(Last updated: July 2025)
This website is owned and
operated by GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS, INC., a
501(c)(3) non-profit organization serving members in the states of New
York and Pennsylvania, with offices in Horseheads, Maine, New
Hartford, Seneca Falls, Syracuse, and Watertown, N.Y.
Our
online properties include, but are not limited to, all pages found
under
GSNYPENN.ORG.
This notice applies to any websites, mobile apps, or online
services that link to this privacy policy (collectively, referred to
below as the site).
GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS, INC.
is committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of our visitors.
Our policy discloses how we collect, protect, and use information you
provide, or we collect online, as well as how we protect children’s
privacy. If our policy practices change in the future, we will post
our revised notice on this page. By using the pages on this site or
other services covered by the posted policy, you are accepting the
practices described in the policy.
INFORMATION COLLECTION
Personally
Identifiable Information
At our site, we do not
collect personally identifiable information from individuals unless
they provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly. This means we do not
require you to register or provide information to us to view our site.
GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS, INC. only gathers personally
identifiable data on our site (such as names, addresses, ZIP/postal
codes, email addresses, etc.) when voluntarily submitted by a visitor.
Once collected, we may combine this information with other information
collected from external sources.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
GIRL
SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS, INC. may automatically collect certain
technical information from your computer such as your Internet service
provider, Internet Protocol address, browser type, operating system,
pages viewed, pages viewed immediately before and after accessing the
website, and search terms entered to get to our site. This information
allows us to improve and customize our services. We and our service
providers may collect this information using “cookies,” which are
small text files that many websites save on your computer, or similar
technologies. See the section on “Use of Cookies and Similar
Technology” below for more information.
USE AND SHARING OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
The personally identifiable information you provide is
used by GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS, INC. and other entities who
are involved in the operation of this site or who provide support for
the GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS, INC. and Girl Scouts of the USA
mission and programs, for general business purposes and for the
purposes for which you provided the information. General business
purposes include, for example, GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS, INC.
and Girl Scouts of the USA membership activities, program
participation, marketing, promotions, and fundraising activities and
communications. The purposes for which you provide information
includes our use of your personally identifiable information to
process online transactions, purchases, and donations, facilitate
participation in Girl Scouts of the USA and GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN
PATHWAYS, INC. programs, promotions and services, or process job
applications. We do not sell information you provide to us online with
third parties. We may share personally identifiable information with
third parties including: (i) with other Girl Scout councils and Girl
Scout troops for administrative purposes relating to a child’s
activities with another council or their troop; (ii) when the person
submitting the information authorizes us to share it; (iii) when
sharing the information is with a service provider in furtherance of
our operations or the operation of the site (for instance, to process
a purchase or other transaction you make); (iv) to facilitate
participation in Girl Scouts of the USA and GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN
PATHWAYS, INC. programs, promotions, and services, or to engage in
fundraising, marketing, communications, and promotions; (v) to comply
with legal processes such as a subpoena or court order or to otherwise
protect your or our legal rights; or (vi) for other purposes for which
you provided the information. GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS, INC. has
no control over or responsibility for the data collection and use
practices of third parties that process online transactions. For
example, if you make a purchase on our site using a PayPal account or
similar account of a third-party payment provider, certain information
is transmitted to the payment provider and is subject to the third
party’s privacy policy.
Please note that Girl Scouts of
the USA provides operational support for the site and may collect and
use personally identifiable information you provide to the site and
other information collected by the site as described in this policy.
Girl Scouts of the USA will use any information it collects for the
purposes described in this policy and in a manner consistent with its
privacy policy, available
here. GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS, INC. and Girl Scouts of the
USA are each responsible for their own information handling
practices.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN
PATHWAYS, INC. is committed to providing a safe, secure, and fun
online experience for children who visit our site. We are dedicated to
safeguarding any personally identifiable information collected online
and to helping parents and children have positive experiences on the
Internet.
We will never knowingly request personally
identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior
verifiable parental consent. With parental consent, we may collect
information from children under the age of 13 such as: name, address,
email address, account information, and user-generated content. This
information allows us to fulfill a requested transaction and
facilitate participation in online programs, keep records, undertake
certain marketing activities, or to otherwise customize or enhance the
website experience for children.
Children under the age
of 13 may be able to make certain content, such as user-generated
content, visible to others or the public. This could include, for
example, a webpage or parts of webpages operated by children that have
been designed for group or public viewing. However, absent parental
consent, children under 13 would be allowed to display only limited
information, such as a first name or unique username, or other
information that does not allow for online contacting by third
parties.
Regardless of what information is displayed,
parents can revoke their consent and ask that information about their
children be deleted from the site by contacting our offices by phone
at 315.698.9400, toll-free at 1.800.943.4414 or via email at INFO@GSNYPENN.ORG. To do this or
to review personally identifiable information collected from children,
we must verify the identity of the requesting parent. When a parent
revokes consent, we will stop collecting, using, or disclosing
information from that child. To respect the privacy of parents,
information collected and used for the sole purpose of obtaining
verifiable parental consent or providing notice is not maintained in
retrievable form by the site if parental consent is not obtained after
a reasonable time.
GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS, INC.
welcomes children to learn more about our organization and, where
appropriate, participate in polls and surveys, as well as submit
comments, artwork, writings, and other submissions for posting on our
website. For this reason, GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS, INC. follows
the guidelines for interactive electronic media published by the
Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the Better Business
Bureau for pages targeted to children under 13. However, we encourage
this be done only with their parent's knowledge and supervision. We
also encourage children to use an alias, first name, nickname,
initials, or other alternative to full names or screen names which
correspond with an e-mail address for any activities which will
involve public posting.
In keeping with CARU's Principle
regarding respecting and fostering the parents' role in providing
guidance for their children, we encourage parents to check and monitor
their children's use of e-mail and other online activities
regularly.
USE OF COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Visitors should be aware that non-personal information and data
may be automatically collected by the GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS,
INC. website using "cookies" or other similar technologies
such as web beacons. "Cookies" are small text files a
website can use to recognize repeat visitors, facilitate the visitor's
ongoing access to and use of the site, and allow a site to track usage
behavior and compile aggregate data that will allow content
improvements. Cookies are not programs that come onto a visitor's
system and damage files.
Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to the visitor that has no meaning outside the assigning site. If a visitor does not want information collected using cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the visitor to deny or accept the cookie feature. “Web beacons” are a small snippet of code embedded in webpages typically used to monitor activity on a webpage and transfer or collect information, such as information about your Internet Protocol address, the URL of the page on which the beacon is located, the browser type that is accessing the site, and the ID number of cookies placed on your computer.
GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS, INC. uses "cookie" technology only to obtain non-personal information from its online visitors to improve visitors' online experience and facilitate their visit within our site. GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS, INC. may use web beacons to improve website services, conduct website analytics, first-party advertising relating to us and our sponsors, and to optimize the browsing experience.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit
our website. These companies may use non-personally
identifiable information (that is, not including your name, address,
email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and
other websites to provide advertisements about goods and services of
interest to you on this or other websites.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES AND SERVICES
This site may be linked to other sites and services that are not maintained by GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS, INC. These websites have their own privacy policies, which you should review prior to visiting them. We have no responsibility for linked websites and provide these links solely for the convenience and information of our visitors.
OUR SECURITY SAFEGUARDS AND HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA
The safety and security of your online experience is of the utmost
concern to us. We take measures to implement reasonable physical,
electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent
unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the
information we collect online.
Credit Card Safety
Protecting the safety of
your credit card information is also important to us. For card
transactions we process, we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology
to protect the security of your credit card information as it is
transmitted to us. SSL is an Internet encryption technology, and a
method of scrambling data as it travels from your computer to our
website servers. We also encrypt your credit card number when we store
your order and whenever we transfer that information to participating merchants.
To make sure you are accessing our secure server before you submit sensitive information, check the document for your browser for indication of an SSL connection (most browsers utilize an unbroken or closed padlock). Verify that SSL is active before submitting sensitive information to our server. To double-check, verify that the URL or Address line of your browser for our site begins with "https."
It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to
your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished
using a shared computer. If you are under 18, you need parent/guardian
permission to use a credit card to make purchases online.
State-Specific Data Privacy Information
GIRL
SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS, INC., serves customers in New York and Pennsylvania.
Nonprofit organizations, including GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS, INC., are exempt from data privacy laws.
Regardless of your state of residency, GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN
PATHWAYS, INC. and Girl Scouts of the USA honor the following rights
with respect to Personal Data collected from you when you visit our
sites:
- Confirm whether Girl Scouts of the USA is processing your
Personal Data and, if so, access that Personal Data.
- Rectify/correct any inaccuracies in your Personal
Data.
- Ask us to delete any of your Personal
Data that is stored in our systems.
- Obtain a
copy of the Personal Data we have for you in a format that allows
you to transmit it to another data controller (also known as the
"Right to Data Portability").
- Opt-out of having your Personal Data processed for purposes of targeted advertising.
While we are not currently subject to the data protection laws that
provide rights to residents of other U.S. states, we continue to
monitor the privacy law landscape and, when necessary, will update our
practices and this notice to remain in compliance with applicable
laws.
Exercising Your Rights
To exercise the rights
described above, please contact Girl Scouts of the USA via the Girl Scouts Privacy Portal.
You have the right to be free from unlawful discrimination for exercising your rights under applicable state law.
Only you or an adult you designate to act on your behalf (where
permitted by law) may make a request related to your Personal Data. A
request to exercise any of these rights must identify the right you
want to exercise and describe the information to which your request
relates in sufficient detail to allow us to understand, evaluate, and
respond to your request.
HOW TO CONTACT OUR COUNCIL
If you have any further questions, you can contact us via our customer service form or email us your question at INFO@GSNYPENN.ORG. We will get back to you as soon as possible.
You can also reach us at:
GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS, INC.
960 James Street
Floor 2
Syracuse, N.Y. 13203
Phone: 315.698.9400}
Toll-free: 1.800.943.4414
Thank you for visiting our site.
