The policy of the USS Foundation is to always respect and protect your privacy. This privacy statement sets forth our privacy policy and clearly states our commitment to you on how we collect information from you and how that information is used and kept.

You are not required to provide any personal information on our website unless you choose to do so. However, for certain functions like requesting more information or making a donation, you will be required to provide us with certain contact or other information in order to process your request. We may use this contact information to send you information about the USS Foundation and its programs in the future. However, you can always opt-out of receiving future communications by visiting our website and submitting a request or by requesting to opt out through the supplied link on all USS Foundation emails.

The USS Foundation assures you that the identity of everyone who contacts us through our website is kept confidential. We will not rent, sell or exchange our mailing lists or otherwise disclose any information to third parties except as may be required by law, or through voluntary cooperation with law enforcement authorities if we judge that such cooperation is necessary to avoid potential serious harm.

We maintain security measures to keep all information private and secure. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the appropriate use of this information, we have established integrated physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect.

The USS Foundation may use "cookies" to store user information. A cookie is a small string of text that a web site sends to your browser that is intended to enhance your visit but cannot retrieve data from hard drives, pass on computer viruses or capture email addresses. In general, cookies can securely store a user's ID and password specific to that website and identify which parts of a website have been visited.  Cookies help us understand which parts of our website are the most popular, where our visitors are going and how long they spend there. We use cookies to study traffic patterns on our website so we can make suitable improvements to provide you with a better user experience. Our cookies will not provide us with any information not related to our website. Your browser, however, does automatically tell us the type of computer and operating system you are using.

In addition to cookies, we also look at the recorded IP addresses to tell us which domain you immediately came from before visiting our site (for instance, Google), but not your email address or other private or personal information. We use this information to administer this website more effectively and gather broad demographic information about where visitors found out about our site.

The USS Foundation utilizes an analytics program to gather statistical information about web traffic to our site. The data we obtain is used to optimize our website for our visitors and does not include personally identifiable information.

Our website may contain links to other sites, including links which may frame the content of the other sites using the USS Foundation name and logo. The USS Foundation is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites, even if our name and logo are displayed on their webpages.

This privacy statement has been updated and is effective as of October 21, 2011. The USS Foundation may make changes to this privacy statement without notice. The revised statement will be effective immediately upon posting to our website. Please check the effective date of this privacy statement to determine whether changes have been made since the last time you visited this website.

Questions?

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this website or your dealings with this website, please contact info@ussfoundation.org.