Privacy policy

CASA, Inc. Privacy Statement

CASA, Inc. shares your concerns about privacy on the Internet. In order to better protect your privacy, CASA has provided this notice explaining its online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used on the Site. On occasion, CASA may run promotions or conduct other activities with affiliate partners from this Site. In such event, we may post additional privacy terms in conjunction with such promotion or activities that modify and/or supplement this Privacy Policy and govern the use of information related to or received through such promotions or activities.

CASA’s Collection and Use of Your Information

In the course of using the Site, CASA may ask you for your name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, or fax number as well as other relevant information. CASA also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows XP or Mac OS), the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink), aggregate data about the number of visits to the Site and/or aggregate data about the pages visited.

How CASA Uses the Information

CASA uses the non-personally identifiable information ("Aggregate Data") to improve the design and content of the Site and to enable CASA to personalize your Internet experience. CASA may use the Aggregate Data to analyze Site usage as well as create services and/or products to fit your needs. Also, CASA shares this Aggregate Data with our related entities, advertisers, partners and/or other third party vendors. Feeding CASA shall own such Aggregate Data and maintain electronic copies of such as part of its records.

Except as otherwise indicated, CASA uses the personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") you provide about yourself: (a) to respond to any of your inquiries or questions about our services; (b) for internal marketing purposes and as part of CASA’s donor and email databases; (c) to provide you additional and updated information, materials and other advertisements regarding CASA’s services and volunteer needs; (d) to offer you other materials and/or information that CASA believes may be of interest to you; (e) to cooperate with government officials or parties in litigation under process of law, or as otherwise required by law; (f) to protect the security or integrity of the Site; (g) to protect against a threat of safety or destruction of property; and/or (h) to protect against legal liability. In all cases, however, CASA agents, employees and contractors who have access to Personal Information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. Furthermore, CASA encourages all its business Partners to adopt and adhere to standards of protection consistent with this Privacy Policy. CASA will not use the Personal Information, except as set forth herein, without your permission; provided, however, CASA shall own all such Personal Information and maintain copies of such as part of its records. If you do not wish to receive any such information or to allow Feeding America the right to use your personally identifiable information as described, please contact CASA in the manner identified in the "Opt-Out" section below. The Aggregate Data and Personal Information may be transferred, distributed or sold as part of CASA or its assets.

Opt Out

You may choose not to receive such information and/or to allow CASA to use your information in the manner described above by simply checking the box provided on the donation and email sign-up forms, or by contacting us directly at casa@casa-nashville.org. Upon receipt and processing of an "opt out" request, CASA will, within its commercially reasonable amount of time, remove your information from any future marketing communications and our donor database, as per your request.

Security; No Liability

CASA has implemented security measures to help protect against the risk of loss, misuse and alteration of any information under CASA’s control. CASA protects your online order information by using Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") technology. SSL encrypts your order information to avoid the decoding of that information by anyone other than CASA. Nevertheless, such security measures may not prevent all loss, misuse or alteration of information on the Site, and CASA is not responsible for any damages or liabilities relating to any such security failures. You understand that data and communications, including e-mail and other electronic communications, may be accessed by unauthorized third parties when communicated over the Internet. Furthermore, the Site contains links to other web sites. CASA is not responsible for nor can CASA ensure the privacy practices or content of such other sites.

IP Addresses and Cookies

Like other web sites, CASA uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with CASA's servers, to administer the Site and for security purposes.

"Cookies" are pieces of data sent from a Web server to a Web browser that enable a Web server to identify users that visit a site hosted by that server. CASA may use Cookies in order to identify you to our site so that CASA can provide more customized information and services to you. In addition, our site may contain advertisements or links to outside websites that may contain Cookies. In general, if you choose, you can disable the use of Cookies by reviewing your browser's preferences and options.

Modification of Privacy Policy

CASA may change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the changed or amended Privacy Policy on the Site. Your continued viewing of or use of this Site following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Policy will signify your assent to any such changes or amendments.

How to Contact CASA for Any Reason

You may contact CASA with questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, updating any personally identifiable information or anything else related to Feeding CASA and/or this Site at www.casa-nashville.org, by emailing casa@casa-nashville.org, or by calling 615-425-2383.

Updated July 28, 2010