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	Privacy Policy The New York Coalition of Social Smokers, Inc. is committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of users of our Web sites (the "Sites"). As part of our commitment to protecting your privacy online, we have posted this policy to help you understand how we gather information about users of the Sites, how we use the information we gather and what steps we take to protect the information you share with us. If and when you choose to provide us with personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified), you can be assured that it will only be used to support your relationship with the New York Coalition of Social Smokers, Inc. as described below. If you have any questions about this policy, please let us know by sending an email to: info@socialsmokers.org What information do we collect? When you sign up as a member, volunteer or newsletter subscriber, you provide information, including but not limited to: contact information such as your name, address(es), telephone number(s), and email address(es); and volunteer preferences, issue preferences, and other profile information. We may supplement personally identifiable information that we have collected directly from you with other information that we obtain from third parties. We may also store information with regard to your preferences and user logs. In addition, we may store electronic mail and other communications, delivered to or by our systems as a necessary incident to the transmission and delivery of such communications. We ask that persons under 18 years of age not submit personal information. In accordance with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), the New York Coalition of Social Smokers, Inc. does not knowingly collect information from children under 18, years old and you must be at least 18 years old to volunteer or sign up for services from the New York Coalition of Social Smokers, Inc. The New York Coalition of Social Smokers, Inc. encourages parents to participate actively in their children's Internet experience. How do we use this information? We will use the contact information you submit and other information such as your choice of services and user logs to provide or enhance our service to you in the normal course of providing service. We will not share your personal information with anyone. We may share certain aspects of the information you provide to us in references to our overall membership preferences but no information that would identify an individual will be shared with anyone outside of the coalition. Other than as described in the paragraph above, we will not disclose your personal information unless we have reason to believe that disclosing such information is necessary to identify, make contact with, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing harm or interfering with the rights or property of the New York Coalition of Social Smokers, Inc. our partners or others, or where we have a good faith belief that the law requires such disclosure. We also will not, except for the reasons stated below, disclose to third parties the contents of any electronic mail or other electronic communications that We store or transmit for our users. The circumstances under which we will disclose such electronic communications are when: 1. It is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the coalition or its donors or partners; 2. It is required to cooperate with interception orders, warrants or other legal process that we in our sole discretion determines to be valid and enforceable; or 3. It is necessary to provide to a law enforcement agency when the contents are inadvertently obtained by the coalition and appear to pertain to the commission of a crime. The New York Coalition of Social Smokers, Inc disclaims any intention to censor, edit or engage in ongoing review or surveillance of communications stored on or transmitted through its facilities by users or others. We reserve the right, however, to review, delete or block access to communications that may harm to us or third parties. The grounds on which we may take such action include, but will not be limited to, actual or potential violations of the Sites' posted terms of service. Despite our reasonable precautions to protect your information from loss, misuse or alteration, you should recognize that there is no such thing as "perfect security" on the Internet. To help us protect your privacy, you should maintain the secrecy of any password upon registration for services on the Sites. Use of Cookies To enhance your experience on the Sites, our servers use "cookies" to store users' preferences. Cookies are messages sent between our servers and your browser, which are saved as text files on your computer. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, submitting a volunteer application, or requesting email alerts or additional information. However, once you choose to furnish the Sites with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in cookies. Users may customize their browsers to not accept cookies. If you choose to not have your browser accept cookies from the Sites, it is possible that some parts of the Sites will not function properly, and you will not be able to experience personalized visits to the Sites or subscribe to service offerings on the Sites. The New York Coalition of Social Smokers, Inc. contracts with a third-party Web analytics service to analyze the traffic patterns on our Sites, such as the frequency with which our users visit various parts of our Sites. These technical methods may involve the transmission of information either directly to us or to another party authorized by us to collect information on our behalf. We also use these technical methods in HTML e-mails that we send our guests to determine whether our guests have opened those e-mails and/or clicked on links in those e-mails. The information generated by these technical methods may be collected in a form that is personally identifiable. Additionally, we may share web site usage information about visitors to our Sites who have received a targeted promotional campaign, with a reputable third-party advertising company for the purpose of targeting future campaigns and upgrading visitor information used in reporting statistics. For this purpose, we and our third-party advertising company note some of the pages you visit on our Sites through the use of pixel tags (also called clear gifs). Security The New York Coalition of Social Smokers, Inc. uses industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving certain personally identifiable information and financial information from our Sites. In addition, we have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss or misuse of information at our Sites that we have collected from visitors to our Sites. Policy Governs Use; Changes to Privacy Policy The terms of this policy will govern the use of any information collected while the policy is in place. We reserve the right to change this policy at any time by posting revisions on the Sites. Changes to this privacy policy will be effective at the time they are posted to the Sites. This privacy policy is not intended to, and does not; create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party. Questions If you have any questions or comments about our personal information practices or about this privacy statement, please click email us at info@socialsmokers.org	Read A Message From Our Executive Director Subscribe To Our Newsl etter


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