Website Privacy Policy

Bellevue LifeSpring values your confidence in us and is committed to maintaining and safeguarding the privacy of the information you share with us through our website.

Collection of Information from Website Visitors

When you access our website, certain information may be collected and stored, such as the domain name and host from which you access the Internet, the browser software and operating system of your computer, the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer, the pages accessed or visited on our site, the Internet address of the site from which you directly linked to our site, as well as your browser’s country setting, by [the third party hosting operator; we currently use [e.g. Network Solutions]]. We/they may also automatically collect and store statistics and other information about you and your use of our website both on an aggregate, non-personally identifiable basis and in a manner that may allow us to associate such information with other personal information about you.

In the course of using our website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Information”). You can voluntarily chose to submit such information, or simply not submit it. Such Personal Information may include, but is not limited to, your name, address, company name, phone number, fax number, and email address. By writing to us, by filling out certain forms or data requests, or by otherwise voluntarily requesting or supplying information to us, you are volunteering to provide such information, including your contact information and/or site registrations, name and address, telephone number or fax number, to us. If you e-mail us, we will collect your e-mail address.

Social Media

Bellevue LifeSpring’s website includes Social Media websites, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn buttons and widgets that run on that website. These sites may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on that website, and may set a cookie to enable the site to function properly. Your interactions with these websites are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

Use and Disclosure of Information

The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web pages, provide services and marketing information to you and otherwise communicate with you. We do not sell or license personal information to third parties. We may disclose the information collected with third-party service providers with which we have an agreement. These third-party service providers assist us in maintaining our website, analyzing our website traffic, and in providing services and information to us and to users of our website. We also reserve the right to disclose information where required by law or to comply with valid legal or regulatory processes to protect our rights. If you expressly indicate that you would like to receive information about products and services from third parties, we may disclose your name and email address to such parties.

Any information that you divulge in a public forum offered on this website such as a chat room, message board and/or news group will be considered public information and may be disclosed to and used by third parties.

Changes

We may modify our privacy policy from time to time. Please check back frequently. Any such modification will only apply prospectively to the information captured after the date of such change. If we modify this policy to provide greater privacy protection, such change shall apply to all the information we have captured and stored.

Enforcement

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, or if you have questions, comments, or requests regarding this privacy policy, please direct them to us at: Bellevue LifeSpring, 302 Bellevue Square, Bellevue, WA 98004, by email at info@bellevuelifespring.org, or by phone at 425.451.1175.

Third Party Sites

This policy only applies to our website. Other sites, including those sites that are accessible from our site, may have their own policies and practices, which we do not control.

Review and Removal of Personally Identifiable Data

You may review, change or remove the personal information that you have provided to us, and we will use all reasonable efforts to ensure that your information is changed or removed from our records, as the case may be. If you would like to change or remove your personal information, please contact us by mail at Bellevue LifeSpring, 302 Bellevue Square, Bellevue, WA 98004, by email at info@bellevuelifespring.org, or by phone at 425.451.1175. You may also opt out of receiving email messages from us.

Security; Illegal and Legal Access

We cannot guarantee the security of the information collected from third parties, despite our efforts to maintain the security of such information. Although we use industry-standard methods to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, third parties may gain access to our database by evading our security measures. We may be forced to disclose your personal information, or we may believe that it is necessary or appropriate to disclose, and you authorize us to disclose such information to law enforcement or other government officials. We assume no liability for any disclosure of information collected arising from the acts of third parties or other events, acts or omissions outside of our control.

Bellevue LifeSpring is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has been helping children and families in Bellevue since 1911.

Federal ID#: 91-0658331.

302 Bellevue Square, Bellevue, WA 98004 | 425.451.1175

Questions or concerns: info@bellevuelifespring.org

All content Copyright 2000-2016 by Bellevue LifeSpring

Suggested text: Our website address is: https://www.bellevuelifespring.org.

Comments

Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Suggested text: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

Suggested text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.