Our Privacy Policy

Pack 518 is dedicated to the protection of the children and families we serve and all the users of this web site.

To that end, we have made every effort to support the ideals and procedures set forth in the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which became effective April 2, 2000.   To read more about protecting your child, click here.

This is how we handle information we learn about you from your visit to our website. The information we receive depends on what you do when you visit our site.

If you visit our site to browse, or to read or download information:

We collect and store:

the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet (for example: AOL.com or abccorp.com); the internet protocol (IP) address of your computer you are using; the browser software you use and your operating system; the date and time you access our site; and the internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site. We use this information to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful. Generally, we delete this information after one year.

We do not use "cookies" on this site.

If you choose to identify yourself by sending us an email or when using our online forms (i.e. For More Information, Feedback):

Information collected from this web site is only used once in order to return an answer to a question and/or to send out requested materials. After which, the information collected is discarded.

The only exception to this rule is when a user has requested to be added to our mailing list to receive further information concerning Pack 518 programming.

Please note that a completed parental consent form is required for users under thirteen (13) before we will add them to our mailing list. Parental consent forms are available online.

NOTE: Pack 518 considers its mailing list as confidential and does not share this information with any other company and/or organization.

If you submit an entry to any of our contests (i.e. photo contest):

Information collected will be used to notify the contestant should they win the said contest.

Here is what you should know about the security of information you provide to us:

We do not use secure socket layer (SSL) encryption to protect the transmission of information you submit to us when you use our online forms. All the information you provide us through these forms is stored securely offline.

If you send us an email, you should know that email is not necessarily secure against interception. So, if your communication includes sensitive information and you prefer not to use one of our forms, contact us by postal mail or telephone rather than email.

Who are the operators for Pack 518's web site?

As required in the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, effective April 21, 2000, Pack 518 must disclose all the operators of this web site and they are as follows:

Will Strother
webmaster@pack518.org

Who should I contact should I have further questions concerning Pack 518's privacy policies?

Please note that the webmaster is solely responsible for responding to all inquiries from parents about the site's privacy policies and can be contacted at the address and telephone number disclosed above.

What is pack 518's policy about sharing collected information with third party entities?

Pack 518 nor any of its operators ever discloses information collected from children or any of its visitors to third parties.

What you should know about links to external web sites from our web site.

This web site links to other web sites and documents located outside of our domain which are maintained by other various agencies and organizations. Once you access another web site and/or a document on another web site, you are subject to the privacy policy of that website.

What are Cookies?

A "cookie" is a small text file that a website can place on your computer's hard drive in order, for example, to collect information about your activities on the site or to make it possible for you to use an online "shopping cart" to keep track of items you wish to purchase. The cookie transmits this information back to the web site's computer which, generally speaking, is the only computer that can read it. Most consumers do not know that "cookies" are being placed on their computers when they visit web sites. If you want to know when this happens, or to prevent it from happening, you can set your browser to warn you when a web site attempts to place a "cookie" on your computer. 

 

 

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This site was last updated 09/10/08