We, the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco, also known as the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, understand that privacy is important and we are strongly committed to safeguarding the privacy of our donors and visitors to our website. This policy explains our online information practices and the way the information you provide us is collected and used.
By visiting this website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, do not use the website.
We are the sole owner of and the only organization that uses the information collected on this site. We do NOT sell, share, or rent this information to others under any circumstances.
ONLINE DONATIONS
The Salesian Sisters collects the following information through our secure online financial-transaction pages: name, address, e-mail address, phone number, fax number, and credit card information. This personally identifiable information is used to acknowledge receipt of your donation for tax purposes.
When you send a donation in honor or in memory of someone and request that an acknowledgement be sent to another individual or a family, we will use the name and address of that individual or family for acknowledgement purposes only.
All online transactions will be confirmed by a follow-up email.
COOKIES
The Salesian Sisters currently uses cookies. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information
We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
SECURITY
The Salesian Sisters implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information.
We offer the use of a secure server. Donations made through our website are in compliance with PCI data security standards and all supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into The Raiser’s Edge’s (Blackbaud) database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
Your credit/debit card information is not stored or retained after the donation is processed.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
The Salesian Sisters do not sell, trade, share, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to third parties. This does not include trusted outside providers perform functions on our behalf, such as sending postal mail and email, and processing credit card payments. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
The Salesian Sisters operates and maintains social networking pages on sites such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, and the site has links to other websites. We have no ability to control the privacy and data collection practices of such sites and the privacy policies of such sites may differ from that of the Salesian Sisters. Therefore, we encourage you to review and understand the privacy policies of such sites before posting anything – comments, photos, etc – or providing them with any information.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
The Salesian Sisters are concerned about the safety and privacy of children who use the Internet. Although we encourage children to learn more about our organization and opportunities to serve their communities, we encourage that this be done with parental supervision. Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 16 without prior verifiable parental consent. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personally identifiable information without verifiable parental consent, we will use our best efforts to remove such information from our files.
In addition, please note that children under the age of 18 may not make donations on this website without parental consent.
ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY ONLY
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.
CONTACTING US
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below:
Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco, Eastern Province
659 Belmont Avenue
North Haledon, NJ 07508
(973) 904-0102
adoptasister@salesiansisters.org