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Privacy Notice

Coptic Orphans offers this website, including all information, software and services available from this website or offered as part of or in conjunction with this website (the "Website"), to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all of the terms, conditions, policies and notices stated here. Your continued use of the Website constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions and notices.

Personal and Noncommercial Use
The Website is for your personal and noncommercial use. As a condition to your continued use of the Website, you warrant to Coptic Orphans that you will not use the Website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms and conditions of use.

Our Commitment to Data Security:
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. For example, we always use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer financial data exchanged with our site.

Coptic Orphans' Commitment to Privacy:
Your privacy is important to us. Coptic Orphans does not rent, sell or exchange our mailing lists nor any information submitted through this website at this time, and we have no plans to do so in the future. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our home page and at every point that personally identifiable information may be requested.

No Warranties
USE THE WEBSITE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Neither Coptic Orphans nor its employees, agents, affiliates, third party information providers, licensors or the like warrant that the Website or its operation will be accurate, reliable, uninterrupted or error-free. No agent or representative has the authority to create any warranty regarding the Website on behalf of Coptic Orphans.

Exclusion of Liability
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, SHALL COPTIC ORPHANS OR ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, STORING OR DISTRIBUTING THE WEBSITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH USE OF THE WEBSITE, DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, OR SERVICES OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE, WHETHER SUCH DAMAGES ARE BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. Because some states do not permit the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to you.

Featured Links
The Website may contain hyperlinks to websites offered by parties other than Coptic Orphans. Such hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only.

Linking
Coptic Orphans does not permit unauthorized third parties to hyperlink to the Website in any manner, and reserves the right to break all unauthorized links at any time without prior notice or liability. If you would like to link to the Website please contact info@copticorphans.org.

Software Available on Website
For any software provided on the website and not accompanied by an End User License Agreement, Coptic Orphans hereby grants to you a personal, nontransferable license to use the software for viewing and other personal, noncommercial purposes within the scope of use of such software anticipated by Coptic Orphans in accordance with these terms and conditions, and for no other purpose. Any such software is provided to you subject to the warranty and liability exclusions set forth in these terms and conditions.

Copyright
Except for material in the public domain under United States copyright law, all material contained on the Website (including all software, HTML code, Java applets, Active X controls and other code) is protected by United States and foreign copyright laws. Except as otherwise expressly provided in these terms and conditions, you may not copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, modify, rewrite, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any material contained on the Website without the prior consent of the copyright owner. Violation of this provision may result in severe civil and criminal penalties.

You may make single copies of materials displayed on the Website for your own personal and noncommercial use only, provided any copies include the copyright and other notices displayed with the materials on the Website. You may not distribute such copies to others, whether or not for a charge or other consideration, without prior written permission from Coptic Orphans or the copyright owner of the copied material. Requests to reproduce materials on the Website for distribution or other purposes should be mailed to:

Coptic Orphans
Attn: Permission to Reuse Material
P.O. Box 2881
Merrifield, VA 22116

Trademarks
Coptic Orphans (r), Coptic Orphans logo (tm) and other marks used on the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of Coptic Orphans and are protected by state and federal trademark laws. Other trademarks appear on the Website with permission from their respective owners. Your unauthorized use of trademarks appearing on the Website may constitute trademark infringement, which could subject you to substantial civil penalties.

Termination of Privileges
Coptic Orphans reserves the right to terminate your privilege of using all or any portion of the Website if you breach any of these terms and conditions of use, including all of your privileges or accounts that you may have established in connection with the Website.

General Privacy
For each visitor to the Website, Coptic Orphans servers automatically collect information about which pages are visited and the domain name (e.g., copticorphans.org) of visitors. This information is used for internal review, to tailor information to individual visitors, for website traffic audits and other internal purposes.

General
These Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and Coptic Orphans with respect to use of the Website, superseding all prior or contemporaneous communications and/or proposals. Coptic Orphans reserves the right to make changes to these Terms and Conditions immediately by posting the changed Terms and Conditions in this location. By continuing to use the Website, you are agreeing to all changes made by Coptic Orphans. A printed version of these Terms and Conditions shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to use of the Website to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.

The Website is controlled and operated by Coptic Orphans from its principal office in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA. Coptic Orphans makes no representation that materials on the Website are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who choose to access the Website from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. The Website is not intended to subject Coptic Orphans to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States of America.

The Information We Collect:
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Coptic Orphans website. For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes only the consumer's domain name, but not the e-mail address (where possible). For non-sponsoring visitors, we collect only the domain name but not the e-mail address of visitors to our Web page, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, information volunteered by the consumer, such as personal sponsor information, survey information and/or site registrations and e-mail addresses of opt-in subscribers. The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web page and to notify consumers about updates to our website. This information is not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes and we have no plans to do so in the future.

On some pages, you can sign up to sponsor children, make special contributions, make inquiries regarding your sponsored child, or register to receive materials. The types of personal information collected at these pages may include some or all of the following:

Name
Address
Email address (for those who choose to opt-in their e-mail addresses)
Phone number

How We Use Information:
We use the information you provide about yourself to complete that specific request. We may also use the information you submit to provide you with additional information about our sponsorship program or other programs Coptic Orphans has to offer. If you do not wish to receive information beyond what you have specifically requested, you can send us an email and you will not longer recieve this information.

We use e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail that we receive, and we use opted-in e-mail addresses for marketing purposes with the permission of the consumer. Coptic Orphans does not rent, sell or exchange our mailing lists nor any information submitted through this website and has no plans to do so in the future. We never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

This site contains links to other sites. Coptic Orphans is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

With respect to ad servers: we do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

How to Correct Your Information:
By notifying us whenever you have a change to any of the information - e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, etc. - you will help us to make prompt and efficient changes to your records. This helps us to keep our administrative costs low and use more of the funds contributed to help children. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before making corrections.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us.

Your privacy is important to us. Coptic Orphans values our relationship with all our sponsors and donors who, by their financial support, enable us to provide the important and much needed benefits to the children we serve. Thank you.