LAYC is committed to protecting your privacy. This statement outlines how LAYC collects, stores, and uses information obtained through our website (www.layc-dc.org) and social media outlets (www.facebook.com/laycdc;  www.twitter.com/thelayc; www.twitter.com/lorilayc; www.linkedin.com/company/latin-american-youth-center). This policy does not extend to any third-party websites linked to LAYC’s website.

HOW WE COLLECT AND USE YOUR INFORMATION

You do not have to share personally identifiable information to use LAYC’s website. LAYC collects personally identifiable information when you donate, buy merchandise, or subscribe to the LAYC newsletter. LAYC may also collect certain personal information about you when you send us an email, comment on a Facebook post, share information on our Facebook wall, post on our LinkedIn page, or send us a tweet.

We collect information such as your name, mailing address, and e-mail address; it may also include a mobile phone number, the e-mail addresses of those to whom you forward LAYC electronic content, and any other information collected in online forms or social media spaces. LAYC may use your information to send you information about LAYC including our newsletter, fundraising campaigns, promotional materials, and event announcements.

You may be asked to provide credit card information to contribute to LAYC, purchase certain information or materials from LAYC, or subscribe to various LAYC publications.

LAYC may also collect other information that cannot identify you personally when you visit our website. This information includes your IP address and your domain name and aggregates them for system administration and to monitor the use of our site. We use the aggregated information to measure the number of visits to our site, the average time spent on our site, the number of pages viewed, and various other site statistics. This monitoring helps us to provide a more useful and engaging online experience to visitors to the LAYC website and social media spaces and helps us to improve the quality of our content.

LAYC WEBSITE SECURITY

Our website has industry standard high encryption security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. LAYC makes every effort to protect your online order information by using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. SSL encrypts your order information to avoid the decoding of that information by anyone other than LAYC. We do not store your credit card information.

OPT-OUT

You may opt-out of receiving communications by following the instructions included with every email message sent from LAYC. LAYC assumes no responsibility for the data collection and use practices of third parties that process online credit card transactions.