AWEC
Privacy Policy
At
AWEC, we are taking action for change in the lives
of Women and youth. As a contributor to AWEC,
you don't have to worry about the security and
confidentiality of your personal information.
Just like you, we want all of your personal information
kept that way—personal and private. To demonstrate
our commitment to fair information practices,
we have adopted leading industry privacy guidelines.
This notice describes our privacy statement and
practices followed by AWEC.
Federal
legislation requires us to provide AWEC contributors
who register for AWEC® services with a description
of our information collection and sharing practices.
This
document, effective October 28, 2005, specifically
describes how we handle your personally identifiable
information and applies to financial products
and services for you or your organization provided
by AWEC.
Information
Collection and Use
AWEC
is the owner of the information collected on this
site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information
except as disclosed in this statement. Whenever
we ask for additional or optional information,
we identify those fields appropriately so that
you know what information is required to provide
the requested service. To maximize the value of
our services, we may request or collect information
from you when you visit our Web sites. This privacy
statement tells you what is being collected, how
it is collected, by whom it is being collected,
why it is being collected and to whom it may be
disclosed.
AWEC®
service registration. In order to provide you
with the best support possible, we request AWEC
contributors to register with AWEC. When you register,
you'll be asked to provide your name, address,
phone number and e-mail address. We will also
ask you for personal survey information about
why you are contributing to AWEC. The information
gathered from it will help us provide you with
better services in the future. Occasionally, we
may also use your e-mail address to offer you
the opportunity to provide input to us via other
surveys that will help us improve our services.
AWEC
Service. When you enroll for service, you will
be asked to select a username and password, and
to provide us with your full name, address, zip
code, phone number and e-mail address. We use
your username and password to verify your identity,
which is required to give you access to your AWEC
service. For access to financial, investment,
and credit card statement download services, we
ask you to provide additional information such
as an account number and a personal identification
number (PIN). We will also need to identify you
if you forget your password, by asking for your
mother's maiden name or other unique identifier.
We use this information to verify your accounts
with your financial institutions and to provide
you with access to the services you are requesting.
We also ask for your credit card number to process
your initial and all your subsequent payments.
The contact information is required to establish
your service with the financial institutions,
brokerage houses and credit card companies of
your choice. Your e-mail address will be used
as our primary source of contact with you regarding
your service We do not share your personal information
with third parties except as required by law and
as required to fulfill your request for service.
The information shared may include your customer
and subscription information to specific partners
or affiliates through which you may have subscribed.
Technical and product support. In order to provide
you with technical and product support, we ask
for your name and e-mail address. We may use your
contact information in order to contact you regarding
service updates or specific support questions.
We may also contact you for additional opportunities
to provide feedback on our programs and services
unless you request not to receive such communications.
Contests
and surveys. From time to time, we may
offer you the option to participate in contests
or surveys. If you would like to participate,
we may ask you for contact information, preferences
or other information. This information may be
used to conduct research, improve our offerings
or award prizes. Our contests may have separate
rules and we will identify how the information
that you supply will be used in each case.
Information
about your computer or browser. AWEC
collects such information so that we may analyze
trends, administer the site and gather broad demographic
information in order to provide our users with
the best possible Web experience, appropriate
products or services and to format e-mail messages
that best align with your computer's capabilities.
This information is collected in a generic aggregate
format and is not linked to personally identifiable
information.
Links
to other sites. AWEC Web sites may contain
links to other sites. Please be aware that AWEC
is not responsible for the privacy practices of
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. AWEC is not responsible for
the actions of any third parties.
Web
site cookie usage. In order to better
serve you and protect your account information,
we use "cookies," nuggets of data that
are stored on your hard drive as a file. We use
cookies to verify who you are while using our
Web sites. Cookies make it easier, quicker, and
more secure for you to log into and use our Web
sites.
