Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting, The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) or ("us" or "we") values and is committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors. We set forth in the following document The Single Mother Advancement Project’s  (THESMAP’s) Privacy Policy (“privacy policy”) for this Website:  www.thesinglemotheradvancementproject.org (www.thesmap.org). If you use this Website, you the user ("you") indicate that you have read and agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, do not use this Website in any manner.

 

This Website is a general audience website that is neither designed nor intended to collect personal information from children who are under the age of thirteen (13). To ensure compliance with the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, children under the age of thirteen (13) should not provide any personal information to this Website.

 

This Privacy Policy does not govern privacy practices associated with offline activities. We collect no personal information about you when you visit the website unless you choose to provide that information to us, and we do not use personal information other than to process the request that required you to submit personal information. Furthermore, we do not make any visitor-provided information available to third parties.

 

General Principles

 

In general, when you visit this website, read pages, or download information, The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store information concerning your visit:

 

• The Internet domain (for example, "www.xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account or "www.yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain)

• Your IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access this Website

• The type of browser and operating system used to access this Website

• The date and time you access this Website

• The pages you visit within this website; and

• If you linked to this Website from another website, the address of that website.

 

Acceptance

 

By using this Website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

 

This Privacy Policy statement covers any and all actions by The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) and any and all actions on the www.thesinglemotheradvancementproject.org (www.thesmap.org) website. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, contact our privacy staff at info@thesmap.org.

 

Collection and Providence of Information and Content

 

When you visit this Website, you provide us with two types of information: limited personal information and content you knowingly choose to disclose and/or post on the content that we develop. When you register with The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name and your email address.

 

When you visit our Website, as mentioned in Section 1, we collect your browser type and IP address. This process is standard internet protocol and gathered for all visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using cookies. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. By default, we use a persistent cookie that may store your login ID and password to make it easier for you to login when you come back to our Website. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable the convenience of this feature.

 

User content (as defined in The Single Mother Advancement Project’s “Terms of Use” agreement) is posted at the visitor’s discretion and therefore, at the visitor’s own risk. Although The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) can limit access to personal content, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users or with whom you may choose to share your content. For that reason, we cannot and do not guarantee that any content will not be viewed (or even harmed) by unauthorized persons.

 

The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) is not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained in the content. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored such content.

 

Content submitted to The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) is at the discretion of its submitter for the purpose of reuse at the judgment of The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP), and therefore, does not require consent by its submitter or representative to use such content as deemed by The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP). All content submitted to The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) is authorized by the submitter or the representative of the submitter of such content to be used by The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) at the discretion of The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP).

 

The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) retains the rights and ownership to all submitted content and the content it creates; original work is protected by Federal and International Copyright Laws and Treaties. The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) will release all rights to any content at a fair market price or fair market value.

 

On certain pages of this Website, The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) may ask you to voluntarily provide personal data such as your name, mailing address, email address, credit card information, telephone number, and similar information. That information is collected when you:

 

• Donate to The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP).

• Make a purchase from The Single Mother Advancement Project’s (THESMAP’s) store.

• Sign up to receive The Single Mother Advancement Project’s (THESMAP’s) alerts, emails, text messages, etc.

• Sign The Single Mother Advancement Project’s (THESMAP’s) petitions.

 

If you provide The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) with personally identifiable information, for example, by sending an e-mail or by filling out a form and submitting it through this Website, we will use that information to respond to your message and to help us provide you with the information and services that you request. All uses of that information are described on the Web page containing the form.

 

Submitting voluntary information constitutes your consent to the use of the information for the stated purpose. When you click the "Submit" button on any of the Web forms found on this Website, you are indicating your voluntary consent for The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) to use the information you submit for the purpose stated.

 

The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) reasonably uses commercially standard efforts to ensure that any information you give to us is stored and maintained on secure servers and not publicly accessible. The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) protects personal data by only allowing limited, authorized personnel to have access to such personal data. The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) maintains multi-level encrypted firewalls, virus and intrusion detection, and authentication protocols to protect such personal data, which includes level one payment card industry compliance to ensure that online credit transactions are secure. However, despite our best security efforts, no data transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

 

If you no longer wish to receive emails from The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP), you can click the unsubscribe link located at the bottom of The Single Mother Advancement Project’s (THESMAP) email.

