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The Second Chance Toys website at www.secondchancetoys.org (the "Website") is provided to You by Second Chance Toys Inc. and/or any of its related, affiliated and/or subsidiary companies (individually and collectively, "Second Chance Toys", "We", "Our" or "Us"), and the following Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by Second Chance Toys in connection with the Website. For convenience, the words "User," "You" and "Your" as used in this Privacy Policy refer to users of the Website.

Second Chance Toys recognizes that Your privacy and the protection of Your Personal Information is important to you, and therefore, has adopted this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy describes Second Chance Toys' privacy practices and how Second Chance Toys treats the Personal Information that it collects from You when You use the use the Website, including any Personal Information You provide when You make a purchase on the Website or create Your Second Chance Toys account.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, "Personal Information" is information that (i) You provide to Second Chance Toys and (ii) personally identifies You. Personal Information includes Your name, email or other address, billing and payment information and other data that can be used to personally identify or contact You.

HOW WE OBTAIN THE PERSONAL INFORMATION
Second Chance Toys may obtain, collect, retain, store or otherwise maintain Your Personal Information from the following sources:

  • Your Second Chance Toys Account: This information may include, for example, information You provide to Second Chance Toys through Your creation, registration and maintenance of an account on the Website.
     
  • Making a Donation to Second Chance Toys: In order for You to make a donation to support Second Chance Toys, we may request that You provide Personal Information, a credit card account number and/or or other payment account information.
     
  • Joining Our Mailing List: You have the option to following Second Chance Toys by signing up to be on our mailing list. In order to do that, You will need to provide us with Your email or postal address
     
  • Your Communications with Second Chance Toys: From time to time, Second Chance Toys, with Your consent, may communicate with You through postal mail, email or other forms of electronic communications regarding the Website, Your account, the Products and Services and new Products and Services. If You respond to these communications, Your responses may contain Personal Information. Similarly, if You communicate with Second Chance Toys regarding an inquiry or a service issue, your communication may contain personal information which will enable Us to respond to You.

You can decline to provide Your Personal Information to Second Chance Toys by not engaging in the activities described above. If You decline to submit Personal Information, Second Chance Toys may not be able to or may choose not to provide to You some or all of its services or be able to respond to Your inquiry.

Second Chance Toys also collects non-personally identifiable server-log information relating to its users. This information, may include information such as, but not limited to: (i) Your account activity, including storage usage, number of log-ins, data displayed or selected, including user interface elements, links, etc.; and (ii) Your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of Your request, date and time of access, one or more cookies that may uniquely identify Your browser and referrer Uniform Resource Locator. None of this information enables Second Chance Toys to personally identify or contact You.

HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION
Second Chance Toys only uses Personal Information for the purposes and in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. Specifically, Second Chance Toys only uses Your Personal Information for:

  • When you register for Our service, You provide a variety of information to help Us match You with the best possible organization or program collection. We display some of this information on the Website publicly (such as Your name, location, and profile) and this information is displayed to all registered users of the Website. We will not publicly display any of Your contact information. Entities with whom You have been connected or other parties that You have authorized, however, will be able to view this information.
     
  • Processing, formatting and displaying customized content on the Website for You;
     
  • Processing Your donations and sending confirmations of Your donations to You
     
  • Communicating with You to the extent set forth herein;
     
  • Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve the Website and the services offered on the Website; and/or
     
  • Ensuring the technical functioning of the Website, including creating and maintaining back-ups or other archival copies of Personal Information and other related data. Second Chance Toys restricts access to Personal Information to those employees, contractors and agents of Second Chance Toys who need to access Personal Information for the purposes specified above. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination, if they fail to meet these obligations.

AGE RESTRICTION
Any person who provides information through the Website represents that they are 13 years of age or older. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of 13. In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, any information We receive from users that We believe to be under the age of 13 will be purged from Our database. If You are a parent or legal guardian of a child under age 13 who you believe has submitted personal information to the Website, please contact Us immediately.

