Privacy Policy
Scouting America, Laurel Highlands Council is committed to respecting and protecting the personal privacy of its members, donors, and those who visit its website.
Council Privacy Policies
Scouting America, Laurel Highlands Council is committed to respecting and protecting the personal privacy of its members, donors, and those who visit its website. It is our policy to acquire personal information from users only by overt and voluntary means, only when it is in the interest of the user to provide it, and to utilize this information only for the purpose it was provided.
Data Privacy Policy
The information that follows explains the kinds of information the Scouting America, Laurel Highlands Council website collects, how it is used, the conditions under which it is made available to third parties, how information is maintained, and our compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
Note: This privacy policy applies only to www.lhcscouting.org. This privacy policy does not apply to any non-council hosted or unit website, as their content is not controlled by Scouting America, Laurel Highlands Council. Please contact the administrator of any unit or other Scouting-oriented website for information about their own privacy policies and the information they collect about their site visitors.*
What Information Does This Site Collect?
This Site Collects Anonymous Data That Is Not Indicative Of And Cannot Be Traced To An Individual Without The Cooperation Of Their Internet Service Provider. This Data Includes Information About The User’s Remote Ip Address, Referral Data (Which Page “Linked” To The Present Request), And The Browser Software’s User-Agent String. This Information Is Accepted Passively From The Http Headers That Are Sent From The User When Requesting Any File From The Server. Other Anonymous Data Entered By The User May Be Collected In A Common Repository, Including Terms Entered Into The Search Engine, Etc.
Personally Identifiable Data Is Collected Only By Means Of Form Interfaces On The Site, Into Which The User Must Voluntarily Enter The Information Requested. This Information Is Requested Only When It Is Necessary To Accomplish The Overt Purpose Indicated By The Interface Containing The Form That Requests It. Such Form Interfaces Require Only The Information Reasonably Necessary To Accomplish The Overt Purpose Indicated On The Interface.
No Attempt Is Made To Covertly Or “Quietly” Collect Personally Identifiable Information, Nor Are Cookies Or Any Other Tracking Technology Used For The Purpose Of Coordinating Information That A User May Opt To Enter In Various Interfaces On The Site.
What Organization Is Collecting The Information?
Information entered by site visitors is retrieved directly by Scouting America, Laurel Highlands Council.
How Does The Scouting America, Laurel Highlands Council Use The Information It Collects?
The anonymous information collected is used to monitor the usage of this website and the interests of those who use it. Data such as the volume of traffic to the server, the number of visitors a certain section of the site receives each month, or the most popular search terms are analyzed to derive general statistics about the site’s reach and the audience’s usage patterns.
Personally identifiable information is used only for the express purpose for which it was submitted. For example, if a user enters their contact information in the “Subscribe” form for electronic publications, the information will be used only to correspond with them regarding subscriptions and for sending Scouting information.
With Whom Does The Scouting America, Laurel Highlands Council Share The Information That Is Collected?
The BSA does not share personally identifiable information about its website visitors with anyone.
Reports, statistics, and other analyses of aggregate anonymous information may be shared within the organization or provided to third parties at the sole discretion of Scouting America, Laurel Highlands Council. This information does not include any personally identifiable information.
Exception: Scouting America, Laurel Highlands Council reserves the right to use all information at its disposal and to share this information with ISPs and other third parties as necessary to investigate any incident of misuse or abuse of its site, server, or information systems.
How Does The Scouting America, Laurel Highlands Council Maintain The Information It Collects?
In most cases, personally identifiable information is not maintained. Once it has been used for its intended purpose, it is deleted. Because of the brevity of this interval, no mechanism is provided to enable users to alter or delete information they have submitted.
Scouting America, Laurel Highlands Council does not use its website to collect any personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age. Any interface that requests personally identifiable information that appears on an interface that can be expected to be viewed by children under 13 years of age is accompanied by a notice that submissions cannot be accepted from users under 13 years of age. Where “age” or “date of birth” is requested, no information will be stored or transmitted unless the response indicates that the user is 13 years of age or older.
Providing personal information is never a prerequisite for accessing any of the content or resources on this website. Specifically, refusal to provide personal information via a web interface will never result in a user being denied access to any online content or resource he would be able to access were the information submitted.
