This page was last modified on Monday, February 12, 2007

www.yaac-bsa.org

Privacy Statement

The York-Adams Area Council is committed to respecting and protecting the personal privacy of its members and those who visit its web site.  It is our policy to acquire personal information from users only by publicly disclosed and voluntary means, only when it is in the interest of the user to provide it, and to utilize this information only for the purpose it was provided.  This site collects anonymous data that is NOT indicative of and CANNOT be traced to an individual without the cooperation of their Internet Service Provider.  This data includes information about the user's remote IP address; referral data (which page or domain "linked" to the present request) and the browser software's user-agent string.  This information is accepted passively from the HTTP headers that are sent as part of normal traffic from the user when requesting any file from the server.

Non-passive information entered directly by site visitors is electronically sent to the York-Adams Area Council by e-mail or retrieved from the web site.  Written inquiries may be directed to:  York-Adams Area Council BSA, 2139 White Street, York, PA 17404-4940.

The York-Adams Area Council does not share personally identifiable information about its web site visitors with anyone. 

How does the York-Adams Area Council, BSA comply with the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998?

The York-Adams Area Council, BSA does not use its Web site to collect any personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age. Any interface that requests personally identifiable information that appears on an interface that can be expected to be viewed by children under 13 years of age is accompanied by a notice that submissions cannot be accepted from users under 13 years of age. Where "age" or "date of birth" is requested, no information will be stored or transmitted unless the response indicates that the user is 13 years of age or older.

Providing personal information is never prerequisite for accessing any of the content or resources on this Web site.  All forms that request data are voluntary and refusal to submit personal information requested by our interface will never result in a user being denied access to any on-line content or resource he or she would be access were the information submitted.