Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting our website. This privacy policy tells you how we use personal information collected from our website. You can view our website and read most of the information contained herein without giving us any personal information. We do not collect personal information from users without their permission. When you use our website, you may choose to provide us with personal information for the specific purpose of inquiring into goods and services provided by Townsend Smith Foundation. Please read this privacy policy before using the site or submitting any personal information. By using our website, you are accepting the practices described in our privacy policy.
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
There are pages on our website where we request information from you in order to fulfill a request for further information. Such information may include personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Townsend Smith Foundation may collect demographic information, such as your postal code, age and gender.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Townsend Smith Foundation. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Townsend Smith Foundation for the operation of the service, to maintain the quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Townsend Smith website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Townsend Smith public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Townsend Smith Foundation does not read any of your private online communications.
Townsend Smith Foundation encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Townsend Smith Foundation so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Townsend Smith Foundation is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Townsend Smith Foundation and Townsend Smith Foundation family of websites.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Each of these pages collecting information is designed as a form with fields clearly labelled. On these forms, we clearly indicate or request information that we need to fulfill the request. We use the information we collect to fulfill your request. We may, from time to time, use this information to notify you of future product availability, events, and other related information, either via e-mail, mail, or telephone. If you do not wish to receive future communications from us, please let us know.
Townsend Smith Foundation collects and uses your personal information to operate the Townsend Smith Foundation website and deliver the services you have requested. Townsend Smith Foundation also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Townsend Smith Foundation and its affiliates. Townsend Smith Foundation may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. Townsend Smith Foundation does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Townsend Smith Foundation may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Townsend Smith Foundation may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Townsend Smith Foundation, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Townsend Smith Foundation does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Townsend Smith Foundation keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within Townsend Smith Foundation in order to determine what Townsend Smith Foundation services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Townsend Smith Foundation to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Townsend Smith Foundation websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Townsend Smith Foundation or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Townsend Smith Foundation; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Townsend Smith Foundation, or the public.
USE OF COOKIES
There are some pages on this website that use a technology called “cookies”. Cookies are strings of text written by programs on this website to a disk file on your computer. They contain information to help us better serve you next time you return to the website. Most browsers can be configured to either notify you when websites create cookies or to disallow the creation of cookies. Refer to the documentation that came with your browser or the online help files supplied with your browser for instructions that will allow you to better control how cookies are written to your hard disk.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Townsend Smith Foundation services or websites you visit.
We may use Google Analytics (GA), a free analytics measurement tool to better understand how our website is used by its visitors and how we can improve user experience. We also may use GA to measure and improve our digital marketing. Some types of information collected and analyzed include: specific web pages visited, length of time on site, number of pages viewed per session, what marketing channels they came from, and general information on our visitors’ geography and devices.
GA uses session cookies and persistent cookies to anonymously collect standard visitor behaviour, as well as Internet log information. Persistent cookies are cookies that are stored on your device and expire two years after your last visit to a website. While the information generated by the cookies about your usage of our website is passed on to Google, no personally identifying information (PII) is recorded or sent to Google. In addition, aggregate GA data is only available to designated people who need this information to perform their employment duties at Townsend Smith Foundation.
From time to time we may use Google AdWords for Remarketing and Display advertising on other websites through the Google AdWords Display Network. Google AdWords uses cookies for remarketing to display Townsend Smith Foundation promotional ads on other websites based off a website visitors’ past visits to our website. For additional information, review Google’s Privacy Policy, Google Analytics, How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps, and Google AdWords.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Townsend Smith Foundation secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Townsend Smith Foundation secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
Townsend Smith Foundation will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect community feedback. Townsend Smith Foundation encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Townsend Smith Foundation is protecting your information.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Townsend Smith Foundation welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Townsend Smith Foundation has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Townsend Smith Foundation. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.