Spirit Services > Privacy Policy

Welcome to spiritservices.org (the “Website”). Spirit Services, Inc., and its affiliates (“Spirit Services”) are committed to the privacy of visitors to this Website. Spirit Services developed the following Privacy Policy to explain our privacy practices for the Website. Spirit Services encourages you to read its Privacy Policy carefully, and by using the Website, you acknowledge and consent to the practices described below.

Personal Information

While it is not necessary to provide any personally-identifiable information to browse the publicly-accessible portions of the Website, you must complete the registration form to apply for and a user name and password to be granted access and use of certain features and information. Spirit Services collects personally-identifiable information that you specifically and knowingly provide, which it may use to provide the products, services and information you have requested. Spirit Services also may collect similar information when you communicate with it.

User-Submitted Content

If you post documents, materials, stories, information, feedback, data, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, reviews, photographs, video and the like, any personally identifiable information you submit may be read, collected, or used by other users of the Website and could be used by others to send you unsolicited messages. Spirit Services is not responsible for any personally identifiable information you choose to submit to the Website.

Usage-Related Information

When you use the Website, Spirit Services’ servers automatically record certain information, including the browser you use, your IP address, the pages you view, and other usage information. The Website also may use cookies, which are is a small file containing a string of characters that stores user preferences and tracks user trends. The Website may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. If you choose to receive email from Spirit Services, it may use unique identifiers in its email messages. Spirit Services uses such usage-related information to help administer the Website, analyze user information, track users’ movement through the Website, and gather information to improve the Website.

Information Disclosure

Spirit Services is the sole owner of the information we collect through the Website, and it may share the information it collects with through the Website with other third parties as allowed by law. Spirit Services may share certain information with its third party advertising partners for the purpose of targeting the advertisements appearing on the Website. Spirit Services may hire other companies to provide certain services on our behalf, such as website hosting, transaction processing, statistical analysis and technical support. Spirit Services also may disclose or use your information when we believe, in good faith, that disclosure or use is reasonably necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, to detect fraud, security or technical issues, to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Spirit Services, users of our Website or the public, or as otherwise required or permitted by law.

Security

Spirit Services uses commercially-reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access or use of the information we collect. Where appropriate, those measures include the use of firewalls, restricted access, and encrypted transmissions and limiting internal access to only those in our organization who have a business need to access such information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while Spirit Services strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, it cannot guarantee its absolute security and you agree that you use of the Website is at your own risk.

Information from Children

Spirit Services does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or non-personally-identifiable information on the Website from persons user 18 years of age, and no party of the Website is directed to persons under 18. If you are under 18 years of age, then please do not use or access the Website at any time or in any manner. If Spirit Services learns that personally-identifiable information of persons under 18 years of age has been collected on the Website without verified parental consent, then Spirit Services will take commercially reasonable measures to delete such information.

Note to International Users

The Website is hosted in theUnited States and is intended for and directed to users in theUnited States . If you are a user accessing the Website from the European Union, Asia or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use and disclosure that differ from the United Sates’ laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the Website, which is governed by United States law, this privacy notice and our terms of use, you are transferring your personal information the United States and you consent to that transfer.

Retention

Spirit Services reserves the right to retain the information it collects for as long as necessary to permit it to use such information for the purposes that it has communicated to you and to comply with applicable law or regulations.

Other Websites

Spirit Services’ website may contains links to other websites. Spirit Services cannot control and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. Spirit Services accordingly encourages you to read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may be different than ours.

Updates

This Privacy Policy was last revised on March 3, 2009. Spirit Services reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any such changes will be effective immediately, and Spirit Services will inform you of any changes by posting the revised Privacy Policy on this page. If Spirit Services make material changes to this policy, it will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on its home page.