Privacy Policy

GREY2K USA Education Fund Privacy Policy

The GREY2K USA Education Fund is committed to your right to privacy and to keeping your personal information private. You can visit the GREY2K USA Education Fund website without telling us who you are or revealing any identifying information about yourself. However, because our website includes areas in which visitors can provide personally identifying information, we have developed this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies and practices regarding information we collect about you.

This Privacy Policy governs the URL http://www.grey2kusaedu.org and certain electronic communications sent out by the GREY2K USA Education Fund. This website is owned and operated by the GREY2K USA Education Fund for the benefit of its members and other visitors interested in the protection of greyhounds. Our headquarters is located at 7 Central Street, Suite 210, Arlington, MA 02476. The GREY2K USA Education Fund reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be preceded by a notice posted to this Privacy Policy at least ten (10) days prior to the effective date of such change.

How we collect information about you

Information you voluntarily provide

The GREY2K USA Education Fund collects and maintains certain personal information about you when you send us an e-mail or complete any of our online forms, such as when you request information from us, make a donation, subscribe to one of our online newsletters, make a purchase in our online shop or bid in an auction. Such information may include your name, mailing address, and e-mail address; it may also include a mobile phone number, and any other information collected in the forms. You may be asked to provide credit card information to contribute to the GREY2K USA Education Fund or purchase certain materials from the GREY2K USA Education Fund.

Other information

The GREY2K USA Education Fund also collects certain other information that cannot identify you personally when you visit our website. This information includes your IP address and your domain name. The GREY2K USA Education Fund logs these IP addresses and domain names, and aggregates them for system administration and to monitor the use of our site. We use the aggregated information to measure the number of visits to our site, the average time spent on our site, the number of pages viewed, and various other site statistics. This monitoring helps us to provide a more useful and engaging online experience to grey2kusaedu.org visitors, and helps us to improve the quality of our content.

You can always set your browser to warn of cookies being placed, and then chose which cookies you want to accept. The GREY2K USA Education Fund does not match any information gathered by cookies with personal information you may have voluntarily submitted to the GREY2K USA Education Fund.

The GREY2K USA Education Fund uses remarketing with Google Adwords and analytics to display content specific advertisements to visitors that have previously visited our site when those visitors go to other websites that have the Google Display Network implemented. The GREY2K USA Education Fund also uses Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting.

The GREY2K USA Education Fund and other third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party and third-party cookies together to inform and serve ads based on a visitor’s past visits to our website.

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

You can learn more about opting out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings at any time. Cookies can be switched off by adjusting your browser settings to stop accepting cookies. You can learn how to adjust your cookie browser settings here, however doing so will likely limit the functionality of our website as well as other sites. You can also opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

Ways Information About You Is Used

We may use the information you voluntarily provided to contact you regarding greyhound-related issues we feel you may be interested in, to keep you updated regarding the GREY2K USA Education Fund programs and campaigns, and to extend an invitation to you to support these programs and campaigns. Every recipient of our electronic communications can quickly and easily “opt out” of future such communications by following the instructions on any electronic communication we send.

Other

From time to time, the GREY2K USA Education Fund may link to other websites not affiliated with the GREY2K USA Education Fund. the GREY2K USA Education Fund attempts to link only to those websites which also respect a visitor’s privacy and the goals of the GREY2K USA Education Fund. However, the GREY2K USA Education Fund cannot be responsible for the content or policies of third-party websites. Please check with these third-party organizations or companies for their specific privacy policies. If you find inoperable links or are concerned about any of the sites that the GREY2K USA Education Fund currently links to, please inform the GREY2K USA Education Fund by contacting us at info@grey2kusaedu.org.

Security

The GREY2K USA Education Fund uses generally accepted, industry-standard security systems, software, and encryption technologies–Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)–for the secure transfer of personal and financial data and to protect against unauthorized access to the GREY2K USA Education Fund’s servers, equipment, and other components of our online presence. This includes using industry-standard security systems to protect credit card processing information. Our web servers are stored off-site at physically secure facilities with limited access.

Contacting the GREY2K USA Education Fund

If you would like to contact the GREY2K USA Education Fund about correcting information we might have collected, or if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at info@grey2kusaedu.org or write to us at GREY2K USA Education Fund, 7 Central Street, Suite 210, Arlington, MA 02476.