Privacy Policy

At SCAN New York, we take your privacy very seriously. Our primary goal in collecting information from you is to provide you with a smooth and secure experience while you visit our website.

What information do we collect and how do we use it?

We collect information about you when you make a donation, use our 'Contact Us page', or participate in another site feature. The personal information we may collect includes, but is not limited to, your name, email address, mailing address, phone number and credit card information. We may use the personal information we collect from you in the following ways:

  • To provide requested services or information to you.
  • To quickly process your transactions.
  • To direct communications regarding SCAN to you.
  • To provide better service in responding to your requests.

If you do not do anything during your visit except for browse through the website and read the information contained within the web pages, we may collect certain information about your visit automatically. This non-personal information may include your Internet domain, the IP address from which you access our website, the date and time when you access our website, along with the pages that you visit, and an identification of the referring site. This is done to assist us in determining the value and quality of our website and monitoring web-traffic for purposes of software and hardware integrity, optimization and maintenance.

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the security of your personal information. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential. When you donate, we offer the use of a secure server. All sensitive/credit information you supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to be only accessed as stated above. Nevertheless, such security measures may not prevent all loss, misuse or alteration of information on our site, and SCAN is not responsible for any damages or liabilities relating to any such security failures. By using this site, visitors understand that unauthorized third parties may gain access to data and communications when communicated over the Internet.

Cookies

When you connect to our web site, we do not store a cookie on your computer.

Do we disclose the information we collect to outside parties?

We do not provide your personal information to third parties. The term "third parties" does not include SCAN New York or website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our or others' rights, property or safety.

How can you opt-out, remove or modify information you have provided to us?

To modify or restrict the collection or use of your personal information:

  • whenever you are asked to fill in a form on our website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want SCAN to use the information to contact you with further information about SCAN or solicitations from SCAN,
  • if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for such purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at info@scanny.org

Please note that due to e-newsletter production schedules you may receive any e-newsletter already in production. Please also note that we may maintain information about an individual transaction in order to service that transaction and for record keeping.

Third party links

Our web site may include third party links. SCAN is not responsible either for the content or activities of these linked sites or for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide by using such sites. These linked sites have separate and independent privacy policies. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these linked sites (including if a specific link does not work).

Your consent and changes to our policy

By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy as in effect at the time of such visit or provision of information. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page. Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change. This policy was last modified on 23 June 2010.