ABC First Coast is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the ABC First Coast Website and governs data collection and usage. By using the ABC First Coast Website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
ABC First Coast collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. ABC First Coast also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by ABC First Coast. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by ABC First Coast for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the ABC First Coast Website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through ABC First Coast public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: ABC First Coastdoes not read any of your private online communications.
ABC First Coast encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from ABC First Coast so that you can understand how those Websites collect, use and share your information. ABC First Coast is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the ABC First Coastand ABC First Coast family of Websites.
Use of your Personal Information
ABC First Coast collects and uses your personal information to operate the ABC First Coast Website and deliver the services you have requested. ABC First Coast also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from ABC First Coast and its affiliates. ABC First Coast may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
ABC First Coast does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. ABC First Coast may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, ABC First Coast may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to ABC First Coast, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
ABC First Coast does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, suchas race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
ABC First Coast keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within ABC First Coast, in order to determine which ABC First Coast services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within ABC First Coast to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
ABC First Coast will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on ABC First Coast or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of ABC First Coast; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of ABC First Coast, or the public.
Email Marketing and Subscribe/Unsubscribe
Besides the weekly Newsline publication, there may be other marketing materials and web pages emailed directly to you by ABC First Coast You will periodically receive these communications and others via email.
All users have the right to opt in or opt out of any of these mailings. Please send your request to:
Alternatively, you can follow the instructions at the end of our communication emails.
Use of Cookies
The ABC First Coast Website use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize ABC First Coast pages, or register with ABC First Coast site or services, a cookie helps ABC First Coastrecall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses and so on. When you return to the same ABC First Coast Website, the informationyou previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the ABC First Coastfeatures that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the ABC First Coast services or other websites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
ABC First Coast secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. ABC First Coast secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of industry standard security encryption measures such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. This site has such security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
Credit Card Security
ABC First Coast does not disclose credit card information provided by its members and guests. If you complete a transaction on the ABC First Coast site that requires the entry of credit card information, that transaction is sent to PayPal, a secure server, which will encrypt that information and send it to a clearing house.
Products and Services
ABC First Coast at times will sell the following items from this site:
- Donations
- Event/Conference Registrations
- Memberships
- Training Materials
- Clothing
Donations and Sales - Return Policy
Donations are appreciated and are considered as final sales. There is no shipping charge for donations and you will receive a confirmation of your donation via email.
Events and conferences are subject to terms and conditions specific to each event, and therefore identified on their respective registration pages.
For Membership questions, please contact [email protected]
For the ABC Store, please call (202) 595-1505 for more information.
Changes to this Statement
ABC First Coast will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. ABC First Coast encourages you to periodically review this statement to be informed of how ABC First Coast is protecting your information.
Contact Information
ABC First Coast welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that ABC First Coast has not adhered to this statement, please contact ABC First Coast at [email protected]. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.