Privacy
Last Update:
August 4, 2010
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS
WEBSITE OR SUBMITTING ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION. BY USING
THIS WEBSITE YOU ARE AGREEING TO THESE PRIVACY TERMS. IF
YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE.
Commitment
to Privacy
This
site
www.heartlandgirlsranch.org, and any and
all sites that we may own and operate in the future
(collectively "the Site"), is owned by Heartland Inc., a
Minnesota non-profit ("Heartland,” "We" or
“Us”). We respect the privacy of every
individual who uses the Site and we will only process and
use the data obtained through the Site for our own business
purposes. This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") outlines
the information we will collect and how we will use that
information.
Changes
to Privacy Policy
Because of
changes in Internet technology and practices, this Privacy
Policy, and our security and other policies may change from
time to time. Please consult this portion of the Site for
important changes to the Privacy Policy as they occur.
Unless otherwise provided in an agreement between you and
us, by using the Site after we post any changes to this
Privacy Policy, you agree to accept those changes, whether
or not you have reviewed them, and such acceptance shall be
deemed legally conclusive. If at any time you choose not to
accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, you should not use
the Site, nor should you provide information about yourself
or your business to us.
Personally
Identifiable Information
When you access
and/or use this Site, we may obtain data concerning that
access and use. If you request information from us or
register to use any limited access portions of the Site you
may be asked to provide personally identifiable information
about yourself. This data may include, but is not limited
to, your name, address and other demographic information,
professional data, telephone number, and email address. We
will not collect any personally identifiable information
about you unless you provide it to us voluntarily. If you
opt not to provide us with personally identifiable
information, no material consequences will result, although
there may be services that may be unavailable to you.
Use
of Personally Identifiable Information
We may store
and process your personally identifiable information in
order to fulfill any requests for information that you make
of us, or to better understand your needs and to learn how
to improve our services. We may also use your personally
identifiable information to contact you (for example, we
may send you marketing or promotional materials or other
information, we may respond to your comments or requests
for information, we may ask you for feedback on products
and services or we may contact you if needed in the course
of processing your requests). We may also use your
personally identifiable information in accordance with any
agreements that you may have entered into with us.
If you do not wish us to send you any information
concerning new services or other matters offered by us
please contact us by phone at 320-843-4815 to notify us of
your wishes.
Disclosure
To enable us to
more efficiently provide the products and services you have
requested from us, we may share your personal information
with selected third parties who are acting on our behalf as
our agents, suppliers, or providers. Such third party
service providers are provided only with such information
as is necessary under the circumstances. Information
provided to third parties is used only for the purposes
stipulated and those third parties are subject to
confidentiality obligations. We may also enhance or merge
personally identifiable information with data obtained from
third parties for any of the foregoing purposes. Nothing in
the Privacy Policy shall be deemed to prohibit us from
disclosing your identity or information if we are required
by law to do so.
Contacting
Us Regarding Your Personally Identifiable Information
If you have
submitted personally identifiable information through the
Site, or if someone else has submitted your personally
identifiable information through the foregoing, and you
would like to review, request changes or have that
information deleted from our databases, please contact us
via phone at 320-843-4815, or send a letter to our Privacy
Compliance Officer at 189 Highway 9 NE, Benson, MN 56215,
USA. We will then use reasonable efforts to change or
remove your personally identifiable information from our
files, unless we are entitled or required to retain it
pursuant to other agreements or by law. We will use
reasonable efforts to supply you with this information and
correct any factual inaccuracies in this information.
Notwithstanding the prior two sentences, if your laws
provide you with additional protections or require us to
comply with more stringent obligations to provide you with,
remove, or correct your personally identifiable
information, we will comply with those legal requirements.
Non-Personally
Identifiable Information Collected Automatically
In some cases,
we may collect information about you that is not personally
identifiable. Examples of this type of information include
but are not limited to the frequency of your use of this
Site and the route by which you choose to access it and
your use of any hyperlinks available on this Site. We and
our service providers, agents or advisors may process and
use this data for purposes including but not limited to,
planning Site development, assessing patterns of use,
planning and assessing marketing initiatives by us, or to
include you in e-mail or mailing lists so that we may send
you information or updates and or offer you services.
Cookies
"Cookies" are
small text files that are either used for the duration of a
session ('session cookies'), or saved on a user's hard
drive in order to identify that user the next time he/she
logs on to the Site ('persistent cookies'). We may use
'session cookies' to identify registered users logging in
to the Site. These cookies are deleted from the component's
server soon after the session ends and are not collected or
saved. We may also use 'persistent cookies' when a
registered user clicks on the "save password" check box on
login. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but
you can usually change your browser to prevent that,
although if you do disable cookies from your browser you
may not be able to access certain sections of the Site.
Security
We use
reasonable measures to protect personal information from
access by unauthorized persons. This includes, among other
things, standard techniques such as firewalls, encryption,
intrusion detection, and site monitoring. We also use
reasonable internal controls to protect personal
information from misuse by our employees. Unfortunately, no
electronic data or transmission can be guaranteed to be
100% secure. As a result, while we use reasonable measures
to protect personal information, we cannot ensure or
warrant the security of any information transmitted or
otherwise provided to us or received from us. This is
especially true for information that is transmitted via
e-mail that is unprotected until it reaches our servers.
Once a transmission is received, we use the reasonable
measures set forth above to secure our servers.
Internally, we restrict access to personally identifiable
information to employees who need access to the information
in order to do their jobs. These employees are limited in
number and are required to comply with our privacy
policies.
Other
Sites
The Site may
contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for
the privacy practices employed by other websites. Users are
encouraged to review the privacy policy of any website
linked from the Site.
