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The Pearl of Wisdom Campaign to Prevent Cervical Cancer is committed to respecting your privacy. Our Web site has been developed to allow you to visit most areas of the site without the need to identify yourself or reveal any personal information. If you choose to become a partner, it will be necessary for you to establish a secure account and provide us with some personal information. Please be assured that this information will be used only to support your relationship with the Pearl Campaign. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

What We Collect

Cookies

Cookies are text messages stored on your computer's hard drive. The message is sent back to a website's server each time your browser requests a page from the server that set the cookie. The main purpose of our cookies is to identify users who have voluntarily submitted any personal information about themselves to us. These cookies only contain technical information and can be deleted from your hard drive or denied if you have disabled the cookies without affecting site performance. Users are free to delete cookies from their computers' hard drives at any time.

Web Statistics

As you browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we may gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We may automatically collect the following information about your visit:

• The Internet domain and IP address from which you access the site that can tell us if you accessed from a university or a private Internet account, without disclosing specifics
• The type of browser and operating system used to access the site
• The date and time of your visit
• The pages you visit
• The address of the Web site that referred you if you clicked a link to get to this site

The Pearl website collects this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors – to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.

Personal Information

This Web site collects personally identifiable information only if you voluntarily submit it. We use your information only for the purposes for which you submitted the information.

The Pearl Campaign will not use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the campaign’s activities without letting you know beforehand and offering you the opportunity to withhold your consent for use of your information in this way.

Material Fulfillment and Third Party Service Providers

If you choose to purchase a pearl, the transaction is handled through a fulfillment house, Unique Specialties. All information collected by Unique Specialties is encrypted and transactions are conducted through a secure socket layer (SSL). Unique Specialties will not disclose your name or any other personally identifiable information (such as your e-mail address) to any party other than the Pearl Campaign partners. Neither the Pearl Campaign nor Unique Specialties store sensitive information such as credit card numbers. If you provide credit card information to make a financial contribution, that information is used solely for the purpose of completing that specific transaction.

We may also ask you to voluntarily provide us with information regarding where you plan to distribute your Pearls of Wisdom. This is solely to improve our Campaign and its outreach efforts.

Security

We are committed to ensuring the security of your information. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. This includes the use of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts the information you submit to keep it secure during transmission.

Links

This site contains links to other sites for which the Pearl campaign is not responsible in terms of the content or privacy practices of such sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of the sites that you visit, especially before submitting your personal information.

Comments and Questions

If you have comments or questions about our privacy policy, please send them to this e-mail address: info@pearlofwisdom.us.