Boys & Girls Clubs of Dundee Township values its donors and respects their privacy. We are committed to protecting your privacy and the information you give us. We collect donor information in an effort to improve your giving experience and to communicate with you; news and upcoming events. BGCDT recognizes that it must maintain and use customer information responsibly.
We do not sell, share, or trade customer information with individuals or companies outside our company. We do not release your email address to anyone.
Information collected
Your privacy is important to us. Our website’s checkout process requires you to provide us with your billing, shipping, and contact information such as your email address. This information is used to fulfill your order and to keep you updated on the status of your order. Your contact information may also be used to get in touch with you when necessary or to communicate with you about our products, services, and promotions.
Opt-out
You may opt-out of our email list by emailing us at [email protected] However, please also note that when you make a donation or purchase tickets, we will send you an email to confirm your order and may also need to contact you via phone, postal mail or email if we have other questions regarding your order or donation.
Shipping policy does not apply, as the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dundee Township does not sell or ship and physical items.
Security Statement
We use industry-standard secure software technology, Secure Socket Layer (SSL), to protect the information you enter on your online order is transmitted securely from your web browser to our facilities. SSL (https) encrypts your order information and protects your information from being seen by unauthorized individuals. Secure Socket Layer provides our customers the highest level of security.
If you’re not quite comfortable shopping online, or would prefer to make your donation via telephone, just give us a call at 847-551-4309. We’ll be happy to take your donation right over the phone.
Donation Refund Policy
For donations made using the www.bgcdt.org website, if you have made an error in making your donation or change your mind about contributing to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dundee Township, we will honor your request for a refund made within 15 days of your donation.
To request a refund, call (847) 551-4309. Refunds are returned using the original method of payment. If you made your donation by credit card, your refund will be credited to that same credit card.
If you did not make your donation using the bgcdt.org website, please contact us at (847) 551-4309 through which the donation was made to learn about applicable refund policies.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dundee Township Privacy Policy
This site is provided by Boys & Girls Clubs of Dundee Township. We do not intend to collect personal information from children under the age of 13. Our information collection practices are described below. While we encourage children to visit our site and learn more about our programs, we recommend, however, that parents approve and closely supervise the activity of their children at this and all other online sites. We urge children to check with their parents before entering information on any website and we urge parents to discuss with their children restrictions regarding the online release of personal information to anyone they don’t know.
The Information Boys Girls Club of Dundee Township Collects
We respect your privacy as our online guest, and we will not collect any identifying or personal information about you while you are here except as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Boys and Girls Club collects information in several ways from different parts of this site. Boys and Girls Club may collect personal information from you when you register with this site. BGCDT also may ask you for personal information at other times, such as when you ask a question or report a problem with this site. If you contact BGCDT, BGCDT may keep a record of that session or correspondence, including a record of your e-mail address. Boys and Girls Club may also occasionally ask users to complete surveys for research purposes. There also may be services on this site that require you to fill out an online form or send Boys and girls Club an e-mail message in order to utilize these services. Boys and Girls Club collects any information that you provide in such circumstances, including any personal information.
We may ask you for identifying and personal information to:
- Invite you to receive periodic e-mail updates about our progress: When you accept, or “opt in,” we ask you to give us your e-mail address and respond to some questions that help us tailor our information to your interests. You can “opt out” of receiving these periodic updates at any time.
- Processing any online donations you make to Boys & Girls Clubs of : When you donate to honor someone else, we do not use the information you give us about that person for any other purpose.
- Accepting your online “registration” at our site: When you agree to give us identifying and personal information, you are giving that information only to Boys & Girls Clubs of and the parties we have involved in operating this site. You are giving it solely to enable the services this site provides.
- Processing registration information for online sweepstakes or contests on the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dundee Township website: When you agree to give us identifying and personal information, you are giving that information only to Boys & Girls Clubs of Dundee Township and the parties we have involved in operating this site. You are giving it solely to enable the services this site provides.
This list is not exhaustive, but meant to give the website user an idea of the data collecting on this website.