 

Billing Information

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Should you sign up for a charged product and/or service (as defined in the Terms of Use agreement), The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) will require a customer’s billing information to process the transaction and to collect the fees involved.

 

We do not store your billing information, and this information will be discarded after your transaction has been processed. Nevertheless, the required information for your billing will be stored by our payment gateway company which will store your billing information on their secure payment gateway for as long as necessary to carry out the terms of your product and/or service.

 

We may retain the last 4 digits of your credit card number, and credit card type, so that you may identify the card used in the future.

 

Should you cancel your subscription, your billing information will be removed by The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) and our payment gateway company.

 

All transactions are processed over an industry standard Secured Sockets Layer (SSL) / Transport Layer Security (TLS) connection, with a minimum of 1024-bit encryption.

 

Sharing Your Content with Third Parties

 

The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) provides, as a main service, the ability of sharing created content with others (family, friends, customers, and people in your networks) and privacy settings that restrict other users from viewing and/or accessing your content without your consent. You choose the content you wish to provide through The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) and the manner in which you choose to share it.

 

The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) may provide information and/or personal user content to service providers to help us provide the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our non-profit business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers used as backup, to send out email updates about The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP), to remove repetitive information from our user lists, and to process payments for products and/or services. In connection with these non-profit business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information and/or content for use for a limited time in connection with these non-profit business activities.

 

The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) occasionally provides demonstrations of our created content that allow non-users a glimpse into The Single Mother Advancement Project’s (THESMAP’s) world. Such content is provided in a form which protects content from any unauthorized editing and/or changing.

 

The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with the law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP’s) products and services or using The Single Mother Advancement Project’s (THESMAP’s) name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents, or government agencies.

 

The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) may offer or provide services jointly with other nonprofit organizations, agencies, or companies. You can tell when another non-profit organization, agency, or company is involved in the providence of such service on our Website (www.thesmap.org), and we may share customer information with such third parties in connection with your use of such service.

 

Like many other websites that interact with third party sites, we may receive information that pertains to non-users from those sites in conjunction with the technical operation of our system. In cases where The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) receives information on users that are non-users, The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) does not attempt to associate it with our individual accounts and will discard it.

 

In any case in which the ownership of The Single Mother Advancement Project’s (THESMAP’s) non-profit activities shall change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy and Terms of Use agreement.

 

When you use The Single Mother Advancement Project’s (THESMAP’s) website, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., family, a friend, customers, or someone in your network), such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos, or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings selected. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk.

 

Links to Other Websites

 

The Single Mother Advancement Project’s (THESMAP’s) website may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage users of this Website to be aware when they leave our Website to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) or posted on our Website.

 

Third Party Advertising

 

Advertisements that appear on this Website are sometimes delivered (or served) directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third-party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer or use other technologies such as JavaScript and Web beacons (also known as 1x1 gifs) to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third-party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored by The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) unless you have shared it with them.

 

This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.

 

Changing or Removing Content

 

The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) access and control content using content editing tools. We may modify or delete any content at any time by the request of our users logging into their account. Any such changes will be updated immediately. Customers who wish to deactivate their account may do so by contacting us via the “Live Chat” agency or through email: info@thesmap.org. Removed information will be retained in backup copies for a reasonable period but will not be available to the public.

 

Security Protocols

 

The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP) takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information and content. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards which protect your account information and uploaded content. Because email and instant messaging (“Live Chat”) are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information or data to us by email or instant messaging services. If you have any questions regarding the security of The Single Mother Advancement Project’s (THESMAP’s) website, please contact us via the “Live Chat” agent or email: info@thesmap.org.

 

Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions

 

Your use of The Single Mother Advancement Project’s (THESMAP’s) services, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use agreement and all its general provisions including warranty disclaimer, limitation of liability, indemnity, and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and/or our Terms of Use agreement at any time. All changes and/or clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on this Website. You must refer to this policy on an ongoing basis and preferably before each use of our products and services so that you understand our current Privacy Policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

 

Social Media Sharing Features

 

This Website offers social media sharing features and other integrated tools (such as the Facebook “Like” button, which lets you share the actions you take on our Website with other social media, and vice versa). Your use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on your privacy settings for the relevant social media website. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social media sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the entities that provide these features.

 

Contacting The Single Mother Advancement Project (THESMAP)

 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via the “Live Chat” agent. You may also email us at info@thesmap.org.