Privacy is very important to us at Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana, and we are providing this Privacy Policy to explain our protection of personal information about you and your children. Your continuing use of this Web site signifies that you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, and that you acknowledge that Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana may change this policy at any time.

The phrase "Personally Identifiable Information" in this policy shall refer to information or a combination of information that you provide to us through the Internet that can be used to identify you or your children. Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana does not collect any Personally Identifiable Information from children under the age of 18; Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana may collect some Personally Identifiable Information about children ages 5 to 17 only from a parent or guardian, and then only in connection with an online Girl Scout Interest Form or Camp Reservation Form, which must be completed by an adult parent or guardian.

Additionally, Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana does not release any Personally Identifiable Information about any of its visitors to outside parties without permission (except as may be needed for the limited purpose of providing services, or except in exceptional circumstances where this may be required by law or to protect legal rights). Our Privacy Policy is described in more detail below:

I. Collection and Use of Information by Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana

A. Children Under 18 Years Old
Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana may collect Personally Identifiable Information about children under 18 years of age from a parent or guardian who completes an online Girl Scout Interest Form or Camp Reservation Form on behalf of the child, and submits it to Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana.

The Personally Identifiable Information collected on the Girl Scout Interest Form includes the age, grade, school and community of the child; it does not include the child's name. After submitting the Girl Scout Interest form, the child's parent or guardian will be contacted (in the manner specified by the parent or guardian) by Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana to help facilitate the child's enrollment in Girl Scouts.

The Personally Identifiable Information collected on the Camp Reservation Form includes the name, age, troop and/or community of the child. Parents or guardians who submit a Camp Reservation Form must also submit a credit card number. Parents or guardians who submit a Camp Reservation Form will be contacted by Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana (in the manner specified by the parent or guardian) to confirm the reservation.

Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana may use Personally Identifiable Information collected via the Girl Scout Interest Form or the Camp Reservation Form for its own internal purposes. Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana may provide aggregate information to other third parties (e.g., the total number of children visiting the site, or survey information with aggregate data only). Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana may also use "cookies" for limited purposes, such as tracking use of the site - see the "Cookies" section below.

Parents or guardians are under no obligation to provide Personally Identifiable Information about their child(ren); however, providing some Personally Identifiable Information about a child is necessary for Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana to facilitate placement of the child in an appropriate Girl Scout troop or camp.

B. Other Individuals
For individuals 18 years of age or older, and for children under 18 whose parents have provided Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana with Personally Identifiable Information about their child(ren) for purposes of joining Girl Scouts, or for purposes of making a camp reservation, Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana may collect certain Personally Identifiable Information about such users to better serve their needs (for example, requesting a combination of user's name and/or telephone number, address, and e-mail address in order to communicate with you or to send you information you may request).

Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana will not sell or release any Personally Identifiable Information about any of its visitors to any outside parties, unless it may be needed for the limited purpose of providing services, or unless under exceptional circumstances as may be required by law or to protect legal rights. Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana reserves the right to disclose such information in the event that we believe that doing so is necessary to operate the site, or where such disclosure may be required by law, or to protect our rights or the rights of others. Finally, Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana may use third parties to host and store data, including Personally Identifiable Information, on third party servers; in such event, said third parties will be under an obligation to maintain the confidentiality of any Personal Identifiable Information, consistent with this policy.

Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana may also collect, use and disclose information that is not Personally Identifiable Information (for example, we may keep track of, use and/or disclose aggregate statistics regarding the number of visitors to our website and other information that does not uniquely identify you or your children).

C. Cookies
A cookie is a piece of information that a web site transfers to the hard drive of your computer when you visit that site. A cookie allows a website to record your comings and goings with respect to that site; it can also allow the site to track which pages on the site you visit, and how often you visit them.

Except for information regarding your comings and goings, the only personal information stored in a cookie is information that you voluntarily supply yourself - a cookie cannot read data off your hard drive or read other cookies created by other sites.

Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana may use cookies to track the use of our site. By showing when and how you and other users visit our website, cookies help us to see which pages of the site are popular and which are not. This helps us improve our site, because we can eliminate pages that are unpopular, and update and improve those pages that are visited frequently. It can also help us to improve your enjoyment of the site, for example, by remembering your address and ordering information when you request information or services on the site.

II. Access to Information
Upon request to Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana, users may review a copy of their, or their children's, Personally Identifiable Information, may request to have any such information about them or their children deleted, and may withdraw their consent to the collection or use of information about them or their children. However, Personally Identifiable Information may still be stored on databases of third parties who acquired the Personally Identifiable Information or to whom we disclosed the Personally Identifiable Information pursuant to this Privacy Policy (See Section I.B above).

You may also request that we update Personally Identifiable Information about you or your children, or request correction of any factual errors that you believe may exist regarding this information. If you wish to have access to Personally Identifiable Information about you or your children in our records, please contact us with your request at the e-mail or mailing address provided in the "Contacting Us" paragraph of this Privacy Policy.

III. Privacy Practices of Third Party Sites and Others
This Web site may contain links to other third party sites. Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any linked sites or for the privacy policies or practices of any other third parties. To the extent that you or your children disclose Personally Identifiable Information to any linked sites or other third parties, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information that you or your children disclose to them. You should carefully review the privacy policy of any third party website before disclosing Personally Identifiable Information to that site.

IV. Third-Party Intellectual Property Rights
Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana and Girl Scouts USA respect the rights of intellectual property owners, and ask that their users do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana the following information, as required by Section 512 of Title 17, United States Code:

1. an electronic or physical signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
2. a description of the copyrighted work or works that you claim have been infringed;
3. a description of the allegedly infringing material, including its location on this site;
4. your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
5. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
6. a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on this site is: Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana, Webmaster, 650 N. Lakeview Parkway, P.O. Box 8116, Vernon Hills, IL 60061-8116, 847-573-0500 or 708-386-1872, (fax) 847-573-0400, webmaster@ilcrossroads.org.

V. Security
To prevent unauthorized access, and maintain data accuracy and the correct use of information, we have put in place procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur, we try to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.

VI. Agreement to Terms
By your use of this site, you hereby agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and consent to the collection and use of information as discussed in this Privacy Policy. Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change the Privacy Policy, we will post any changes on this website. Any such changes shall be effective upon posting on the website. By accessing the site following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy, you agree to all such changes.

By your use of this site, you also hereby agree to the full Acceptable Use Policy of the site, which are incorporated into this Privacy Policy by reference. Please carefully review the full Acceptable Use Policy found on our website.

VII. Contacting Us
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, or any requests for access to or changes to information about you, please email us at webmaster@ilcrossroads.org.