BANDofPARENTS bound by hope
PRIVACY POLICY
Band of Parent's, Inc. is strongly committed to your right to privacy and to taking steps designed to
secure your personal and financial information. To earn your trust and confidence in our commitment,
the intent of this policy is to fully disclose our privacy practices to you. We will only use your personal
information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to read our policy, and to
understand the types of personal information we collect and how this information is used.
YOUR CONSENT
By using our site, you consent to the collection and use of your information as described in this Privacy
Policy, which was last updated on December 03, 2007. Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be
reflected on this page so that you are always aware of the information we collect and how we use it.
THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Band of Parent's, Inc. and its partners collect personal information necessary to respond to your
requests to support our mission. Personal information includes, but is not limited to, name, physical
address, email address, phone number, age and any other information that itself identifies or, when
tied to the above information, may identify you as a specific individual.
Band of Parent's, Inc. also values the opinions and comments from all of our donors and supporters,
so we frequently conduct surveys online, via e-mail, or by telephone. Your participation in these
surveys is entirely optional.
Information we collect in online surveys will include general information on the use of our site and other
demographic information, such as age and income bracket. Survey participants are anonymous unless
otherwise stated in the survey.
Cookies."Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's
hard drive. We use cookies in several ways (and thousands of other sites are currently using them
too!). Cookie files are used to better understand how you go through our website so that we may
tailor your experience at our website. Cookies are also used to tell us whether you have visited our
website previously, and to help us determine whether you came to our website from a particular
Internet link or banner advertisement. Cookies can also be used to help you to save and retrieve
passwords and other information and preferences you use on our website, saving you from having to
re-enter this information upon every visit to our website. Cookies cannot and will not be used by us to
retrieve any personal information about you from your computer that you have not previously and
voluntarily provided to us. However, cookies may also be received when you link to our partners' sites
or when you click on banner advertisements served by our outside advertising company and we do not
have control over how they use this information. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies,
but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. However, most of our
features will not function if you do not accept cookies. For more information on cookies, see Cookies.
IP Addresses. When you connect to our website, we record your IP addresses and information on the
type of operating system (e.g. Windows Vista) and browser software (e.g. Microsoft Internet
Explorer, Safari, FireFox etc.) you are using. This helps us to diagnose problems with our servers and
for system administration. Your IP address is also used to help gather aggregated demographic
information.
HOW INFORMATION IS SHARED AND USED
When you provide information to Band of Parent's, Inc. and/or BandofParents.org, the information is
stored in our and some of our partners' databases, such information is used by BandofParents.org in
accordance with this Privacy Policy and by our partners in accordance with their policies. Information
we collect is used to tailor your experience at our site (including the creation of an online bridal
registry), to show you content that we think you might be interested in, and to display the content
according to your preferences. We also use such personal information to send you information and
promotional materials about us and our partners. Your contact information may also be used if it
becomes necessary to contact you.
To allow you to use some of our features (including online shopping), information we collect will be
shared with our partners. Information collected by us and our partners (for example, when you link to
their sites or call a phone number provided by us) will also be shared with third parties, such as
product suppliers, airlines, car rental agencies, and travel agencies to ensure the successful fulfillment
of your product orders or travel arrangements. In addition, when you use a credit card to purchase
goods and services through our website, your encrypted credit card information will be sent to our
retail partners that provide shopping services to authorize your payment.
Although this Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices or policies of any such other
entities, we intend to require that all of our partners agree not to use your personal information,
except as fully disclosed to you or authorized by you. For more information on the privacy practices of
our partners, we encourage you to read their privacy policies. Any information we collect may be
shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis. In addition, we may from time to time hire a third party
to act on our behalf for projects such as market research surveys and contest entry processing, and
we will provide information to these third parties specifically for use in connection with these projects.
Survey and contest participation is entirely optional. The information we provide to such third parties
will be protected by a confidentiality agreement that will obligate the third party to use such
information solely to complete the specific project.
In addition to the circumstances described above, we may disclose your information if required to do
so by law, court order, as requested by other government or law enforcement authorities, or in the
good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable, including (without limitation) when
we have reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact or bring
legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or properties, whether
intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities.
COLLECTION AND USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
As a donor and/or supporter of the Band of Parent's, Inc. you agree that is permissible that we may
send you e-mail and/or regular mail updates from us about important functionality changes, special
offers from us and our partners, and other news items about us and our partners. We hope you will
find these updates interesting and informative. Of course, if you don't want us or our partners to send
you e-mails and/or regular mail, just let us know.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT ONLINE PRIVACY AND CHANGES TO OUR POLICY
Please be aware that on our site we may have advertisements and/or links to other websites that may
collect personal information about you. This Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices or
policies of such websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of all such sites, as their
policies may be materially different from our Privacy Policy. Any material changes in the way we use
personal information will be described in future versions of this Privacy Policy.