PURPOSE
Greyhound Pets of
GENERAL POLICY STATEMENT
It is the policy of
the Greyhound Pets of America to protect its information assets and allow the
use, access and disclosure of such information only in accordance with Greyhound
Pets of America interests and applicable laws and regulations. All Greyhound
Pets of America Chapters, Sub-chapters and volunteers providing services or
working with Greyhound Pets of America information are responsible for
protecting it from unauthorized access, modification, destruction or disclosure.
"The Greyhound
Pets of America Information” is defined as any information within its purview,
including information which it may not own but which is governed by laws and
regulations to which the Corporation is held accountable. It includes all adopters
record data, all personnel data, all Greyhound Pets of America financial data,
all administrative data, and donor data, and all other data that pertains to,
or supports Greyhound Pets of America. This data may be facts, records,
reports, planning assumptions or any information meant only for internal use.
Data collected will
be, but not limited to: E-mail
addresses, phone numbers, names, home addresses, and any other data that is
required to determine the suitability of greyhound adoption.
This policy
encompasses the safekeeping of Greyhound Pets of America information in
whatever physical form, such as printed, audio, video and electronic.
IMPLEMENTATION
Greyhound Pets of
America National, Chapters, and Sub-Chapters “Information administrators” shall
develop and administer information security programs that appropriately
classify and protect information under their control. The protection of
Greyhound Pets of America information must be part of the overall business
plan.
National, Chapter,
Sub-chapter Informations administrators are
responsible for:
*Establishing
access to and utilization criteria of data to be protected.
*Define
the criteria for archiving and or storing the information to satisfy retention
requirements.
*Determine
the value of proprietary information to the functioning of the Greyhound Pets
of
*Develop
a workable plan for resuming operations in the event a disaster destroys the
information.
PRIVACY
All adopters, volunteers, and
Donors will be protected in accordance with a Privacy Policy. The
Privacy policy will be available
for adopters, volunteers, and donors to view.
Notice of Privacy
Policy should be stated on all
forms, web-sites and any other forms printed or electronic.
All Chapters, Sub-chapters that collects
any data defined in the General Policy Statement will have
a
defined privacy statement.
Below is Greyhound Pets of
Chapters use.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
Your privacy is very important to us. Greyhound Pets of America respects your concerns
about
maintaining strict privacy. Any
information that you divulge to us is kept in confidence, and used
only to help determine the
suitability of a greyhound adoption by your household. We also use
various forms of the data for
Mailing information to you about us, and also for fund raising efforts
by our group. We do not provide
this information to anyone else unless you give us permission.
We do not sell, rent, or otherwise
disclose mailing lists or other personally identifiable information
to anyone outside our organization.
On occasion we are asked by the
outside sources to provide names of our adopters, we do not share
Such names or other identifying
information unless you specifically authorize us to do so.
We also do not give information
regarding the kennel, trainer or owner of the greyhound being
adopted unless the kennel, trainer
or owner has granted such permission.