Privacy Policy
The Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom (“SYRF”) Online Community (www.syrf.org) is owned and operated by the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (“RCRC”). By using the pages in this site, you agree to the Privacy Policy stated here. This Privacy Policy may change. The updated policy will always be posted here. Please check it often.
For questions about the Privacy Policy, email info@syrf.org or call (202) 628-7700.
Information Collection & Use
Registration for Access to Resources on the SYRF Online Community
In order to interact with this Web site, you must first complete the registration form and create a user name and password. During registration you are required to give information including your name, address and email address. Please see “Uses of Information” to understand how this information will be used.
You will have the option to view the site on a limited basis without saving your information into any system. If you choose this option, your interaction with this site will result in no further communication from RCRC or the SYRF Online Community.
Registration and use of the SYRF Online Community for SYRF activists
The SYRF Online Community is a social networking site designed specifically for SYRF activists. The community tools allow young adults to connect with one another and share information, ideas, and passion! Your profile contains personal information. Information that is required in order to set up a profile is the following: name, date of birth, email address, and zip code. In addition, activists may choose to include information in their profile relating to their address and gender. Participants will also be asked three diversity questions that are optional and their answers will not be connected to their profile.
As a Community member, you have the opportunity to share other personal information in other parts of the SYRF Online Community such as chatting with other activists, pasting items on bulletin boards, blogging, sharing photos, and other postings. Other SYRF Online Community members can view this information; however the information may not be archived in the system. Please be aware that any information you post in these areas has the potential to be seen by other people in the community as well as other users of the site. Any personally identifying information that is posted is your responsibility and may result in unsolicited messages from unknown people. RCRC takes no responsibility for information posted onto the site; however RCRC administrators will be monitoring the site for inappropriate language and behavior. If you find anything posted on the website to be inappropriate, please send details about the posting, including the page on which you saw it and the URL in an email to info@syrf.org with the words “inappropriate web content” in the subject line. RCRC reserves the right to discontinue any person’s account if the account violates the terms of use (which is accessible via a link on the footer of this site).
The personal information you enter into your profile will be available to those people whom you choose. You will have options that control sharing of information in your profile. You can select/modify these options when choosing your privacy settings. You will choose to be seen by either all community users or nobody. If you choose not to have your profile seen, you will still be able to view/use all parts of the SYRF Online Community and receive emails/action alerts unless you choose to unsubscribe from these communications.
Only young adults (ages 16-29), the staff of RCRC and its partner organizations, and other people affiliated with the SYRF program will be permitted to have a profile and be able to see other people’s profiles.
Surveys or Contests
We may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and email address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age or affiliation).
We will use this information to improve your experience on the site by better matching the SYRF Online Community with its user.
We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users’ personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and you consent to such use.
Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice send this one-time email and will not store the friend’s email address.
Uses of Information
We use the information you input when you register for the site or sign up for a profile to send you an update about the Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom program approximately once a month.
Your information will not be shared with any organizations or companies under any circumstance, within the limits of the law.
If at any point you wish to not receive any emails from RCRC and/or the SYRF Online Community, you may email your request to info@syrf.org.
You will have the option to view some parts of the site without saving your information into any system. If you choose this option, your interaction with this site will result in no further communication from the RCRC and/or the SYRF Online Community.
If you have a registered profile on the SYRF Online Community and if you have at least one message, the system will send a daily email to the email address you have registered informing you of the number of messages in your community inbox. This will happen automatically, however you will also have the option to receive an email notifying you of messages every week, or not at all.
The site may also send articles or information of interest to participants the SYRF Online Community who request information on certain topics. Anyone who receives this information will have the option to no longer receive it by sending an email to info@syrf.org expressing what you would like or not like to receive or clicking on “unsubscribe me from this list.”
Updates
We will occasionally send you information on updates to our site by email.
Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email.
Profile
We store information that we collect through cookies and log files to create a “profile” of your preferences in order to provide tailored information and marketing offers regarding service/volunteer opportunities, job postings, etc., and to improve the content of the site for you. We do not tie your personally identifiable information, and or your program participation history to information in the profile. We do not share your profile with third parties.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and/or advertisers and/or funders. This information does not identify individual users. We may use it to let RCRC affiliates (listed as affiliates of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice on this page: http://syrf.liveelements.net/web/guest/prochoicereligiouscommunities) know how many of their activists are using the site. It also might be used to learn about the geographic location of our users or other ways to make the experience better for you. We will also use it to report aggregate statistics on site utilization to the project sponsors in order to ensure the project’s future.
We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.
The SYRF Online Community may receive names, email addresses and possible other information from RCRC affiliates and partner organizations. Please see the affiliated programs’ privacy policies, which will say how they govern their information. Anyone added to RCRC’s database will have the option not to receive any communication from the Coalition and to be removed from their lists by sending an email to info@syrf.org with this request.
The SYRF Online Community may receive names and profile information from interested people through the web and public events.
Service Providers
We use an outside company to maintain the back end of the SYRF Online Community. This company does not retain, share, store, or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and click stream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically collected data to personally identifiable information. We use a third-party tracking service (Google Analytics) that uses cookies (log files) to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate (i.e. user paths, entrance pages, exit pages, most visited pages, most clicked links) to help us better understand visitor behavior on the site so we can improve the site’s user interface and provide additional content in content categories that are most popular amongst site users
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time.
We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file. For more information about cookies, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited.
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers, content partners) may use cookies on our site or on pages that we link to or display within our site’s main window. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See “Third Party Advertisers.”
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies on this site only and does not cover the use of cookies by other sites whose material is displayed on/or linked to this site.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We may use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of these emails, please see “Choice and Opt-out.”
Links to Other Sites
This site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. Links to other sites do not signify our endorsing their information.
The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice will not give any of your personal information to the owners / administrators of these linked sites. However, if you decide to give any identifying information to the sponsors of these sites – for example when registering for an event or requesting to be put on a mailing list – be advised that the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice will not be responsible for the ways in which the owners / administrators of these linked sites use the information that you give to them. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on www.syrf.org or by emailing info@syrf.org or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at (202) 628-7700 or:
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
1025 Vermont Ave, NW Suite 1130
Washington, DC 20005
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). (To learn more about SSL, follow this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie.)
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Contact us about this Privacy Policy
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at info@syrf.org.
