Privacy Policy Draft

November 27th, 2007 at 10:48pm Deen Freelon Permalink

Below the fold you’ll find a copy of my draft privacy policy. In the document I’ve noted several places where input is needed, so feel free to help with that or anything else you see that needs fixing. The parenthetical citations at the end of most sections indicate the sources of the foregoing text which I modified for our purposes (TIG = TakingITGlobal, YN = YouthNoise, YAN = YouthActionNet). I’ve also attached a Word file containing the same text here: Download psoPrivacy.doc

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Privacy policy

What this privacy policy covers
This Privacy Policy covers Puget Sound Off’s (hereafter PSO) treatment of anonymous and personally identifiable information that we collect when you are on the PSO site or when you use PSO’s services. (TIG)

Information collected
PSO collects the following information from members upon signing up:

• First and last name
• School
• Age
• Zip code
• ?? (add whatever else we collect here)

This information will only be accessible by the user who entered it and PSO.

PSO also automatically collects certain non-identifying information from every visitor. These include but are not limited to:

• IP address
• Internet service provider used to access the site
• Pages viewed
• Web browser used
• Screen resolution

Use of collected info
PSO reserves the right to collect, to use, and to disclose to third parties information about general access to and usage of PSO and any related services, including information gathered during use of PSO. Any information disclosed will be in the form of aggregate data (such as overall patterns or demographic reports) that does not describe or identify any individual user. PSO will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone. PSO may perform statistical analyses of user behavior in order to measure interest in the various areas of PSO for funding or product development purposes. PSO will not release Personally-Identifiable Contact Information to third parties, except in compliance with the legal process or otherwise with the permission of the Member, Visitor, or other individual user whose Personally Identifiable Contact Information may be released. (YAN, TIG)

Cookies
PSO may set and access cookies on your computer, used to identify your member account and to allow for the proper functioning of the PSO web site and accompanying services. Cookies are small data files that are sent to your browser from PSO’s Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. PSO uses cookies to keep and sometimes track information about you in order to deliver better and more personalized services. (TIG, YN)

Protection for personal information
Your PSO Profile is password-protected. This means that only you will have control over who can access your identifying information. To make the password protection helpful, do not give your password to anyone. If you are using a shared or public computer, we suggest that you sign out of the PSO site and sign off from the computer when you are finished. This will help protect your information. (For example, don’t leave the school or a library computer running and open at the PSO site and sign off before someone else starts using it.) When you create your username and password, please avoid using personally identifiable information such as your name. PSO does endeavor to use secure technology where practical, however, no data collection technology or data transmission technology is 100% secure. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee the security of information provided or sent to us. Remember, you are participating in PSO at your own risk. (YN)

Changes to this Privacy Policy
PSO may amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information, we will notify you by posting an announcement as a rotating spotlight and/or similar method on our home page. (TIG)

Contact
If you have any questions, comments or complaints about how we use your information, please contact us.
Via postal mail: address
Via telephone: phone number
Via email: email address (TIG)

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