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The National Youth Science Foundation (NYSF.com) may collect guest information to enhance your experience on this web site. This Privacy Policy is intended to assist you in understanding what information is gathered, how the information may be used, and the safeguards in place to protect that information. This Policy applies only to information collected online.
Guests may purchase items from the NYSF.com online store by completing a purchase form, which requests information, including name, E-mail address, mailing address, telephone number and credit card information.
If you submit a question or comment via E-mail using the E-mail links on the NYSF.com web site, your E-mail address is temporarily collected.
NYSF.com may gather navigational information during each guest’s use of our web site. This information allows us to see which areas of our web site are most visited and helps us to improve the quality of our guests’ online experience by allowing us to deliver more of the most desired features and services. In the process of gathering navigational information, non-personally identifiable information (e.g., domain type, browser version, service provider, IP address) may also be collected. This information provides NYSF.com with insight into the general use of the web site.
NYSF.com might use a browser feature known as a cookie to enhance guests’ online experience. A cookie is a small data file that is stored by your web browser on your computer. Cookies track your clicks as you navigate through the pages of our web site. We do not collect or maintain personal information about you through the use of cookies. Your browser may allow you to control and/or refuse cookies. For more information about working with cookies, you should consult your user manual, FAQ, or the "help" function of your specific browser and operating system software.
NYSF.com may use your personal information to provide you services that you may request or require, to communicate with you in response to your questions or comments, or to allow you to make a purchase in the online store. In addition, we use aggregated, non-personal information about our guests’ use of our site to analyze how our web site is being used and to improve the content of our website.
If you use the links on our web site to E-mail us questions or comments, we may use your personal information (name and E-mail address) to respond to you. You may also be subscribed to an Announcements List which provides announcements about NYSF activities.
We sometimes engage third party service providers to assist us in providing you certain services. For example, we may hire a third party to support our charitable fund raising activities, provide marketing, advertising and promotional assistance, provide E-mail services or facilitate our online services. We may need to share your personal information with these third parties. We require our third party service providers to maintain your personal information in a confidential manner.
You should be aware that we may disclose specific information about you if necessary to do so by law or our good faith belief that it is necessary to conform to or comply with the law or as necessary to protect the users of our web site or the public.
For your convenience and enjoyment, our web site may contain links to other sites. Links that appear on NYSF.com should not necessarily be deemed to imply that NYSF.com endorses or has any affiliation with the linked sites. NYSF.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites. We encourage you to review the separate privacy policies of each site that you visit.
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We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to secure your personal information. The personal information we collect is stored within databases that we control. As we deem appropriate, we use security measures consistent with industry standards, such as firewalls, to protect your information.
If you make a purchase in the online store, NYSF.com utilizes data encryption systems used to secure the information that you send to our website. All of the personal information you provide will be encrypted and then transmitted from your browser to our e-commerce systems securely.
While we implement the above security measures on this web site, you should be aware that 100% security is not always possible.
To ensure compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, NYSF.com does not knowingly collect or maintain personal information provided by children under the age of 13 without the consent of a parent/guardian. Pursuant to federal law, NYSF.com may collect an E-mail address and first name from your child under 13 without your consent in the following special case:
If a child under 13 sends a request to us using our online E-mail links, we will keep their E-mail address only long enough to respond to their specific request.
If you would like to update or review your personal information or would like us to remove your personal information from our database, you may contact us using the contact information provided under “Contact Us” link above. As a security precaution, we may request that you provide identifying information such as name, address and/or telephone number. In addition, we may limit or deny access to personal information where providing such access would be unreasonably burdensome or expensive under the circumstances, or as otherwise permitted.
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