PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY

This site is owned and operated by Harbor to the Bay, Incorporated. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Harbor to the Bay, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

INFORMATION HARBOR TO THE BAY GATHERS AND TRACKS

Harbor to the Bay gathers two types of information about users:

• Information that users provide when registering to participate in the ride or while making a donation.
• Information Harbor to the Bay gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our site.

Harbor to the Bay gathers information in the following processes:

Registration and Donation During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, email address and contact phone numbers. Harbor to the Bay gathers the email addresses and phone numbers because it is important that we can communicate with participants about the Harbor to the Bay AIDS Ride and related fundraising events. Harbor to the Bay may occasionally conduct participant surveys to improve online registration and donation process, website, and event in general.

Harbor to the Bay requires information such as name, mailing address, email address, credit card numbers and expiration date during the donation process. This information is used only to verify and complete the transaction, send confirmation email regarding the transaction, and provide year-end tax documentation about the donation. If a donation is directed toward the fundraising goals of specific riders, crew members or teams, the contact information will be visible to them so they may thank you for your support.

Usage tracking

Harbor to the Bay tracks user traffic patterns throughout our site. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Harbor to the Bay does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).

We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

Cookies

We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Harbor to the Bay may use cookies to carry information from page to page while you are signed in and during the registration and donation process. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site; however this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

USE OF INFORMATION

Harbor to the Bay uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites, to better prepare future content and to improve the Harbor to the Bay Ride experience based on the interests of our participants.

As stated above, we use information that users provide in order to send out electronic newsletters to provide important information about the Harbor to the Bay Ride. We also send out electronic newsletters to participants when we think they might be particularly interested in something we are doing and to enable participants to participate in a post-ride survey. We share this information with certain representatives of Harbor to the Bay beneficiaries only for ride related purposes, such as communicating with you about fundraising incentives and rider and crew gatherings. Harbor to the Bay never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers and sponsors.

Children

Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

Sharing of Information

Harbor to the Bay uses the above-described information to tailor our content and services to suit your needs. This is essential for providing a safe and effecient event. We will not share information about individual participants with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our participants or the public.

Security

Harbor to the Bay is committed to ensuring that information provided by our participants and donors is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

YOUR CONSENT

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Harbor to the Bay. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.