Cookies do not compromise privacy or personally
identify users. Their data is usually stored on
your computer's hard drive as a file or folder
called "cookies," and you can delete
this file anytime you choose. The cookies used
on our Web sites are only valid for the current
session and shortly become invalid. Cookies created
by one site will only work with that specific
site. Site A, for example, cannot read cookies
generated by Site B and then use that information
for purposes for which it was not intended.
Referrals. If users elect to
use our referral service for informing others
about our site or programs, we ask them for a
name, phone and e-mail address for themselves
and for the person/people being referred. AWEC
will automatically send the referred party/parties
a one-time e-mail or call them one time inviting
them to visit the site or make a donation or request
a program. AWEC stores this information for the
sole purpose of sending this one-time e-mail or
making this one-time phone call. The referred
party may contact AWEC2005 to request the removal
of this information from the referral database.
Former
customers. We treat information concerning
our former customers the same way we treat information
about our current customers.
Children.
Because of the nature of our business, our Web
sites are not designed to appeal to children under
the age of 18. Therefore, we don't knowingly attempt
to solicit or receive any information from children.
Access to Your Information
AWEC
does not share your personally identifiable information
with third parties except as explained in this
privacy statement. The information you provide
us will only be shared under limited circumstances.
These include:
With
service providers. In some cases, we
will employ or work with service providers such
as marketing or security consultants, temporary
workers, third-party software developers or outsourcers
to complete a business process or provide a service
on our behalf. For example, we may use service
providers to send e-mails on our behalf. While
this may require that we share some information,
we will only share information that the service
provider must have to perform the requested services.
For example, a service provider who delivers products
on our behalf would need to have a delivery address.
However, these service providers are strictly
prohibited from using your information for any
purpose other than to act on our behalf.
For
legal reasons. In some cases we may be
required to disclose certain information to comply
with the law, an investigation or a legal process,
such as a court order or subpoena.
Choice/Opt Out
We
give you the opportunity to keep us from using
or sharing the personally identifiable information
that you provide to us for purposes other than
those explained in this statement. We will provide
you the opportunity to opt-out of secondary uses
of personally identifiable information you provide
us, whenever we gather it. Simply notify us during
the information collection process or contact
us awec2005@aol.com.
We
may send site and service announcement updates.
You are not able to unsubscribe from service announcements,
which contain important information about service.
We communicate with you to provide requested services
and in regards to issues relating to your account
by phone or e-mail.
Security
Safeguards
We
employ industry-standard physical, electronic
and procedural security safeguards to help protect
the personally identifiable information that you
have provided to us from loss, misuse or unauthorized
alteration. Whenever we prompt you to transmit
sensitive information, such as a credit card number,
we support encryption of your data as it is transmitted.
AWEC
uses the latest technology to protect your account
information from exposure to unauthorized persons.
Below are some of the components of this security
system:
A
username and password are required to access the
AWEC online service.
After entering a username or password incorrectly
three times, access to an account is blocked.
128-bit encryption scrambles your sensitive transmissions
made via the Internet.
You
are responsible for protecting the secrecy of
your PIN in accordance with the terms contained
in the AWEC Online Service Agreement. We recommend
you not store secure pages in your cache or leave
your computer unattended while you are logged
in to AWEC online service or while on the AWEC
Web site.
Although
no security measures are foolproof, we work diligently
to protect personally identifiable information
stored on the sites' servers from unauthorized
access using industry-standard available computer
security products, such as firewalls, as well
as carefully developed security procedures and
practices.
Correcting/Updating
Personal Information
At
our Web site, we provide you the opportunity to
update or correct your account, financial and
credit card download information. You may review
and update your contact information by phoning
AWEC Customer Support at 249-364-4042.
Changes
to Our Privacy Statement
Before
we make significant changes to our privacy statement
or practices with respect to how we use personally
identifiable information, we'll post those changes
to this privacy statement at least 30 days before
they take effect.
How to Contact AWEC
Questions
regarding the AWEC Web sites' privacy statement,
our information practices or other aspects of
privacy on our Web sites should be directed to
awec2005@aol.com.
