Privacy Policy
(Updated 08/31/2006)

Your privacy is important to us. By participating in the Council of Better Business Bureau's BBBOnLine Privacy Program we have made a commitment to meet the program's strict requirements regarding how we treat your information and have it verified by BBBOnLine. Further information about this program is available at http://www.bbbonline.org.

WITF, Inc. has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting the privacy of personally identifiable information about our users. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the WITF.org website. This does not include the CentralPA.org, RadioPA.com, Explorepahistory.com, Empireradionetwork.com and pubradionews.net websites.

Information Collection and Use
WITF.org does not use cookies technologies. We collect information from our users only when accepting membership and volunteer applications from our website. WITF, Inc. is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not disclose, sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this privacy statement or as otherwise required by law.

User Registration-Personal Information Collection
In order to become a member or volunteer of WITF, Inc., users must first complete an Individual or Group Registration form. During registration, users are required to disclose contact information (name, address, phone number, and e-mail address). Additionally, our member page asks for credit card information.

Use of Collected Information
WITF, Inc. uses contact information from the registration forms and from individual transactions in the following ways:

1. To authorize credit card payments and electronic payments (wire transfers) for membership dues, products and services offered through WITF, Inc.

2. To send members information about WITF, Inc. (magazine, newsletters, etc.). This is optional. Users can select to not receive this information on the registration form or by contacting our membership department directly (e-mail, phone or mail).

Non-Personally Identifiable Information Collection
Certain passive or behavioral information is collected but is only used in aggregate for the purpose of benchmarking traffic flow and is not connected to personally identifiable information. Such information includes, but is not limited to the following:

1. Page views

2. User sessions

3. Most popular content or site views

4. Advanced path analysis

5. Access levels

6. Server activity

7. Most common browser and platforms used

8. Other technical statistics

Cookies are only used for facilitating and maintaining user sessions, and are not connected to personally identifiable information.

Log Files
WITF, Inc. uses a user's IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our website. IP addresses are not connected to personally identifiable information.

Sharing Information
Users may indicate on the initial user registration form whether or not they wish WITF, Inc. to share their contact information with associated nonprofit and corporate partners in accordance with this Privacy Policy. To not have your information shared please contact our membership department directly (e-mail donorservices@witf.org, phone: 1-800-366-9483, or mail to: 4801 Lindle Rd., Harrisburg, PA, 17111).

Links
This website contains links to other websites. Please be aware that WITF, Inc. is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites. WITF, Inc. encourages our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this WITF.org website.

Children's Guidelines
Protecting the privacy of children is very important to WITF, Inc. We do not collect or maintain information at our website from people we actually know are under 18.

WITF is prohibited from conditioning a child's participation in an activity on the child's disclosing more personally identifiable information than is reasonably necessary to participate in such activity. You may reach us with any questions or comments at donorservices@witf.org, phone: 1-800-366-9483, or mail to: 4801 Lindle Rd., Harrisburg, PA, 17111.

Security
This website has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under WITF.org control. When the WITF2.org registration form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted for protection with industry standard encryption software - SSL (secure sockets layer). While on a secure page, such as our user registration form, the lock icon on the bottom of web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes "locked," as opposed to "unlocked" (or open) when the user is just 'surfing'. To learn more about SSL, go to http://www.ssl.com/. Credit card authorization requests are sent using the same encryption technology.

Furthermore, access to users' personally identifiable information is restricted in WITF's offices, with only certain WITF employees granted access to such information as appropriate to perform specific jobs and tasks (e.g., a member service representative).

Reviewing/Correcting/Updating Personal Information:
If a registered user wants to review his or her personally identifiable information or if this information changes (such as change of address), users can review, correct, update or remove their personal data provided to WITF, Inc. in the following ways:

1. The user can self-correct any of his or her personal data or preferences at any time by filling out our membership form online.

2. The user can send e-mail to donorservices@witf.org

3. The user can call WITF at 1-800-366-9483, toll free.

Choice/Opt-out
Members of WITF, Inc. are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of receiving communications from WITF, Inc. or sharing their contact information with associated nonprofit and corporate partners.

WITF respects your privacy. Consistent with ethical fundraising practices among nonprofit organizations, WITF does occasionally make offers from other organizations available to our members. To have your name excluded from these offers, please e-mail us.

Users may indicate on their initial registration form whether or not they want to receive communications from WITF, Inc. or share their contact information with associated nonprofit and corporate partners.

The official registration and financial information of WITF, Inc. may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll-free, within Pennsylvania, 1-800-732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement.

Contacting WITF, Inc.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact us:

1. You can send e-mail to Flip_Michaels@witf.org

2. You can call the WITF, Inc. at 1-800-366-9483, toll free.

Notification of Privacy Policy Changes
If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our site (www.witf.org) so users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we will disclose it. We will use personally identifiable information in accordance with the privacy policy under which that information was collected. If at any time we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated in the privacy policy in effect at the time the information was collected, we will notify affected users on our website.

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