Privacy Policy

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By using this web site, you signify your acceptance of the legal terms contained in this Terms of Use and any legal terms found elsewhere on the web site. All such legal terms are subject to change without notice to you, except that such changes will be posted on this web site. Such changes are binding on you and are not subject to further acceptance by you.

The Terms of Use and any other legal terms found elsewhere on this web site constitute the entire agreement between you and the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with respect to your use of this web site, and supersede any and all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding such subject matter.

The Mount Vernon Parks Foundation Privacy Policy

About this Policy

This policy describes the privacy practices only on the websites where it appears. This policy explains the website privacy practices of all our brand identities, including littlemountainpark.org.

Information We Collect

Personal Information

We collect information you submit to us through our website and social media pages.

You may choose to provide us with personally identifiable information. If you choose to provide us with contact information, then we may collect your name and email address. We may also collect your telephone number, mailing address and, if applicable, financial, payment, or billing information. From time to time, we may also collect other electronic contact information like your user name.

Other information

We may collect user browsing behavior, including, online activities over time and across third-party websites or services. We may also collect information about your computer, like the type of browser you use, or your IP address. We may collect this, or vendors we hire may collect this information. We may collect this information using tracking tools like cookies and web beacons.

How Information is Collected

We collect information directly from you. For example, we collect information when you register on or contact us through one of our websites. We collect information from you passively. We use common tracking tools such as browser cookies and web beacons to collect information passively.

We use your information in the following ways:

To respond to your inquiries or requests.
To improve our programs, services, and for related organizational purposes. For example, we use your information to help us understand you. This includes analyzing how this site is used. We also use your information to make website improvements. We also may use information to customize your browsing experience. We may do these activities using the tracking technologies described here.
For security purposes. We may need to use information to protect our website and our users and the rights or interest of others. We may also use information to protect our company or our affiliates.
To promote the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation and our related brands, including littlemountainpark.org. For example, we may use your information to send you marketing materials. We may also use your information to notify you of new programs or features. To send you transactional communications. For example, we may use your information to notify you about your email subscription or membership. We may also send you other information about our relationship with you.

Information Sharing

We may share your information as follows:

Among our Board Members and Volunteer Leadership. Can you limit? No
If we think we have to in order to comply with the law. For example, if we are required to file reports with government agencies or in response to a court order or subpoena. We may also share information with law enforcement at our discretion. Can you limit? No
With our vendors or partners. For example, we may share your information with third parties we hire to provide services like operating our website, online donation services, smartphone apps, and advertising. Can you limit? No
In the event that all, or part, of our organization transfers ownership. For example, we may share information with actual or potential organizations interested in affiliating with or absorbing MVPF. We will share your information with the new officers. We may also transfer all or part of our customer lists as part of an affiliation or acquisition. Can you limit? No
For other reasons, we might describe to you. Can you limit? In some circumstances

On our interactive forums.

We may also allow you to submit comments on our sites. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information. You should not disclose your personal information in such a forum if you do not want it shared publicly. Can you limit? At your discretion

Your Choices

To stop receiving our promotional emails, send us an opt-out request to http://littlemountainpark.us15.list-manage2.com/unsubscribe. You can choose whether to give us your personal information. You can also choose to disable tracking tools like cookies. If you do not give us certain information we ask, or turn off tracking tools, our websites may not work as well.

“Do Not Track Disclosure”

This website does not monitor or identify “do not track signals” from your computer, and such signals will not impact the operation of this website. Even if you are using a computer that sends a "do not track signal", we may collect, use and share personally identifiable information about you, provided that our actions are consistent with this policy.

Reviewing or Updating Your Information

Our Sites and Children

We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. We do not target or direct our website to children. Parents or guardians, if you think we have information about your child who is under 13, please contact us. To learn more about how to protect your child online, visit the FTC’s website and read the helpful information provided by the FTC.

Security

We maintain reasonable security measures to protect our websites and your information. No site is 100% secure, however. You should thus be careful when using the Internet, especially if you are submitting personal information online.

Links

This Website may contain links to third party sites. We do not control these sites and we are not responsible for their content or privacy practices. You should use caution and judgment when sharing information on third party sites. Any information you reveal on third party sites is not subject to this Policy. You should consult the privacy policies of each website you visit.

Contacting Us

You can contact us by email at info@mvpf.org. You can write to us at the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation, PO Box 1572, Mount Vernon, WA 98273 ATTN: President. You understand and acknowledge that information sent by you will be stored and processed in the United States.

