Privacy Policy of the Phila. Region of NA
Your Privacy
Greater Philadelphia Regional Service of Narcotics Anonymous (GPRSONA) owns and operates a number of different sites on the Web. GPRSONA is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of its user community. The intent of this privacy policy is to detail the information GPRSONA may gather about individuals who visit our sites, how that information is used, and GPRSONA disclosure practices. Please note that this policy applies only to the GPRSONA Sites, and not to the Web sites of other companies or organizations to which we provide links to from our site.
Anonymous User Information
GPRSONA collects some anonymous information each time you visit a GPRSONA Site so we can improve the overall quality of your online experience. We collect your IP address, referral data, and browser and platform type. You do not have to register with GPRSONA before we can collect this anonymous information.
The GPRSONA Sites do not require you to share information that identifies you personally, such as your name or e-mail address, in order for you to use the GPRSONA Sites. The GPRSONA Sites may assign an anonymous ID number to your requests and links the following additional data to that number: the date and time you visited the GPRSONA Site, your search terms, and the links upon which you choose to click. Like most standard Web site servers, we use log files to collect and store this anonymous user information. GPRSONA analyzes the information to examine trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
Individual User Information
From time-to-time the GPRSONA Sites request information from you that may identify you personally in addition to the anonymous information described above. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name, e-mail address, shipping address, and zip code), and demographic information (such as age, gender, membership, and clean time). GPRSONA will not use or disclose your individual user information except as described in this privacy policy. GPRSONA collects individual user information in the following ways from different GPRSONA Sites:
Surveys or Contests
From time to time, GPRSONA may conduct surveys or contests on an GPRSONA Site. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose individual user information to the GPRSONA Site. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of the GPRSONA Site. We may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys or contests. These companies may use your personal information to help the GPRSONA Site communicate with you about offers from the GPRSONA Site. Such third parties do not have GPRSONA permission to use your personally identifiable information for any secondary purpose.
User Groups/Names
When you register for a user group/name on any of the GPRSONA Sites, you are asked for your individual user information. The individual user information may be collected and stored by a third party partner. The partner will not have GPRSONA's permission to use your individual user information for secondary purposes. If you choose to participate in a user group/name, your individual user information will be used to qualify you. GPRSONA may share your individual user information with a third party with whom GPRSONA has entered into an agreement to support such user group/name projects. You may opt out at any time by following the opt out provisions of this privacy policy.
Correspondence
If you contact GPRSONA Sites, we may keep a record of that correspondence and we may collect your e-mail address.
Third Party Information Gathering
The GPRSONA Sites may include content and ads from third parties that may perform user activity tracking other than that described herein. For more information about each third party content provider, cookies, and how to "opt-out", please refer to such third party advertiser's privacy policy.
The GPRSONA Sites contain links to other sites on the Web. Please be aware that GPRSONA is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
Cookies
GPRSONA may set and access GPRSONA or partner cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small data file that a Web site may send to your browser and which may then be stored on your system. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. For the session cookie, once you close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions.
We use cookie and other technologies to track which pages on the GPRSONA Sites our visitors view and which Web browsers our visitors use. We may also use cookies to help us provide personalized features and preferences to you within various GPRSONA Sites in a way that may be linked to individual user information that you elect to share with us.
Sharing
Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law.
GPRSONA Sites may use third party service providers to serve ads and e-mails on our behalf. These companies may use technologies to measure the effectiveness of ads and e-mails and use information about your visits to the GPRSONA Site so that we can provide a better search experience to you. For this purpose, we may also provide these third party service providers anonymous information about your site navigation.
Choice/Opt-out
We desire to keep you in control of the personal information you provide to us. Accordingly, you can review, correct, change or remove the personal registration information you provide to GPRSONA and that GPRSONA controls. In order to elect not to receive future communcations from us, please e-mail us at webmaster@NAWORKS.org
Policy Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement in places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Special Notification with respect to Children's Privacy (Users under the age of 13)
In response to concerns about protecting children's privacy online, Congress enacted the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ("COPPA"), which sets forth rules and procedures governing the ways in which Web sites may collect, use and disclose any personal information for children under the age of 13. In accordance with GPRSONA policy and COPPA regulations, we DO NOT:
Request or knowingly collect personally identifiable information online or offline contact information from users under 13 years of age; or
Knowingly use or share personal information from users under 13 years of age with third parties;
It is possible that by fraud or deception we may receive information given to us or pertaining to children under 13. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will immediately delete the information from our servers.
