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FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment website and governs data collection and usage. By using the FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment does not read any of your private online communications.
FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment and FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment family of websites.
Use of your Personal Information
FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment collects and uses your personal information to operate the FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment website and deliver the services you have requested. FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment and its affiliates. FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment, in order to determine what FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment pages, or register with FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment site or services, a cookie helps FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment is protecting your information.
Contact Information
FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment has not adhered to this Statement, please contact FORCE - Friends of Rock Creek's Environment at
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. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
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