Privacy Policy
General
The Animal Compassion Foundation (the "Foundation") thinks your privacy is important. Please read this section of our website to learn more about the Foundation's philosophy and privacy policy. We understand that the protection of privacy is a major concern to many of you. The Foundation wants you to understand a little bit about how our website interacts with visitors and how we will use any information gathered when you visit our website.
Types of Information Gathered
The Foundation may gather the following types of information: (1) information given voluntarily while using a feature of this website (such as information submitted during the registration process or in a proposal to the Foundation); (2) information gathered as a result of voluntary participation in a survey or poll, or when communicating with our webmaster; and (3) information gathered automatically when visitors visit our website
Registration
In order for you to receive certain benefits of our website you may first be asked to supply certain information such as your zip code. The Foundation wants to supply you with information that benefits you and the more relevant information we have about you the better we are able to do this.
Cookies
The Foundation may automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser, which may include your IP address, the Foundation's cookie information, session time, click path analysis, and the pages you request. The Foundation will only use this type of data in an aggregate form which does not identify you personally.
The Foundation's Use of Information
The Foundation may use information gathered through its website to conduct research for other purposes related to the Foundation's operations. In no case will the Foundation use personally identifying information for its own use or the use of any other party, except to provide the information you request or as required by law. The Foundation only reviews usage of our online content in the aggregate (meaning information summarized into large groups of users with no personally identifying information) to determine the most popular website features and to help us develop new content and information ideas.
Information Sharing
The Foundation will not sell or otherwise share personally identifying information with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide information to you at your request, or as required by law. The Foundation will share this information with certain individuals or entities to provide information you have requested. The Foundation will only share personally identifying information with such individuals or entities if they agree not to disclose the information to other parties and agree not to use this information to solicit.
The Foundation may share aggregate data collected through its website that does not personally identify any party with our research partners, and may from time to time share this type data with other entities or individuals.
Children
Parents should always supervise their children while online. The Foundation's website is not designed nor intended to collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen. So that we may comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, we ask that children under the age of thirteen not provide any personal information on this website.
Links
This website contains several links to other websites not controlled by the Foundation. We have attempted to choose our linked partners with great care; however, the Foundation is not responsible for the privacy practices of any linked site. You should read the privacy policy of each linked website to understand the related policy. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected through the Foundation's website.
Security
The Foundation has attempted to take all reasonable steps to have physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in place to protect personal information gathered through this website. This includes compliance with related federal regulations and may include use of industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect certain transmission data we deem sensitive.
Questions and Comments
The Foundation is always interested in what you have to say. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at mail@animalcompassionfoundation.org.
Changes to Privacy Policy
This document was last updated November 1, 2006. The Foundation may update this privacy policy at any time. If so, the Foundation will post the updated privacy policy on this site. The Foundation encourages you to review this privacy policy from time to time for any changes.