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practices described in this Privacy Notice. Furthermore, when you
communicate with us electronically, we may communicate with you by
e-mail or by posting notices on this site. You agree that all Agreements,
Notices, Disclosures and other communications that we provide to you
electronically satisfy any legal requirements that such
communications be in writing.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
In general, when you visit our Web site you do so anonymously,
except for "cookies" which are a part of every Web server's browser
program. (See below.) We encourage you to visit our Web site often
to remain updated on our activities. There are, however, occasions
when we may ask you for additional information so that we may better
respond to your needs and so that you can help us better fulfill our
mission. These include, but are not limited to the following:
- Personally identifiable information will be collected in order
for you to become a member of LFOLA online.
- Personally identifiable information will be collected when you
register for one of our courses, programs or special events online.
- Personally identifiable information will be collected when you
order one of our products online.
- Personally identifiable information will be collected when you
make a contribution to LFOLA.
- Personally identifiable information will be collected when you
send us an e-mail. We will not use this information for any purpose
other than to respond to your e-mail.
- We may require personally
identifiable information from you from time to time to
respond to survey or demographic questions. In some of these
instances you can respond anonymously.
THIRD PARTY ACCESS TO INFORMATION
- From time to time, personally identifiable information is made
available to other non-profit organizations and occasionally to
for-profit organizations, unless you request otherwise. Your information
will not, however, be shared with these organizations without the prior
approval of the Executive Committee of LFOLA. If you would prefer to
keep your personal information from being shared with these organizations
you may choose a confidentiality option when we request this information
from you online, or by calling us at 847-234-3880 and speaking with
Noelle Moore, between the hours of 9 - 5, Monday through Friday, U.S.
Central Time.
- From time to time it is necessary for us to employ other companies
and individuals to perform functions on our behalf such as fulfilling
merchandise orders, delivering packages, addressing mailings, sending
e-mails, removing repetitive information from membership and donor lists,
processing credit card payments and other tasks we either cannot perform
or choose not to perform ourselves. We use a Web site service provider,
host and a donor list maintenance provider. These companies or individuals
have access to personal information necessary to perform their functions,
but are not authorized by us to use it for other purposes.
- We may find it necessary to disclose your personal information to
respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process. We may also need
to use the information to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend
against legal claims. Additionally, we may need to share information in
order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities,
suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical
safety of any person, violations of LFOLA's Conditions of Use or as otherwise
required by law.
- LFOLA's Web site provides links to third-party Web sites. Since we do
not control these Web sites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies
posted on these third-party sites.
- In the unlikely event that LFOLA merges or becomes affiliated with another
non-profit organization, of course our membership, donor lists, class
registration lists and other relevant information will be shared with that
other organization.
- Donor and member lists may be published in our Annual Report which is
available to the public.
- Of course, LFOLA will never sell,
rent, share or otherwise disclose personally identifiable
information about you for commercial purposes or for
purposes other than to facilitate accomplishing our mission
as stated in the first paragraph of this Privacy Notice.
SECURITY OF YOUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION
We will take appropriate steps to protect your privacy through our own
internal office procedures which include limiting access to personal
and credit card information to those staff members who need the information
to perform their function and may include encryption. Likewise, we will
protect your personal information in storage. If you prefer, you can
become a member, make a contribution or purchase merchandise by printing
out the online form and mailing it to us at:
Lake Forest Open Lands Association
272 E. Deerpath, Suite 318
Lake Forest, Illinois 60645
or by calling us at 847-234-3880.
CHILDREN
- LFOLA does not sell products for purchase by children, only by adults.
If you are under 18, you need to use your parent or guardian to
purchase a product
- We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under
the age of 13. If we learn that we have personal information on a child
under the age of 13, we will delete that information from our systems.
LFOLA encourages parents to go online with their children. Here are a
few tips to help make a child's online experience safer:
- Teach kids never to give personal information, unless supervised by
a parent or responsible adult. Personal information includes name,
address, phone, school, etc.
- Know the sites your kids are visiting and which sites are
appropriate.
- Look for Web site privacy policies. Know how your child's
information is treated.
- Check out the Federal Trade Commission's site here
USE OF COOKIES
- What are Cookies? Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that
we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser
to enable our systems to recognize your browser. This technology
helps us store useful information that enables our Web site to remember
you when you return. It also helps us when you register for one of our
programs, or to store some history about the parts of our sites that are
of greatest interest to you so you can navigate our site more easily.
- How does LFOLA use Cookies? We use both session ID cookies and
persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the
browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small
text file stored on the user's hard drive for an extended period of time.
Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help
file directions.
- By setting a cookie on our site,
users would not have to log in a password more than once,
thereby saving time while on our site. If users reject the
cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to
this is that the user will be limited in some areas of our
site. Persistent cookies enable us to track and target the
interest of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
We do not share your profile with third parties except as
outlined above.
CHOICE / OPT-OUT
- Our users are given the opportunity to "opt-out" of having their
information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the
point where we ask for information. For example, our order form has
an "opt-out" mechanism so users who buy a product from us, but don't
want any marketing material, can keep their e-mail address off of our lists.
- Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter and other
promotional communications may opt-out of receiving these
communications by replying with "unsubscribe" in the subject line of
the e-mail or by using our Web site's unsubscribe
function . We also offer an opt-out mechanism on the member
information pages or the user may contact us by phone at
847-234-3880, by e-mail at bmartens[at]lfola[dot]org
or by regular mail at Lake Forest Open Lands Association,
272 E. Deerpath, Suite 318, Lake Forest, Illinois 60645 to
opt-out.
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