Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY
Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. This privacy policy discloses how we collect, protect, and use Personal Data we collect online or that you provide to us through use of our services, as well as how we protect children's privacy. “Personal Data” is any information relating to an identified or identifiable person, for example, your e-mail address, name, or phone number. If our policy practices change in the future, we will let you know by posting our revised privacy policy on our website. By using the pages on this site or other services covered by the posted Privacy Policy, you are accepting the practices described in the Privacy Policy.

PERSONAL DATA COLLECTION
We do not collect Personal Data from individuals unless they provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly and as described in this Privacy Policy. This means we do not require you to register or provide information to us to view our site. Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas only gathers Personal Data, such as names, addresses, ZIP/postal codes, email addresses, etc., when it is voluntarily submitted to us. Once collected, we may combine this information with other information collected from external sources, where permitted by applicable law.

USE AND SHARING OF PERSONAL DATA
The Personal Data you provide and that we collect is used and processed by Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas and other entities we involve in the operation of this site or who provide support for the Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas’s mission and programs, for general business purposes, and for the purposes for which you provided the information. General business purposes are Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas’s membership activities, program participation, marketing, promotions, sales, merchandising, and fundraising activities and communications. The purposes for which you provide information includes, for example, our use of your Personal Data to process online transactions, purchases, and donations, facilitate participation in Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas programs, promotions and services, or process job applications.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas is committed to providing a safe, secure, and fun experience for children who visit our site or otherwise participate in our services. We are dedicated to safeguarding any Personal Data collected and to helping parents and children have positive experiences on and off the Internet.

We will never knowingly request Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. With parental consent, we may collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13 such as: name, address, email address, account information, and user-generated content. This information allows us to fulfill a requested transaction and facilitate participation in online programs, keep records, undertake certain marketing activities (only in accordance with applicable law and any required consents), or to otherwise customize or enhance the website experience for children.

Regardless of what information is displayed, parents can revoke their consent and ask that information about their children be deleted from the site by contacting our offices by phone at 210-349-2404 (Toll Free: 800-580-7247) or emailing customercare@girlscouts-swtx.org. To do this or to review Personal Data collected from children, we must verify the identity of the requesting parent/caregiver. When a parent/caregiver revokes consent, we will stop collecting, using, processing, or disclosing information from that child. To respect the privacy of parents/caregivers, information collected and used for the sole purpose of obtaining verifiable parental/caregiver consent or providing notice is not maintained in retrievable form by the site if parental/caregiver consent is not obtained after a reasonable time.

EXERCISING YOUR RIGHTS

To exercise the rights described above, please contact us via our Girl Scouts Privacy Portal or by email to Girl Scouts of the USA at info@girlscouts.org.

Only you or an adult you designate to act on your behalf (where permitted by law) may make a request related to your Personal Data. A request to exercise any of these rights must identify the right you want to exercise and describe the information to which your request relates in sufficient detail to allow us to understand, evaluate, and respond to your request.

Reviewed: June 2026