Updates to this Policy

This policy might change over time. The most recent version of this policy will be posted here. Effective Date / Last Update: June 6, 2017

Copyright

These materials are provided by the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation as a service to the public and are to be used for personal informational purposes only. We grant you permission to download this web site's content and to print a single hard copy for your use only. You may not otherwise use, copy, modify, distribute, republish, or transmit any of the content or materials from this web site without the written permission of the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation. You agree that if you violate this prohibition, you may be subject to all legal remedies available to the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation, and you will additionally be responsible for any other losses, attorneys' fees or costs the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation may incur as a result of your violation.

Trademarks and Service Marks

The following are some of the proprietary trademarks and service marks of the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation or its related entity: littlemountainpark.org. A number of these trademarks and service marks may be registered in the future with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The Mount Vernon Parks Foundation also claims trademark rights to other marks that may not be explicitly listed, registered and unregistered, including its several logos and designs.

THESE MARKS ARE NOT TO BE USED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF MOUNT VERNON PARKS FOUNDATION OR ITS AFFILIATES. You agree that if you violate this prohibition, you will be subject to all legal remedies available to the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation, and you will additionally be responsible for any other losses, attorneys' fees or costs the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation may incur as a result of your violation.

The web site may also contain trademarks and service marks that belong to third parties. These other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners. In the event that a third party makes a claim or initiates suit against the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation due to your use of these other trademarks and service marks without the permission of the proper party, you agree to indemnify and hold the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation harmless from such claim or suit, and to reimburse the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation for all losses, attorneys' fees and costs that the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation incurs in connection with such claim or suit.

Solicitation

This web site may be accessed by users throughout the United States and internationally. It may contain references or cross-references to the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation programs and services that are not available in your state. These references do not imply that the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation intends to make such programs or services available to residents in your state. The information contained in this web site is not intended as a solicitation to users residing in states where the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation or its affiliates are not authorized to conduct business.

Disclaimers

Despite the best efforts of the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation to provide accurate information, including but not limited to prices and availability of homes or lots, it is not possible to completely ensure that information on this web site is constantly correct. The Mount Vernon Parks Foundation does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of information, text, graphics, links or items contained on this web site. THIS WEB SITE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS' WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. The Mount Vernon Parks Foundation further does not warrant that its service in providing this web site will be uninterrupted.

In no event shall the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages of any kind, or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits whether or not advised of the possibility of damages, and on any theory of liability, arising out of or in connection with your use of the materials. The web site and the materials on the web site are subject to change without notice and represent no commitment on the part of the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation in the future.

This web site may contain several references to products or services of other organizations or companies and links to other web sites, including web sites of non-affiliates of the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation. Those other web sites are governed by the terms and conditions applicable to those web sites. The links to those web sites are placed for your convenience only, and do not comprise any warranty or endorsement on the part of the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation as to the companies, products, services, information or programs associated with these web sites. Similarly, the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation makes no warranty or endorsement of non-affiliated companies and products that appear on this web site.

Dispute Resolution

By accessing this web site, or using information on this web site, you submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state courts in Skagit County, Washington or the United States Federal District Court, Western District of Washington, to resolve disputes of any kind arising out of your reliance on the information on this web site, or any interaction with the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation involving this web site.

Technologies used on this site

Cookies (small files our servers might place on your computer) and other passive technologies are used on this website to track visitors and their behaviors, in particular for the following reasons:

To recognize current and past visitors and their browsers/settings
So more personalized content can be presented to you on this site and to otherwise improve your site experience
So that customized content and advertising can be presented to you (whether on this website or others that you visit)
So that we can better understand our audience and their interests.

Controlling cookies

How you control cookies depends on the type of cookie being used. You may configure your browser to reject standard browser cookies. Among the technologies that may be used (including by third-party vendors who may display our ads on third party websites) are flash cookies, which are similar to traditional cookies except that they reside in Adobe Flash Player. Your browser security settings will thus not affect them. To control the use of flash cookies, go to http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html. If you configure your computer to block cookies, you may not be able to access certain website functionality.

About advertisements of ours that you might see on other websites

We also work with online advertising companies to provide you with advertising – on this site and other third party sites that you visit – that is as relevant and useful as possible. These ads may be based on information you submit on our site or third party sites, or your activities or behaviors on our site or on third party sites. The information gathered may be used to serve you with advertisements on this site or on third party websites.

Opting out of advertising-related tracking

All of the third party vendors with whom we work to engage in the advertising-related tracking described here participate in the Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising. This program provides consumers with the ability to opt-out of having their behavior tracked for serving advertising content. To opt out, and to learn more about the program, visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/