PRIVACY STATEMENT

This site is operated by the Whidbey Animals' Improvement Foundation ("WAIF"). By visiting www.waifanimals.org, you are accepting the practices described herein. WAIF reserves the right to change this statement at any time by posting such change at this URL.

Information Collected

WAIF collects non-personally identifiable information about you through your IP address, computer settings or most-recently visited URL. We do not collect any personally identifiable information about you unless you voluntarily submit such information to us, by, for example, filling out a donation or sponsorship form. The types of information that may be requested include your name, address, email address, and telephone number to respond to a specific request for further information. This information is used solely by WAIF for internal purposes. WAIF collects credit card information via a secure webpage connection and stores the results on a secure server until retrieved by an authorized WAIF staff member using a secure connection.

Use of Information

WAIF respects your privacy and has instituted practices intended to ensure that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner. We may use this information to deliver to you information about our organization. Your information may also be used to contact you when necessary. Non-personal demographic and profile data is used to tailor your experience at our site, showing you content we think you might be interested in.

We will only disclose personally identifiable information to third parties when (i) the person submitting the information authorizes us to do so; (ii) sharing the information is a necessary operation of the site (i.e. to process credit card information); and (iii) we are 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 WAIF or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of WAIF, the site or the visitors to the site, and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of visitors to the site or the public.

By visiting this Web site you agree that no information you submit to the site shall contain libelous or otherwise unlawful, abusive or obscene material. You are solely responsible for the content of any information you provide to WAIF.

Security

Our site has industry standard high encryption security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. WAIF makes every effort to protect your online order information by using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. SSL encrypts your order information to avoid the decoding of that information by anyone other than WAIF.

Children

Programs intended for those under 18 do not involve submitting any information over the website. We will not knowingly accept any personal data from children on this site.

Other Web sites; Links

This Privacy Statement only applies to www.waifanimals.org. This site contains links to other Web sites that are not under WAIF's control. WAIF is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. WAIF is not responsible for the privacy policies of any Web site linked to from this site.

Disclaimer

This site and all of the materials on or referenced by the site are provided on an "as is" basis. In no event shall WAIF be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages of any kind whatsoever with respect to the use of this site. You agree that you are using this site solely at your own risk.