Privacy Policy

We at Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) want this site to be a safe and private place for users. PPFA will do its part by not requiring you to register or provide any information at all to use most features of this Web site. In turn, you can do your part by reading this policy and taking the steps outlined below.

There are certain actions and areas of the site that will require you to provide personal information, such as:

• Becoming a member of our activist network;
• Sending an e-mail question; or
• Making a donation.

Any time you provide personal information, you should be mindful of the terms of this privacy policy, as it will govern our use of the information you have provided.

We will update this privacy policy as we deem necessary, so be sure to re-read it from time to time. By submitting information to us, you agree that PPFA may use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Personal Information You Choose to Provide

In order to gain access to certain areas of our site, you may choose to provide information. If you do submit information to us, we will use that information for the purposes for which it was submitted. We may also use your information in other ways, such as to contact you about other Planned Parenthood activities and/or fundraising campaigns or as otherwise disclosed to you at the point of collection, and we may share your information with other Planned Parenthood entities for similar purposes. For example,

a.  If you join our e-mail list, we will have a record of your e-mail address and all other information you choose to provide. We may contact you by e-mail about a broad range of Planned Parenthood activities.

b.  If you make an online donation to PPFA, your information will be added to Planned Parenthood's donor list and database and you will be contacted about other Planned Parenthood activities, news, and/or fundraising campaigns.

c.  If you join or opt-in to our activist network, you will receive informational updates and action alerts on reproductive rights issues. You will also be added to Planned Parenthood's donor list and database and will receive fundraising campaign communications and news from Planned Parenthood. Our activist network is an electronic network and therefore we need an e-mail address to contact you. We also need your full postal address in order for our systems to match you to the correct state and federal districts, thereby ensuring that you are primarily sending messages to your designated elected officials.

d.  We will receive any other information you choose to provide, such as optional information or "personal stories" you submit. By submitting the story to us, you give us permission to edit it, post it on the Web site, and use it in appropriate settings designed to illustrate the importance of reproductive health freedoms. To protect your privacy, please do not include any identifying information in your "personal story".

You should be aware that we use third-party vendors to provide services on this site and in our offline business operations. The information that you submit on this site may be provided to those vendors on a confidential basis so that those vendors can provide services (such as maintaining our database, sending e-mail messages to activists, conducting fundraising campaigns, or processing credit card transactions) on our behalf.

Other than as described in this privacy policy, or as may be necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of our organization, our clients, or others, or as may be necessary to comply with applicable law, PPFA will not give or sell the personal information you provide online to any non-Planned Parenthood organizations or entities.

Financial Information You Choose to Provide

If you choose to make an online donation to PPFA, you will have to provide your credit card billing information. As this information is collected and transferred over the Internet to our secure server, it is encrypted using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology, the industry standard security technology that is designed to protect sensitive information. Our donation pages display the Verisign Secure Site Seal to assure you that our Web site is authentic and that all transactions are secured by SSL encryption. If you are making a donation, the credit card information that you provide at the time of donation is stored only for the duration of the transaction. Your credit card information is used only to process donations and will not be used or stored for any other purposes.

Information Automatically Collected and Stored

Any Web site you enter, including www.plannedparenthood.org, automatically collects and stores some information about your computer

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