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Terms and Conditions

Strong Villages Inc provides its website for informational purposes only. By using the site, you agree to follow the terms and conditions outlined in this document; should you disagree, please cease usage of the Strong Villages Inc website. To continue,

Strong Villages Inc may, at its sole discretion, modify or revise these Site Terms and policies at any time, and you agree to be bound by such modifications. Any modifications will be effective immediately upon posting of the revisions on the Site, and you waive any right you may have to receive specific notice of such modifications. Your continued use of this Site following the posting of changes or modifications will confirm your acceptance of such changes or modifications. Therefore, you should periodically review the Site Terms and applicable policies from time-to-time to understand the terms and conditions that apply to your use of the Site. If you have a question regarding the use of the Site, please direct questions or comments about the Site or its contents to strongvillages.org.

Privacy Policy

Strong Villages Inc respects the privacy of all visitors to its online sites and facilities, and we consider it important that visitors are aware of how we handle any information collected about them. Strong Villages Inc only collects personal information such as your name, last name, phone and email address when it is specifically entered and submitted by the visitor. This information is retained only by Strong Villages Inc and is used solely to provide you with direct services. The information will not be sold, transferred or disclosed to third parties. Strong Villages Inc is committed to donor privacy. We respect your privacy and do not rent, sell, or exchange our mailing lists. We may disclose some personal information to select third parties in order to more effectively target our donor communications. Changes to this policy: We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy without advance notice. Notice of these changes to this policy will be posted to the homepage for this website for a period of three days. Changes to this policy were last made on February 13, 2014. If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact us at strongvillages.org.

Automatically collected information

Our web servers may automatically collect technical information that is not personally identifiable, such as your internet browser type. This information is solely for aggregation purposes which we use to help improve the content of our site. As with most other Internet sites, our web servers utilize “cookies” to track a user’s activity within our site as well as record the IP address of each visitor to this site. A cookie is a small data file that is stored on your computer. A cookie contains a unique identifying feature that allows our computer to recognize you when you return to the Strong Village site. The recorded IP address tells us which domain you visited from (for instance, yahoo.com), but not your email address or other private and personal information. We use the information we record to help diagnose problems with our servers, to administer this website more effectively, and to gather broad demographic information about what countries and domains our visitors come from and their behavior on our site. We sometimes also use third-party service providers to serve advertisements (banners, video or test ads) on our behalf across the Internet. These third parties may collect non-personally identifiable information about your interaction with us. This Privacy Policy does not cover the collection methods or use of the information collected by these vendors, as they have their own privacy policies and may be members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”).In the alternative, if you wish to opt out of this type of data collection, you can disable cookies in your web browser. Please note that disabling cookies may diminish the experience of the websites you visit. Our sites may contain links to other sites and entities not controlled by Strong Villages Inc. This is for your convenience. We are not responsible for the content of these sites and suggest you review their respective distinct policies. This Privacy Policy is subject to change without notice. It is your responsibility to ensure you are aware of the current policy. If you do not agree with the policy, do not use the site.

Site content disclaimer

While we strive to display reliable and complete content, certain errors and inaccuracies may occur within the site materials. Strong Villages Inc is not responsible for any such erroneous or insufficient content, nor are we responsible for any damage that the website may cause due to occurrences such as misstatements, omissions or viruses, amongst others. Similarly, we are not responsible for the content of or damages that may be caused by any sites that Strong Villages Inc websites may link to.

Trademarks

Strong Villages Inc website contains trademarks protected under law. These trademarks are the property of Strong Villages Inc and may not be reproduced or copied without our express written permission. This also applies to the content and design of the sites.

Information submissions

Any information submitted through the website to Strong Villages Inc will become and remain the property of Strong Villages Inc without any compensation to the submitter or creator. We assume no liability for the legality or copyright of the information submitted.

Disclaimer Strong Villages Inc

All material, including trademarks, trade names and logos and other graphics which form part of this website, save in respect of those trademarks, trade names and logos that form part of links to other sites and entities not controlled by Strong Villages Inc, remain the exclusive property of Strong Villages Inc, and may not, save for personal use, be copied, distributed, reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written consent having been obtained from Strong Villages Inc.

