Privacy

WORLD ELEPHANT DAY / WORLD ELEPHANT SOCIETY – PRIVACY POLICY

World Elephant Society is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that manages and coordinates World Elephant Day and operates www.worldelephantday.org (“Site”). At World Elephant Society we are committed to protecting your personal information and privacy when visiting our website www.worldelephantday.org. Following is our Privacy Policy, which describes our information practices and policies in detail. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Personally identifiable information is any representation of information that permits your identity to be reasonably inferred by either direct or indirect means. World Elephant Day only collects and may store your information when you voluntarily provide it to us when you visit the Site, in email, or by clicking on our Social Media Links. Your information that may be required when signing the Pledge, making a donation, purchasing products, or completing and sending a submission form may include your full name, email address, home address and contact information, billing and credit card information.
Please note that when you make a donation or purchase some items offered on our Site, you must provide your Information to a third-party service provider on its website. In these circumstances, you will know that you are on another website because the URL will change. You should read the privacy policy of the third-party site before providing your Information.
We may further collect anonymous information about users who visit our Site and aggregate this anonymous information for statistical analysis. Examples of the type of anonymous information we collect and how we collect it are:

  • User environment: information about your browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox), operating system (e.g., Windows, Apple OS), and similar information.
  • Cookies: small pieces of information stored on your computer’s hard drive that help you to navigate a website and to deliver content specific to your interests and prevent you from reentering all your account data at each connection. Like many websites, we use cookies to collect website usage data and to improve the Site. Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. You can instruct your browser, by editing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting cookies from the websites you visit.
  • IP Addresses: a number assigned to your computer.

HOW WE USE OR SHARE THAT INFORMATION
World Elephant Day does not sell, trade, rent or otherwise share for marketing purposes your Personal Information with third parties without your consent.
In general, the Personal Information you provide to us is used to help us communicate with you. For example, we use Personal Information to contact users in response to questions, and inform users about upcoming campaigns and events.
Anonymous information will only be used to measure site activity and to develop ideas for improving our site.
YOUR ABILITY TO CHOOSE
You may “opt out” of receiving information that World Elephant Day sends to you by unsubscribing to the mailing list, following instructions in the applicable information sent to you, or by contacting us at info@worldelephantday.org
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our Website contains links to other Websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another Website for which World Elephant Day has no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may be different than ours.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, would like to advise us how you would like your personal information not to be used or disclosed, or would like to access or update your personal information please contact us at info@worldelephantday.org.
We may update this statement from time to time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of this site following the posting of changes to this statement will mean you accept those changes.
Last updated: July 7, 2016