Thank you for visiting the South Burlington Food Shelf website! The protection of your privacy is important to us. This policy describes our website practices.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
The South Burlington Food Shelf collects certain personally identifiable information from donors, volunteers, and event participants at various points on our website. Personally identifiable information includes names, addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and credit card information.
Non-personally identifiable information about your computer, such as the type of browser you are using or the domain name of your Internet Service Provider, may also be collected when you visit our website.
We do not knowingly gather any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. You must be 13 years of age or older to access our website.
USE OF INFORMATION COLLECTED
Personally identifiable information collected by the South Burlington Food Shelf is used to process donations, to arrange volunteering opportunities, and to send community members information about the South Burlington Food Shelf and its upcoming events, programs, and projects.
The South Burlington Food Shelf is the sole owner of this personally identifiable information and will not sell, share, or rent this information to others. None of this information will be disclosed to third parties unless in response to a legal claim or law enforcement agency’s request.
Non-personally identifiable information may be used to personalize your online experience. It may also be used in the aggregate to analyze the usage of our web site and to improve the web site’s usability and value to visitors. We may share this aggregate analysis with our network of partner agencies, charitable partners and/or other third party vendors.
IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES
The South Burlington Food Shelf uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our servers, to administer the Site, and for security purposes.
Our site contains “Cookies.” “Cookies” are pieces of data that enable a Web server to identify users that visit a site hosted by that server. Cookies enable us to track your interests and to personalize your experience of our site. Our site may also contain advertisements that may contain Cookies. If you choose, you can disable the use of Cookies by reviewing your browser’s preferences and options. Cookies do not contain personally identifiable information.
SECURITY
For online donation processing, the South Burlington Food Shelf uses secure data networks protected by industry standard firewalls and password protection systems. Only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our donors. Any other particularly sensitive information, such as a donor’s credit card number collected for a commerce transaction, is also encrypted prior to transmission. Although the South Burlington Food Shelf operates secure data networks, no Internet transmission can be guaranteed 100% secure. While we do everything we can to protect your data, you use this site and its services at your own risk.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
If we change our privacy policy at any time we will post these changes on our website. If at any point we decide to use your information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by mail or email. You will then have the opportunity to decide if you want us to use your information in this new manner.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
This website contains links to other sites. The South Burlington Food Shelf is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may be different from ours.
CONTACTING THE FOOD BANK
You may contact the South Burlington Food Shelf with questions or comments about this privacy policy, to update personal information, to opt out of the use of personal information, or any other matter related to the South Burlington Food Shelf by emailing southburlingtonfoodshelf@gmail.com or calling (802) 858-5267 or by mailing us at South Burlington Food Shelf, P.O. Box 9417, South Burlington, VT 05407-9417.
Any contact information entered when providing feedback will only be used to acknowledge or respond to that feedback.
