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Privacy Policy

Women’s Animal Center respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”). The Privacy Policy is designed to provide you with information about how we collect, store and use non-personally identifiable and personally identifiable information obtained through our website. By visiting our website, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy. Women’s Animal Center reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting such change here. Your continued use of the website after such change is made constitutes acceptance of and agreement to be bound by the terms of the Privacy Policy as modified.

This Privacy Policy applies to all our websites, including but not limited to https://womensanimalcenter.org (“Women's Animal Center Websites”). Women’s Animal Center is not responsible for the privacy policy or content of any third-party website linked to our website. Please check with these third-party organizations or companies for their specific privacy policies.

Contents:

  • What information does Women’s Animal Center collect?
  • How is the information used?
  • Does Women’s Animal Center use cookies?
  • Does Women’s Animal Center collect information from children?
  • Do I have control over how my information is used?
  • Amendments
  • How can I get more information about the Privacy Policy?

Women’s Animal Center collects and maintains certain personal information about you when you send us an email or complete any of our online forms, such as when you request information from us, make a donation, subscribe to one of our online newsletters, sign up for mobile texts, or forward a web page, electronic postcard, or electronic newsletter. Such information may include your name, mailing address, and email address; it may also include a landline or mobile phone number, the email addresses of those to whom you forward Women's Animal Center electronic content, and any other information collected in the forms. You may be asked to provide credit card information to contribute to Women’s Animal Center, purchase certain information, education programs or materials from Women’s Animal Center.

Other Information
Women’s Animal Center also collects certain other information that cannot identify you personally when you visit our website. This information may include your IP address and your domain name.

How is the information used?

Women’s Animal Center respects your privacy and has instituted policies intended to ensure that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner. Women’s Animal Center may disclose your personal information when: (i) the person submitting the information authorizes us to do so; (ii) sharing the information is a necessary operation of the website (i.e. to process credit card information); or (iii) we are required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal processes served through Women’s Animal Center or the website; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Women’s Animal Center, the website or the visitors to the website; and/or (c) prevent or mitigate harm or potential harm or damage of any type to visitors to the website or the public. Occasionally, Women’s Animal Center may contact visitors who have provided their personally identifiable information through the website to, among other things, donate, sign up for advocacy alerts, or take advocacy actions. Women’s Animal Center may also contact visitors to conduct surveys seeking feedback about their experience on the website. These surveys are used for quality assurance purposes to improve our level of customer service. The data collected may also be shared with third parties on an aggregated basis. Women’s Animal Center also logs non-personally identifiable information, such as IP addresses and domain names, and aggregates them for system administration and to monitor the use of our site. We use the aggregated information to measure the number of visits to our site, the average time spent on our site, the number of pages viewed, and various other site statistics. This monitoring helps us to provide a more useful and engaging online experience for visitors to Women’s Animal Center Websites, and helps us to improve the quality of our content.

Does Women’s Animal Center use cookies?

Women’s Animal Center may store some information on your computer in the form of a "cookie" (i.e. a small piece of text that stores information on your browser in your computer’s hard drive) or similar file. We do this to collect information about your activities on the website, make it possible to deliver to you content that is specific to your interests, and/or to prevent you from re-entering all your registration data at each connection. We also use conversion tracking cookies as part of our ad campaigns in order to analyze trends, gather broad demographic information, and monitor site traffic patterns that can help us further develop and improve the design and functionality of our site. The cookies shall only be used to obtain non-personal information to improve your online experience. No other information is stored in these cookies. You can always set your browser to warn of cookies being placed, and then choose which cookies you want to accept.

How secure is Women’s Animal Center’s website? 

Our website has industry standard encryption security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Women’s Animal Center makes every effort to protect your online information by using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. SSL encrypts your information to avoid the decoding of that information by anyone other than Women’s Animal Center. We do not store your credit card information.

Does Women’s Animal Center collect information from children?

Protecting the privacy of children is especially important to us. For that reason, we do not knowingly collect information provided by users under the age of 18, nor do we solicit information from users under the age of 18. Women’s Animal Center is committed to safeguarding our users online privacy and recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of personal information, particularly that of children.  Women’s Animal Center takes all required steps to protect the privacy and safety of children in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA").

Do I have control over how my information is used?

You may opt-out of receiving communications from Women’s Animal Center by unsubscribing to a communication at any time. Women’s Animal Center assumes no responsibility for the data collection and use practices of third parties that process online credit card transactions. You may request a record of your information by contacting Women’s Animal Center at helpline@womensanimalcenter.org.

Amendments

Women’s Animal Center reserves the right to amend this policy at any time. Women’s Animal Center shall post a notice of changes on its website, when and if the terms of this policy are amended.

How can I get more information about the Privacy Policy?

If you have questions or concerns about the Privacy Policy, you can contact Women’s Animal Center at helpline@womensanimalcenter.org