Personal information collected from you:

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Polk County Humane Society (PCHS) does not collect personal information about you without your consent. The only personal information we collect is supplied directly by you through the use of online and offline forms (for example: donation form, volunteer form, donation check, etc.). The information is used solely to process your request.

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PCHS collects and maintains the following types of information when it is voluntarily provided to us:

• Contact information such as name, address, telephone number and e-mail address

• Information on adoption, fostering, volunteering or giving/donating

• Information on events attended

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Purpose for collecting personal information:

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This confidential information is kept on file for IRS purposes. It is also used to analyze overall giving patterns in order to make more accurate budget projections, as well as to understand donors’ interests in our mission and to update them on the organization’s plans and activities.

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Sharing your information:

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This information is shared with staff, board members, volunteers and consultants only on a confidential and need-to-know basis. We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others, nor send donor mailings on behalf of other organizations. No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All other categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.” 
 

Donors who supply PCHS with their postal address or email address may be contacted periodically for solicitation purposes and/or with information regarding upcoming events. Donors may request to be permanently removed from the PCHS mailing list by contacting PCHS via email, phone or postal mail.  Email subscribers can be removed from the PCHS email list by clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the email.

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Security:

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Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. 

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.