The following describes the policies and practices of the Center for Safe Routes to School in Washington State (the Center) with regard to the collection and use of personal information from users of www.saferoutes-wa.org. Throughout this page, the terms “we,” “us,” and “our” are meant to include the staff, contractors, and volunteers of the Center.

We will not trade or sell your personal information with anyone. We only share information with third parties who are part of the Safe Routes to School Movement when sharing information will strengthen Safe Routes to School programs.

Information we collect about you

When browsing the site

When you visit our website, we may collect information about your session (e.g. session length, pages visited, files downloaded) based on either the IP address of your computer (if you are not a registered user), or your unique user identifier (if you are a registered user). Our website uses cookies to facilitate this tracking. For an excellent description of cookies and how they work see Wikipedia on cookies.

This information is stored in log files. Log data is used in aggregate to analyze how people use our website.

How we use the information

Email addresses

If you sign up on our website indicating that you are interested in Safe Routes to School, we may send you (by email) occasional invitations to surveys, administrative or other notices regarding the website, its contents, and your registration, or information on programs and services.

The “email this article” feature (designated in the top right on every page by a small graphic of an envelope) is an easy way for saferoutes-wa.org visitors to send articles to friends and colleagues by email. The email address(es) that you provide to use this feature will only be used to send the requested article.

When you submit questions or comments to staff members of the Center by email (via a link on the website, e.g.), we will use your e-mail address to respond directly to you.

Any email sent will be regarding Safe Routes to School programs or services.

Other individual information

If you supply us with your postal address you may receive infrequent mailings from us with information on services or upcoming events.

If you supply us with your telephone number we will only call you with information regarding program work and Safe Routes to School, or to update contact information.

If your participation in a contest, survey, or special offer entitles you to a prize or other gift of thanks, we will use information you provided to us to fulfill your prize.

Third party service providers

We will not share individually-identifying personal information about you with third parties without your permission, with the exception of service providers or other organizations we contract with to fulfill services on our behalf (e.g. delivering  email or mail), or under the circumstances described in Compliance with Legal Requirements below.

Compliance with Legal Requirements

We may disclose personal information if we are required to by law, or we believe that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law or with legal process, (b) protect and defend our rights and property, (c) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of saferoutes-wa.org or the Center's work, or (d) protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public. As such, if you attempt to pose as someone else, we may disclose information about you or your actions as part of an investigation into any harm done by your actions.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated privacy policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number, the DMA's Committee on Ethical Business Practices at ethics@the-dma.org, state or local chapters of the Better Business Bureau, the state or local consumer protection office, or the Federal Trade Commission by phone at (202) FTC-HELP ((202) 382-4357) or electronically at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/complaint.htm.

Miscellaneous

We do not currently partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

The Center is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of websites to which it links.

From time to time, we may use website visitor information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our website to notify you of these changes. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our website periodically.