This notice explains the online information practices of the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation, Inc. (“OCF”) and the choices you have about the collection and use of your personal information. To make this notice easy to find, this notice is available on our homepage. Additionally, each page that requests personally identifiable information provides a link to our Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy applies only to the online collection of information on our Web site. Different policies and practices may exist with regard to the offline collection of information by OCF. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy and will post any such changes to our Web site. We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy each time you visit our Web site. By accessing or using our Web site, you accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy and you agree to be bound by all of the terms and conditions of our Privacy Policy as posted at the time of your access or use.
Our Web site contains links to other Web sites. We do not disclose personally identifiable information to those linked Web sites. Sites which are linked to or from our Web site may have different privacy policies. We are not responsible for the privacy policies, or lack thereof, of Web sites accessed through links from our Web site.
Collection of Information
We collect two types of information – non-personally identifiable information and personally identifiable information that you provide to us voluntarily and knowingly.
Non-personally Identifiable Information: We collect anonymous browser information from visitors to our Web site, such as the domain from which you access the internet (your IP address), the time and/or length of your visit to our Web site, and the pages you visit while at our Website. This information is not personally identifiable and is not linked to any individual person. The information is used to improve the value of the materials available on our Web site and to provide you with content and offers that we think may be of interest to you. When you visit our Web site, we use cookies to speed up your access to our Web site. A cookie is a small file sent to your Web browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies do not contain any personally identifiable information. Most Web browsers accept cookies. Please refer to your browser’s instructions or “Help” screen to learn more about how you may block cookies, receive a warning before a cookie is stored, or erase cookies from your computer’s hard drive.
Personally Identifiable Information: We do not collect personally identifiable information without your knowledge. We will prompt you for your personally identifiable information when that information is necessary. If you personalize a Web site, request information, make a donation, order products, register to participate in an event, submit a question through “contact us,” participate in a chat room, or register as a volunteer, we may collect the following information: first and last name, street address, city, state, zip code, telephone number, e-mail address, subject of inquiry, standard credit card information (card number, card type, expiration date) and record of the financial transaction (credit card numbers are held only until the charge can be processed then the number is only available to Customer Service for purposes of problem resolution).
Use of Information
We collect the email addresses of those who communicate with us by email. Your email address will be entered into our database and we may contact you to provide you with information including OCD related health news, OCF programs, memberships, events and services, as well as to request monetary contributions to OCF and/or voluntary time contributions to OCF.
We may use the information you provide to us to fulfill your requests for information, memberships, newsletters, products, programs, services, etc. The information that you share about yourself will not be shared with any unauthorized third party. You can be assured that we will not rent, sell, loan, trade or lease personally identifiable information collected at our Web site. When you e-mail us, or send a technical question to our Webmaster, your personally identifiable information is not shared with anyone outside of our immediate organization.
Security
Our Web site has been made as secure as possible for sharing personally identifiable information. Our employees and contractors who have access to your personally identifiable information will use that information solely to carry out the services they are performing for us and are required to protect your personally identifiable information in a manner that is consistent with our Privacy Policy.
We take great care in maintaining the security of your personally identifiable information and preventing unauthorized access to it through the use of appropriate technology and internal procedures. However, due to daily advances in internet technology, such precautions do not guarantee that our Web site is invulnerable to all security breaks. The OCF makes no warranty, guarantee or representation that the use of our Web site is protected from viruses, security threats or other vulnerabilities and that unauthorized access will never occur.
Your Options
Upon request we will provide you with the personally identifiable information we maintain about you. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before providing you with the information. The information will be sent to you via U.S. postal mail, which we believe is the most secure method of communication.
We respect your privacy and allow you to limit or restrict your personally identifiable information. We offer you the following options when we ask you for your personally identifiable information:
- Do not contact me by telephone.
- Do not contact me by postal mail.
- Do not contact me by email.
- Do not contact me with fundraising requests.
- Limit your fundraising appeals to annual solicitations only.
- Do not contact me.
If you do not wish to opt-out at that time, you may do so at a later date should you so desire. If you would like to opt-out of receiving contact or information from us at a later date, or if you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or the practices of our Web site, you may send us an e-mail at info@ocfoundation.org or contact us at (203) 401-2070 or send us a letter at:
Security and Privacy Requests
Obsessive Compulsive Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 9573
New Haven, CT 06535-0573
When you contact us with an opt-out request, all reasonable efforts will be taken to ensure that you will not receive any of the selected communications from us in the future.
Policy Updates
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time.