Privacy Policy
Virginia Mentoring Partnership takes your privacy seriously. This notice of our privacy policy is intended to help you understand our online information security practices. The policy covers Virginia Mentoring Partnership's treatment of personally identifiable information that it collects when you are on Mentoring.org and when you use Virginia Mentoring Partnership's referral services. If you have questions about our privacy practices or use of information, you can contact us at the postal or email address posted on this site.
Information Collection and Use
We use the information we collect about you to help facilitate the volunteering process. Programs need this information to begin your application. Please be aware that, to the extent required to provide our services, we share your information with other volunteers or nonprofit organization partners. If you indicate on our site that you are interested in a particular mentoring opportunity and provide us with your contact information, we will forward your contact information to the organization that is hosting that opportunity so that the organization can contact you regarding your potential involvement.
Virginia Mentoring Partnership strongly encourages Nonprofit organizations receiving e-mail addresses from potential volunteers to adopt privacy standards similar to those of Virginia Mentoring Partnership. You should be aware that each organization has its own policies regarding collection and use of personal information. Virginia Mentoring Partnership is not responsible for their use of your personal information. Inappropriate use of personal information received from Virginia Mentoring Partnership may jeopardize nonprofit listing on Virginia Mentoring Partnership Mentoring Opportunities database. Virginia Mentoring Partnership reserves the right to determine, in its discretion, what constitutes inappropriate use of this information. For more about a nonprofit organization's policy, please contact them directly using the contact information posted for that organization on our site. Information from the Nonprofit Organizations is used by Virginia Mentoring Partnership to consult with programs on ways to improve service
Use of Cookies
"Cookies" are small files placed on your computer by our site that are used by your browser. Our site uses cookies to speed navigation, keep track of items, and provide you with custom-tailored content. We also use cookies to remember information you gave us so you don't have to reenter it each time you visit our site. By showing us how and when visitors use our site, cookies also help us see which areas are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to our site are based on the data derived from these cookies, such as total number of visitors and pages viewed. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you wish, you can elect to set your browser to refuse cookies and will still be able to use most of the areas of our web site.
Virginia Mentoring Partnership uses cookies for various reasons. We only read cookies written by our site and do not make information gathered by use of cookies available to any outside parties except in aggregate form (see Information Sharing and Disclosure). We do not use cookies to obtain information on other web sites that you may visit. Cookies may be used to store some information about the parts of our site that you have visited previously. We do this to help you navigate our site more easily or to alert you to related pages on our site that may interest you.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Virginia Mentoring Partnership will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone. Virginia Mentoring Partnership will send personally identifiable information about you to other organizations when:
• We have your consent to share the information (as in the Mentoring Opportunities database)
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process
• We find that your actions on our web sites violate the Terms of Service or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services
We may share aggregate information about our users with certain third parties. This information shows user activity as a whole rather than on an individual basis and cannot be used to individually identify you. We use this information to help our partners and funders better understand our services and also to report on public interest in mentoring.
Linking to Third Party Sites
When you click on links and/or ad banners that take you to third party web sites, you will be subject to the third parties' privacy policies. While we support the protection of privacy on the Internet, Virginia Mentoring Partnership cannot be responsible for the actions of third parties or the content on their web sites. We encourage you to read the posted privacy policy whenever interacting with any web site.
Children's Privacy
Virginia Mentoring Partnership is concerned about the privacy of young children and does not knowingly collect any personal information from any child under 13. Children under 13 may not register for or use any area of our web site that requires personally identifiable information. We suggest that you become involved with your child's access to the Internet and to our site to ensure that his or her privacy is well protected. To read more about online safety and how to become more involved with your child's online experience, visit some of these sites:
• A Parent's Guide to the Internet
By Parry Aftab, Executive Director of CyberAngels, the largest online safety and education program in Cyberspace. "Your rules should be designed to help kids understand proper netiquette, know what to expect from others online, how to behave when something unexpected occurs and how to protect themselves." This is an excellent resource.
• SafeSurf's Internet Lifeguard
Seven rules of online safety basics
• WebWise Kids
Very good set of rules for children being online
Your Consent
By using our web site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Virginia Mentoring Partnership as outlined herein. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. Since this privacy policy may change from time to time, you should check back periodically.