Strong Villages Inc. P O Box 1350 Agoura Hills, CA 91376.

This Privacy Policy will be effective as of May 23, 2018 for all new users and users in EU and EEA member countries.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

About Us
Information Covered by this Privacy Policy
Information We Collect From You
- Signing Up for Services; User Information
- Use of Services, Website Visits and Support
- Social Media
- Other Sources
How We Use Your Information
Sharing of Information
- Sharing within the STRONG VILLAGES INC Corporate Family
- Sharing with Partners
- Sharing with Third Party Service Providers and Vendors
- Corporate Reorganizations
- Authorized Users
- Legal Process
Security
Tracking Technologies and Online Advertising
Choice/Opt-out
- Marketing Communications from Us
  - Email
  - Phone
- Cookies
- Information from Third Parties
- Unauthorized Accounts
Retention of Personal Information
Your Rights
- Access
- Portability
- Correction
- Erasure
- Restriction of Processing to Storage Only
- Objection
- Withdrawal of Consent
Third Party Links and Information Collection and Use by Our Users
Children
Data Transfer
Complaints
Notification of Changes

ABOUT US

STRONG VILLAGES INC. and our subsidiaries (“we,” “us”) are a leading provider of online bookings for Global Volunteer Travel. With a web presence, we get found in online search, and connect with customers through social media, email marketing, and more. Our partners include Constant Contact, Woo themes, Host Gator, Domain.com and others found at https://www.strongvillages.org. We care about protecting the personal information of our customers and visitors who use our websites, products or services (collectively, our “Users”). This privacy policy provides details about how your personal information is collected, shared and used by us. To learn more about the STRONG VILLAGES INC corporate family, visit https://www.strongvillages.org. If you have any questions about this privacy policy or the practices described herein, you may contact us at: emailus@strongvillages.org or write to us at: Strong Villages P O Box 1350 Agoura Hills, CA 91301

INFORMATION COVERED BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy covers personal information, including any information we collect, use and share from you, as described further below. This privacy policy applies to all websites in the STRONG VILLAGES INC corporate family, our products and services, and our mobile applications (collectively, the “Services”). This privacy policy does not cover how our Users may use or share data that they collect using our services.

In order to travel with us and do business with us, your personal information will be collected, used, and shared consistent with the provisions of this privacy policy as well as the following addendums related to particular products and services offered by STRONG VILLAGES INC, which are a part of this privacy policy:

INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU

In the course of your use of the Services, we obtain the following information about you as described below.

SIGNING UP FOR SERVICES; USER INFORMATION

Information you provide prior to any registration process, such as your email when you provide it to us;
Information that you provide during any registration process, including in connection with a co-branded offer (such as your name, company name, email address, phone number, billing address or credit card information, geographic location and industry), when you call or email us (for support or otherwise) or when you use our products or services; and
Payment information that you provide to us (by way of our Services or otherwise) when you purchase some of our products and services, including credit card data.

USE OF SERVICES, WEBSITE VISITS AND SUPPORT

Data relating to your online activity on our websites with respect to our Services, including the following:
- IP address
- browser type and version
- geographic location
- pages you view
- how you got to our Services and any links you click on to leave our Services
- when you update your information, communicate with us, or order new Services
- metadata about your use and your contacts’ use of our Services and your emails you send (including clicks and opens)
- your interactions with any videos we offer
- issues you encounter requiring our support or assistance
- any device or other method of communication you use to interact with the Services

We store this data we collect in a variety of places within our infrastructure, including system log files, back end databases and analytics systems.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Information from third party social networking sites, including information that social networking sites provide to us if you use your credentials at such social networking sites to log into some of our Services (such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign-up form).
The information you allow us to access varies by social networking site, and depends on the level of privacy settings you have in place at the social networking site. You can control and find out more about these privacy settings at the applicable social networking site.

