Helen Woodward Privacy Policy

We value the support of our members, donors, customers, and others who support the Helen Woodward Animal Center through visiting our web sites. We know that protecting personal information is important to our supporters. To make our Privacy Policy easy to find, we make it available on every page of our website. (If you have questions or concerns regarding our site's privacy statement, contact HWAC directly at http://www.animalcenter.org/contact.

1. General Browsing Information - If you visit our site to read or download information, we may collect and store the following general information 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: your computer's IP address, browser type, and operating system, the date and time you access our site, the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site; and the various pages that you visit while on our site.

2. Personally-Identifiable Information - We will explicitly notify you before we collect any personally-identifiable information about you (e.g.. your name, email address, contact information, credit card number, etc.), and will not collect any information unless you choose to provide it to us. This information may be shared within our organization for the purposes of responding to any comments or questions you submit and/or providing follow-up information about our organization. We will never share this information with other organizations not affiliated with HWAC .

3. Publicly Sharing Your Information - Helen Woodward Animal Center occasionally receives information from website visitors who have successfully participated in our programs and/or employed our resources. In certain instances, we would like to publicly share the comments and stories we receive by posting this information on our website. We will not, however, publicly share ANY information we receive on our website without first receiving the express consent of the individual who submitted the information. Furthermore, we will not post information in any way that specifically identifies the sender of that information unless the sender approves it.

4. Children's Information - Helen Woodward Animal Center provides a special place on our web site for children and we encourage parents and guardians to visit this part of our site with their children. We respect the privacy of children, and do not collect any personally-identifiable information about them.

5. Cookies - A cookie is a small file stored on your hard disk drive. Cookies may contain different types of information such as site preferences and login information. The Helen Woodward Animal Center does not use this cookie to link to personally identifiable information on our site. Cookies expire after a period of time specified in the cookie. This ranges from a few hours to years. Some areas of this site require use of cookies for proper navigation. If a user rejects a cookie, they simply will not be able to use that part of the site effectively.

6. Other Security Measures - We stive to provide our members and supporters with a secure experience when they are ordering memberships, making a donation, or buying merchandise. Our technical security measures include using industry standard 128bit encryption to secure the transfer of data. Although we will use all reasonable means to safeguard the privacy of your personal information, transmissions made via the Internet cannot be made absolutely secure. When our forms ask users to enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with what we believe is the best encryption method currently available in the industry -Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). While on a secure page, such as our membership form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open.

Helen Woodward Animal Center reserves the right to amend this policy at any time.

Helen Woodward Animal Center PO Box 64, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92064.