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statement discloses the privacy practices of http://www.griefsupportservices.org/
and its affiliate, www.TeenSupportPlace.org. |
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As
we provide numerous grief support services online,
we collect information from users - things like your
name, address, e-mail address and areas of interest.
We are sensitive to your privacy and take pains to
protect personal information while giving you the
opportunity to obtain useful resources to support
you through grief.
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Grief Support Services policy is not to share information
that could be used to identify you with any third
party, either by selling, reselling, trading, leasing
or renting it. Users who request our e-mail products
will receive regular communications as explained when
they sign up. We will not share e-mail addresses with
other organizations.Unless otherwise required by statute,
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sends questions or comments to our web site. We will not obtain
information that will allow us to personally identify you
when you visit our site, unless you chose to provide such
information to us. We discourage the use of support groups
and chat rooms by researchers, and we will never disclose
the identity of anyone participating in one of our services
in which screen or phone names are used. We encourage you
to avoid providing information in these forums that is so
specific it could be used to identify you against your wishes.
When you enroll in a service, you will receive a limited number
of e-mails informing you of how to receive that service or
participate in related activities on our websites.
If you donate to National Grief Support Services online, your
name will be entered onto our database and you may receive
occasional fund-raising appeals. Your e-mail address will
not be shared with other organizations or businesses. National
Grief Support Services will not sell, trade, lease or rent
the names of its donors. Nor do we buy the names of donors
of other organizations. If you do not want to receive mailings,
you can request by e-mail or in writing that we remove your
name from our donor base.
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| Links |
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sites contain links to other websites, but we do not
provide the operators of these sites with any of your
personally identifiable information. Our privacy policy
is not applicable to any other website you link to
through our sites, however. You should consult the
privacy policy on any other website before providing
personal information to that site. |
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Circumstances Concerning Information |
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National
Grief Support Services monitors chat areas and message
boards for offensive content and reserves the right
to delete such content. This may include offensive
entries or those that harass, degrade or violate the
privacy of any user or group.
National
Grief Support Services is responsive to subpoenas,
court orders and the legal process and reserves the
right to protect the organization's legal rights and
defend it against legal claims. We can not tolerate
anyone coming to harm through the activities or postings
that someone else engages in our websites, so these
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circumstances may prompt the sharing of information to prevent
or bring such activities to a halt. We may share only that
information necessary to investigate or take action to protect
the website and its visitors, and to ensure they receive the
treatment and dignity we promise and they deserve. |
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| Website
Usage Information |
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make our sites more useful to visitors, our web servers
automatically collect information about how you reach
our sites: your internet service provider, where you
linked from and how and when you arrived. Usage information
also includes how you navigate our sites, how often
pages receive visitors and how long the visitors stay.
Website usage information does not contain information
that would identify any visitor.
National Grief Support Services uses the sum of its
website usage information to help improve the content
and navigation of its sites, and we may provide such
non-personally identifiable information to others. |
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| Cookies |
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The
technology of anonymous "cookies" are used on our
site. If you are not familiar with cookies, they don't
have any personal information, such as your name,
address, or e-mail address. They do not reveal your
personal identity in any way. They do, however, contain
information which is useful to National Grief Support
Services to help enhance the site to meet the needs
of our visitors. In compliance with the Federal Trade
Commission's Children's Privacy Protection guidelines,
our website's cookie technology does not collect identifying
information from children. Our cookies are only used |
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internally
and are "generic" in nature, e.g., they contain no identifying
information. Additionally, we do not buy, sell, or trade any
membership lists or any visitor information with outside sources.
To clarify, anonymous cookies contain information such as
the Internet service provider (ISP)-the connection by which
you access our site; the computer operating system you use,
such as Windows or Macintosh; what web browser you use; if
you were referred from another site; and our site's most visited
areas. This, however, is "generically" collected without your
personal information, enabling us to improve GriefSupportServices.org
website and to make it more useful to our visitors. |
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