OTHER SOURCES

Information you provide to us at seminars or to our partners;
Information you provide to us in surveys;
Information that is publicly available; and
Information you consent to us receiving from third parties.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We have a legitimate interest in running a successful and efficient business and in providing you with Services and useful content, and we use the information we collect, both on its own and combined with any other information we collect about you, for the following purposes:

To provide the requested Services to you;
To provide you with useful content;
To ensure the proper functioning of our Services
To offer and improve our Services;
To provide you with requested information or technical support
To facilitate your movement through our websites or your use of our Services;
To do a better job of advertising and marketing our Services (our use of your information to do this is performed with your consent where required by applicable law);
To advertise and market third party products and services (such advertisement is only performed with your permission where your consent is required by applicable law)
To diagnose problems with our servers or our Services;
In connection with our security and compliance programs;
To administer our websites;
To communicate with you;
To target prospective customers with our products or services (such targeting is only performed with your permission where your consent is required by applicable law);
To assist us in offering you a personalized experience or otherwise tailor our Services to you; and
As otherwise described in this privacy policy.

We also use the information we receive in aggregated and anonymized formats to produce reports on trends and statistics, such as mobile search trends, email open rates by industry, campaign best practices or the number of users that have been exposed to, or clicked on, our websites or evaluated or purchased our products and services.

Payment information that you provide to us, including credit card data, will only be used to facilitate payment for our products and services.

We also use recorded telephone conversations for quality control purposes, to train our employees and for our own protection.

SHARING OF INFORMATION

As further described below, we will only share certain personal information with:

other members of the STRONG VILLAGES INC corporate family;
our partners;
third party service providers and vendors;
in connection with a sale, merger, acquisition or corporate reorganization;
authorized users within your organization; and
For legal reasons.

SHARING WITHIN THE STRONG VILLAGES INC CORPORATE FAMILY

We share personal information with other members of the STRONG VILLAGES INC corporate family to allow our corporate affiliates to contact you with offers, services or products that may be of interest to you and to provide you with their products and services. Any such corporate affiliate may use your information only according to the terms of this privacy policy. If you are located in a jurisdiction where such sharing requires your permission, we will only do so with your consent.

SHARING WITH PARTNERS

When we share personal information with certain third-party partners, including marketing and advertising partners, that information includes your name, email address and other information enabling partners to:

assist you in using our products and services,
contact you with offers, services or products that may be of interest to you, and
Provide you with their products or services.

If you are located in a jurisdiction where such sharing requires your permission, we will only do so with your consent. Please note that if you access our services through a tool that hides your location, such as through a virtual private network, you may not receive our request for permission because we were not able to identify you as being located in a jurisdiction where your permission is required.

Further, our partners are prohibited from using your contact information for any purpose beyond those set forth above without your consent. We will not provide our partners with your credit card information.

In the event we collect information from you in connection with an offer that is jointly presented by us and a partner, we will let you know who is collecting the information and whose privacy policy applies, as well as any options you may have regarding use of your information.

SHARING WITH THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS AND VENDORS

Occasionally, we enter into contracts with carefully selected third parties so that they can assist us in servicing you (for example, providing you with customer service, fraud detection and deterrence or access to advertising assets and providing us with information technology and storage services) or to assist us in our own marketing and advertising activities (including providing us with analytic information and search engine optimization services). Additional information about certain third-party service providers we share personal information with is available. Our contracts with such third parties prohibit them from using any of your personal information for any purpose beyond the purpose for which it was shared.

If you purchase a product or service from a third party through one of our brands, we will pass your personal information to such third party in order for them to fulfill your order.

We also share non-personal information with certain third parties, including the media, industry observers, marketing and advertising partners, vendors, customers, potential customers or partners. For example, we disclose mobile search trends, email open rates by industry, campaign best practices or the number of users that have been exposed to, or clicked on, our websites or evaluated or purchased our products and services.

CORPORATE REORGANIZATIONS

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, a sale of all or a substantial portion of our assets, or other similar sale transaction, your information will be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you by email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any such transfer and any choices you may have regarding your information.

