Privacy Policy for the Legal Aid of North Carolina Website
This is the website for Legal Aid of North Carolina. We have created this privacy notice to demonstrate our firm commitment to Internet privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website. The type and amount of information received depends on how you use the site.
Legal Aid of North Carolina reserves the right to modify the information contained on this site at anytime without notice. This site and all information and materials on it are provided to you “as is” without warranty of any kind.
Normal Website Usage
You can visit most portions of Legal Aid of North Carolina’s website without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information. The only information we may collect from a normal website visit is the name of your Internet service provider, the browser and type of machine you are using, the website that referred you to us, the pages you request and the date and time of those requests.
We use this information to generate statistics and measure site activity to improve the usefulness of the site to our visitors. During a normal website visit, we do not collect or store personally identifiable information such as name, mailing address, email address, phone number or social security of the visitor.
We collect the IP addresses of visitors, time of access, browser type, and webpages visited. We collect this information on an aggregate basis only. For example, we track which pages are most popular among visitors as a whole. This information is used for internal review only and not shared with third parties. We do not track information on which pages an individual visitor might look at during a visit to our site. We do not collect any other information without the visitor’s knowledge and permission.
Collection of Personally Identifiable Information
There are instances when Legal Aid of North Carolina requests personally identifiable information to provide you with services or correspondence (such as email lists and donations). This information, such as name, mailing address, email address, type of request and possibly additional information, is collected and stored in a manner appropriate to the nature of the data by Legal Aid of North Carolina and is used to fulfill your request. Personally identifiable information that you enter into the website will not be given to any other organization. Legal Aid of North Carolina makes every effort to ensure the secure collection and transmission of sensitive user information using industry accepted data collection and encryption methodologies such as SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). The information you provide is used by Legal Aid of North Carolina to improve the services we provide our visitors.
Legal Aid of North Carolina does not sell, rent or exchange email addresses or any financial information you may enter into the site to partners.
Some of the functions of our site require registration or personal information (such as name and email address). We use this information to track the usage of these features. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings. Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for products and services such as donations or Legal Aid of North Carolina branded merchandise.
Our site uses order forms for users to request information, products and services or to make donations. We collect visitor’s contact information (such as email address) and information on the referring website, if applicable. Contact information from the order form is used to send orders and information about our organization to our users. The user’s contact information is also used to get in touch with you when necessary. Users may opt out of receiving future mailings.
Legal Aid of North Carolina will not post personal contact information, including email address, street address and phone numbers, without that individual’s consent.
Opting Out
All persons who donate to Legal Aid of North Carolina whether via regular postal mail, over the phone or through the website, may receive periodic updates by these same methods (regular mail, phone or email). You may request limited mail updates or request no phone calls by contacting the Administrative Office at 919-856-2564 (M-F, 9am-5pm EST) or by writing to: Legal Aid of North Carolina, Administrative Office, 224 S Dawson St, Raleigh, NC 27601.
IMPORTANT: Please provide your full name and address and your member ID# if possible, and the best way to reach you, when contacting Member Services, so that we can fulfill your requests promptly.
Outside Links
This site contains hypertext links to other sites. Legal Aid of North Carolina is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. However, your confidential use of this site cannot be guaranteed by Legal Aid of North Carolina. Legal Aid of North Carolina shall not be responsible for any harm that you or any person may suffer as a result of a breach of confidentiality in respect to your use of this site or any information you transmitted to this site.