Privacy Policy
Stayunited.org Privacy and Information Security Policy ("Privacy Policy" or "Policy")
Effective Date: April 18, 2013
StayUNITED, Inc Privacy Policy (“Policy”) was created to help you understand how StayUNITED, Inc uses information that is automatically collected from your computer and information you submit to this website. StayUNITED, Inc is committed to protecting your online privacy. By using this Site, as defined by our Terms of Use, you agree to be legally bound by this Policy, as it may be amended from time to time. If you do not agree to this Policy or cannot form a legally binding contract, you are not permitted to use this Site.
Generally, if we collect information from you, we use it only for the purposes for which it was collected and the other limited purposes set forth below.
Information Collected
This Site collects two types of information from you: (1) General Information; and (2) Personal Information.
General Information:
StayUNITED, Inc automatically collects some non-personal information from our Site’s “cookies,” other tracking mechanisms, registration forms, online surveys, etc., such as:
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Your domain name and host for Internet access
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The date and time of your entry
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Your IP address, browser type, or operating system
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The pages you visit and links that you use
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The domain name from which you linked to our Site
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Your zip code
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Your age
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Other general demographic information
We use this general information to help diagnose problems with the Site and to administer our Site. We may also share it with our business partners on an as-needed basis.
Personal Information:
StayUNITED Inc also collects personal information from our Site’s donations forms, registration forms, contact form, online surveys, merchandise transactions, and position applications, such as:
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Name
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Mailing address
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Telephone number
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E-mail address
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Credit card and bank information
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Job, fellowship, internship, and volunteer position application information
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Resumes
We may use the information from these forms, transactions, and applications for the purpose for which it was collected. We also work with certain third parties and, in some cases, personal information will be shared with these third parties in order to pursue StayUNITED, Inc’s mission and goals.
We will not sell or disclose any of your personal information to a third party, except for the sharing information with our business partners (as noted above) and in the following limited circumstances:
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With your permission to disclose the information
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To change hosts or when our host transfers business assets (as further described below)
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To share it with agents or contractors who perform services for us
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As required by law
Corrections/Updates
This Site gives users the opportunity to change any information previously provided to us through this Site. To do so, please send us an e-mail through our Contact Page.
Transfer of Business Assets
At any time, this Site’s host may be acquired, merge with another business, or acquire or buy other businesses or assets. In such transactions, both General and Personal Information will likely be among the transferred assets.
Cookies
The Site may use “cookies,” a small string of text stored by a web browser on the user’s computer, to determine whether you have visited our Site previously. Cookies also allow StayUNITED, Inc to measure activity on the Site and to improve your user experience, by, for example, remembering your passwords and viewing preferences and allowing you to visit any member-only parts of the Site without re-registering. Cookies cannot retrieve any other data from a hard drive or obtain an e-mail address. Although a user has the ability to modify most browsers to either accept all cookies, notify the user when a cookie is sent, or reject all cookies, it may not be possible to use certain services on this Site if cookies are not accepted.
Links
This Site contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of or the contents on any other websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policy and any other online policies of other websites that you link to, visit, and/or use.
Children
The Site does not seek to collect any information from children. If a child provides us with information, the parent or guardian may notify us, and the information will be deleted from our records.
Security
While there is no such thing as “perfect” security on the Internet, we take reasonable steps to ensure the safety of your personal information. This Site has security measures in place to protect loss, misuse, and/or alteration of such information under our control. However, we do not guarantee the security of your General or Personal Information. In addition, we do not assume any liability for third party use of your General or Personal Information, whether obtained legally or illegally from or through this Site.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or any other provision of our Terms & Conditions, please send us a message through our Contact Page.
THE USE OF THIS SITE SIGNIFIES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE TERMS OF USE, INCLUDING THIS PRIVACY POLICY.