Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an organization like Junior Achievement of New York.
Youth Development
Junior Achievement of New York
420 Lexington Avenue
Suite 205
New York, NY 10170
United States of America
Affiliate President: Joseph A. Peri
Web Sites(s): www.jany.org
You can access our web site home page and browse our site without disclosing your personal data.
Our web site does not enable our visitors to communicate with other visitors or to post information to be accessed by others.
Our Web site provides clear notice of links to third-party Web service providers.
We collect two kinds of information: site usage data, which is not individually identifiable, and individually identifiable information.
Our Web server automatically recognizes and collects the domain name of each visitor to our Web site. We collect information about visitors to our site, such as the number of visitors, what pages they access, and the length of their visit. This information is used in aggregate form in order to manage our Web site and improve its content.
We collect individually identifiable information about you when you choose to share information about yourself for example, when you make a donation, request information, or sign up to be a volunteer. This information may include your postal or e-mail address, your telephone number, and your area of interest. We only collect and require your full name and e-mail address if you volunteer to contact us. This information and related internal records may be used to fulfill your request. We may retain contact information as long as necessary to respond to your e-mail.
Individually identifiable information is used to provide you with information or to deliver the service you have requested. If you provide your postal address, telephone number, or e-mail address to Junior Achievement of New York online, you may receive periodic contact from us.
If you would like to change the way we contact you, please send an e-mail with your request to communications@jany.org.
At certain parts of our site, only persons who provide us with the requested personally identifiable information will be able to use tools or otherwise participate in the site's activities and offerings.
We use a technology called a "cookie" to recognize you when you return to our site. Cookies help make your visit more convenient and enjoyable. However, if you wish, you may direct your browser to reject cookies.
We use server cookies to maintain sessions on our site where login authentication is required.
We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit some Web pages or fill out forms such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using (e.g., Windows 95 or Mac OS), and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink).
We do not automatically log personal data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals.
We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organizations.
We occasionally send out an email newsletter and direct email communications to Junior Achievement of New York site visitors to highlight news, information and opportunities available from JANY. You can elect not to receive communications from us, by noting your preference in response to communications from us. In addition, all Junior Achievement of New York e-newsletters and direct email communications have easy-to-follow unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
Our site provides links to other Web sites where you can find out more about our organization and services and/or partners. Please note that our organization is not responsible for the information practices of linked sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of each site you visit.
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important to us. For that reason, we adhere to the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). (For more information, visit the Federal Trade Commission's COPPA site at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/adults.htm.) We do not knowingly or intentionally collect or maintain personal information at our Web site from those we actually know are under age 13. We obtain parental consent before any personally identifiable information is collected, used, or disclosed. We also follow strict rules when sending email, and we provide parents reasonable access to information collected from their children, and the ability to correct or remove that information.
We may collect a child's name and email address to respond to a one-time request without parental consent. This information may only be used for a one-time request and will be deleted following a one-time request.
Additionally, to ensure that children's privacy is respected on our Web site, we:
We do not disclose your personal data to other organizations.
We do give visitors to our Web site the option of using a secure transmission method to send us their personal data. The secure transmission methods are available in certain, labeled sections of the site.
We have implemented security policies, rules, and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:
All our employees and data processors who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data.
We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to governmental institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.
You can ask us whether we are keeping personal data about you by:
Please note that requests must be clearly written. Normally, e-mail received is eventually deleted, so records relevant to a request may not exist.
We will make an effort to verify such requested information exists and provide it. However, relevant information may be on any employee workstation, or file server, or in the possession of an authorized volunteer. Junior Achievement of New York reserves the right to limit such searches for requested personal data.
If requested, we will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you within 2 weeks. We may require proof of your identity before we do this.
We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate, you may have the data:
We reserve the right to refuse to provide our visitors with a copy of their personal data, but will give reasons for our refusal.
We do, however, allow you to challenge our decision to refuse to provide you with a copy of your personal data.
Our privacy policy is compliant with the United States of America: Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
Junior Achievement of New York Inc. follows the online Privacy Guidelines and the Guidelines on Ethical Business Practice of The Direct Marketing Association (DMA). For more information on these guidelines, visit the DMA at http://the-dma.org.
Whenever you have any questions or concerns, please contact us through any medium you prefer. Your complete satisfaction in dealing with Junior Achievement of New York is important to us. If you have questions about Junior Achievement of New York's privacy practices described above, please send an e-mail message to Development@jany.org
Or contact:
Gabrielle Rattner
Vice President, Resource Development
Junior Achievement of New York, Inc.
205 East 42nd Street, Suite 203
(212) 907-0070
(212) 949-5262
grattner@jany.org
We do not make any recommendations of another means by which visitors' concerns may be addressed.
The effective date of our privacy policy is June 9, 2006.
We will post a notice on our home page for thirty (30) days following any change in our Privacy Policy.
