Privacy & Legal

Privacy
Your privacy on the Internet is of paramount importance to us. Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas respects the privacy and personal information of its visitors to its Web site. This privacy statement discloses GSSWT's policies regarding gathering, using, and sharing information.

Gathering information:
When you sign on to the site for various functions, GSSWT collects the following types of information:  aggregate data (tallying page views throughout our Web site), polling, surveys, and cookies. Information gathered enables us to better serve our visitors. Information gathered is not distributed or shared with any third party for commercial purposes.

Aggregate data:
An example of aggregate data is the number of hits per page and tracking user traffic patterns. This information is gathered to better understand and respond to the needs of our audience.

Polling: 
GSSWT will occassionally offer interactive polls where users can easily share opinions about key issues. Poll respondents may be ‘tagged’ after voting, so they can vote only once on a particular question. During the ‘tagging’ process, user’s information is not collected.

Surveys:
Periodically GSSWT conducts surveys for organizational analysis and long-term planning. We may share the aggregated data in these surveys; no individual user’s information will be shared.

Use of data:
GSSWT uses any information given by our users to improve and enhance the users’ experience and Web content. We use tracking information to determine which areas of the Web site are visited for overall web page performance. GSSWT does not share personal information with any third party for commercial purposes.

Links to other Web sites:
GSSWT's Web site contains links to other Web sites. We provide these links as resources for our visitors; GSSWT is not liable for the privacy policies or content of other Web sites.

Security:
GSSWT uses industry-standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology is used to encrypt credit card information when data is traveling from your computer to our Web site. Secured areas of our Web site begin with “https://” and will display a lock in the lower right-hand corner.

Use of Content:
The use of all text, images, artwork, video, music, sound, coding, trademarks, and other files published on this Web site are subject to the copyright and other intellectual property rights of GSSWT in accordance with the United States Copyright Laws. Anyone wishing to reproduce distribute, or repost to other Web sites must request and obtain prior written permission from GSSWT. Some trademarks displayed on this Web site may require an additional written permission granted by the third party that may own the trademark.

Contact Information:

Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas
811 N Coker Loop
San Antonio, Texas 78216
Telephone: 210.349.2404/1.800.580.7247
Fax: 210.349.2666
Email: website@girlscouts-swtx.org