The OSU GLBT Alumni Society is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the OSU GLBT Alumni Society Web site and governs data collection and usage.   By using the OSU GLBT Alumni Society website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

The OSU GLBT Alumni Society may collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. The OSU GLBT Alumni Society may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that may be automatically collected by the OSU GLBT Alumni Society Web site. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by the OSU GLBT Alumni Society for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the OSU GLBT Alumni Society Web site.  None of this information personally identifies you.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through any OSU GLBT Alumni Society public message board, this information may be collected and used by others.

The OSU GLBT Alumni Society encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from the OSU GLBT Alumni Society Web site so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. The OSU GLBT Alumni Society is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the OSU GLBT Alumni Society Web site.

Use of your Personal Information

The OSU GLBT Alumni Society collects and uses your personal information to operate the OSU GLBT Alumni Society Web site and deliver the services you have requested.   The OSU GLBT Alumni Society also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from the OSU GLBT Alumni Society and its affiliates. The OSU GLBT Alumni Society may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

The OSU GLBT Alumni Society does not sell, rent or lease its customer or member lists to third parties. The OSU GLBT Alumni Society may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, the OSU GLBT Alumni Society may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer or member support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to the OSU GLBT Alumni Society, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

The OSU GLBT Alumni Society does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

The OSU GLBT Alumni Society keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within the OSU GLBT Alumni Society Web site, in order to determine what OSU GLBT Alumni Society Web site services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within the OSU GLBT Alumni Society Web site to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

The OSU GLBT Alumni Society will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the OSU GLBT Alumni Society or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the OSU GLBT Alumni Society; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the OSU GLBT Alumni Society, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The OSU GLBT Alumni Society Web site may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the OSU GLBT Alumni Society Web site pages, or register with the OSU GLBT Alumni Society site or services, a cookie helps the OSU GLBT Alumni Society Web site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same OSU GLBT Alumni Society Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the OSU GLBT Alumni Society Web site features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the OSU GLBT Alumni Society services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

The OSU GLBT Alumni Society secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The OSU GLBT Alumni Society secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.  The OSU GLBT Alumni Society does not maintain your financial data, such as but not limited to credit card numbers, etc, on our own web servers.  All financial information is collected and maintained by the OSU GLBT Alumni Society business partners such as PayPal.  PayPal and such other business partners have their own policies regarding the collection and safety of your financial and personal data and we encourage you to become familiar with those policies.  The OSU GLBT Alumni Society specifically disavows any liability related to the collection of your financial and personal information by our third party partners.

Changes to this Statement

The OSU GLBT Alumni Society will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. The OSU GLBT Alumni Society encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how the OSU GLBT Alumni Society is protecting your information.

Contact Information

The OSU GLBT Alumni Society welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that the OSU GLBT Alumni Society has not adhered to this Statement, please contact the OSU GLBT Alumni Society by email. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.