you provide, or we collect online, as well as how we protect children's privacy. If our policy practices change in the future, we will let you know by posting our revised privacy policy on our Web site. By using the pages on this site or other services covered by the posted Privacy Policy, you are accepting the practices described in the Privacy Policy.
INFORMATION COLLECTION
Personally Identifiable
Information : GSNETX
gathers personally identifiable data on our site, including but not
limited to names, addresses, Zip/postal codes, e-mail addresses,
etc., when submitted by a visitor. Once collected, we may combine
this information with other information collected from external sources.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information: GSNETX may automatically collect certain technical information from your computer such as your Internet service provider, your Internet Protocol address, your browser type, your operating system, the pages viewed, the pages viewed immediately before and after accessing the Web site, and the search terms entered to get to our site. This information allows us to improve and customize our services. We and our service providers may collect this information using “cookies,” which are small text files that many websites save on your computer, or similar technologies. See the section on “Use of Cookies and Similar Technology” below for more information.
USE AND SHARING OF
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
The personally identifiable information you provide is used by
GSNETX and other entities who are involved in the operation of this
site or who provide support for the GSNETX and Girl Scouts of the USA
mission and programs, for general business purposes and for the
purposes for which you provided the information. General business
purposes include, for example, GSNETX and Girl Scouts of the USA
membership activities, program participation, marketing, promotions,
and fundraising activities and communications. The purposes for which
you provide information includes our use of your personally
identifiable information to process online transactions, purchases,
and donations, facilitate participation in Girl Scouts of the USA and
GSNETX programs, promotions and services, or process job applications.
We do not sell information you provide to us online with
third parties. We may share personally identifiable information with
third parties including: (i) with other Girl Scout Councils and Girl
Scout troops for administrative purposes relating to a child’s
activities with another Council or their troop; (ii) when the person
submitting the information authorizes us to share it; (iii) when
sharing the information is with a service provider in furtherance of
our operations or the operation of the site, for instance, to process
a purchase or other transaction you make; (iv) to facilitate
participation in Girl Scouts of the USA and GSNETX programs,
promotions, and services, or to engage in fund raising, marketing
communications and promotions; (v) to comply with legal processes such
as a subpoena or court order or to otherwise protect your or our legal
rights; or (vi) for other purposes for which you provided the
information. GSNETX has no control over or responsibility for the data
collection and use practices of third parties that process online
transactions. For example, if you make a purchase on our site using
a PayPal account or
similar account of a third-party payment provider, certain
information is transmitted to the payment provider and is subject to
the third party’s own privacy policy.
Please note that Girl Scouts of the USA provides operational support
for the site and may collect and use personally identifiable
information you provide to the site and other information collected by
the site as described in this policy. Girl Scouts of the USA will use
any information it collects for the purposes described in this policy
and in a manner consistent with its own privacy policy, which is
available here. GSNETX and Girl Scouts of
the USA are each responsible for their own information handling practices.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
GSNETX is committed to providing a safe, secure, and fun online experience for children who visit our site. We are dedicated to safeguarding any personally identifiable information collected online and to helping parents and children have positive experiences on the Internet.
We will never knowingly request personally identifiable information
from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental
consent. With parental consent, we may collect information from
children under the age of 13 such as: name, address, email address,
account information, and user generated content. This information
allows us to fulfill a requested transaction and
facilitate participation in online programs, keep records, undertake
certain marketing activities, or to otherwise customize or enhance the
Web site experience for children.
Children under the age of 13 may be able to make certain content
such as user generated content visible to others or the public. This
could include, for example, a webpage or parts of webpages operated by
children that have been designed for group or public viewing. However,
absent parental consent, children under 13 would be allowed to display
only limited information such as a first name or unique user name or
other information that does not allow for online contacting by third
parties.
Regardless of what information is displayed, parents can revoke
their consent and ask that information about their children be deleted
from the site by contacting our offices by phone at (800) 442-2260 or
via email at webmaster@gsnetx.org. To do this or to review
personally identifiable 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
from 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.
Submissions
GSNETX welcomes children to learn more about our organization and, where appropriate, participate in polls and surveys, as well as submit comments, artwork, writings, and other submissions for posting on our Web site. For this reason, GSNETX follows the guidelines for interactive electronic media published by the Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the Better Business Bureau for pages targeted to children under 13. However, we encourage this be done only with their parent's knowledge and supervision. We also encourage children to use an alias (e.g., "Bookworm", "Skater", etc.), first name, nickname, initials, or other alternative to full names or screen names which correspond with an e-mail address for any activities which will involve public posting.
In keeping with CARU's Principle regarding respecting and fostering
the parents' role in providing guidance for their children, we
encourage parents to check and monitor their children's use of e-mail
and other online activities regularly.
USE OF COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Visitors should be aware that non-personal information and data may
be automatically collected by the GSNETX Web site through the use of
"cookies" or other similar technologies such as web beacons.
"Cookies" are small text files a Web site 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 assigning 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. “Web beacons” are a small snippet of code
embedded in webpages typically used to monitor activity on a webpage
and transfer or collect information, such as information about your
Internet Protocol address, the URL of the page on which the beacon is
located, the browser type that is accessing the site, and the ID
number of cookies placed on your computer.
GSNETX uses "cookie" technology only to obtain
non-personal information from its online visitors in order to improve
visitors' online experience and facilitate their visit within our
site. GSNETX may use web beacons to improve website services, conduct
website analytics, first party advertising relating to us and our
sponsors, and to optimize the browsing experience.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (that is, not including your name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you on this or other websites. Read more information about this practice at http://www.networkadvertising.org and http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies.
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES AND SERVICES
This site may be linked to other sites and services that are not maintained by GSNETX. These Web sites have their own privacy policies, which you should review prior to visiting them. We have no responsibility for linked Web sites and provide these links solely for the convenience and information of our visitors.
OUR SECURITY SAFEGUARD
The safety and security of your online experience is of the utmost
concern to us. We take measures to implement reasonable physical,
electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent
unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the
information we collect online. No method of transmission over the
Internet or electronic system is 100% secure, and we do not guarantee
or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.
Credit Card Safety
Protecting the safety of your credit card information is also
important to us. For card transactions we process, we use Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to protect the security of your credit
card information as it is transmitted to us. SSL is an Internet
encryption technology, and a method of scrambling data as it travels
from your computer to our Web site servers. We also encrypt your
credit card number when we store your order and whenever we transfer
that information to participating merchants.
To make sure you are accessing our secure server before you submit sensitive information, check the document for your browser for indication of an SSL connection (most browsers utilize an unbroken or closed padlock). Verify that SSL is active before submitting sensitive information to our server. To double-check, verify that the URL or Address line of your browser for our site begins with "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. All card processing activities comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI - DSS).
Children
If you are under 18, you need parent/guardian permission to use a credit card to make purchases online.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can contact us at: GSNETX
6001 Summerside Drive
Dallas, TX 75252
Phone: (800) 442-2260 or (972) 349-2400
Monday-Thursday, 8:30 AM-5:00 PM Central Time; Friday, 9:00AM-3:00PM Central Time. After normal business hours, our Answering Service will take your message and forward it to council representatives for follow-up.
You can email us your question at webmaster@gsnetx.org and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you for visiting our site.
This Privacy Policy was last updated in July 2014.
