Our Commitment To Privacy

CLAN (Caring and Living As Neighbours), Inc has a strong commitment to respecting and protecting the individual privacy of its members, donors, and all visitors who use our website. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

CLAN does not collect any personally identifying information from you when you visit our site unless you choose to provide such information to us. CLAN does not trade, sell or rent your personal information to others. CLAN does not disclose information about your individual visits to our website, or personal information that you provide to us, such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, credit card number, etc., to any outside parties except as approved by you.

The term “outside parties” does not include website hosting partners or other parties who assist us in either operating our website or conducting business. We may, however, release your information when we believe it is appropriate in order to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our or others’ rights, property, or safety.

CLAN will not release your personal information to any other CLAN member without your permission to do so.

The Information We Collect
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the CLAN website. In the following circumstances we will ask you to provide us with certain information about yourself by filling out and submitting an online form:

• Enrolling as a CLAN member.
• Making an online donation
• Participating in an online survey
• Registering for a CLAN  event
• The types of personal information collected at these pages are:
• Name
• Address
• Email address
• Phone number
• Credit Card Information (for donations and events)

On some pages, you can submit information about other people. For example, if you make an online tribute donation and choose to notify the person or their family about your donation, you will need to submit the recipient's address. In this circumstance, the types of additional personal information collected are:

• Recipient’s Name
• Recipient’s Address

For membership enrollment and surveys, we will also request personal information and opinions. We may request information about your personal values and preferences regarding the organization’s priorities. In certain instances we may request family income. All of this information is kept strictly confidential will be used for the sole purpose described on the online form.

From time to time, we may also ask you for information in other circumstances. It is completely optional for you to complete these online forms.

The Way We Use Information
You can join CLAN on our website if you would like to receive our mailings as well as updates on our programs. Information you submit on our website will not be used for this purpose unless you fill out the registration form. We use the information you provide about yourself, your family or a friend when registering as a member, to better understand our membership. We do not share any personally identifying information with outside parties.
We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are used from time to time to communicate important notices or messages to you. CLAN will not use these addresses for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

We use the information you provide about yourself when you make a donation online. We may, from time to time, telephone, send mail or email communications to you about opportunities to support CLAN. We do not share any personally identifying information with outside parties.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

Our Commitment To Data Security
We care about the safety and security of your transaction. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. All personal and financial information is captured in a secure environment using 128 bit encryption and the https security protocol to communicate with your browser software. CLAN has implemented reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, CLAN cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.

Our Commitment To Children's Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.

CLAN welcomes children to learn more about our organization and about the humanitarian and medical issues presented on the CLAN site, and we are particularly respectful of the privacy of our young users. We encourage parents to monitor their children's use of the Internet and to help us protect their privacy by instructing them never to provide personal information on this site or any other without permission. We will never attempt to extract unnecessary information from our users, regardless of age. Consistent with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ("COPPA"), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with such information without consent, we will use our best efforts to remove such information from our files. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that a child under 13 has provided such information to us, he or she should contact us to rectify this.

How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information
You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by contactng us directly. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.
You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error.

How To Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please contact us and share your query with us.

Your Consent
By accessing and using our website, you consent to the collection and use of information by CLAN as described in this privacy statement. If we decide to change our privacy statement, we will post these changes on this web page. You should visit this page periodically to review the privacy statement.

Links to Other Websites
Please also note that we have links on our site to other websites and that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another website for which CLAN has no responsibility. These sites may collect personally identifiable information about you. This privacy statement does not cover the information practices or policies of such other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of all such websites as their statement may be materially different from CLAN's privacy statement.