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Stanley Foundation Privacy Policy
recognizes that respecting user privacy over the Internet is of utmost
importance. This privacy statement is designed to provide information about
the privacy and data collection practices for the site: http://www.stanleyfoundation.com.
(“Site”) The Site is operated by Stanley Foundation By visiting the Site,
you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect
In general, you can visit the Site without telling us who you are or
providing any information about yourself. In some areas of the Site, we ask
you to provide information that will enable us to process an order, offer
services that require registration, assist you with technical support issues
or to follow up with you. Generally, Stanley Foundation requests identifying
information when you:
* Register
* Place an order
* Provide feedback to an online survey or tell us about an idea or
suggestion.
* Request information or files from technical support or customer service.
In these instances, Stanley Foundation will ask for your name, address,
e-mail address, phone number and, on occasion, other appropriate
information, such as your interests, your income, and your age. This
information is required to provide you with these services. In all
instances, if you receive a newsletter or other electronic mailing from us,
you will always be able to "unsubscribe" to these mailings at any time.
We also collect information from you passively. We gather certain
information automatically which we may store in log files. This information
includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service
provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp,
access data ,and clickstream data. We use this information, which does not
identify individual users, to analyze trends, to analyze Site access, to
analyze Site click-through, to administer the Site, to track users’
movements around the Site and to gather demographic information about our
user base as a whole. Some of this information is collected by third parties
simply for the purposes of determining traffic data. We also use cookies for
record-keeping purposes. We use both session ID cookies and persistent
cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our
site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent
cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can
remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet
browser’s “help” file. We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords,
so you don’t have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable
us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience
on our Site. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your
ability to use some areas of our Site, such as the checkout process, will be
limited.
What Stanley Foundation Will Do With Your Information. If you choose to give
us personal information for any of the purposes above, this information is
retained by Stanley Foundation and will only be used by Stanley Foundation
to support your customer relationship with us, to process your order, and to
provide the requested services to you. If you register for a newsletter or
mailing list, we will use the information you provide us to send you the
information you requested or to provide a service. Additionally, we may use
the information you provide us to contact you with offers regarding other
products and/or services in which you might be interested. The information
you provide may also be sold to or shared with third parties, who may
provide you with the requested service, send you a newsletter, or otherwise
contact you to discuss other products and/or services which you might find
of interest. The information you provide will also be shared with a third
party for the purpose of processing your credit card to perform other
services for us, such as, but not limited to, database maintenance
(hereinafter “Vendors”). However, these Vendors are required by us to keep
the information confidential and may not use it for any purpose other than
to carry out the corresponding services.
Stanley Foundation may share, rent, or sell your personally identifying
information to third parties that we believe may have offers, products,
and/or services that you will find of interest. In addition, Stanley
Foundation may also share aggregate and share information about its
customers and its web site visitors with advertisers, business partners, and
other third parties.
Third Party Links
Links to third party sites are available at the Site. Note that such third
party sites and services have separate privacy and data collection
practices. Once you leave the Site, Stanley Foundation cannot control, and
has no responsibility for, the privacy policies or data collection
activities at another site. We urge you to review the privacy policies and
practices of the third party sites that are accessible from the Site to
familiarize yourself with their policies.
Children's Privacy Protection
Stanley Foundation is sensitive to the heightened need to protect the
privacy of children under the age of 13. The material on our Site is not
intended for children and is not targeted to children under the age of 13.
We do not knowingly collect data from children and, if we learn that we have
received personal data from a child, we will remove this information from
our database.
Changes to this Policy
Stanley Foundation may from time to time revise its privacy policy and will
notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy to this Site.
You should, therefore, periodically visit this page so that you are aware of
any such revisions. You will be advised and have the opportunity to opt out
of any new use of your information.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about our privacy policy and/or the practices, you
should first contact our site coordinator at Email or by postal mail to:
Stanley Foundation
P.O. Box 51570, 911 Park Royal South
West Vancouver, BC, V7T 2X9, Canada
This privacy policy is effective as of May 06, 2007.
Credit Card Security
We know customers are concerned about credit card security. We use one of
the worlds largest funds transfer agencies - PayPal. If you choose to use a
PayPal account, your personal credit card information will not be given to
Stanley Foundation
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