AUTHORIZED USERS

All users authorized by you to have access to your account can view personal information stored in the account. A primary account holder can view personal information saved in subaccounts to which they have authorized access. We share information about authorized users only for legitimate purposes consistent with this privacy policy, including servicing your account and marketing products and services to you.

LEGAL PROCESS

Lastly, if legally required to do so, or if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary, we may disclose your personal information to courts of law, law enforcement authorities and other relevant third parties, such as internet service providers, to conduct an investigation, respond to a third party or law enforcement subpoena or court order, bring legal action, prevent harm to others or pursue other relief when you or a third party are or may be:

violating our terms and conditions of use;
causing injury or other harm to, or otherwise violating the property or other legal rights, of us, other users, or third parties; or
Violating federal, state, local, or other applicable law.

This disclosure can include transferring your information to the U.S. and other countries outside the European Economic Area. To the extent we are legally permitted to do so, it is our policy to notify you in the event that we are required to provide your personal information to third parties in connection with a subpoena.

SECURITY

The transmission of information via the internet, email or text message is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted through the Services or over email; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will take appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and unauthorized use, access or modification.

When we collect financial account information, such as credit card numbers, we protect it by use of PAY PAL whose transmission is through the use of encryption such as the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol.

TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AND ONLINE ADVERTISING

We may or may not use cookies, web beacons, pixels, tags, scripts and other similar technologies in the course of our business. Information about the technologies we use, why we use them (for example, in connection with online advertising), and how you can control them can be determined by contacting us at: emailus@strongvillages.org.

CHOICE/OPT-OUT

MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS FROM US

EMAIL

You always have the opportunity to opt out of our marketing communications with you or change your preferences by following a link in the footer of all non-transactional email messages from us or by emailing us at: emailus@strongvillages.org. Some communications from us are considered transactional or service communications (for example, important account notifications and billing information), and your account(s) for STRONG VILLAGES INC products and services are provided to you upon the condition that you receive these communications from us. You must cancel your account(s) for STRONG VILLAGES INC products and services, as applicable, if you do not wish to receive any transactional or service communications. To cancel your STRONG VILLAGES INC account(s), please provide us instructions at STRONG VILLAGES INC by email or US mail. You may still receive marketing communications from us even after you cancel your account unless you also opt-out of our marketing communications, as described above.

PHONE

We may contact you by telephone, with your consent where applicable, for marketing purposes (including by automatic dialer and/or prerecorded message). If you do not want to receive marketing calls, please contact customer support at the brand from which you purchased your Services. You do not need to agree to receive automated marketing phone calls or texts from us to use the Services.

INFORMATION FROM THIRD PARTIES

To manage the information we receive about you from a social networking site or other third parties (if applicable), you will need to follow the instructions from that party for updating your information and changing your privacy settings, where available. The information we collect is covered by this privacy policy and the information the third party collects is subject to such third party’s privacy practices. Privacy choices you have made on any third party site will not apply to our use of the information we have collected directly through our Services.

UNAUTHORIZED ACCOUNTS

If an account or profile was created without your knowledge or authorization, please contact customer support at the brand on which the account or profile is located to request removal of the account or profile.

RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We retain your personal information to provide services to you and as otherwise necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We will retain your personal information for no more than seven years following the later of (i) the date on which you terminate your use of the Services or (ii) May 25, 2018, unless we are otherwise required by law or regulation to retain your personal information for longer.

YOU HAVE RIGHTS

Where the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, or GDPR, applies, in certain circumstances and subject to data processing agreements, you have rights in relation to the personal information we hold about you. We set out below an outline of those rights and how to exercise those rights. Please note that we will require you to verify your identity before responding to any requests to exercise your rights by providing details only known to the account holder. To exercise any of your rights, please note that for each of the rights below we may have valid legal reasons to refuse your request, in such instances we will let you know if that is the case.

ACCESS

You have the right to know whether we process personal information about you, and if we do, to access data we hold about you and certain information about how we use it and who we share it with.