HOW SECOND CHANCE TOYS USES PERSONAL INFORMATION
Except as otherwise set forth herein, Second Chance Toys does not share Your Personal Information with third parties without Your consent, except when We believe that it is reasonably necessary to do so in order to comply with a subpoena or other judicial order or process, as otherwise required by law or in order to enforce Second Chance Toys's User Agreement. In such circumstances, Your Personal Information may also be disclosed to Second Chance Toys's attorneys. If Second Chance Toys desires to use Your Personal Information for any purpose other than those described in this Privacy Policy, Second Chance Toys will request Your consent prior to such use and offer You an effective way to opt out of the use of Personal Information for those other purposes. If You opt out or otherwise decline to submit Personal Information in response to such a request, Second Chance Toys may not be able to provide to You all of the features available on the Website. In the case of Your posting a collection opportunity or Your accepting of an event that is posted, Your posting and/or acceptance shall be deemed as and affirmative consent for Second Chance Toys to disclose your name and contact information with the matched party.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, We may use third-party suppliers and service providers to facilitate Our services, and they may have access to Your Personal Information. For example, We may outsource one or more aspects of the Website to a supplier or service provider who performs services according to Our requirements.

COOKIES PLACED BY SECOND CHANCE TOYS
When You visit the Website, We send to Your computer one or more "cookies" (i.e., a small file containing a string of characters) that, among other things, uniquely identifies Your browser and allows the Website to "remember" Your computer and Your activities on the Website. Second Chance Toys uses cookies to uniquely and anonymously identify its users. No Personal Information is collected or stored in these cookies. These cookies cannot damage a user's files and cannot read information from a user's hard drive. Second Chance Toys uses cookies to improve the quality of the Website and the Products and Services offered thereon. Most web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Please note that some of the Website's features may not function properly, if at all, if Your cookies are disabled.

LINKS
This Privacy Policy only pertains to the Website. Other websites, such as those to which the Website links to or link to the Website, may have their own privacy policies. We encourage You to read the privacy policies and terms of use of the websites that You visit through links placed on the Website as well as those for websites that provide links to the Website. You should contact these websites directly if You have any questions about their use of Your information. Second Chance Toys is not responsible for any use of Your Personal Information or any other type of Your information when You use such third party sites and services.

INFORMATION SHARING AND ONWARD TRANSFER
Second Chance Toys reserves the right to sell, rent or otherwise share some or all of Your Personal Information with other companies or individuals outside of Second Chance Toys if:

  • You have consented to such sale, rental or sharing; and/or
     
  • Second Chance Toys becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of all of its assets. In such circumstances, Second Chance Toys will provide notice before Personal Information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

INFORMATION SECURITY
Second Chance Toys takes reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of its data, including Personal Information stored or maintained on its servers and other systems. These measures include internal reviews of Second Chance Toys's data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to servers and systems where Second Chance Toys stores personal data.

DATA INTEGRITY
Second Chance Toys processes Personal Information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Second Chance Toys also takes reasonable steps to ensure that the Personal Information We process is accurate, complete, and current, but We depend on our You and our other users to update or correct their Personal Information whenever necessary.

ACCESSING AND UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
Except as required by the Terms of Use, You may change the settings of Your Second Chance Toys account via the "settings" section of such account. You may organize or delete certain information through such settings or, alternately, terminate Your Second Chance Toys account. Such deletions or terminations will take immediate effect. Residual copies of the deleted information and/or the terminated Second Chance Toys account may take up to sixty (60) days to be deleted from active servers and may remain in perpetuity in backup systems.

When you use the Website, Second Chance Toys makes good faith efforts to provide you with access to your Personal Information. Where applicable, Second Chance Toys asks individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and Second Chance Toys may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case, where Second Chance Toys provides information access and correction, Second Chance Toys provides this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.

ENFORCEMENT
Second Chance Toys regularly reviews its compliance with this Privacy Policy. Please direct any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or Second Chance Toys treatment of Personal Information by contacting Second Chance Toys at the address below. When Second Chance Toys receives formal written complaints at this address, its policy is to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. Second Chance Toys will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of Personal Information that cannot be resolved between an individual and Second Chance Toys.

GENERALLY
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Second Chance Toys will post any changes on this page of the Website. Second Chance Toys encourages You to check back and review this policy periodically so that You will always know what information We collect, how We use it, and to whom We disclose it.

If You have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please contact us at:

Second Chance Toys
Attn: Legal Department
PO Box 20462
New York, NY 10023

Email address info@secondchancetoys.org

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 allows users who are California residents to request information about the disclosure of their personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us at info@secondchancetoys.org.

MORE INFORMATION
Second Chance Toys adheres to the US safe harbor privacy principles of Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access and Enforcement. For more information about the Safe Harbor framework, see the Department of Commerce's web site.

SEVERABILITY
If any provision of this Privacy Policy is found to be illegal, void, or unenforceable, that provision will be deemed severed from the balance of the agreement and will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions, which will continue in full force and effect.

This page was lasted updated on January 4, 2012.