Online Privacy Policy

Stavros Center for Independent Living is committed to protecting your privacy online. Your personal and financial data is your private information; therefore, we hold ourselves to the highest standards in its safekeeping and use. We do not sell, rent, share or otherwise disclose your personally identifiable information with any outside party, unless we are required to do so by law. We use your information only to complete the transactions that you request. We may also evaluate site usage by analyzing aggregated user information. Individual users are not identified for evaluation purposes and remain anonymous. We use this information to administer our Web site, to help diagnose problems with our servers, to gather broad demographic information, to analyze trends, and to track users' (in the aggregate) movement through our site. The ultimate intent of this information collection is to improve our Web sites.

For your security, we do not request online your complete Social Security or Employee ID number. We collect your name solely so that we can keep a record of what you have donated. We do not store your credit card number, entered via this Web site, in a database. This information is encrypted and not sent in clear text at any point in the data's entry or transmission. We do not use "cookies" in this site. (Cookies are small data files that are stored on your computer's hard drive and that may contain personally identifiable information about you.) If you prefer not to send your personal information over the Internet, we welcome you to exercise the option of telephoning us and initiating a transaction in that manner.

We restrict access to information about you to only those employees who need access to the information in order to complete your transactions with us. We maintain strict physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information.

If at some point in the future there is a change to our information usage practices that affect your personal information, it will be reflected in the privacy policy date posted on this document Date Posted: February 6, 2007.