Privacy of personal information “Personal information” means any information that may be used to identify an individual. Personal information includes information such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and other similar information.
Collection of Personal Information
To access the update feature of this website, you must first complete a brief registration form. During registration you are required to provide certain personal information (such as name and email). By registering, you agree to receive certain communications from Youth Matters. After registration, you may be given the option as to whether or not you want to receive other types of communication from us.
We collect personal information about you, including personal information that you provide when you register to use this site (as described above). You may access and browse some of our website without disclosing personal information. Please be aware, however, that providing certain requested information may be necessary for you to participate in particular features or services described on this site.
Use of Personal Information
Personal information collected through our website is used by us to, among other things, process and manage registrations, operate and improve our website, track site usage policies and statistics, make the sites or services easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information, and for other purposes pursuant to your consent.
We also use your personal information to communicate with you in other ways. For instance, when you register on this site, we may use your personal information to send you an email confirming your registration. We also use personal information to inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We may provide personal information to other companies who provide services on our behalf, such as creating your account, handling the processing and delivery of communications, hosting this website, and delivery of content and services provided by this website.
We may access, use or disclose your personal information for other reasons, including if we believe such action is necessary to comply with the law or legal process, protect and defend our rights or property, protect the personal safety of users of our website or members of the general public, enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements, investigate or take action with respect to illegal or suspected illegal activities, in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy, or otherwise pursuant to your consent.
Personal information will not be posted or published by us, and except as specified in this Privacy Policy, it will not be provided to third-parties without your consent.
Security
We have implemented procedures to help protect the personal information that you provide to us. However, no method of transmitting or storing electronic data is ever completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that such information will never be accessed, used, or released in a manner that is inconsistent with this policy.
Our Practices with Respect to Non Personal Information
We may collect other, non-personal information about your visit, including the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions taken in connection with your use of our website. We may also collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your Internet address, browser type and language, access times, and referring website address. We may use “cookies” (a small, unique identifier text file) and web beacons to gather non-personal information, including information about your experience with our website (e.g., if you arrived at our website via a link from third-party site, our cookie files may include the URL of the linking page). We view non-personal information as non-confidential, and we may use or disclose non-personal information without restriction or obligation to you. However, we may combine non-personal information with other information, including personal information we have collected about you. If we do combine non-personal information with personal information in this way, we treat the aggregate information in accordance with the practices for personal information that are described in this Privacy Policy.