EXTERNAL SITE DISCLAIMER
The appearance of external retail associations hyper-links on this World Wide Web site does not constitute endorsement by Victim's Assistance of America, Inc. (VAA) of external web sites or the information, products or services contained therein. Once you access an individual document that links you to another website, you are subject to the privacy policy of the website containing that document.

External links, which direct users to a site other than the VAA website, are provided for your convenience in supporting the goals of VAA. We consider an external link a hyper-link to any site that is not a victimsassistanceofamerica.org web address.

These links are provided consistent with the sole purpose of providing shopping opportunities for VAA Visitors, Grantors, Donors, Individuals and Corporations as a manner of supporting VAA through a percentage of profits from their purchases, to be contributed to the operations and functions of VAA.

VAA does NOT exercise any editorial control over the products or information you may find at these locations and bears no responsibility for their accuracy or content. VAA is not necessarily affiliated or associated with the agencies or companies for which external links are provided. VAA does not necessarily sponsor or endorse their products and services, and they do not necessarily sponsor or endorse VAA services.

All hyper-links are reviewed at the time they are added to the VAA web site. VAA will not knowingly link to sites that derive from or participate in fraudulent or illegal behavior. VAA maintains the right and privilege to determine what links and information will be provided on this web site. Any complaints should be directed through the contact form, accessible from the right side navigation bar.

Neither VAA, its volunteers, nor any of its employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information or product accessed through external links.

By selecting an external link, you agree that you have read this disclaimer and agree that actions you take through these external links are at your own risk; further, you agree to hold VAA harmless for any damages that may result from any viewing, any products and/or any materials of any type.

COOKIES
A "cookie" is a small text file that a website can place on your computer's hard drive in order, for example, to collect information about your activities on the site or to make it possible for you to use an online "shopping cart" to keep track of items you wish to purchase. The cookie transmits this information back to the website's server which, generally speaking, is the only computer that can read it. Most consumers do not know that "cookies" are being placed on their computers when they visit websites. If you want to know when this happens, or to prevent it from happening, you can set your browser to warn you when a website attempts to place a "cookie" on your computer. No "third party" cookies are used on the VAA website.

TRACKING TECHNOLOGY
Every website you visit on the World Wide Web retains a certain amount of non-personal information from every visitor. This information includes:

• Time and Date
• The Referring Website From Where You "Clicked Through" To Us if You Did Not Type in VictimsAssistanceofAmerica.org Directly
• Your IP (Internet Protocol) Address
• Your Web Browser Type and Version
• Your Operating System Platform

This generic information is utilized to maintain a record of visitors to our site, how they found us, and what pages are receiving the most and/or least interest. This is an everyday process used on every website on the Internet today.

We do not use "cookies" on the VAA website to transmit information. The only exception to this policy is that upon entering the VAA Retail and other external shopping site links that benefit VAA, we may transmit a "referral code" when you "click through" in order to receive our proper percentage of your purchases, supporting the nonprofit goals of VAA.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
Information you offer VAA through our interactive forms is compiled of information you provide. This information is solely for the use of VAA to provide victim advocacy services as necessary. This information is not passed through or shared with any third party outside of VAA, without your prior authorization.

Statistics sharing may be incorporated, however, NO identifying personal information will be shared.

INFORMATION SECURITY
We use secure socket layer (*SSL) encryption, which is recognized as an industry standard in encryption technology, to protect the transmission of information you submit to us when you use our secure online forms. All the information you provide us through these forms is stored securely.
*Please be advised that until we receive enough funding, VAA does not currently receive transmitted information under the Secure Socket Layer Encryption method. If you would like to donate the funding required for our certificate, please contact us directly to arrange the purchase.

EMAIL SECURITY
It should be known that email communications written directly from you to VAA from your computer or use of any web email client on the Internet is not necessarily secure against interception. Please do not send sensitive, personal information such as social security and bank account numbers through email. Please use our Toll Free Hotline or regular postal mail services.

SPAM POLICY
Victim's Assistance of America, Inc. (VAA) does not condone the use of UCE (unsolicited commercial email), bulk email and Spam. VAA employees, volunteers and any associates/affiliates of VAA are strictly prohibited from using Spam in their marketing efforts, and are subject to immediate suspension and/or termination if they do so.

SUBSCRIPTION/NEWSLETTER SERVICES
We communicate with you to provide requested services and/or information on related identity theft and VAA issues. We also send website and subscription service updates. If you have previously subscribed to the VAA Newsletter and wish to be removed from our low volume mailings, please send an email to: vaadmin@victimsassistanceofamerica.org. Please include the email address that you wish to have removed.

TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHTS - WEBSITE IMAGES, CONTENT
The VAA and VAA Retail Logos are © Copyright, 2002. All Rights Reserved by Victims Assistance of America, Inc. (VAA) and (VAARetail). Images within this or any affilited website may not be reproduced, copied, borrowed or hyperlinked to without the express written permission of VAA in advance. The current logo is pending approval and is identifiable as such with a "TM Pending" notation visible within the website at all times. The VAA Logos are identifiable by an upsidedown, red "V" shaped graphic with dual black "V's in an upward direction. The VAA Graphic Representations were designed in whole by Virtual Isle Solutions - www.Virtual-Isle.com specifically for Victims Assistance of America, Inc. (VAA) and (VAARetail). Said copyrights and stipulations apply to all original materials within the VAA and it's affiliated sites.

NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
Modifications of our Privacy Policy will be posted by identifying them as changes to our previous privacy policy. We will identify those changes so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

PRIVACY POLICY MODIFICATIONS
Privacy Policy is current as of Saturday, September 07, 2024 11:13:52 AM