Gujarati Samaj Tampa Bay, Inc
www.gujaratisamajtampabay.com
and www.indiafestivaltampabay.com
Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
Welcome to Gujarati Samaj Tampa Bay, Inc’s Web site, a Florida
not-for-profit corporation. The
following describes how we handle information we may learn about you when you visit
our Web sites. Children under the age of 13 should not use this site without
the supervision of a parent or guardian. As
used in this
Privacy Policy, the
words “you” and
“your” refer to
any person accessing
any of the Gujarati Samaj Tampa Bay’s Web sites. The words “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Gujarati
Samaj Tampa Bay.
Information We Collect When You Visit Our Web site.
The information
you may provide
in visiting our Web
site falls into two
broad categories: Personally Identifiable Information, and
Aggregate Information. “Personally Identifiable Information” is information that
can be used
to identify or
contact you, such
as your name,
e-mail address, telephone number
or mailing address; and “Aggregate Information” is information that does not
identify you, and may include, for
example, statistical information
concerning the pages on our
Web site that users
most frequent. Our Privacy Policy
governs both categories of information.
Personally Identifiable Information We Collect Concerning
All Users.
We collect Personally Identifiable Information when you submit
questions or comments to us, request information or materials about our
organization, participate in our online surveys, promotions or contests, or
submit applications for employment or for other purposes through our Web site.
Personally Identifiable Information We Collect Concerning
Children Under The Age of 13.
From time to time, we may collect Personally Identifiable
Information concerning children under the age of 13 in
order to register them for
the event(s), or offer
other online activities.
Our requests are for limited
Personally Identifiable Information (e.g., name, address, the child’s e-mail
address and/or e-mail address of parent or third party guardian, etc.). We do not condition a child's participation
in any of our activities on the disclosure of more information than is
reasonably necessary to participate in the activity. At any
time after receiving
the registration confirmation notification e-mail,
the child's parent
has the opportunity to
exercise the option
to request that
we stop sending
the child information and have
the child's information removed from
our database by mailing a certified letter to the committee.
In addition, parents may
at any time
review any Personally Identifiable
Information collected about their
child (the section below entitled
“Parental Access”). If you visit
our Web site to browse
or to read
or download information,
we may collect
and store: the name
of the domain
name and host
from which you
access the Internet
(for example, aol.com);
the Internet Protocol (IP)
address of the
computer you are
using; the browser
software you use
and your operating system;
the date and
time you access
our site, and
other activity on
our site; and
the Internet address of the Web
site from which you linked to our site. We do not link an IP address to
Personally Identifiable Information, meaning that a user’s session will be
logged but the user remains anonymous to us.
If we do decide to link any Aggregate Information, or your IP address to your
Personally Identifiable Information,
we will treat
the resulting information
as “Personally Identifiable Information” for all purposes under our
Privacy Policy contained herein.
Use Of “Cookies”
We collect Aggregate
Information about your
use of our Web
site through cookies and
similar Internet
technologies. “Cookies” are small
pieces of information
that a Web site transfers to
your hard drive, where it is stored by your browser on
your computer’s hard drive for record-keeping
purposes (such as storing user
preferences). If we use cookies, they do
not collect or retain your name or other Personally Identifiable
Information. If we use cookies, we will
treat all information that may be
collected through cookies and
similar Internet technologies
as Aggregate Information.
In addition, no third
parties are permitted to use
cookies we may create at our site for their own purposes. Please be advised, however, that Web sites
you link to from our Web site may use cookies.
You should read and understand the privacy policy of the site(s) you
link to in order to determine whether and how a particular site uses
cookies. Most browsers are
initially set up to accept
cookies. You can
reset your browser to refuse all
cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. Please consult the help section of your Web
browser software to learn how to do this.
We Limit Our Use of Information
We use Personally Identifiable Information that you provide
to us when you visit our site strictly for the purposes for which you have
provided it. For example, if you request to receive our letters and notices of events, and you provide us
with contact information (which may include Personally Identifiable
Information, such as an e-mail
address, mailing address,
or phone number),
we will use
that information to contact
you regarding your request
or to send
you the information. If,
at any time,
you decide you
no longer wish
to receive such information,
simply notify us to
that effect (for contact information, see the section below
entitled “How To Contact Us”).
