Our intention is to have this site be a safe and private place for users. We will do our part by not requiring you to register or provide any information at all to use most features of this website. In turn, you can do your part by reading this policy and taking the steps outlined below.

There are certain actions and areas of the site that will require you to provide some information, such as:

• sending an e-mail question to staff@realliferealtalk.org or
• signing up for an event

Any time you provide information, you should remember the terms of this privacy policy, as it will govern our use of the information you have provided.

This privacy policy will be updated as we deem necessary, so please be sure to reread it from time to time. By submitting information to us, you agree that PPFA may use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide

In order to gain access to certain areas of our site or to use certain features of our site, you may choose to provide information. If you do submit information to us, we will use that information for the purposes for which it was submitted. We may also use your information in other ways, such as to contact you about other Planned Parenthood activities and/or fundraising campaigns or as otherwise disclosed to you at the point of collection, and we may share your information with other like-minded organizations, including other Planned Parenthood entities, for similar purposes. For example:

• If you sign up for an event, your information will be used by PPFA and any other event sponsors in connection with the event. We may also use your information to contact you about other events or opportunities for involvement.

We will receive any other information you choose to provide, such as Ask the Expert questions, e-mail questions, feedback, or other materials you submit. See "User Rules — Section (g)" in the Terms of Use for more information on how these questions, articles or other materials will be used.

Other than as described in this privacy policy, or as may be necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of our organization, our clients, or others, or as may be necessary to comply with applicable law, PPFA will not give or sell the personal information you provide online.

2. Information Automatically Collected and Stored

As is true of most websites you enter, we automatically collect and store some information about your computer and your visit and store it in log files. This information includes your computer's (or your ISP's) Internet Protocol (IP) address (this is not your e-mail address); the domain from which you access the Internet (e.g., "AOL.com" or "msn.com"); the name, version, and specifications of your computer and your computer's operating system; the Internet address of the website, if any, from which you came to our site; the date and time you arrived at our site and how long you spent on the site; and which pages you visited.

We use this information to formulate statistics (possibly with the help of outside experts) that show the number of visitors to the different sections of our site and to help us make our site more useful to you. For example, we use the browser information to help us design our website so that as many people as possible will be able to view the pages correctly. These statistics do not reveal personal information.

3. Use of Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are either placed on your computer's hard drive ("persistent cookies") or in your computer's Random Access Memory ("session cookies"). We use both persistent cookies and session cookies on this site.

Session Cookies: We use session cookies to limit the number of repeated uses of certain sections of our site in a single browser session. The session cookie is only used for the duration of your browser session. Once you close your browser window, the session cookie times out.

Persistent Cookies: We use persistent cookies to provide greater accuracy in our analysis of the information that is automatically collected about your visit to our site. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. These cookies do not collect personal information. We do not link the information collected through these cookies with other personal data that you provide to us.

Disabling Cookies: Persistent cookies leave a record on your computer that you have visited our site. However, you have the ability to remove cookies from your computer. Your Internet browser's "Help" section will give you information on how to delete cookies. In addition, there are many Web sites that provide browser- and operating system-specific information on how to delete cookies. When thinking about whether you want to delete cookies, you should be aware that some sites require cookies to function properly. If you delete cookies, you may have to re-register with some sites or you may notice difficulty in browsing some sites after you delete cookies.

4. Clear Gifs (Web Beacons)
We employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons) that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user's computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not link the information gathered through clear gifs with other personal data that you provide to us.

5. Online Advertisements
From time to time, we may run online advertisements on third-party Web sites to attract visitors to our site or to alert our supporters to special opportunities. Our advertising partners may use cookies and clear GIFs on this site and on the third-party sites on which our ads appear, which allow the advertising partner to track certain information about user behavior, such as "click-stream data." Any use of information by an advertising partner would be governed by their terms of use and privacy policy, so be sure to be familiar with these policies prior to responding to online advertisements.

6. Internet Security Information submitted via the Internet, including through a Web page or e-mail, is subject to interception or incorrect routing and the Internet is not a secure communications channel. Please consider this prior to submitting any information to us via this Web site.

Remember, many breaches of security also occur when users are not vigilant in protecting their own information. The next section of our privacy policy suggests some actions you can take to help control the security of your personal information.

7. Your Help Is Needed

When using this Web site, please remember the following:

• You have control over your own privacy. Think carefully before providing any personal information. When you write to us or send us a submission to publish on the site, do not tell us your name, the name of other users, or of your friends. In fact, try to keep out any information that you think may identify you or others.
• No e-mail or Web transmission is completely secure against interception. If you are worried because your communication is very sensitive, do not send it via e-mail or submit it online.
• We cannot protect you once you leave our site, such as by "hyperlink." So when you visit other websites, check each one's privacy policy yourself, and be careful about the information you submit.
• In addition to the records left on your computer by cookies, your browser and operating system contain other records of your web browsing and other actions (e.g., browser history). As with cookies, you can find information about how to clear these history trails in your browser's "Help" section or through other websites that provide detailed information for each browser and operating system.

8. How to Contact Planned Parenthood Federation of America

If you wish to review the contact information we have on file for you, correct your contact information or provide changes, or inform us how you wish your contact information to be used, you may contact Real Life. Real Talk. staff by mail or e-mail as follows:

Mail: Social Marketing Department, PPFA, 434 West 33rd Street, New York, NY 10001
E-mail: staff@realliferealtalk.org

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