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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.
Purpose
Greyhound Pets of America information is
one of its vital assets. The purpose of the Information Security Policy is
to protect this asset by establishing National, Chapter, Sub-chapter, and
volunteer responsibility for the protection and use of information.
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 Information
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 America and
defining reasonable requirements for protecting the asset.
- Develop a workable plan for resuming
operations in the event a disaster destroys the information.
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