We use the Aggregate
Information that we
collect for system administration, to measure
the number of visitors
to our site,
to improve site
performance, to help
us make our
site more useful
and/or to gather broad Aggregate Information.
Our Disclosure Limitations
We disclose your Personally
Identifiable Information only
to companies and persons
whose role is to
maintain or operate our site, fulfill the requests you make at our Web site, or
who may be engaged by us specifically to handle and deliver certain activities (e.g.
conducting contests). These companies or persons have
access to Personally
Identifiable Information
only to
carry out their
specific support
obligations, cannot use
it for other
purposes, and must agree
to maintain the
confidentiality of such information. An exception to our disclosure
policy exists in the event that all or substantially all of the assets relating
to Gujarati Samaj Tampa Bay are transferred or sold to another entity. In that case, all information submitted to us
may be transferred to the acquiring entity. In the event that Gujarati Samaj of
Tampa Bay desires to assign or
transfer your Personally Identifiable Information and
its rights hereunder
to a third
party, you agree that Gujarati Samaj Tampa Bay may
do so, on the condition that such third party agree to abide by the terms of
this privacy policy. Gujarati Samaj
Tampa Bay, however, cannot and does not guarantee or warrant that such third-party will
in fact abide
by this policy and Gujarati Samaj
Tampa Bay expressly disclaims
any such obligations. Additionally,
Gujarati Samaj Tampa Bay may disclose Personally Identifiable
Information when we in good faith believe it is appropriate in
connection with legal proceedings, or to comply with law or requests by
law enforcement agencies, to enforce our policies or to
protect the rights, property or safety of our Web site, users of our Website and others.
Security Of The Information You Provide To Us
Gujarati Samaj Tampa Bay has taken steps to ensure
that Personally Identifiable Information collected in the future is secure, including limiting
the number of people who have physical access to our database servers as well
as electronic security systems and password protections which guard against
unauthorized access. Each of our
employees/volunteers abides by
our Privacy Policy,
and only authorized
employees have access to your
Personally Identifiable Information. We have in place security control systems
designed to prevent unauthorized disclosure of your Personally Identifiable
Information. DUE TO THE NATURE
OF THE
INTERNET AND DEVELOPING TECHNOLOGIES,
WE CANNOT, HOWEVER, PROVIDE ASSURANCES
AS TO THE
SECURITY OF YOUR
INFORMATION, AND Gujarati Samaj
Tampa Bay EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY SUCH OBLIGATIONS.
Correcting Information; Opting Out
If at any
time you would
like us to
update or correct
Personally Identifiable Information
you have previously provided
to us, feel
free to contact
us using the
contact information provided
below in the “How To Contact Us” section, and we will
update or correct your Personally Identifiable Information to the extent your
request does not compromise and is consistent with our privacy policies. In
addition, if you
request, we will
use commercially reasonable
efforts to remove
your name and Personally Identifiable Information from
any database(s) we may maintain. Please
understand, however, that it may be impossible to remove this information
completely, due to backups and records of deletions. If
you wish to remove your name
from any database(s) we may maintain, please notify us
in writing to this effect by using the contact information provided
below in the “How To Contact Us” section.
Parental Access
Whenever we conduct
an online activity
and have actual knowledge that
we have received
Personally Identifiable Information concerning a child under 13, our
goal is to help parents ensure that their child’s privacy is
protected. To that end,
we provide parents
with a request form that allows it to
review the Personally Identifiable
Information we received
about their child,
have this information
deleted, and/or request that
there be no
further collection or
use of their
child's information. The request
form will be readily available to parents
as part of
each online activity for which we
have actual knowledge that
we have received Personally
Identifiable Information concerning
children under 13. Parents can print
out and mail or fax us a signed form for these purposes. We will take steps to verify the identity of anyone requesting information
about a child
and to ensure
that the person
is in fact
the child's parent
or legal guardian.
How To Contact Us
If you have any
questions about our privacy policy and/or practices or your dealings with our Web site, you may contact any of the
board members listed on our “Board Members” page by mail:. Gujarati Samaj Tampa
Bay Inc., 5513 Lynn Road, Tampa, FL 33624 USA