The Salvation Army’s Commitment to Website Privacy

Working to Protect Your Information

It is The Salvation Army’s practice to respect and protect the privacy of visitors to our websites. This Website Privacy Statement (“Privacy Statement”) explains how The Salvation Army, a Georgia Corporation (“The Salvation Army” or “we”) collects, uses, shares, stores, and protects the personal information that we collect from you when you visit our websites (collectively, the “Website”), as well as your rights and choices regarding the personal information that we collect.

This website is operated by or on behalf of The Salvation Army, Southern Territory in the United States. Information that we collect on our website, including personal information, may be transferred to other Salvation Army Territories or contractors to permit us to comply with our legal and contractual obligations, to provide information and services, and to perform mission-related activities. In addition, we may work with third-party business partners and service providers in the U.S. and in other countries to support our mission-related activities. Thus, personal information may be transferred to, stored on servers in, and accessed from the United States and countries other than the country in which we initially collected the information. In all such instances, we use, transfer, and disclose personal information solely for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement.

Users can visit our web site without revealing any personal information. If one chooses to provide personal information while on our web site for the purposes of correspondence, processing a request, or registering for an event, then it is our intent to let you know how we will use such information.

If users tell us that they do not wish to have this information used as a basis for further contact, we will respect those wishes. If users wish to review or correct the personal information we have collected, they should contact us to provide updated information. Occasionally, we look at the domains from which people visit us. We utilize this data to help us make improvements to our web site. This data is then properly discarded.

Use of Cookies

Certain sections of The Salvation Army web sites may use "cookies" to store user information. A cookie is a small string of text that a web site can send to your browser that is intended to enhance your visit. A cookie cannot retrieve data from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses, or capture your email address. In general, cookies can securely store a user's ID and password specific to that web site, personalize home pages, identify which parts of a web site have been visited, or keep track of selections in a form or shopping cart.

Cookies help us understand which parts of our web sites are the most popular, where our visitors are going, and how long they spend there. We use cookies to study traffic patterns on our web site so we can make suitable improvements to our web site and provide you with a better user experience. Our cookies will not provide The Salvation Army with any information not related to our web site. Your browser, however, does automatically tell us the type of computer and operating system you are using.

Restrictions on Use of Materials

This web site is operated by The Salvation Army, USA Southern Territory. No material from this web site or any web site owned, operated, licensed, or controlled by The Salvation Army may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names are proprietary to The Salvation Army.

All materials contained on this web site are Copyright © The Salvation Army or are licensed or otherwise published by The Salvation Army with the permission of the owner of the material. All rights in such materials published with permission of the material’s owner are reserved to the respective owners.

External Links

Links to other web sites do not imply an endorsement of the materials disseminated at those web sites, nor does the existence of a link to another web site imply that the organization or person publishing at that web site endorses The Salvation Army. Links to other web sites are provided by The Salvation Army as a convenience to its visitors. The Salvation Army is not responsible for the materials contained on any web sites we provide links to nor can we guarantee that the links will be functional since we do not maintain those external/third party web sites.

Web Site User Agreement

If you have any questions about this User Agreement, contact The Salvation Army. If you do not agree with the terms of this User Agreement, you may not use our web site. The Salvation Army reserves the right to change this User Agreement at any time without notice.

How Your Information May Be Used

Notwithstanding any other provision, we may also engage a third-party partner for the purposes of recognizing users and delivering them internet-based content and advertisements. We may share information about you with our vendors such as your name, postal address, email, device ID, or other identifier encrypted, hashed or de-identified form. Our vendors also may collect information from you such as your IP address and information about your browser or operating system; may combine our personal and non-personal information about you with information from other data sharing cooperatives in which we participate; and may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. These cookies contain no personally identifiable information; they may contain demographic or other data in de-identified form. To opt-out of third-party cookies, please go to https://www.aboutads.info/choices.

DATA RETENTION

The Salvation Army retains information only as long as necessary to comply with its legal and contractual obligations, and in accordance with our records retention requirements, and then we securely dispose of that information or convert it into non-personal information by aggregating it, de-identifying it, or otherwise anonymizing it so that it does not directly or indirectly identify you and cannot, with reasonable efforts, resources, and technologies, be used to reidentify you.

SECURITY

The Salvation Army strives to protect personal information under our control against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of or access to, personal data that is transmitted, stored, or otherwise processed. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet and no data storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Donor data is maintained and transferred in an encrypted environment according to industry standards.

As part of our commitment to safeguarding donor information, we have partnered with Classy, the leading digital fundraising platform used by The Salvation Army. Classy's privacy policy, which outlines their comprehensive security measures, can be accessed at classy.org/terms/privacy. Their state-of-the-art security protocols help to ensure that all donor data is protected from unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure.

By adhering to strict security standards and leveraging Classy's advanced privacy practices, we aim to provide a secure and trustworthy environment for our donors to support our cause.

If you have concerns about the security of your information, please contact The Salvation Army.