Privacy Statement

This Privacy Policy was last updated on April 25, 2012.

Maintaining the privacy of your personal information is of the utmost importantance to Masonichip International, Inc. ("MASONICHIP"). This online privacy policy describes how MASONICHIP collects and maintains all personally identifiable information that is obtained through this website: masonichip.org. The purpose of this privacy policy is to explain how we will use any information we obtain from this website, as well as the practices and procedures we have implemented to protect your personal information. Please be aware that masonichip.org sponsors, advertisers, or websites that have links on our website may collect personally identifiable information about you on their websites. The information and privacy practices of those organizations are not covered by this policy.

We encourage you to read this privacy policy to gain a better understanding of how your personal information will be treated as you navigate MASONICHIP's website. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this privacy policy or our data collection practices, or if you would like to reguest that we delete your personal information from our records, you can fill out MASONICHIP's general inquiries form; or send us your questions or comments via postal mail to:

Webmaster
Masonichip International, Inc.
P.O. Box 311165
Newington, CT 06111.

Information We Collect

You have several opportunities to submit your personally identifiable information on Masonichip International, Inc. (MASONICHIP) website, including your name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, and payment information for donations. The purpose of collecting such information is to respond to specific questions; to honor requests for brochures, newsletters, or other publications; to provide users with information about missing or exploited children; or to process payments and donations made online. We may use your personal information to periodically communicate with you concerning MASONICHIP issues, such as delivering information to you about upcoming events or missing children alerts.

MASONICHIP collects technical data from visitors of MASONICHIP's website. We automatically collect Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses and domain names of the originating visitor's computer, in order to track the number and frequency of hits we receive per page. We may also identify the source of an external website link that brought you to masonichip.org. This helps us to evaluate what websites or other content are prompting users to visit MASONICHIP's website. We do not, however, associate individual IP addresses with any personally identifiable information in our databases, unless we detect a security intrusion or other unlawful activity on our website.

Information We Share With Third Parties

Donations Made Through Credit Card:
When you submit credit card information to us, we immediately forward that information to a service that charges your account. We do not save or store your credit card number, although we do retain your name and address and may use that information to communicate with you in the future.

Information to Third Parties:
From time to time, we supply to third-party vendors personal information about visitors who wish to receive information from us. Such vendors may include, for example, organizations that process mailings for us. Those vendors have entered non-disclosure agreements with us so that personal information is used only to respond to the visitors' requests and is not shared with any other entity or individual. Occasionally we will share "aggregate information" about our visitors with certain third parties. Aggregate information shows visitor activity as a whole but does not identify any individual user. For example, we may post a survey to which visitors can elect to respond. We might share the results of that survey with interested third parties, or we may use the information to improve our services and/or our website.

Personal Information to Third Parties:
Except as described in this section, we will not sell, rent, share, or otherwise disclose your personal information to any party for any reason.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are sent to your browser from a web server and are stored on your computer's hard drive. When you return to that website, the cookie will tell the website that you have been there before. The website can then offer you products or ads that are tailored to your interests. By using cookies, information may be collected without your express knowledge. Masonichip International, Inc. (MASONICHIP) does not use cookies to track your use of our website. Refusal to accept cookies will not prevent the use of NCMEC's website, but some portions of our website may not function properly without cookies.

Security

MASONICHIP uses a third-party intermediary (Google Checkout) to process your online donations and payments. Your credit card information is encrypted when submitted to this processor and is transmitted over a secure connection using Secure Socket Layers (SSL) to ensure protection of your private information. MASONICHIP also uses "firewalls" to restrict unauthorized access by users inside and outside our organization.

Despite our best efforts to protect and secure your information, please be aware that no transmission over the Internet and no data storage method is 100% secure.

Children

Masonichip, International, Inc. (MASONICHIP) does not intend to collect personal information from children under the age of 13. We recommend that parents approve and closely supervise the activity of their children at this and all other websites. We urge children to check with their parents before entering information on any website and we urge parents to discuss with their children restrictions regarding the online release of personal information to anyone they don't know.

Links to Other Websites

Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy does not apply to those websites, nor do the privacy policies of those websites apply to us. We urge you to review the privacy policies of any website you may access through our website.

Accurate Personal Information

If you are a donor and would like to update, review, or delete the personal information we have on file for you, please submit your written request here.