Welcome to Nebraska Children’s Home Society (NCHS) Internet website. At NCHS, we strive to earn your continued respect and trust every day. We want you to understand how we collect, use, and protect the confidentiality of personal information. This statement pertains to information collected from you via this website (www.nchs.org). You may receive other privacy notices from NCHS, its affiliates, or its subsidiaries from time to time related to privacy and confidentiality of personal information, and such privacy notices may govern the treatment of information collected via this website as well.
Collecting and Using Personal Information
When you visit and navigate our website, and when you communicate with us via our site, we may collect personal information about you. By “personal information,” we mean information that is unique to an individual and by which the individual may be identified, such as name, address, social security number, or financial information that is associated directly with an individual. This information is collected in order to provide services to you and to continue to improve and enhance our service offerings. This information may include, but is not limited to, that which you provide voluntarily through your interactions with the site, as well as information about how you use and navigate through the site. We will not sell, license or transfer personal information we gather from you outside of NCHS and its affiliated companies, except as necessary to provide you with information, services or products that we offer independently or jointly with others, or as required by law or in connection with judicial or governmental proceedings.
Confidentiality of Personal Information
NCHS uses reasonable efforts to protect the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information, including encrypting personal information as it is transmitted between your computer and NCHS via our website. In addition, employees of NCHS are subject to confidentiality and compliance policies relating to personal information. When communicating personal information through the NCHS website, you will be provided with a user identification code (user ID) and a password. Your password is your private key to access your account and personal information. To maintain the confidentiality of your account, you should never share your password with anyone. In addition, you should change it periodically and you should select a password that is difficult for others to identify.
Non-Personal Information
We may use and disclose to others information about you and your use of the website by which you are not identified, such as the type of browser you use, the files you request, the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and geographic location from which you request information, the URL that you came from and go to and similar information, and information compiled in the form of statistical, demographic, or aggregated information about visitors generally to the website. This information is referred to in this document as “Non-Personal Information.” We utilize technical mechanisms such as cookies to gather non-personal site usage information. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent the use of cookies. If you turn off cookies in your browser, however, some portions of our site may not be available to you.
Special Events, Fund Raisings, or Appeals
We may from time to time, send you information regarding special events and fund raising appeals for NCHS. These contacts will include an option that you may execute in order to discontinue similar contacts.
Links to Other Sites
NCHS may provide links to other websites. Please be aware that once you leave our website and enter another website, you may be subject to different privacy practices and policies over which NCHS has no control and for which NCHS is not responsible. Please use prudence in utilizing such links and in disclosing any personal information on those sites.
Changes to this Internet Privacy Statement
The foregoing Internet Privacy Statement is effective as of November 1, 2010. NCHS may change this statement periodically without notice. Changes to our Internet Privacy Statement will be noted here so that you can be informed about the privacy protections we provide. This statement is not intended to and does not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.
If you have any questions or comments regarding these notices, please contact us at marketing@nchsfoundation.org.
