Trekking for kids

The current version of this privacy notice was finalized June 6, 2010.

This is the privacy notice for the Trekking For Kids, Inc. website.

Contacting the Website Please contact us if you have any questions about this privacy notice, the practices of this site, your dealings with this website, or wish to update the information you have provided to us. You may contact us via email at: info@trekkingforkids.org or via postal mail at:

Trekking for Kids, Inc.
P.O. Box 25493
Washington, DC 20027

Personally Identifiable Information We do not collect any personally identifiable information about you such as your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address unless you voluntarily provide it to us when you register for an expedition and/or make a tax-deductible donation.

If you do not want your personally identifiable information collected, please do not submit it to us. If you have previously submitted information about yourself to us and would like for us to remove it from our records, please contact us at the e-mail address listed above. We will then delete your information from our existing files.

Financial Information When you register for an expedition or make an online tax-deductible donation to Trekking For Kids, Inc., the donation is verified, completed and encrypted by Acceptiva, which owns and operates the Acceptiva website. Trekking For Kids, Inc. receives all of the data you enter in the online registration and donation forms, respectively, except for your credit card number and security code. Government records confirm Acceptiva as a valid business. You may contact Acceptiva in Snoqualmie, Washington at +1.800.507.3871. The Acceptiva site is secured by an Equifax SSL certificate.

Email Addresses Our website provides a form where you may choose to enter your email address to sign up for our mailing list. We do not sell, rent, exchange or otherwise disclose our mailing lists or information about our site visitors, except when compelled by law or to investigate abuse of our website.

Data Sharing No data identified to you is ever shared with or sold to third parties beyond those identified in this notice, except as required by law or to investigate abuse of our website.

Links to Other SitesOur site contains links to other sites. Trekking For Kids, Inc. is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

Google Analytics We use Google Analytics to obtain statistics about visitor activity on our website. The following privacy statement from the Google Analytics Terms of Service applies only to information collected for use by Google Analytics:

“This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.”

Suspicious Activity Information about suspicious activity and access information may be kept indefinitely for site security purposes. Evidence of attacks or other malicious activity may be shared with law enforcement agencies as necessary to apprehend and prosecute individuals who abuse our resources.

Children Our site, trekkingforkids.org, has no intention of collecting any individually identifiable information such as name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address from individuals under the age of 13. Where appropriate, trekkingforkids.org will specifically instruct children not to submit such information on our Web site. If a child has provided us with individually identifiable information, that child's parent or guardian should contact us at the e-mail address above so that we may delete the information from our records.

We reserve the right to make changes to this notice. Any changes to this notice will be posted on our Web site and explained in a Privacy Notice Revision History.