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Volunteer Adventures (“we,”
“us” or “our”), provides volunteer
opportunities abroad. Because our ability to serve you
successfully depends on building and maintaining communication
with you, we have implemented measures designed to protect
the privacy of your personal information, as described
in our Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy governs your
interaction with our website and your use of our online
services. Except as set forth within this Privacy Policy,
our Terms of Use or other published guidelines, we do
not release personally identifiable information gathered
through our website about you without your permission.
Please note that we review and may change our privacy
practices from time to time. We ask that you bookmark
and periodically review this page to ensure continuing
familiarity with the most current version of our Privacy
Policy. You may determine whether we have changed our
Privacy Policy since you last reviewed it by checking
the date of adoption set forth below. To contact us about
privacy issues, to report a violation of our Privacy Policy
or to raise any other issue, please contact us via our
contact information provided on the bottom of each page
of the website.
THE
INFORMATION WE GATHER
We gather two types of information about users
of our website:
1. Non-personally
identifiable information: When you visit our website,
we collect and aggregate information indicating, among
other things, which pages of the website were visited,
the order in which they were visited and which hyperlinks
were “clicked.” Collecting such information
involves the logging of the IP addresses, operating system
and browser software used by each visitor to our website.
If your IP address is dynamically assigned by your internet
service provider, or ISP, we can identify your ISP and
determine the geographic location of your point of connectivity.
We also use “cookies” (i.e. small text files
placed on your computer hard drive by our servers) to
help us determine the type of content and sites to which
you link, the length of time you spend at any particular
area of our website, which services you use and which
products you purchase. Essentially, cookies are your identification
card. Cookies can only be read by the server that placed
them and are unable to execute any code or virus. Cookies
allow us to serve you better and more efficiently and
to personalize your experience at our website. Nevertheless,
you should be able to control how and whether cookies
will be accepted by your web browser. For more information
on how to do so, please refer to the documentation accompanying
your browser.
2. Personally
identifiable information: We may collect personally
identifiable information about you through various means.
In certain areas of our website – for example, when
registering with us, signing our guestbook, emailing us
to purchase products or services, filling out an online
application, or using the “Request Information”
page – you may directly provide us with personally
identifiable information (including, for example, first
and last name, school and work experience, date and country
of birth, country of citizenship, references , interests,
personal preferences, street address, email address, telephone
number, fax number and if applicable, credit card information)
of you and others. In addition, if you provide your personally
identifiable information to our affiliates or business
partners, they may share such information with us (subject
to their privacy policies). If your IP address is statically
assigned by your ISP, we may also collect personally identifiable
information about you through our logging of your IP address.
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information
from children (i.e. minors younger than 13 years of age).
If you are a minor, we request that you have a parent
or guardian read this policy and request any information
you are seeking from us on your behalf. By providing personally
identifiable information to us, you represent that the
person whose information you are providing is not a minor.
LINKING OF NON-PERSONALLY
IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WE GATHER WITH YOUR PERSONALLY
IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
Once you have registered with our website, we may be able
to link your personal information to the non-personally
identifiable information we have collected through the
use of cookies as described above. For example, once you
register, we could see what type of content and sites
you have viewed, the length of time you have spent at
any particular area of our website and which products
and services you have used or purchased in the past and
from that point on, track that information with respect
to your future visits to our website.
HOW
WE USE (AND DO NOT USE) THE INFORMATION WE GATHER
Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the
different ways we use the information that we gather.
Keep in mind that we cannot and do not assume any responsibility
for any actions or omissions of third parties, such as
our affiliates and business partners for which we have
links on our website or third party providers, including
the manner in which they use information received from
us or from you directly or independently. Please know
that we have a third party provider who supplies a shopping
cart solution for our website, and collects personally-identifiable
information including billing information. Any information
that you provide to this third party provider via our
website or to any other third party providers via our
website, will be subject to the third party provider’s
privacy policy. If we receive your personally identifiable
information from a third party, we will use such information
in accordance with our agreements with such third party,
but do not assume any obligation to you. Unless otherwise
explicitly stated, we are not responsible for privacy
practices of third parties or the content of their websites,
including such sites’ use of any information collected
when visitors to our website click through links to those
sites. We strongly encourage you to become familiar with
the privacy practices of those sites and third parties.
If you feel that any third party, including any provider,
affiliate or business partner of ours, is improperly collecting
or using information about you, you may wish to contact
such third party.
1.
Non-personally identifiable information: We use
non-personally identifiable information in aggregate form
to build higher quality, more useful online services by
performing statistical analyses of the collective characteristics
and behavior of our visitors and by measuring demographics
and interests regarding specific areas of our website.
We may provide statistical information based on this data
to current and potential affiliates and business partners.
We may also use the aggregate data to inform our affiliates
and business partners as to the number of people who have
seen and clicked on links to their websites. If we sell
or transfer some or all of our assets or our company,
we may sell or transfer non-personally identifiable information
as part of such transaction.
2.
Personally identifiable information: You can always
choose not to provide your personally identifiable information
to us by not registering with us, signing our guestbook,
emailing us to purchase products or services, filling
out an online application, using the “Request Information”
page, subscribing to our mailing or notification lists
or otherwise providing such information to us or to our
affiliates or other business partners. If you provide
your personally identifiable information to us or to our
affiliates or other business partners with your consent
that they share your information with companies like ours,
we may use it to email or send you information regarding
our company and the products and services that we offer,
or to consider qualifications or enroll you in a program.
If you do not wish to receive such information from us,
please see “Unsubscribing from our Marketing Distribution
Lists” below.
We will use your personally identifiable information to
provide the products and services that you request. We
will not provide your personally identifiable information
to third parties outside of our affiliates and business
partners, except to third parties who may assist us in
processing orders and sending information to you and as
required by law or to enforce our rights. In addition,
if we sell or transfer some or all of our assets or our
company, we may sell or transfer personally identifiable
information as part of such transaction.
We reserve the right to release information contained
within our access logs concerning any visitor when we
reasonably believe that such visitor has violated our
Terms of Use or other published guidelines or has participated
in any illegal activity, even without a subpoena, warrant
or other court order. We also reserve the right to release
such information in response to court and governmental
orders, civil subpoenas, discovery requests and as otherwise
required by law. We cooperate with law enforcement agencies
in identifying those who may be using our servers or services
for illegal activities and may report any suspected illegal
activity to appropriate authorities for investigation
or prosecution.
UPDATING
YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
If you have provided us with your personally identifiable
information through our website, you may update such information
by logging in to our website and submitting your new information
or by contacting us via the contact information at the
bottom of each page of our website.
UNSUBSCRIBING FROM OUR MARKETING DISTRIBUTION LISTS
If you would like to unsubscribe from our marketing distribution
lists, please contact us via the contact information at
the bottom of each page of our website. In addition, if
we send you an email, you can unsubscribe by responding
to the email with a “Remove” request per the
instructions noted in the email. We will comply with your
request within ten business days. Keep in mind, however,
that residual information will remain within our databases,
access logs and other records. We will not use the residual
information for commercial purposes, but reserve the right
to re-contact former customers or users of our website
from time to time in compliance with applicable laws.
Adopted July 15, 2005
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Volunteer Adventures | 915 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO 80246 USA
Toll-Free: 1-866-574-8606 (US & Can) | 0-808-120-7613 (UK)
Worldwide: 1-303-242-8705 | Fax: 303-777-7246
Volunteer Adventures is a division of Bridge-Linguatec, Inc. |
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