Privacy Policy

www.humanesocietyyouth.org

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and its youth division, Humane Society Youth (HSY), is committed to your right to privacy and to keeping your personal information private. You can visit HSY's web site without telling us who you are or revealing any identifying information about yourself. However, because our web site includes areas in which visitors can provide personally identifying information, we have developed the Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies and practices regarding information we collect about you on this site.

This Privacy Policy governs the URL http://www.humanesocietyyouth.org. This web site is owned and operated by The HSUS for the benefit of humane educators, teachers, parents, and others interested in teaching children the importance of treating animals, the environment, and one another with kindness and respect. Our headquarters is located at 2100 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037. The HSUS reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. A notice shall be appended to this Privacy Policy at least ten (10) days prior to the effective date of any changes to this Privacy Policy.

How We Collect Information About You

Information You Voluntarily Provide. humanesocietyyouth.org collects and maintains certain personal information about you when you send us an e-mail or complete any of our online forms, such as when you nominate yourself or someone else for an award, request to be listed in our online list of Adopt-a-Classroom sponsors, or purchase materials from our online shopping area. Such information may include your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, and other information relevant to the purpose of the online form you filled out. In limited context, you may be asked to provide credit card information, but only where required to purchase materials from HSY.

Other Information. humanesocietyyouth.org also collects certain other information that cannot identify you personally when you visit our web site. This information includes your IP address and your domain name. humanesocietyyouth.org logs these IP addresses and domain names and aggregates them for system administration and to monitor the use of our site. We use the aggregated information to measure the number of visits to our site, the average time spent on our site, the number of pages viewed, and to generate various other site statistics. This helps us to provide a more useful and engaging online experience to humanesocietyyouth.org visitors, and to improve the quality of our content.

HSY uses cookies to help us identify unique visitors to our sites and to help us determine the length of visitor sessions. Cookies are not used for any other reason on humanesocietyyouth.org. A cookie is a small file that is sent out by a web site, accepted by the user's browser, and is placed on the user's hard drive. You can always set your browser to warn of cookies being placed and then chose which cookies you want to accept. HSY does not match any information gathered by cookies with personal information you may have voluntarily submitted to HSY.

Ways Information About You Is Used

We may use the information you voluntarily provided to alert you via e-mail to new humane education materials we feel you may be interested in, to keep you updated regarding HSY outreach programs, and to extend an invitation to support our Adopt-a-Classroom program. We do not make such voluntary information available to third parties. If your volunteered personal information will be used in any manner other than as stated above, such use shall be specifically posted. If you wish to update or remove your information, please e-mail us at webmaster@humanesocietyyouth.org.

Protection of Children's Online Privacy

HSY understands the importance of protecting children's privacy, especially in an online environment. Protecting children's identities and information online is important. While humanesocietyyouth.org can be used by individuals of all ages, we do not knowingly solicit data from children via humanesocietyyouth.org, nor will HSY knowingly accept personal data from anyone under 13 on www.humanesocietyyouth.org.

Links

From time to time, we may link to other web sites not affiliated with HSY. HSY attempts to link only to those web sites which also respect a visitor's privacy and the goals of The HSUS. However, HSY cannot be responsible for the content or policies of third-party web sites. Please check with these third-party organizations or companies for their specific privacy policies. If you find inoperable links or are concerned about any of the sites that HSY currently links to, please inform HSY by contacting us at webmaster@humanesocietyyouth.org.

Security

HSY uses generally accepted, industry-standard security systems, software and encryption technologies to protect against unauthorized access to HSY servers, equipment, and other components of HSY's online presence. This includes using VeriSign™ security systems to protect credit card processing information.

Contacting HSY

If you would like to contact HSY about correcting information we might have collected, or if you have any questions about this privacy policy, please e-mail us at webmaster@humanesocietyyouth.org or write to us at: Webmaster, Humane Society Youth, 67 Norwich Essex Turnpike, East Haddam, CT 06423.