Privacy Policy

We respect and are committed to protecting your privacy. We may collect personally identifiable information when you visit our on-line site or place a phone order. We also automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, cookie information and the pages you visit. We will not sell your personally identifiable information to anyone.

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The American Council of the Blind is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We only have access to information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your order or request for information.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

We request information from you on our order form. To buy from us, you must provide contact information (such as name and shipping address) and financial information (credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we'll use this information to contact you.

We use a credit card company to process online donations and goods purchased through the website and third-party suppliers for some of the goods sold in the ACB Mini Mall. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes beyond filling your order.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 202-467-5081 or via e-mail at info@acb.org.

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for the American Council of the Blind website, www.acb.org. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this web site. It will notify you of the following:

• What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the web site, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
• What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
• The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
• How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to process a donation, collect your convention registration payment or fill an order from the ACB Store.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

• See what data we have about you, if any.
• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• Have us delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way, using Secure Sockets Layer software (SSL). You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Cookies

We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you may not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Orders

We request information from you on our order form. To buy from us, you must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we'll use this information to contact you.

Links

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Sharing

We use a credit card company to process online donations and goods purchased through the website and third-party suppliers for some of the goods sold in the ACB Store. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes beyond filling your order.

Contact Information

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 202-467-5081 or via e-mail at info@acb.org (link sends e-mail).

The American Council of the Blind
2200 Wilson Blvd., Suite 650
Arlington, VA 22201- 3354