Our Commitment to Your Privacy

Child Save America is committed to protecting your privacy. We value the trust of our staff, members, supporters, and all others who work with us, and we recognize that maintaining your trust requires that we be transparent and accountable in how we handle your personal information.

In carrying out our various programs and activities, particularly with respect to raising funds to support our work, we frequently collect, use and disclose personal information. Anyone from whom we collect such information can expect that it will be carefully protected and that any use of or other dealing with this information is subject to consent. Our privacy practices are designed to achieve this.

The following Privacy Policy explains how Child Save America collects, uses, discloses, and safeguards the personal information of members, member supporters, and all others who work with us - whether provided to us through a signed registration form; orally in person or over the phone; electronically through a web site; or, in select circumstances, obtained by us from public domain sources such as published directories or other organizations' public documents such as annual reports.

We collect personal information about our subscribers in the following ways:

viaaffiliate reply coupons;
via our web site;
via the phone;
in-person;
via order forms;

Privacy Practices

Personal information gathered by Child Save America is kept in strict confidence. Certain staff members have authorized access to personal information based on their need to deal with the information for the reason(s) for which it was obtained. Safeguards are in place to ensure that the information is not disclosed or shared more widely than is necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was gathered. We also take measures to ensure that the integrity of this information is maintained and to prevent its being lost, stolen or prematurely destroyed.

We collect, use and disclose personal information only for purposes that a reasonable person would consider appropriate under the circumstances. We routinely offer our stakeholders the opportunity not to have their information shared for purposes beyond those for which it was collected.

Web Sites and Electronic Commerce

When you browse the Child Save America web site, you do so anonymously. We collect only the domain name (eg. Sympatico, Hotmail, etc.) and not the e-mail address of a visitor to our site.

At times, we may request web site visitors to supply us voluntarily with personal information, such as name and e-mail address and postal address, for purposes such as corresponding with us, registering at our site, making a donation, entering a contest, or participating in an on-line survey.

Subscribers through our web site are linked to an industry-standard secure payment service for credit card transactions. Your credit card information is encrypted as it leaves your computer using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) 128-bit encryption, which is currently the strongest export-grade encryption available.

The details of your donation are then retrieved from the server by Child Save America using unique encryption. This encryption makes interpretation impossible for anyone other than the intended recipient. Our software is routinely updated to maximize the protection of any information sent to us on-line.

Our site uses cookies in a limited way. Cookies are small files containing information that a web site uses to track a visit. Both persistent and session cookies are used by many web sites. However, we use session cookies only to better understand how our site is used, to make sure our information and dynamic content are served up to visitors correctly, and to improve the performance of our site for users, particularly the way search pages are delivered. Session cookies do not remain on your computer at the end of your visit, and cannot be used to obtain any personally identifiable details.