Boys and Girls Club also may collect IP addresses, domain names, and similar items regarding users of this site to measure the number of visits, pages visited, average time spent on this site, and similar items.
“Cookies” may be used in connection with this site. A cookie is a small amount of identifier data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. By using cookies, information is potentially collected without your express knowledge. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies but permit you to change the setting to refuse cookies or to be alerted when cookies are being sent. While refusal to accept cookies will not prevent the use of some portions of this site, other portions of this site may not function properly without cookies.
How Boys and Girls Club Uses the Information It Collects
BGCDT uses the information it collects through this site to improve its marketing and promotional efforts, to improve its content, and to customize this site’s services, content, and layout. BGCDT may provide the information it collects through this site to BGCDT’s business partners, and to third parties who provide services on BGCDT’s behalf. BGCDT
may use the information it collects through this site to inform you of new services, changes, or promotions. If you do not want us to send you this type of information, please let us know by contacting us at events@bgcdt.org. We will not disclose your personal information collected through this site to third parties except as described in this Privacy Policy without first informing you of such change in our disclosure practices and providing you a choice regarding such disclosure.
Generally, Boys and Girls Club may use cookies and the information they provide to: (a) remind it of who you are; (b) access your account information in order to deliver to you better and more personalized service; (c) estimate its audience size; (d) determine the nature and extent of repeat usage; and (e) measure certain traffic patterns to understand how users’ habits are similar or different from one another, so that BGCDT may improve its site.
Boys and Girls Club understands the importance of privacy and confidentiality to users of this site. From time to time, BGCDTmay share donor names and mailing addresses with other reputable nonprofit organizations on a limited basis in exchange for limited access to the names and addresses of their constituents. We have found this is a cost-effective method of reaching additional potential constituents. These organizations will not have continued access to your name and address unless you choose to respond to their initial mailing. We do not share email address data in connection with this list exchange.
We respect our donors’ choices and control over their information. You, as a donor, may, at any time, have your name excluded from any donor list exchange activity. To ask that your name be excluded from list exchange activity or to otherwise change how BGCDT contacts you, please email us at [email protected].
Boys and Girls Club may disclose information it collects through this site when required to do so by a court, regulatory agency, subpoena, law, regulation, or other body of competent jurisdiction and authority, and for administrative and other purposes that BGCDT
deems necessary to maintain, service, and improve its products and services and to protect its rights and property. Finally, if you become involved in any violation of security, violation of this website’s Terms of Use, or violation of any party’s or third party’s rights, BGCDT may release information about you to assist in investigating, resolving, or remediating any such incidents.
Integrity and Security
Use of SSL and encryption – When Boys and Girls Club transfers and receives certain types of sensitive information such as online donations and account information, we direct visitors to a secure server, which communicates via SSL encryption and which has been designed to reduce the possibility of interception and hacking. You’ll know that you’re in a secure area of our website when the “http” portion of the BGCDTwebsite address in your browser changes to “https.” The “s” stands for “secure.”
Restricting who has access to your information – Boys and Girls Club employs commercially reasonable managerial and technical measures to help protect the security and integrity of the personal information it collects online through this site. You acknowledge, however, that no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while Boys and Girls Club strives to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to or from this site.
Privacy Practices of Other Sites
This Privacy Policy only address the use and disclosure of information Boys and Girls Club collects online through this site, not information that Boys and Girls Club collects through other sources. For your convenience, this site may contain links, or addresses, that you can simply click to open other useful sites where we do not control the content or privacy policy. Carefully review the approach these sites take to your privacy before you use them or provide them with information.
We assume no liability for any unauthorized actions of third parties or accidental transmission errors that may disclose information about you, and BGCDT is not responsible for these other sites’ privacy practices, which may be different from Boys and Girls Club’s privacy practices.
Contacting Boys and Girls Club About Your Personal Information
If you would like to review the personal information that Boys and Girls Club has collected about you through this site in order to verify its accuracy and completeness, or if you have a question or complaint regarding Boys and Girls Club’s privacy practices, or to request that we delete your personal information from its records, please contact Boys and Girls Club of Dundee Township at [email protected].
