Privacy Policy

Registration Information

Girlsinc-online.org requires that girls register off-line, with parental approval, before they may use our site. A facilitator from one of our affiliates or partners can explain our registration requirements. You must provide your name, address, e-mail address, grade, birth date, phone number, and school name and address on our application form. Your parents must review and sign the form, and then a teacher, guidance counselor, or other authorized adult, such as a staff person from a Girls Inc. Online partner organization or a Notary Public, must verify your identity.

Our site is about and for girls. This application process is designed to assure that only girls ages 9-17 participate, and that participating girls and their parents understand and agree to adhere to our Code of Conduct and terms of participation. If at any time a parent or guardian wishes to update registration information or terminate a child’s membership in Girls Inc. Online, she/he may do so by contacting us at the address below. All requests to review and update information about your child must be in writing, signed by you, and include your full name, address, and phone number, along with your child’s e-mail address. Proper identification is required. Requests may only be made by the parent/guardian who originally registered his or her child.

Information You Provide

Once they become members, girls can use our site without providing any additional personal information online. We use filters and spot-checking in an effort to prevent girls from posting personally identifiable information about themselves, but cannot guarantee that this process will always prevent a girl from posting personally identifiable information on the site. Additionally, to provide a rich personalized experience at www.girlsinc-online.org, we track online responses for all registered members, including, activity and game responses, preference settings, content submitted, poll answers, discussion board responses, and other data. This information is only accessible by Girls Inc. Online staff and its agents who make the site and content available and is used to help us enhance our offerings and to assess award applications. Registration information is available only to Girls Inc. Online staff, its agents who make the content available, and to local partners in your area so they can gauge progress of the program and provide assistance if necessary. We require those having access to personally identifiable information to sign agreements to keep your information confidential.

Information Girls Incorporated Collects Automatically

Girls Inc. Online may use cookies or similar files to store small amounts of data on your computer when you visit our web site. These cookies or files used by Girls Inc. Online do not contain any personally identifiable information about you and therefore cannot be used to identify you personally. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your browser and our web site is viewable even if you disable the cookie function on your browser. We DO NOT use cookies or other non-consensual methods to take personally identifiable or online contact information about you or your family off of your computer. Girls Incorporated DOES NOT use cookies for direct marketing or promotional purposes.

What We Do With Collected Information

Girls Inc. will use the information to administer membership and to improve content and offerings at the site. For members who participate via a partner site, their application information will also be shared with the partner site. We may, at times, produce reports containing aggregate information about site usage, such as online quiz results and total duration of visits for girls registered through each of our partner organizations. This allows us to provide information relevant to our partners and to the site. We do not include personally identifiable information in these reports. We will never share your application information with a third party for marketing purposes. We reserve the right to share information as needed to protect our site, visitors, and third parties, as outlined below.

Children’s Privacy

As a non-profit organization committed to serving girls, we pay special attention to protecting the privacy of visitors under age 13. As noted above, participation at this web site is limited to girls whose parents have signed a consent form. A girl’s identity must be verified by a third party.

Protecting Our Site and Visitors

We reserve the right to use or disclose any information without notice or consent as needed to satisfy any law, regulation, or legal request; to conduct investigations of complaints or possible breaches of law; to protect the integrity of our site and our property; to protect the safety of our visitors or others; to fulfill your requests; or to cooperate in any legal investigation.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy as necessary to maintain the highest protection for our users and to comply with a changing environment. We recommend that you check the policy when you visit our site to be sure you are aware of and understand our current policy. If we make material changes to this policy or in how we will use or collect your personally identifiable information, we will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. We will not make retroactive changes in how we handle previously collected personal information unless legally required to do so.