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The National Association for Humane and Environmental Education (NAHEE) is committed to your right to privacy and to keeping your personal information private. You can visit NAHEE'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 NAHEE 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 67 Norwich Essex Turnpike, East Haddam, CT, 06423. NAHEE 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.
Information You Voluntarily Provide. NAHEE.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 NAHEE.
Other Information. NAHEE.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. NAHEE.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 nahee.org visitors, and to improve the quality of our content.
NAHEE 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 nahee.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. NAHEE does not match any information gathered by cookies with personal information you may have voluntarily submitted to NAHEE.
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 NAHEE 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@nahee.org.
NAHEE understands the importance of protecting children's privacy, especially in an online environment. Protecting children's identities and information online is important. While nahee.org can be used by individuals of all ages, we do not knowingly solicit data from children via nahee.org, nor will NAHEE knowingly accept personal data from anyone under 13 on www.humanesocietyyouth.org.
From time to time, we may link to other web sites not affiliated with NAHEE. NAHEE attempts to link only to those web sites which also respect a visitor's privacy and the goals of NAHEE. However, NAHEE 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 NAHEE currently links to, please inform NAHEE by contacting us at webmaster@nahee.org.
NAHEE uses generally accepted, industry-standard security systems, software and encryption technologies to protect against unauthorized access to NAHEE servers, equipment, and other components of NAHEE's online presence. This includes using VeriSign™ security systems to protect credit card processing information.
If you would like to contact NAHEE about correcting information we might have collected, or if you have any questions about this privacy policy, please e-mail us at webmaster@nahee.org or write to us at: Webmaster, NAHEE, 67 Norwich Essex Turnpike, East Haddam, CT 06423.