ppawi.org Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us at Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin (PPAWI). We understand that visitors to ppawi.org need to be in control of their personal information. In order to assure you of the security of your information, we want to explain our website privacy practices.

There are two ways in which information may be collected when you visit a website. Whenever you visit or interact with a website, you make available some information about yourself and your computer. Web sites collect data about the types of information users seek and about the types of sites and links that they visit most frequently. In addition to this information, some web sites ask you to provide personal information.

We reserve the right to change and update this Privacy Notice from time to time.

The Personal Information You Provide
On some areas of our web site, we ask for information that identifies you personally. For example, if you donate money on our donations page, we will ask you to provide personal information. We may keep a record of any correspondence we receive from you. We will not disclose any personal information without your advance permission to do so unless the law requires us to do so, or the disclosure is necessary to protect PPAWI's rights or property.

ppawi.org does not collect personal information from children under the age of 13 without parental consent. If you are under the age of 13, you may use the information on our website. However, for privacy reasons, you may not submit your name, address, or other personal information if you are under 13. If you would like to contact PPAWI, you may do so by telephone or by mail.

PPAWI will never share your personal information with any other party without notifying you of our intentions before you provide your information. PPAWI does not rent, sell or barter users' email addresses for use by outside parties for any purpose. We use security measures, such as Secure Sockets Layering (SSL) technology, to encrypt information such as your credit card number, before it travels the internet.

While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee that your personal information or communications that you disclose online will never be disclosed in ways not included in this policy. In the event of an investigation of fraud, intellectual property rights infringement or any other activity that is illegal or may expose PPAWI to legal liability, we intend to cooperate with law enforcement inquiries and other third parties where we believe it is necessary.

We also cannot ensure that data or information on our website will never be obtained through eavesdropping, sniffing, spoofing, forgery, spamming, tampering, "impostering", breaking passwords, harassment, fraud, electronic trespassing, hacking, and other ways in which web security is sometimes broken. While our system does have security and authentication features, these features may not be perfectly impenetrable. PPAWI's web site could potentially include viruses and/or other material that could permit unauthorized access or cause potential damage to the data and information on your computer. PPAWI assumes no responsibility for, and shall not be liable for, any damages to or viruses that may infect your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to or use of the ppawi.org website. We do not warrant that the ppawi.org website or the service providers that make the content available are free of computer viruses or other harmful components.

Why We Collect User Information
In order to improve our website and to understand better how to serve you, we collect user information in an aggregate form that does not identify individual users. For example, we may learn that users use one link less than other links, and we may decide to clarify what information users can expect to find by clicking on that link.

We use data called cookies to track information about the pages you visit within our site. A cookie is a small amount of data stored temporarily by ppawi.org on your computer's hard drive. This cookie makes it easier for you to navigate through our site because it remembers where you have been during a particular visit to your site. We may use cookies to deliver content to you that is specifically oriented to your areas of interest. The cookies we use are automatically deleted when you leave our website and do not remain on your computer.

Occasionally, we may collect personal information in other circumstances, but we will always explain the purpose of collecting this information at the time when we collect it.

What Information Do We Collect? When you visit our website, our software can recognize your home server. The software can also detect certain other information about your computer, such as what web browsing software you are using and your computer's operating system. We can tell which web site you visited immediately before coming to ppawi.org, and we can tell what pages you visit on our site, as well as the first site you go to immediately after leaving our site. However, we cannot use this information to obtain your email address or your identity. We can obtain information about your email address or identity only if you provide it to us, as when you make a donation to us. We may collect information about the time and day of your visit, the amount of time you spend on our website, and any errors you may encounter. This information is kept confidential.

Infringing Item Policy The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) specifies procedures by which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) may limit liability with respect to information residing on network servers. In accordance with the DMCA, PPAWI has designated an agent to receive notification of any claimed infringement. If you believe that PPAWI's use of any material on our website infringes your work, please contact PPAWI with the following written information specified below. Please note that this procedure is only to notify PPAWI that your copyrighted material has potentially been infringed.

1. The location on the website of the potentially infringing item;

2. A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed upon;

3. Your address, email address and telephone number;

4. A sworn statement by you that you believe in good faith that the item is infringing and that you are either the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

All claims of infringement must conform to DMCA notification procedures, and should be directed to the following agent:
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Notice: This email address is intended specifically for the receipt of "Notifications of Claimed Infringement" under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, 17 U.S.C. 512. It is not intended for general inquiries regarding PPAWI's website or materials.

PPAWI may terminate access for users or contact providers who are found to have repeatedly provided or posted protected material without necessary rights and permissions. You and/or the suppliers who are the subject of infringement charges by copyright owners may be temporarily or indefinitely suspended from use of or access to our website. If you are responsible for the text and graphics, you will be reached as quickly as possible to discuss appropriate responses to the DMCA's "take-down" and "put-back" specifications.

Links to Other Internet Websites Other internet websites or services that may be accessible through ppawi.org have separate data and privacy practices that are not under our control, and we disclaim any responsibility or liability for their policies or actions. Links leading away from our site are only for your convenience. Please contact those websites directly if you have questions about their privacy policies.

If you decide to establish a link to our website, please direct your link only to the index page of our site. We also ask that your links do not state or imply any sponsorship or endorsement of your website or its contents by PPAWI.

Contact Us If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy practices and policies, please feel free to email PPAWI.