Washington Coast Sustainable Salmon Partnership (WCSSP)

Web site Privacy Statement

This document was last updated on May 15, 2009.

1. ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

WCSSP is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets forth our current privacy practices with regard to the information we collect when you or your computer interacts with our web site. By accessing www.wcssp.org, you acknowledge and fully understand WCSSP’s Privacy Statement and freely consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Web site Privacy Statement.

2. PARTICIPATING MERCHANT POLICIES(if any)

Related services and offerings with links from this web site, including vendor sites, have their own privacy statements that can be viewed by clicking on the corresponding links within each respective web site.
3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
WCSSP collects certain information from and about its users three ways: directly from our Web Server logs, the user, and with Cookies.
a. Web Server Logs.
When you visit our Web site, we may track information to administer the site and analyze its usage. Examples of information we may track include:
• Your Internet protocol address.
• The kind of browser or computer you use.
• Number of links you click within the site.
• State or country from which you accessed the site.
• Date and time of your visit.
• Name of your Internet service provider.
• Web page you linked to our site from.
• Pages you viewed on the site.
b. Use of Cookies

WCSSP may use cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web Server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Hence, this simplifies the process of delivering relevant content and eases site navigation by providing and saving your preferences and login information as well as providing personalized functionality..

WCSSP reserves the right to share aggregated site statistics with partner companies, but does not allow other companies to place cookies on our web site.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser settings then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our Web site.

c. Personal Information Users

We will not disclose personally identifiable information we collect from you to third parties without your permission except to the extent necessary including:

To fulfill your requests for services.
To protect ourselves from liability,
To respond to legal process or comply with law, or
In connection with a merger, acquisition, or liquidation of the company.

4. USE OF WEB BEACONS OR GIF FILES
WCSSP’s Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons – sometimes also called single-pixel gifs – that allow VS to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services.
Some of these Web beacons may be placed by third party service providers to help determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email communications. These Web beacons may be used by these service providers to place a persistent cookie on your computer. This allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain pages or emails and compile anonymous information in relation to those page views, which in turn enables us and our service providers to learn which advertisements and emails bring you to our web site and how you use the site. WCSSP prohibits Web beacons from being used to collect or access your personal information.

5. CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
WCSSP has the discretion to occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the “updated” date at the top of this Privacy page. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates.

6. CONTACTING US
If you have questions regarding our Privacy Statement, its implementation, failure to adhere to this Privacy Statement and/or our general practices, please contact us at info@wcssp.org or send your comments to :

Washington Coast Sustainable Salmon Partnership
Attention: Privacy Statement Personnel
114 East Chance a La Mer NE
Ocean Shores, WA. 98569
We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly respond and resolve any problem or question.