We respect your privacy rights. Any information gathered on this site will be kept strictly confidential. Operation Interdependence® will never sell, re-use, rent, loan or otherwise disclose any information on you to any third party. We will never use the information you provide in any ways to which you have not specifically consented. We will use the utmost care in protecting the sanctity and security of your information.

The guidelines at this site are applicable only to this domestic web site. Information submitted solely in a business capacity is not covered by these guidelines.

Our privacy policy applies only to our web site and not to sites that may be linked to ours. You should refer to those sites' own privacy policies to learn how they collect and use information about you.

Use of Information:

Operation Interdependence® DOES NOT SELL, RENT, LOAN, TRADE, LEASE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED ON OUR SITE, INCLUDING FORMS OR E-MAIL LISTS, TO ANY THIRD PARTY. WE WILL TREAT ANY INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE AS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND WILL NOT DISCLOSE IT TO ANY THIRD PARTY.

Information collected on our web site:

Information is collected as part of the sign up process and consists of the following information: Name, e-mail address, physical address, country, job function, and company-related information. If you become a Volunteer, Sponsor or Contributor, we may also require you to provide a valid credit card number, expiration date and billing address.

The credit card information we collect is maintained on your behalf on a secure server and is used solely for the purpose of charging for the donation you approved. In some cases, this will result in a one-time charge on your credit card bill. The charge will be identified as CyberCash.

Browser information collected on our web site:


As part of the operation of this site by Operation Interdependence®, maintains server logs regarding visits to our web site. Most companies and web sites maintain such server logs as a function of operating web sites. Operation Interdependence® analyze such logs in an effort to constantly improve the value of materials on the site. The logs do not contain personally identifiable information. Neither Operation Interdependence®. From time to time, Operation Interdependence®, may break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser). Again, we make no efforts to associate this information with individual users.

Cookies:

A cookie is a small data file that certain web sites write to your Web browser (your computer's hard drive) so it can later be read back from that browser. A cookie file can contain certain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you have visited on that site. If you are interested, more information on cookies can be found by visiting the Cookie Central web site at http://www.cookiecentral.com/.

Operation Interdependence® uses session cookies, which are removed by your browser when the browser closes and which contains only a unique ID, which is not associated with any Personally Identifiable Information. The cookie is placed on your system only after your log on and allows us to identify which services you are entitled to use during that session.

Privacy of Our E-mail Lists:

Operation Interdependence® maintains e-mail lists, but only of those individuals or organizations that have specifically opted to receive updates and other information from the Operation Interdependence®. These lists include Operation Interdependence®'s Volunteers, Sponsors, Contributors, and interested members of the general public who have specifically requested to be kept informed about breaking events.

Opt In:

Individuals must affirmatively request inclusion on our lists. Any personal information provided by such individual will be used only to send the user such information. By default, you are opted out of receiving information from use. If you opt in during the signup process, you will be added to our list.

If you change your mind, you may opt out by updating your member information and unchecking the appropriate check box.

We do not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease the addresses on our lists to anyone. In addition, we configure our list server software to refuse to divulge the e-mail addresses of our list subscribers to anyone but authorized Operation Interdependence® staff, including other list subscribers.

If you send us e-mail with a question or comment, we will use your e-mail address only to respond to you. We will store your e-mail, e-mail address, and a copy of our response for archival purposes only. We will archive such information only for the length of time necessary to fulfill these archival purposes. At the conclusion of such time, we will delete such archived information.

Correction and Update Policy:

Please send us e-mail at info@oidelivers.org to ask us for any information we may have collected about you during your visits to our site. You may also use that address to correct and/or update information that we may have on file.

Operation Interdependence® allows users to review and agree to the Privacy Policy before submitting any personally identifiable information. In addition, because at least one link to the Privacy Policy appears on each page of this site, it is readily accessible to users.

Children:

No part of this site is directed to children. We will never knowingly collect information from users under the age of 18 without parental consent.

Delete/Deactivation Policy:

If you wish to completely delete any personal information you submitted to Operation Interdependence® you may do so by contacting us at delete@oidelivers.org. We will notify you of our receipt of your request. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally delete all such information from our database within five working days from the date of the receipt of your request. Please note that it may be impossible to delete a user's entry without some residual information because of backups and records of deletions.

Length of Time Data Will Be Stored:

Unless you request that we delete any of the information you submitted to Operation Interdependence® when you registered for any electronic updates and/or newsletters we may offer, we will store such information for a period of two years. At the conclusion of that time, all such information will be automatically deleted.

Operation Interdependence® will use industry-standard measures to protect the security of all personal information.

What Else Should You Know?

Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. While we strive to protect your personal information, Operation Interdependence® cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do We respect your privacy rights. Any information gathered on this site will be kept strictly confidential. Operation Interdependence®, will never sell, re-use, rent, loan or otherwise disclose any information on you to any third party. We will never use the information you provide in any ways to which you have not specifically consented. We will use the utmost care in protecting the sanctity and security of your information.