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Thank you for visiting Children's Aid Society's website. This website is provided in order to allow viewers the opportunity to learn about and contribute to the agency's mission. This privacy statement outlines our commitment to your privacy regarding the information you provide through our site. It also states the limitations placed on your use of the information and technology provided by the website. Your use of Children's Aid Society's website constitutes your agreement to the terms and conditions stated here. Children's Aid Society reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Please return often to review it. Use of Children's Aid Society's website constitutes agreement to the terms and conditions stated in this policy.

Website Privacy
Children's Aid Society's website (www.childrensaid.org) privacy policy is clear. Children's Aid Society collects no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information.

Confidentiality
Children's Aid Society assures you that the identity and information provided by all who contact us through this website is kept confidential. Children's Aid Society does not rent, sell, trade or exchange our mailing lists. Children's Aid Society does not share any information with outside parties unless given permission prior to the action, except that Children's Aid Society will share information with government or law enforcement authorities in its sole discretion or as required by law.

Information Collected Automatically
If the only action you do when visiting our site is to browse through the website, read pages, or download information, no identifying information, which can identify you personally, will be collected. We will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. The information automatically collected is the IP address of each visitor to this site. This IP address tells us which domain you visited from (example: yahoo.com, bellsouth.net or aol.com), but not your e-mail address, the type of browser and operating system used to access our site, the date and time you access our site, the pages you visit, and if you linked from another website, the address of that website. We use the information recorded to administer this website more effectively, to determine the website's volume of usage, and to gather broad demographic information about what states, countries and domains our visitors are from.

Providing Personal Information
If you choose to provide personal contact information by sending an email to us, completing website forms, sending us your feedback, requesting materials, information, etc., your personal information will be transmitted only to pertinent staff and will not be shared with anyone outside Children's Aid Society unless required by law or if it is necessary for completing an authorized operation such as processing a credit card transaction. If you choose to make an online donation to Children's Aid Society, your transaction is made through SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology which is the industry standard for secure online commerce transactions. The SSL protocol protects HTTP transactions over the Internet by adding a layer of encryption. Your credit card information is only used for processsing your transaction, and is not stored or retained by CAS.

Links to Other Sites
Children's Aid Society's website provides you with resources regarding child welfare services in the form of links to other sites on the Internet. We have no control over these links or sites. These sites may have different privacy policies and information gathering practices. Children's Aid Society claims no responsibility or liability for the content, reliability of information, and privacy policies. Once you have entered these sites, you are under their terms and policies.

Removing or Changing Information From Children's Aid Society's Records This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database, to not receive future communications, or to no longer receive our service; or for changing or modifying information previously provided.

  2. Send mail to the following address:
    Children's Aid Society
    Attn: IT Coordinator
    2141 14th Avenue South
    Birmingham, AL 35205

  3. Call Children's Aid Society at 205-251-7148

When contacting us to change your status, be sure to include any information that would help us identify you on our lists, such as name, address, telephone number and email address.

Contacting Children's Aid Society's Website
If you have further questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact:

Attention: Web Coordinator
Children's Aid Society
2141 14th Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35205
205-251-7148
cas@childrensaid.org

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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

