Privacy Statement
Welcome to Avalon: A Center for Women and Children ("Avalon") web site. Avalon created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy for our web site users and volunteers. The following paragraphs disclose our information gathering and dissemination practices.
The privacy statement may change at any time; any changes will be posted on this page. Should you have additional questions, comments or concerns please contact us:
Our postal address is:
Avalon: A Center for Women and Children
P.O. Box 1079
Williamsburg, VA 23187
We can be reached via e-mail at: info@avaloncenter.org
You can reach us by telephone at: 757-258-5022
E-Mail Privacy
Are you interested in Avalon events and updates from our Resource Center? Would you like to hear about Avalon volunteer opportunities and resources? Please click here to send us your e-mail address and we will send you the latest in resources through e-mails designed to meet your needs.
Your e-mail address will only be used within Avalon and its entities. We do not sell or rent e-mail addresses to anyone outside Avalon. If you wish to be removed from our e-mail mailings, please click here and complete the form to remove your e-mail address from our list or call us at 757-258-5022.
E-mail Information Gathered by Avalon
For some e-mails distributed by Avalon, specific information on recipient response is collected. For example, we sometimes review how many recipients open and subsequently choose to click through to links provided in an e-mail. We use this information only for the purposes of analyzing areas of interest, improving our services and enhancing the usefulness of our website for Avalon volunteers and other visitors. None of this information is sold or distributed outside of the Avalon in any manner.
Use of Cookies and IP addresses
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. We also use cookies to maintain user session identity.
"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future.
A unique number called an IP address identifies every computer on the Internet. Each time you connect to the Internet your machine is assigned an IP address. An IP address is a number that identifies each sender or receiver of information that is sent in packets across the Internet.
Avalon Center Online Forms
Our site's online forms require users to give us contact information (like name and email address). We use customer contact information from the forms to send the user information about our center. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary. Information regarding method of payment is collected for donations.
External Links
Avalon contains links to other external web sites that do not fall under the Avalon domain. Avalon is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such external web sites.
Surveys
Our online surveys ask respondents for contact information (like email address) and demographic information (like zip code, age). We also may use contact data from our surveys to send the user information about Avalon activities and events.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
Children's Guidelines
We at Avalon are concerned about protecting children's privacy and follow these guidelines:
Avalon DOES NOT:
- collect online contact information without prior parental consent or parental notification, which will include an opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity. Without prior parental consent, online information will only be used to respond directly to the child's request and will not be used for other purposes without prior parental consent
- collect personally identifiable offline contact information without prior parental consent
- distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information with out prior parental consent
- give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information without prior parental consent
- entice by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information than is needed to participate in the activity .
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