Policy Modifications And Deviations
We may modify this privacy policy and will post those changes here. If the privacy policy changes in the future, we will not use any personal information you have submitted to us under the current privacy policy in a manner that is materially inconsistent with this privacy policy, without your prior consent.
It may be necessary to deviate from this general policy in unique instances and for specific purposes. In such instances, a link will be provided to a description of the deviation. This link will be placed where it can be reasonably expected to be noticed prior to submitting any information for which this privacy policy is modified or exempted in any way.
Donor Privacy Policy
The Laurel Highlands Council, Scouting America (“LHCBSA”) is committed to respecting and protecting the personal privacy of its members and those who visit its website at lhcscouting.org. The following is our donor privacy policy, which guides our staff on how they may use a donor’s personal information while honoring your rights as a contributor. We will not sell, share or trade our donors’ names or personal information with any other entity, nor send mailings to our donors on behalf of other organizations. This policy applies to all information received by BSA, both online and offline, on any platform (“platform” includes LHCBSA’s websites and mobile applications), as well as any electronic, written, or oral communications.
LHCBSA uses personally identifiable information from donors that is collected at several points on our website, including: name, address, telephone number, email address and donor comments when a donor voluntarily provides it to us. When a donor pledges money as a donation, LHCBSA requests certain personally identifiable information from them on our secure donation form and/or by telephone. Donors must provide contact information (such as name, email and billing address) and financial information (such as credit card number and expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fulfill donations. Credit card information is only used for specific or pre-authorized recurring transactions and is then destroyed. However, if we have trouble processing a donation, we will use this information to contact the donor.
In addition, a record is kept of each donor’s giving history. Donor information is stored on an LHCBSA donor management database. Access to the database is restricted to personnel with legitimate business need to access or modify the information contained therein. This information is kept on file for IRS purposes and is also used for gift acknowledgment and mailing lists.
BSA does not sell, trade, rent or share names, addresses, telephone numbers or email addresses of our donors. BSA will use contact information (email, telephone numbers or addresses) of donors for these purposes only:
- Produce receipts for donations;
- Acknowledge donors for their contributions;
- Inform donors about news, upcoming fundraising events and Scouting activities (when information is sent utilizing a mailing service, the companies we employ have access only to the personal information needed to perform their functions, but are contractually prohibited from using it for other purposes);
- Internal analysis and record keeping;
- If necessary, reporting to relevant U.S. agencies; and
- As a means of recognizing support, LHCBSA may occasionally publish names of donors in various Scouting newsletters, brochures and publications. If a donor prefers their name not be published, please notify the development office at 412-325-7911.
Online Donations
Our donation button uses industry standard SSL (Secure Socket Layer) technology to protect data transmissions. The information collected will not be given out (shared or sold) to any third party.
When giving an online donation, or making an activity registration payment, LHCBSA takes every precaution to protect donor personal information. That includes online data collected on the LHCBSA website through our secure e-commerce system and payment processor used to securely process online donations. All communications with the online processor are encrypted for the highest level of security of donor personal information.
If you have questions about this donor privacy policy or if you wish to be removed from our email and/or postal contact lists at any time, please contact the development office at 412-325-7911.
Forms
When you submit data through a form such as those found on the contact page, that information is saved in the database. This information is used to contact potential clients and/or employees. If you would like your form submission information removed, please contact us.
For more information, or if you have questions or concerns regarding LHCBSA’s privacy policy, please contact us at any time.
Cookie Policy
To make our website work properly, we place small data files called cookies on your device. We use cookies to enhance your visit to our site.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How do we use cookies?
Site preferences cookies
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page.
Third party cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details examples of third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics, one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, which helps us to understand how you use the site and gives us ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit, so we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of sites to continue to produce engaging content. These analytics cookies track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps companies understand how to improve the site for you.
This website could use Google remarketing, Facebook remarketing, Twitter remarketing and other remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. Third-party vendors, including Google, Facebook and Twitter use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to this website. Any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google, Facebook and Twitter privacy policies. You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google ad preferences page.
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are testing new features cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site which ensures we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.
Cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally.
How to control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
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