101 Girls Guide is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the 101 Girls Guide site and governs data collection and usage. By using the 101 Girls Guide site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

101 Girls Guide collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. 101 Girls Guide also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by 101 Girls Guide. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by 101 Girls Guide for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the 101 Girls Guide site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through 101 Girls Guide public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: 101 Girls Guide does not read any of your private online communications.

101 Girls Guide encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from 101 Girls Guide so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. 101 Girls Guide is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the 101 Girls Guide and 101 Girls Guide family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

101 Girls Guide collects and uses your personal information to operate the 101 Girls Guide Web site and deliver the services you have requested. 101 Girls Guide also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from 101 Girls Guide and its affiliates. 101 Girls Guide may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

101 Girls Guide does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. 101 Girls Guide may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, 101 Girls Guide may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to 101 Girls Guide, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

101 Girls Guide does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

101 Girls Guide keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within 101 Girls Guide, in order to determine what 101 Girls Guide services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within 101 Girls Guide to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

101 Girls Guide Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on 101 Girls Guide or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of 101 Girls Guide; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of 101 Girls Guide, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The 101 Girls Guide Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize 101 Girls Guide pages, or register with 101 Girls Guide site or services, a cookie helps 101 Girls Guide to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same 101 Girls Guide Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the 101 Girls Guide features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the 101 Girls Guide services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

101 Girls Guide secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. 101 Girls Guide secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

101 Girls Guide will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. 101 Girls Guide encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how 101 Girls Guide is protecting your information.

Contact Information

101 Girls Guide welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that 101 Girls Guide has not adhered to this Statement, please contact 101 Girls Guide at charles@heartscenter.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.