America's Promise is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically. You can always review the current version of the policy by clicking on the "Privacy Policy" link in the footer throughout this site. In addition, if we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time you provided it to us, we will notify you by way of an email in order to provide you with the opportunity to decide if we can use your information in the different manner.

America's Promise is committed to safeguarding the privacy of children online. Please read the following policy to understand how personal information of children collected by America's Promise at this web site will be treated.

This web site is operated by Iowa's Promise - The Alliance for Youth, 200 East Grand Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50309, 800-308-5987, jody.benz@iowalifechanging.com.

America's Promise collects personal information from children including those under the age of 13 for the purpose of adding them to the America's Promise mailing list for occasional newsletters or information updates, and subscribing them to an e-mail listserv for young people engaged in service, leadership or advocacy activities to help other children and youth (Young Leaders Listserv). For that latter purpose, the child submits a personal e-mail address.

America's Promise allows all interested children to participate in its Young Leaders Listserv. A listserv is a mailing list of people who communicate about their common interests through Internet e-mail. When you subscribe to a listserv your e-mail address is added to that mailing list and you receive every message that is sent to the mailing list. Likewise, messages you send to the listserv will go to everyone on the mailing list. When you post messages to the listserv, your personal e-mail address is revealed to the other listserv participants. By participating in the Young Leaders Listserv, young people nationwide can communicate with each other about America's Promise and how to help deliver the Five Promises in their school, campus or community. The listserv also makes the latest news and resources for young leaders available to participants.

America's Promise will never disclose the personal information collected from children to third parties except that the nature of the Young Leaders Listserv (as explained above) is such that a participant reveals his or her e-mail address when he or she posts a message to all listserv participants.

America's Promise is prohibited from and does not condition a child's participation in an activity on the child's disclosing more personal information than is reasonably necessary to participate in such activity.

The parent of any child from whom America's Promise has collected information at this web site can review and have deleted the child's personal information, and refuse to permit further collection or use of the child's information.

The only time America's Promise will ask for your personal information is when signing up for one of our mailing lists or enrolling you in one of our programs. During this process, America's Promise asks for your name, organization, address, city, state, zip code, phone, fax, email, gender and birth date.

We will store that information in our database to send you offers and information about America's Promise. We may from time to time provide your name and contact information (as part of a mailing list) to businesses or organizations that actively support, sponsor or partner with America's Promise. If you do not wish us to provide your name and contact information to these businesses or organizations, please contact us.

Typically the mailing list would be used initially for programs which America's Promise seeks to derive additional support through your participation. If you take advantage of an offer from one of our supporters, sponsors or partners and become their customer, they may independently wish to send offers to you.

In this case, you will need to inform them separately that you do not wish to receive future offers from them. In addition, if you contact America's Promise, we may keep a record of that correspondence. If at any time, you no longer wish to receive e-mails from America's Promise, please let us know.

America's Promise and its partners operate secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our users.
 
To protect your information off-line, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect from you online.

If your personal information changes (such as your zip code) please contact us.

A cookie is a piece of data stored on your hard drive containing information about you. We use cookies on the America's Promise site to provide a better web site experience for you. The cookies contain a randomly generated number that is used to uniquely identify you for the duration of the visit to the America's Promise web site. You may still use our site even if you reject the cookie. Cookies, however, are used by some of our partners who provide services in connection with our site. Therefore, please review the Sharing section of this Policy below.
 
To better understand our users, America's Promise will review the server log files. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. Examples of such information include the URL of the Web page you were just on (known as the "Refer"), the IP (or Internet Protocol) address of the computer you are using, or the browser version you are using to access our site.

If you choose to submit a story via our Personal Pathways experience section, please be advised that your story may be shared in our content database and with our content partners.
 
On our site, you have the opportunity to make online purchases and to search for Volunteer and Donation opportunities. These opportunities are not hosted by America's Promise. Therefore, the policies with respect to these areas differ from those applicable to our site.
 
For information about our partners' privacy statements, SERVEnet for volunteering, and Target Marketing and the Jay Group for online purchases, please see their associated web sites and privacy policies. Below is a summary of our understanding about the privacy policies of these external hosts.

If you decide to sign up for a volunteer opportunity, a cookie will be stored on your machine to allow you to sign up for additional opportunities without having to register or log in again. When you sign up for a particular organization, your personal information is provided to that organization. For more information about the host of the volunteer opportunity pages, please contact SERVEnet or review the SERVEnet Legal Notice.


Our web site contains links to other organizations. America's Promise, therefore encourages you to be aware and to read the privacy statements of each of these other web sites. This privacy statement only applies to the America's Promise web site.

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us.