Introduction
Thank you for visiting the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) website and reading this Privacy Policy. This Policy explains what we do with data collected as a result of your visit to this website. It also describes several state and federal laws that apply to personally identifiable information that you might provide in the course of navigating this site.
No Legal Advice Intended
The information on this website is provided as a service to visitors. The contents of this website, and the posting and viewing of the information on this website, should not be construed as, and is not intended to be, legal advice on any matter. While NCSF uses reasonable efforts to include accurate, up-to-date information on this website, NCSF makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy and assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of this web site or any third-party web sites accessed through links from this web site.
Data Collection and Use
- Information collected if you only browse this site
When you browse this website, we may gather and store certain information about your visit. We automatically collect and store the following information about your visit:- The Internet domain and network address you use to access our site;
- The type of web browser and operating system you are using;;
- The date and time of your visit;
- The pages you visit on this website;;
- The last website you visited before coming to ours; and;
- Other web traffic statistics such as Google Analytics or Piwik Analytics.;
- To learn how the information collected is used by Google, please go to https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/(link is external) for more information.
The information we automatically collect is saved and used by this agency to improve the content of our web services and to help us understand how people are using our services.
- Information collected if you volunteer information
If during your visit to our website you participate in a survey, send us an email, or perform some other transaction online, the following additional information may be collected:- Your email address and contents of the email.
- Information volunteered in response to a survey.
- Information volunteered through an online form for any other purpose.
The information collected is not limited to text characters and may include audio, video, and graphic information formats you send us. We will not usually ask for or collect this kind of information from the general public through this website.
Email you send to us may be used to respond to issues and to further improve our services. We may forward your email to another agency or a vendor for appropriate action.
The NCSF records retention schedule outlined here require us to keep this information only so long as it is useful, and then destroy it; this schedules change from time to time.
Personal Information
Personally identifiable information (“PII”) as defined in this Privacy Policy, means information about a natural person that is readily identifiable to that specific individual. Personal information includes such things as your name, address, and phone number.
We will not collect PII about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us by sending us email or completing an online form or survey. You may choose not to contact us by e-mail or to provide any PII using an online form or survey. Your choice to not participate in these activities will not restrict or impair your ability to use our site and read or download any information provided on the site. If you choose to provide PII by emailing us, participating in a survey, or completing an online form, we may store this information.
If you have questions about how we use your personally identifiable information, you can contact our agency as shown in the Contact section of this statement.
User Tracking and Customization of Pages
To better serve our users, we use a variety of indicators to customize your browsing experience with this website, including “cookies.” If you use your browser settings to opt to block all cookies in the settings to your web browser (such as Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome or Firefox), (including essential cookies) this could affect the availability and functionality of this website. We only have control over indicators we provide and not over third party tools or other technologies deployed on this website that may be created by using embedded third party applications.
Security
NCSF has taken steps to safeguard the integrity of its data and prevent unauthorized access to information maintained by us. These measures are designed and intended to prevent corruption of data, block unknown or unauthorized access to our systems and information, and to provide reasonable protection of information in our possession.
Copyright
This site contains text, artwork, photos or other content that is copyrighted by others and is being used with permission of the copyright holder, or under Fair-Use doctrine as defined by Activism or Education. Therefore, we recommend that you contact the source of documents or links for permission to use any content not created by NCSF.
Disclaimer
Neither NCSF nor any agent, volunteer, staff, or member warrants the accuracy, reliability or timeliness of any information published by this website, nor endorses any content, viewpoints, products, or services linked from this website, and shall not be held liable for any losses caused by reliance on the accuracy, reliability or timeliness of such information. Portions of such information may be incorrect or not current. Any person or entity who relies on any information obtained from this website does so at their own risk.
Our web site contains links to other web sites. These include links to web sites operated by other government agencies, nonprofit organizations and private businesses, including but not limited to the websites of our members. When you follow a link to another site, you are no longer on our web site and this Privacy Policy will not apply– you will be subject to the privacy policy of that new site. In some cases we will use this symbol (link is external) to let you know that you are leaving our website and this policy will no longer apply.
Reference in this Web site to any specific commercial products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade, firm, or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the NCSF, or any agent, volunteer, staff, or member.
We reserve the right to revise and update this Privacy Policy at any time without notice by posting the revision on our site.
Glossary
A network address is assigned to your computer or mobile device whenever you are using the Internet. Network addresses can be an IP address like this: 192.168.0.11 or like this: fc00:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:/7 or an Ethernet address like this 00:00:00:FF:EE:11
Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in your device memory when you visit a website. Cookies and similar technologies are widely used by websites to make them work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the website operator about how users are using their website. Most browsers allow you to block cookies by adjusting the “settings,” “preferences” or “internet options.” To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, please refer to your browser ‘help’ section, visit the Federal Trade Commission’s explanation(link is external) on its website.
Contact Information
Mailing Address:
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
822 Guilford Avenue, Box 127 Baltimore MD USA 21202-3707
[email protected]
(602) 851-1590