Humane Society of North Texas

Official Policy

Confidentiality is a hallmark of professionalism.

Humane Society of North Texas uses reasonable commercial efforts to avoid disclosure of information that is confidential, privileged, or nonpublic other than in accordance with this privacy policy.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

Humane Society of North Texas gathers personally identifiable data when voluntarily submitted by a user, which may include: name, addresses, zip codes, e-mail addresses, donor choice information, user groups, etc. For example, personally identifiable information may be collected to record a stated desire to donate online to the Humane Society of North Texas via a direct gift or through a company-sponsored campaign. This information is used solely by Humane Society of North Texas or other parties to the transaction for the purpose of executing the transaction, to improve your experience with us, and for the internal business purposes of Humane Society of North Texas.

We are the sole owners of the information collected. We will not sell or rent this information to any third parties.

We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, except for agencies, affiliates, contractors, advisors, service providers, or in our reasonable discretion, to investigate or prevent fraud, illegal activity, or misuse of our website.

Periodically, the Humane Society of North Texas will send electronic communications, such as newsletters, to our constituents, including donors, volunteers, and other business contacts. Typically these communications include information regarding community investment reporting, funded program information and results, news and events, as well as other pertinent information we feel should be reported to our constituents. Recipients retain the option to opt out of these communications at any point in time.

If you sign up to receive news and information from us via our website, you are electing to receive e-mail communication from us. During registration a user is required to give certain information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you about our programs and other areas on our site in which you have expressed interest. At your option, you may also provide additional preference information, but it is not required.

We may collect your IP (Internet Protocol) address to administer our website. When a web browser or email application requests a web page or email from another computer on the Internet, it automatically gives that computer the address where it should send the information. This is called the computer's "IP address". This "address" does not contain any personally identifiable information.

Cookies used on the website are called "session" cookies and are used to identify a particular visit to the website. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser. Due to the communication standards on the Internet, when you visit the Humane Society of North Texas website, it automatically receives the URL of the website from which you came and the website to which you are going when you leave. We also accept the IP address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system, and the type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your internet service provider (ISP). We may use this information to analyze overall trends to help us improve our services, but we do not generally link this information to personally identifiable information in any way.

The information that the Humane Society of North Texas automatically gathers, such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to our site and its areas, is used only in aggregate, much like television ratings that tell networks how many people tuned in to a program. This collective data helps us determine how much our visitors use specific parts of the site, allowing us to continuously improve our site. We may also provide aggregated statistical "ratings" information, never personally identifiable information, to our partners about how our visitors collectively use our website.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You are allowed to "opt-out" of having your personally identifiable data used for communication purposes. To access your data, you can do the following at any time:

Update or correct any information we have about you.
"Opt-out" of having your personally identifiable data used for communication purposes.
Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

If at any time you would like to update, correct, or delete your information, you can contact us directly to change your information. You may also select to opt out of receiving any future communications from us on any of our e-mail communications, registration or pledge forms, or by contacting us directly using the contact information provided at the bottom of this page.

Links

This website contains links to other websites. These websites that you may link to from our site, including our partners' websites, have their own privacy policies. Humane Society of North Texas is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites or affiliates. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of websites or affiliate agencies before providing them with any of your personally identifiable data.

Security

We have implemented commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures designed to safeguard and secure the information we collect online against reasonable and foreseeable risks. However, due to the open communication nature of the Internet we cannot guarantee that communication between you and us and us and you will be free from unauthorized access by third parties. HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH TEXAS MAKES NO WARRANTIES AS TO THE SECURITY OF YOUR DATA COMMUNICATIONS, OR THAT THIRD PARTIES WILL NOT GAIN UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR MONITOR YOUR COMPUTER(S) OR ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS. YOU AGREE THAT HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH TEXAS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY SUCH ACCESS.

We encrypt customer data in transit and at rest, provided that the customer uses their default domain or a custom domain with an SSL certificate.

Acceptance of Privacy Policy

By using this website (hsnt.galaxydigital.com), you indicate your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you have any concerns about our privacy policy, please get in touch with us at 817.332.4768. Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted to this URL. Please return and check it regularly to ensure you are always aware. To the extent permitted by applicable law, your use of our web site and our use of your personally identifiable information shall be governed by the most current privacy policy.

If you have any other questions or concerns regarding these privacy policies, please contact us at info@hsnt.org.

By agreeing to these Terms and Conditions, you acknowledge that when responding to an opportunity that is sponsored by the organization or one of its community partners, your registration information will be shared with and its community partners for the purposes of facilitating and coordinate the volunteer placement and for the purpose of reporting volunteer impact data back to the community.