San Diego Habitat for Humanity 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 San Diego Habitat for Humanity web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the San Diego Habitat for Humanity web site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

San Diego Habitat for Humanity collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. San Diego Habitat for Humanity 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 San Diego Habitat for Humanity. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by San Diego Habitat for Humanity for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the San Diego Habitat for Humanity web site.

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

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

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

San Diego Habitat for Humanity does not sell, rent or lease its contact lists to third parties. San Diego Habitat for Humanity 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, San Diego Habitat for Humanity 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 San Diego Habitat for Humanity, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

San Diego Habitat for Humanity does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

San Diego Habitat for Humanity keeps track of the web sites and pages visited within San Diego Habitat for Humanity, in order to determine what San Diego Habitat for Humanity services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and/or advertising within San Diego Habitat for Humanity to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

San Diego Habitat for Humanity 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 San Diego Habitat for Humanity or the web site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of San Diego Habitat for Humanity; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of San Diego Habitat for Humanity, or the public.

The San Diego Habitat for Humanity 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 San Diego Habitat for Humanity pages, or register with San Diego Habitat for Humanity web site or services, a cookie helps San Diego Habitat for Humanity 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 San Diego Habitat for Humanity web page, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the San Diego Habitat for Humanity 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 San Diego Habitat for Humanity services or web sites you visit.

San Diego Habitat for Humanity secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. San Diego Habitat for Humanity 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.

San Diego Habitat for Humanity will occasionally update this statement of privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. San Diego Habitat for Humanity encourages you to periodically review this statement to be informed of how San Diego Habitat for Humanity is protecting your information.

No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your submission, as provided herein. San Diego Habitat for Humanity is under no obligation to post or use any submission you may provide and may remove any submission at any time in San Diego Habitat for Humanity’s sole discretion.

By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the submissions.