Privacy Policy

Joining Hearts owns and operates this Web site. We are providing a privacy policy statement because we understand that visitors to our site may be concerned about how we treat any information they provide to us. Joining Hearts may change or update this policy from time to time.

Joining Hearts will not sell your information to third parties.

Joining Hearts does not collect personally identifiable information about individual users, except when such individuals knowingly provide information on a voluntary basis. For example, personally identifiable information may be collected in order to facilitate volunteering or making a financial donation. This information is used solely for internal purposes by Joining Hearts or other entities who are involved in the operation of this site.

On the Joining Hearts Web site, some forms require users to voluntarily give us contact information (like names and email addresses), financial information (like account or credit card numbers), and demographic information (like street addresses, zip code or age). We use this information to send the user information about Joining Hearts or to contact the user when necessary or requested. Information that is collected is used solely for the purposes indicated on the form where the information is submitted.

Joining Hearts will perform statistical analyses of aggregate, non-personally-identifying, user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of various areas on our Web site. In addition to information provided by our visitors, we use the normal Internet tracking tools associated with standard Internet protocols and Web based systems. This system information is typically stored in log files and the information is used for aggregate reporting. Aggregate reporting includes: total number of visitors, most visited sections, peak traffic times, etc. Log files are simply transaction records web servers maintain. Those logs are used for recording information, such as service provider IP addresses, browser versions, referring Web sites, search terms used, average number of pages requested, average duration of visit, and total visitor traffic.

We use aggregate information gathered from your visit to better design our Web site. This information supplies us with a broad picture of how people use our Web site in order to help the management of our systems and to better serve our audience.

This Web site contains hyperlinks to other sites. Joining Hearts is not responsible for the privacy practices, or the content, of such other sites.

This statement and the policies outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.