Privacy Policy
General: Terms of Use
By accessing, browsing, or viewing the https://greateryellowstone.org site (the "Site"), you accept, without limit or qualification, all Site policies, terms, and conditions provided herein and as may change from time-to-time without notice to you. Any usage of the Site by you acknowledges full and complete acceptance of these terms and conditions. As a condition of your use of this website, you warrant to Greater Yellowstone Coalition that you will not use this website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices.
Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
Privacy: Personal Information Collected and Use of Such Information
https://greateryellowstone.org is committed to honoring the privacy of its site visitors. We will not sell, release or rent any personal information gathered during your visit without your explicit permission.
We may use third-party cookies and pixels to collect information such as your IP address, browser type, and browsing activity on our site. This information is used for analytics and to serve you relevant ads on other websites. A cookie cannot read information off your hard drive or read cookie files from other websites. You do not need to have cookies enabled in the browser of your devices (e.g., computers or mobile phones) to use the site. For each visitor to our Site, our web server(s) automatically recognize the customer's Internet Protocol (IP) address/domain name combination. https://greateryellowstone.org collects IP address/domain name combinations of visitors to the Site to provide us with general location information, sometimes across multiple devices. We will use your IP address only for website administration, to detect problems with a server, or to track traffic patterns. We may share with our service providers your IP address to monitor how effective our advertisements are. We do not use information regarding individual users. https://greateryellowstone.org does collect the following: email addresses of users who voluntarily communicate with us via email; aggregate information on what pages users access or visit; user-specific information on what pages users access or visit; and other information voluntarily provided by the user, such as survey information and/or personal information provided on contact forms, registration forms, comment forms, online promotions, etc. The information collected is used for internal review and may be used to improve the overall content of the Site, to customize the content and/or layout of the Site for each individual user, to notify users about updates to the Site and/or other Site related communications, and to monitor the effectiveness of our advertisements. If you wish to opt out of cookies that will allow us to serve our advertisements and collect aggregated information, please send an email to gyc@greateryellowstone.org
Definition of Personally Identifiable Information
Personally identifiable information means individually identifiable information about an individual collected online, including:
a first and last name;
a residence or other physical address, including a street name and name of a city or town;
an email address;
a telephone number; or
unique identifying information that an internet service provider or a government website operator collects and combines with any information described in subsections (6)(a) through (6)(e).
Personally Identifiable Information Not Routinely Collected
Citizens do not have to routinely provide personal information to access Greater Yellowstone Coalition websites or to download information. We will not collect any personally identifiable information about you (name, address, telephone number, email address) unless you provide it voluntarily.
Log Files and User Tracking
For each visitor to our web page, our web server automatically recognizes the consumer's domain name and IP address. We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. We collect the domain name and IP address of visitors to our site, browser type and version, operating system, aggregate information on what pages consumers access and how long they stay on each page and information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations and e-mail. This information is used to enhance and position the content on our website.
Security
We use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged on our site. We have appropriate security measures in place at our physical site to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you on our site.
Donor Privacy Policy of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition
The Greater Yellowstone Coalition values your participation and support and is committed to protecting your privacy. We maintain strict donor information privacy policies and take great care to ensure that unauthorized persons do not access or compromise your information.
Here are our information-gathering and dissemination practices.
To fully understand your rights, we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use. The Greater Yellowstone Coalition reserves the right at any time and without notice to change this Privacy Policy simply by posting such changes on our site. Any such changes will be effective immediately upon posting.
If you have questions regarding our privacy policies, please send us an email.
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Our online registration forms, as well as our offline sign-up forms, contribution cards, or donor brochures require users to give us contact information that may include name, e-mail address, address, interests, phone, and other similar information. We do not store sensitive information provided by the donor, such as credit cards or Social Security numbers.
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We will send you e-mails from the Greater Yellowstone Coalition updating you on noteworthy developments or initiatives to help protect the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. If you do not wish to hear from us, simply use the unsubscribe link on these e-mails and/or contact us directly at (406) 586-1593 or gyc@greateryellowstone.org.
We will send thank you notes acknowledging your gifts and will provide online receipts for gifts received online.
We will inform you about fundraising opportunities, key conservation wins, and other organizational news, as well as events and activities hosted by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition.
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We will send you hard copy mailings from the Greater Yellowstone Coalition updating you on noteworthy developments or initiatives to help protect the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. If you do not wish to hear from us, simply use the provided, postage-paid envelope to send us note, call (406) 586-1593, or email us at gyc@greateryellowstone.org and let us know your mailing preferences.
We will also send thank you notes acknowledging your gifts and will provide receipts for your donations.
We will inform you about fundraising opportunities, key conservation wins and other organizational news, as well as events and activities hosted by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition.
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The Greater Yellowstone Coalition does not trade, share, or sell your personal information to any organization or individual, nor do we send donor mailings on behalf of other organizations.
We will not divulge personal information to any other organization or individual other than when it is necessary to transact, fulfill, and or account for donations that you have authorized.
The Greater Yellowstone Coalition does not share your information with telemarketing centers or use telephone marketing to solicit funds.
The Greater Yellowstone Coalition will only use your phone number if we need to verify information, thank you for your contribution, ask for your opinion, request your assistance, or invite you to a special event. If email or texting is preferred, simply let us know and we will comply.
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Online: All sensitive information provided to the Greater Yellowstone Coalition online is transmitted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. SSL is a proven coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt or scramble data before you send it to us. We also protect account information by allowing only a certain number of qualified Greater Yellowstone Coalition employees password-protected, authenticated access. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet is 100 percent secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of such information from our systems or verified, highly recommended third-party providers.
This program is used by development professionals across the country and is well-regarded. Access to this system is accessible only by a certain number of qualified Greater Yellowstone Coalition employees. Prior to processing gifts, all account information is protected in a locked safe, which is only accessible to specific qualified employees of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. The Greater Yellowstone Coalition building is secured by locks and an alarm.
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Our site contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another website for which the Greater Yellowstone Coalition has no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may differ from ours.