Privacy Policy

Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services Privacy Policy

The Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) has created this Privacy Policy to explain why we collect particular information and how we will protect your personal privacy within our website. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the website located at the URL http://www.accesscommunity.org.

In order to fully understand your rights, we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use. ACCESS reserves the right at any time and without notice to change this Privacy Policy simply by posting such changes on our site. Any such change will be effective immediately upon posting.

1. Commitment to Privacy

This Privacy Policy notifies you of:

• What personally identifiable information of yours is collected through the site;
• Who collects such information;
• How such information is used;
• With whom your information may be shared;
• What choices you have regarding the collection, use, and distribution of your information;
• What kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under our control;
• How you can correct any inaccuracies in your information.

Questions regarding this statement should be directed to ACCESS by sending an email to rabbas@accesscommunity.org. Please reference this Privacy Policy in your subject line.

2. What Information We Collect and How We Use That Information

Our registration forms require users to give us contact information that may include name, email address, format preference (HTML vs. Text), address, interests, phone number, and similar information. We do not request or store sensitive information from our visitors, such as credit cards or social security numbers.

3. Internet Protocol Address

We collect IP addresses from all visitors to our site. An IP address is one automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our site, analyze trends, track users' movement, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use to improve the site, and deliver customized, personalized content. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

4. Use of "Cookies"

Our site may use cookies to enhance your experience while using our site. Cookies are pieces of information that some websites transfer to the computer that is browsing that website and are used for record-keeping purposes at many websites. Use of cookies makes web-surfing easier by performing certain functions such as saving your passwords, your personal preferences regarding your use of the website, and to make sure you do not see the same ad repeatedly. Many consider the use of cookies to be an industry standard.

Your browser is probably set to accept cookies. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our site will not function properly when you view them.

5. Security

All information provided to ACCESS 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 placing it on a secure portion of our site that is only accessible by certain qualified employees of ACCESS. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information.

6. Tell-A-Friend

If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. ACCESS will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. ACCESS stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.

7. Other Websites

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 ACCESS has little or no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may be different from ours.

8. Sharing and Selling of Information

ACCESS does not share, sell, or rent any personal information collected through our site with third parties without your explicit consent or unless required by law.

9. Opt-Out

Users can unsubscribe or opt-out from receiving text messages from ACCESS at any time. To opt-out, follow the instructions provided in the text message or contact us directly.

10. Contacting the Website

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, you can contact: