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SOS INTERNET PRIVACY POLICY

Preamble
This web site is owned and operated by or on behalf of Save Our Souls Foundation. We recognize that visitors to our site may be concerned about the information they provide to us, and how we treat that information. This Privacy Policy addresses those concerns. This policy may be changed or updated from time to time by the Board of Directors. If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, you can contact us by e-mail info@saveoursoulsfoundation.org or by regular mail sent to the following address:
Save Our Souls Foundation
1402 Redfield Road
Bel Air, MD 21015
443-364-4926

Our Policy
Save Our Souls Foundation uses its best efforts to respect and protect the privacy of our online visitors and donors. Consistent with this objective, Save Our Souls Foundation does not presently and has no current plans to sell any personal information you provide us to unrelated third parties.

Collection of Personal Information
In your efforts to assist Save Our Souls Foundation in our work, you entrust us to properly protect, manage and keep secure assorted aspects of your personal information. This may include but is not limited to items such as your home address, telephone number, e-mail address, driver's license number, credit card data, and bank account data. Save Our Souls Foundation appreciates and takes very seriously the trust that you place in us by providing this most personal information to us.

Save Our Souls Foundation does not collect personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide personal information to Save Our Souls Foundation (e.g., by making a donation or signing up to receive e-mail from Save Our Souls Foundation). Save Our Souls Foundation does, however, monitor and collect certain navigational information from visitors to our web site including:
• The IP address and domain name from which this web site was accessed.
• The date and time this web site was visited.
• The amount of time spent viewing this site.
• The web pages or services accessed.
• The web site visited prior to accessing this web site.
• The web site visited after this web site, if applicable.
• Any form that was downloaded, if applicable.

Save Our Souls Foundation's Use of Your Personal Information
By voluntarily submitting personal information to Save Our Souls Foundation, you agree that Save Our Souls Foundation may use that information to maintain contact with you, solicit contributions from you and provide you with information about Save Our Souls Foundation and its programs and initiatives.

Sharing of Data
Save Our Souls Foundation does, from time to time, hire third party vendors to assist it in sending correspondence to those on our mailing lists (regular mail and e-mail) and processing credit card transactions. Every vendor engaged by Save Our Souls Foundation for this purpose is required to keep confidential and protect your personal information.

"Opt Out"
Save Our Souls Foundation respects your privacy and does not want to contact you unless you indicate to us that you want to be contacted by Save Our Souls Foundation. When you provide personal information to Save Our Souls Foundation online, you are given the option of choosing whether or not you would like to be contacted by Save Our Souls Foundation in the future and the manner in which you would like to be contacted. If you would like to be contacted by Save Our Souls Foundation, you may choose to be contacted by e-mail, by regular mail or by phone. If you do not want to be contacted by Save Our Souls Foundation you may "opt out" of receiving future contact from us by selecting "not at all."

If you initially choose to be contacted by Save Our Souls Foundation, you may, at any time, change your mind and "opt out" of receiving future contact by notifying us via regular mail or e-mail. Simply inform us that you no longer wish to be contacted by stating: "Do Not Mail," "Do Not E-mail," "Do Not Call," and/or "Do Not Contact" in an e-mail info@saveoursoulsfoundation.org or in a letter sent to the following address:
Save Our Souls Foundation
1402 Redfield Road
Bel Air, MD 21015

Data Security
We care about the safety and security of your personal information. We have thus established an assortment of safeguards which restrict access to this information to only a limited number of staff. We have also instituted various redundancy systems which enable us to safely maintain the personal information in our possession. The Save Our Souls Foundation web site is digitally protected as reflected by our participation in and displaying of a valid certification by GeoTrust. Save Our Souls Foundation also archives all data through secure backups that reside behind a firewall and are access-protected. In addition, the company (Paypal) we work with to process credit card transactions use high grade encryption and security protocols.

Data Accuracy
In addition to maintaining privacy and security controls over the personal information you share with us, Save Our Souls Foundation strives to ensure that the personal information we have collected is current and accurate. If you wish to verify, correct or amend the personal information that Save Our Souls Foundation has collected from you, you may do so by contacting Mr. Alani Teniola at 301-693-1133 or ateniola@saveoursoulsfoundation.org

Children
Save Our Souls Foundation's web site is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. Save Our Souls Foundation does not knowingly solicit data online from, or market online to, children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have obtained personal information online in error about a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information as soon as we can.

Save Our Souls Foundation appreciates the enthusiasm and support young people show for improving the quality of life of Africans. However, Save Our Souls Foundation does not accept financial contributions from anyone under 18 years of age. Any young people under the age of 18 who raise money for Save Our Souls Foundation must have the money transferred by an adult through a check or credit card. Save Our Souls Foundation will thank both the young people and the adult, but only the adult who makes the contribution will be listed in our database.

Changes to Policy
Please contact us should you have any questions about the operation of the site. Any changes to our privacy policy will be noted on the web site. This Privacy Policy is effective as of April 25, 2009.