Privacy Policy
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PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy describes the practices of Peace X Peace regarding information collected from visitors to and Members of the Peace X Peace Web Site and Women Stand With Iraq Web Site. It describes what information is collected, how that information is used and under what circumstances, if any, the information is disclosed to others. You are authorized to use the Peace X Peace Web Site only if you agree to this Privacy Policy. PLEASE NOTE: Your use of this Web Site constitutes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy.

We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time, and when we do, we will post on the Peace X Peace Web Site, and Women Stand With Iraq Web Site, a notice that the Privacy Policy has been modified. Any modification will be effective on the effective date that appears on the modified Policy. Your continued use of the Web Site following modification of the Privacy Policy will be conclusively deemed to signify your acceptance of the modification.

1. INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY
Peace X Peace uses server log analysis tools to gather statistics regarding our Web Site's usage, such a the number of hits received, our most/least visited pages, errors experienced by users and browsers and platforms used to connect to our Web Site. The following are examples of information about your visit that is, or may be, collected for this analysis:

  • The Internet Protocol (IP) address and domain used. (The IP address is a numerical identifier assigned either to your Internet service provider or directly to your computer.)
  • Your user name.
  • The type of browser and operating system used.
  • The date and time you visited this Web Site.
  • The web pages you visited.
  • The action you tried to perform (e.g., get a document or post content)
  • Codes that correspond to the status of your action (e.g., successful request, document not found, etc.)

The above information is used to improve the content and/or layout of our Web Site. Peace X Peace does not sell or rent the information we collect automatically, nor do we distribute it to any third party, provided that we may share it with our authorized service providers, for example, those who support our Web Site functionality.

2. INFORMATION YOU VOLUNTEER.
Peace X Peace may collect, store and use any personal and non-personal information you volunteer. Personal information is information that identifies or describes you, including but not limited to your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address. You may also provide demographic information, such your age, religion, nationality or language spoken, and information about your interests. You may also provide financial information, such as your credit card type, number and expiration date. Peace X Peace processes information on its servers in the United States.

Peace X Peace may use the information you provide to deliver the services you have requested, for example:

If you become a Member and supply us with your e-mail address, we may send you our e-newsletters, Week X Week and Peace Times. If you ask to be matched with another Peace X Peace Member or to start or join a Sister Circle, we do not share your e-mail address with others, but we will use it to forward communications to you that we receive from other Members. We may also use your e-mail address to respond to messages you send us.

If you subscribe to the Women’s Global Roundtable, or make a donation, or purchase a product or other service, we may use the credit card information you provide to bill you for the product or service you have requested.

Please note that the blog publishing service we use is Blogger, a service of Google, Inc. If you create a blog using this service, Google may solicit and collect personally identifiable information from you, and you will be subject to Google’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, not those of Peace X Peace. If we use another blog publishing service in the future, you will be subject to its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, not those of Peace X Peace.

Peace X Peace may use the information you provide as part of one of our Web Site features, for example:

If you provide your name, a photograph or other information in the course of contributing a story, in text form for Story X Story, or in audio form for Voice X Voice, we may post that information on our Web Site.

Peace X Peace may also use the information you provide to operate and maintain this Web Site and to improve our content, services and communications with you.

If you are visiting our Web Site from a country outside the United States, you acknowledge and agree that in using the Peace X Peace Web Site and/or the Women Stand With Iraq Web Site, you may transfer information about yourself to the United States, that the data protection laws of the United States may not be as comprehensive as those in your own country and that the transfer of this information occurs with your consent.

3. DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES OF INFORMATION YOU VOLUNTEER
Peace X Peace does not sell or rent the personally identifiable information we collect to any third party. We may share it with our authorized service providers, for example, those who support our Web Site functionality, or who process credit card transactions for us. We may also disclose your personally identifiable information in response to a subpoena or court order, or in response to a request from a law enforcement or other government agency, to establish or exercise our legal rights or to defend against claims.

4. ACCESSING AND UPDATING YOUR PROFILE
If you have registered as a Peace X Peace Member, you may review and request changes to the information you have provided to us, by contacting us at membersupport@peacexpeace.org; or by calling Member Support at (703) 391-0932 or (925) 962-9798 9AM-5PM US Eastern Time.

5. UNSOLICITED E-MAIL
At any time, you can “opt out” of receiving e-mail messages from Peace X Peace promoting our services, by contacting us at the address below. It may take us ten (10) days to process you request. We may send you messages regarding your membership, subscription, the purchase by you of goods or services from Peace X Peace, or other transactional or relationship messages, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.

6. CHILDREN
The Peace X Peace Web Site and Women Stand With Iraq Web Site is intended for adults. Accordingly, we do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of thirteen.

7. SECURITY
Peace X Peace maintains reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the personal information you provide, to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification and disclosure; and we require that our authorized service providers that have access to your personal information implement and maintain such security procedures and practices. For example, we use industry-standard tools such as firewalls to protect your personal information; we host our servers in a physically secure environment; and when you provide personal information through this Web Site, we use a secure socket layer (SLL) connection to enhance security by means of encryption. Please note that no security measures are 100% effective against hackers.

8. EFFECTIVE DATE; HOW TO CONTACT US
This Privacy Policy is effective 11/15/2007. If you have questions about it, please contact Peace X Peace by e-mail or postal mail as follows:

Privacy Officer
Peace X Peace, Inc.
1601 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington D.C. 20009
USA

E-mail: membersupport@peacexpeace.org