  1. What Information Do We Collect? When you visit our website, you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis; and website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website.
  2. Personal Information You Choose to Provide You may voluntarily give us your personal information through our contact us functionality provided through the website, such as our “Feedback” form, requests for volunteer or donation information, or sign up for events or classes. When you use an online form to send us personal information, such as your email address, postal address, home or work telephone number and other personal information, we collect and use such information to respond to your request. If you choose to correspond with us through our email links provided on our website, we use such information to respond to your email. We may retain the content of your online requests or email messages, together with your email address and our responses for our internal purposes.
  3. Payment Information If you pay us for registrations, sponsorships, donations, or, events, or the like using the site, the payment information is collected by our third-party payment provider. CAS does not receive your payment information directly. We are cautious in the selection of these payment providers and designate providers that have demonstrated or attested to their PCI-DSS compliance. We are not involved in the security programs of these providers and have no control over the security or functionality of these linked sites. Our third-party payment provider as of the effective date of this notice is DonorPerfect. The DonorPerfect information regarding their PCI compliance is located at https://www.donorperfect.com/fundraising-software/pci-compliance/. We may use other third-party payment providers from time to time without updating this notice and recommend that you review the provider’s security and privacy policies regarding your payments.
  4. Website Use Information Similar to other websites, our site may utilize a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?"), web server logs, and similar tools to collect information about how our website is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our website, and the sites visited just before and just after ours. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.
  5. How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us? Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering this website and our organization’s activities and services, providing support, and to respond to requests made through the website. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. The lists used to send you product and service offers are developed and managed under our traditional standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy of all personal information provided by our users. You may at any time notify us of your desire not to receive these offers.
  6. What Are Cookies? Cookies are a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to recognize the computer used to access a website. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's web browser on the user's hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that website by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user's transactions on related web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from web page to web page and to complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.
  7. How Do We Use Information Collected From Cookies? We use website browser software tools such as cookies and web server logs to gather information about our website users' browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our website and better serve our users. This information assists us to design and arrange our web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our website to better meet the needs of our users and prospective users. Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our website as they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our website and evaluate our website's visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture your individual email address or any personally identifying information about you.
  8. Cookies Google Analytics and related tools do use cookies and tracking technologies to assign each user a unique identifier and track site usage as described above. A cookie (sometimes referred to as a local storage object or LSO) is a data file placed on a device. Cookies can be created through a variety of web-related protocols and technologies, such as HTTP (sometimes referred to as “browser cookies”), HTML5, or Adobe Flash. Please view Google’s policy for their use of data collected through the analytics tool: https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners. Facebook Connect and related trackers allow us to interact with Facebook. Facebook does collect information about you for their own purposes. Their privacy policies for these tools are located at: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation Most browsers are initially set up to accept HTTP cookies. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, and how to disable existing cookies. For more information about HTTP cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information provided at www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/. You may opt out of Google cookies at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/. You can opt out of various types of Facebook tracking through your Settings for your Facebook account. If you disable cookies, it will not affect your use of the site.
  9. No Ad Tracking We do not use any information about you to target advertising to you through this site and no third-party advertising is offered through this site.
  10. Do Not Track Please note that this site does not support “Do Not Track” browser settings and does not currently participate in any “Do Not Track” frameworks that would allow us to respond to any “Do Not Track” elections that you may have made. As stated above, Google and Facebook may have a separate “Do Not Track” policies.
  11. Notice of New Services and Changes Occasionally, we may use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. As a user of our website, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by clicking on a response box when you receive such an offer or by sending us an email request.
  12. How Do We Secure Information Transmissions? When you send confidential personal information to us on our website, a secure server software which we have licensed encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. The information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our website. Other email that you may send to us may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures will be in place prior to your transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential information such as Social Security, credit card, or account numbers to us through an unsecured email.
  13. How Do We Protect Your Information? Information Security -- We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction. Evaluation of Information Protection Practices -- Periodically, our operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with organization policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of our information. Employee Access, Training and Expectations -- Our organization values, ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the protection of user information. In general, our business practices limit employee access to confidential information, and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.
  14. How Can You Access and Correct Your Information? You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing us using the contact form provided to you within the site structure of our website.
  15. Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties? We may provide aggregate information about our customers, sales, website traffic patterns and related website information to our affiliates or reputable third parties, but this information will not include personally identifying data, except as otherwise provided in this privacy policy.
  16. What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information? We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.
  17. Permission to Use of Materials The right to download and store or output the materials in our website is granted for the user's personal use only, and materials may not be reproduced in any edited form. Any other reproduction, transmission, performance, display or editing of these materials by any means mechanical or electronic without our express written permission is strictly prohibited. Users wishing to obtain permission to reprint or reproduce any materials appearing on this site may contact us directly.
  18. Current Notice and Tools: This privacy notice is current as of May 1, 2019. Our privacy notice and use of cookies and tracking technologies may change from time to time. Please check this notice during each visit and contact us by e-mail to info@childrensaid.org with any questions or comments regarding this notice.
Terms & Conditions

Terms & Conditions

Thank you for visiting the CAS site. Our current terms and conditions of use are below and are effective as of May 1, 2019. Please check back from time to time for updates and changes. If you have questions about these terms or our site, please contact us at info@childrensaid.org.

Donation Refund Policy

We are grateful for your donation and support of our organization. If you have made an error in making your donation or change your mind about contributing to our organization please contact us. Refunds are returned using the original method of payment. If you made your donation by credit card, your refund will be credited to that same credit card.

Automated Recurring Donation Cancellation

Ongoing support is important to enabling projects to continue their work, so we encourage donors to continue to contribute to projects over time. But if you must cancel your recurring donation, please notify us.

Linked Sites

Links to third party sites may be provided. If you click on these links, the link takes you to sites over which we have no control and for which we are not responsible. Please review the terms and privacy policies of any linked sites. Content of linked sites is owned or licensed as described in the sites.

Intellectual Property

All content on this site is owned or licensed by CAS. The CAS logo is our service mark. Images are licensed from the respective copyright holders. You agree to respect all copyright, trademarks, and other legal notices, information, and restrictions contained in any content accessed through this site. You also agree not to change, translate, or otherwise create derivative works of the content.

Permission for Use of Materials

The right to download and store or output the materials in our website is granted for the user's personal use only, and materials may not be reproduced in any edited form. Any other reproduction, transmission, performance, display or editing of these materials by any means mechanical or electronic without our express written permission is strictly prohibited. Users wishing to obtain permission to reprint or reproduce any materials appearing on this site may contact us directly.

Copyright

CAS has adopted a general policy regarding copyright in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. CAS takes down content that is the subject of a compliant DMCA takedown notice. Section 512 of the DMCA provides the rules for reporting copyright infringement and for filing a counter-notification. If you’re not sure whether material on this site infringes on your copyright, please consult with an attorney before filing a DMCA notification. Misrepresenting that material infringes on your copyright may subject you to liability for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees incurred by us or other parties. If you believe that your copyright is being infringed, you can file a DMCA notification by emailing info@childrensaid.org. Your claim must include the following information (please note that all information must be submitted in English): o an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; o a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; o a description of where the content that you claim is infringing is located on the site so that we may locate the content at issue; o your address, telephone number, and email address; o a statement by you that you understand that under 17 U.S.C § 512(f) you may be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, if you knowingly and materially misrepresent that reported material or activity is infringing; o a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and o a statement by you that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf. Submitting your notification by email is the fastest way to file your claim, but you may also send the required information to our copyright agent at the following address: Chief Operating Officer Children’s Aid Society of Alabama 2141 14th Avenue South Birmingham, AL 35205

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