PORTABILITY

You have the right to receive a subset of the personal information you provide us if we process it on the legal bases of our contract with you or with your consent in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and a right to request that we transfer such personal information to another party. If you wish for us to transfer the personal information to another party, please ensure you detail that party and note that we can only do so where it is technically feasible. We are not responsible for the security of the personal information or its processing once received by the third party.

CORRECTION

You have the right to require us to correct any personal information held about you that is inaccurate and have incomplete data completed. Where you request correction, please explain in detail why you believe the personal information we hold about you to be inaccurate or incomplete so that we can assess whether a correction is required. Please note that while we assess whether the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you may exercise your right to restrict our processing of the applicable data as described below.

ERASURE

You may request that we erase the personal information we hold about you in the following circumstances:

where you believe it is no longer necessary for us to hold the personal information;
we are processing it on the basis of your consent and you wish to withdraw your consent;
we are processing your data on the basis of our legitimate interest and you object to such processing;
you no longer wish us to use your data to send you marketing; or
You believe we are unlawfully processing your data.

Please provide as much detail as possible on your reasons for the request to assist us in determining whether you have a valid basis for erasure.

RESTRICTION OF PROCESSING TO STORAGE ONLY

You have a right to require us to stop processing the personal information we hold about you other than for storage purposes in the following circumstances:

You believe the personal information is not accurate for the period it takes for us to verify whether the data is accurate;
We wish to erase the personal information as the processing we are doing is unlawful but you want us to simply restrict the use of that data;
We no longer need the personal information for the purposes of the processing but you require us to retain the data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; or
You have objected to us processing personal information we hold about you on the basis of our legitimate interest and you wish us to stop processing the personal information while we determine whether there is an overriding interest in us retaining such personal information.

OBJECTION

You have the right to object to our processing of data about you and we will consider your request. Please provide us with detail as to your reasoning so that we can assess whether there is a compelling overriding interest in us continuing to process such data or we need to process it in relation to legal claims.

You also have the right, at any time, to object to our processing of data about you in order to send you marketing, including where we build profiles for such purposes and we will stop processing the data for that purpose.

WITHDRAWAL OF CONSENT

Where you have provided your consent to us processing your personal data, you can withdraw your consent at any time bycontacting us: emailus@strongvillages.org

THIRD PARTY LINKS AND INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE BY OUR USERS

Some of our Services provide links to other websites. Because we do not control the information policies or practices of these third party sites, you should review their privacy policies to learn about how they collect and use personal information.

You may also log in to some of our Services using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect or an Open ID provider. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you with the option to share certain personal information with us, such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign up form. For example, if you take advantage of certain of our social media features, such as the Facebook Like button, and widgets, such as the “Share This” button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site, the applicable social networking sites may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our websites, and may set a cookie to enable it to function properly.

CHILDREN

Our Services are not directed to persons under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with personal information without such parent or guardian’s consent, he or she should contact us. If we become aware that a child under 18 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our files.

DATA TRANSFER

In order for us to provide the Services to you, your personal information will be transferred to, and stored at/processed in the United States. Your personal data is also processed by staff operating outside the European Economic Area (EEA), such as in India and the Philippines, who work for us or for one of our suppliers. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal data is treated securely and in accordance with this policy.

For transfers of personal information within the STRONG VILLAGES INC corporate family, such transfer will be under the Commission’s model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries (i.e., the standard contractual clauses), pursuant to Decision 2004/915/EC and 2010/87/EU.

For transfers of data to third parties, such transfers will either (I,) be under the Commission’s model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries (i.e., the standard contractual clauses), pursuant to Decision 2004/915/EC and 2010/87/EU; or (ii) rely on the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework.

You can contact the Data Protection Officer listed below to obtain a copy of the data transfer agreement or more information regarding the relevant safeguard we put in place. For more information about the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, please visit the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield website.

COMPLAINTS

In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how we process your personal information, please contact our Data Protection Officer at emailus@strongvillages.org and we will try to deal with your request.

Thank you for your interest in Strong Villages Inc. We shall do everything within our ability to help you have a great online experience with our organization.

Strong Villages Inc. P O Box 1350 Agoura Hills, CA 91376.