Privacy Policy
Child Health Investment Partnership (CHIP) of Roanoke Valley is committed to protecting the privacy and security of visitors to our website. Outlined below is our online privacy policy for information collected through our website and email lists. If you have questions about these policies, we encourage you to talk to us by email: chip@chiprv.org .
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from our email list, you may do so by sending an e-mail with the subject UNSUBSCRIBE to chip@chiprv.org .
Resale or Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
We do not share or otherwise disclose any personal information, including your name, address, or email addresses with other organizations. Only CHIP of Roanoke Valley staff and our authorized agents have access to personally identifiable information provided by visitors to our site.
Personalization of Content
The CHIP website uses "cookies" to help personalize and maximize your online experience and time online. We also use cookies to better understand how our visitors use our site. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, be notified when a cookie is set, or reject all cookies. However, please note that if you reject some or all cookies, your experience at this and on other sites throughout the Internet may not be complete. In addition, if you do not allow cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of personalized content delivery offered by other Internet sites or by us.
Browser Information Collected on our Website
As with any website operator, CHIP analyzes our website logs to constantly improve the value of our website. We use an external service to provide real-time reporting to us and our authorized agents of browser accesses to our site. This reporting includes page views, unique views, unique visitors, repeat visitors, frequency of visits, and peak-volume traffic periods. We do not use this service to gather, request, record, require, collect or track any Internet users' personally identifiable information.
Privacy of our Email Lists
CHIP maintains several email lists to keep our supporters, the press and policy makers informed about the news and events. Individuals who provide optional information may also receive materials in the U.S. mail and/or be contacted by telephone by authorized CHIP staff or representatives. We do not share the email addresses on our lists with staff outside of CHIP. We configure our list server software to refuse to divulge the email addresses of our list subscribers to anyone but authorized CHIP staff and agents. Only CHIP staff and our authorized agents have access to personally identifiable information provided by visitors to our site.
Data Tracking
In order to better serve our visitors, we use cookies and periodically analyze web logs. We may also use third-party services. This helps us understand traffic patterns and know if there are problems with our website. We may also use embedded images in emails to track open rates for our mailings so that we can tell which mailings appeal most to CHIP visitors.
URLs contained in emails may contain an ID that enables us to correctly identify the person who takes an action using a web page. We use these URLs to simplify the process of signing petitions and filling out surveys. We may occasionally present a shortened URL that references a longer URL which contains an ID we do this to simplify the display, to prevent links from becoming broken when copied, and to ensure compatibility with email programs which do not handle long URLs. When a shortened URL is displayed in an email, you will see the full URL in the browser's address bar when you access the page.
Links to Other Websites
CHIP may provide links to third-party websites, and other websites may provide links to this Site. Third-party websites operate according to their own terms of use and privacy policies. CHIP has no control over such third-party websites and, by using this Site, you acknowledge and agree that CHIP is not responsible for the availability of such third-party sites and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such sites. You further acknowledge and agree that CHIP is not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use or reliance on any content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such sites.
Financial Donations
If you choose to make a donation to CHIP, your credit card information will be used only for this transaction through our secure online payment system. CHIP does not retain credit card information or transmit credit card information to candidate committees.
Children
CHIP does not solicit personally identifying information from children. Visitors who are under 13 years of age should ask their parent or legal guardian for assistance when using the site and should not submit any personally identifying information to the site. For example, visitors under 13 years of age should not make donations or use the CHIP email tool.
Changes to Privacy Policy
If we make changes to our privacy policy, we will post those changes here and on our website home page so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it. We will not change our policies and practices to make them less protective of user information collected prior to the effective date of any changes without the consent of affected users. We encourage users to visit this page periodically to review our current policy.
Security
We use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving financial data from our site. In addition, we have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss or misuse of information at our site that we have collected from you. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.
