Your privacy is important to The Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic, Inc. This statement discloses the information practices for the Maryknoll Sister's Website, including but not limited to, what type of information is gathered and tracked, how the information is used, and with whom the information is shared Information you give us.

In general, you can visit Maryknoll Sisters Website without telling us who you are and without revealing any information about yourself. However, there are sections of the where our vendors or we may ask for information from you.

Sometimes, we may specifically ask for information about you when you participate in an Opinion Poll, complete a registration form or request information from us. We will need certain information in order to provide that service or requested information to you. If we have trouble processing your request, this information is used to get in touch with you, the user. Click here to see examples of information we may collect.

Kids, you have rights too
Maryknoll Sisters takes special care to protect the safety and privacy of young people using our Website. We do have specific information on our Websites that maybe of interest to Kids. We encourage parents to participate in their your child's experience on the Web and to review the United States’ Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

Automatic Information
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. Like many Web sites, we use "cookies" and log files to obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses certain sections of Maryknoll SIsters Website. Click here to see examples of the information we receive. 
 

Links
This website links to websites maintained by organizations other than Maryknoll Sisters. Once you access another website, you are subject to the privacy policy of that website.

Disclosure
We do not use or disclose information about your individual visits to the Maryknoll Sisters Website that you may give us, such as your name, address, and email address or telephone number, to any outside organizations. However, as we mentioned above, we do employ vendors to perform functions on our behalf. Examples includes providing marketing assistances, processing credit cards, Assisting with security information (e.g. account passwords) and other personal communications (e.g. personal e-mail messages or discussion board posting) with such vendors where necessary and appropriate, we will not share such information with other third parties, except in response to formal requests (e.g. subpoena or court order) made in connection with litigation or arbitration proceedings to protect Maryknoll Sisters rights and property, or during emergencies when we believe physical safety is at risk. Of course, what you write or post in public or member chat rooms and discussion boards is available not only to Maryknoll Sisters, but to all members.

Security

We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology to protect the transmission of information you submit to us (such as credit card number/or social security number). While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information offline. All the information you provide us through these forms is stored securely offline.

Information you can access
The Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974 provide you certain rights to get information about you that is in our records. We will make a sincere effort to respond in a timely manner to your requests to correct inaccuracies in your personal information. To correct inaccuracies in your personal information please send an email message containing the inaccuracies to Web Manager at mball@mklm.org.

Notifications of changes
This privacy statement was last updated on March 8, 2008.

Here's how to contact us
Questions regarding this Privacy statement should be directed to mball@mklm.org  for clarification or at

Office of Web Manager
Maryknoll
Bethany Building
PO Box 307
Maryknoll, NY 10545

Privacy at Maryknoll.org

Information you give us
Internet email address, billing address, Shipping address, credit card number, social security number, marital status.

Automatic information
Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; purchase history; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number; products you viewed or searched for.

Cookies
A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your computer's hard drive (if your web browser permits). We may use cookies in order to facilitate and customize your use of certain parts of maryknoll Sisters web site. This data element can later be retreived to identify you to Maryknoll Sisters.  Most consumers do not know that "cookies" are being placed on their computers when they visit websites. The "help" portion of the top menu bar of most browsers explain how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, or how to have the browser notify you when a new request for a cookie is sent from our server to your browser and how to disable it altogether.