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Disclaimer and Privacy Policy
Last Updated: March 2022
Illinicrows.com believes you have a right to know what type of information we may collect when you interact with us as a website visitor and our practices with respect to that information. The guidelines contained herein apply to information collected only by or for Illinicrows.com. ("Illinicrows.com" or “we” or “us”) through its home website, http://www.Illinicrows.com ("Site"). These Guidelines DO NOT apply to communications from Illinicrows or illinicrows@gmail.com as they are not websites. Any websites that are linked to/from this Site may have different policies; therefore, please review the privacy policy notices on those websites for details.
Notice to California Residents – Your California Privacy Rights California resident, you have the right to receive: (a) information identifying any third party organizations to whom Illinicrows.com may have disclosed, within the previous calendar year, personal information pertaining to you and/or your family for that organization's direct marketing purposes; and (b) a description of the categories of personal information disclosed.
To obtain such information, please contact us at illinicrows@gmail.com or Webmaster, Illinicrows.com, 15806 Sorawater Drive, Lithia, FL 33547.
Collection of Information Illinicrows.com may ask you to provide Personal Information, defined for the purposes of this Policy as individually identifiable information, such as your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, or persistent identifier (such as a member number held in a cookie), which is associated with individually identifiable information, to, among other things, enable you to appoint a proxy, participate in chat rooms, and on bulletin boards, or fill out a registration. Illinicrows.com may combine the information you provide with other information we may collect from you or your devices or from third parties so that we can more effectively tailor our Site, services and offerings to you.
Unless and until you notify us to restrict the disclosure of Personal Information we have obtained directly from you, Illinicrows.com may share the Personal Information you provide to other parties, including: (a) Alpha Chi Rho Fraternity's National Office or its officers; Alpha Chi Rho Educational Foundation's National Office or its officers; the Phi Kappa Building Association or its officers; the Phi Kappa Graduate Chapter or its officers, the administrator of illinicrows@gmail.com or Illinicrows; (b) with your consent (see below); (c) Brothers of Phi Kappa, their families and/or representatives; (d) as may be required by law or court order; (e) with persons or companies that Illinicrows.com engages to carry out or provide support for our services or for the operation of our Site; or (f) with appropriate third parties, including law enforcement or other government agencies, in connection with a criminal investigation, fraud prevention, or other legal action or if Illinicrows.com reasonably believes it is necessary to do so in order to protect Illinicrows.com, or the public.
To restrict your Personal Information that we have collected from you from being disclosed, please contact us at illinicrows@gmail.com or write us at Webmaster, Illinicrows.com, 15806 Sorawater Drive, Lithia, FL 33547, including sufficient information that we can accurately identify you.
Unless you instruct us otherwise, Illinicrows.com may contact you to provide information about news, services or other activities or offerings that may be of interest to you. You can instruct us if do not wish to receive such information by sending us an email at illinicrows@gmail.com or write us at Webmaster, Illinicrows.com, 15806 Sorawater Drive, Lithia, FL 33547, including sufficient information so that we can accurately identify you..
If you have not notified us, that you do not want your Personal Information to be shared, Illinicrows.com may share your Personal Information with third parties identified above who may want to contact you about products, services or other offerings that may be of interest to you. Each of these third parties may have their own privacy policies. We do not control and are not responsible for these other parties, their privacy policies or their use or treatment of your Personal Information or other information. Illinicrows.com makes no representation regarding how any third parties use, manage, store, treat or maintain your Personal Information or other information and you should therefore carefully review all such third parties' privacy policies. If you consent to receiving communications from any of these third parties, you will need to communicate with them directly if you later decide that you no longer wish to receive their communications. If you wish to withdraw your consent from any further sharing of your Personal Information with these third parties for marketing purposes, contact us as noted above.
Notice To/Regarding Children Under the Age of 13 Illinicrows.com believes that persons under the age of 13 (referred to herein as a “Child” or “Children”) using the Internet require special protection, and we urge parents or guardians to explain Internet safety to their Children. We urge parents to spend time online with their Children to become familiar with the types of content available on the Illinicrows.com Site and the Internet in general. Control tools are available from online services and software manufacturers to help create a safer environment for Children.
The Site does not knowingly offer services to or seek Personal Information from Children under the age of 13. So, if you are under 13 years of age, you should not provide any Personal Information (for example, your last name, home address or e-mail address) on this Site without the knowledge and permission of your parent or guardian. If Illinicrows.com learns that you are under 13 years of age, Illinicrows.com will not maintain or use any Personal Information about you without the verifiable consent of your parent or guardian, except as allowed by law. This may mean that you will be unable to participate in some activities on the Site without that verifiable consent. If a Child wishes to participate in any Illinicrows.com Site activity, or wishes to take advantage of a service offering available and to do so necessitates the furnishing of any of the Child's Personal Information, please contact the following before submitting any Personal Information on behalf of the Child: Webmaster, Illinicrows.com, 15806 Sorawater Drive, Lithia, FL 33547 or illinicrows@gmail.com.
Security Illinicrows.com maintains reasonable precautions designed to help protect the security of your Personal Information and in preventing unauthorized access, misuse, loss or accidental disclosure of it through the use of appropriate technology and internal procedures. However, Illinicrows.com cannot and does not guarantee the security of your Personal Information or that any communications means will be uninterrupted, error free or not intercepted by others improperly and without authorization.
Retention Illinicrows.com may retain information about you as long as it is necessary for us to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. In addition, we may retain your information for an additional period as is permitted or required by law in order to, among other things, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements. Where and when required by law, we shall delete your information. However, even if we delete your information from active databases, the information may remain on backup or storage media.
[Illinicrows.com is a personal website created and maintained by a volunteer individual who is not a trained IT professional. He neither has the inclination nor technical expertise to recognize or use most of the features, information and options described below. However, they may be present without his working knowledge, so out of an abundance of caution, the following disclosures and policies are being provided.]
System Information We may collect your computers', network enabled devices', systems' and/or networks' IP addresses and message information for system administration, record keeping, capacity planning, volume and other operational reasons, as well as for advertising and royalty reporting as necessary in the conduct of our business. When you use our services, our systems may record this information, which may be stored with your registration, other information you provide to us. This may allow us, among other things, to determine which other website linked you to us.
We may collect and maintain Personal Information and/or other information about visitors to our Site, devices and users of devices that access or use our services and Site, as well as anyone who sends us information or communications, and recipients of our communications. Much of this information we may gather directly by asking (e.g., hobbies, interests, difficulties in using a particular feature), but we may also use technology to collect anonymous information, for example, regarding the content you view through our Site, products and services and the devices you use to connect to them. We may use such information to, among other things, enhance and customize our Site and services and promotions we make available to attempt to create a better experience. We may also aggregate information (meaning it does not identify any individual) to analyze trends and statistics to improve your online experiences, our Site and services. If you visit or use the Site or have registered or provided us with Personal Information about yourself, it may be possible that "cookies" allow us to identify you and associate you with your registration, your devices, your Member number, user name or ID, information and preferences. For a description of how we use "cookies" see the section below entitled "Cookies."
Cookies When you visit our Site, or use one or more of our services, or receive emails from Illinicrows.com, we may use technology commonly referred to as a "cookie" which stores small bits of data on your computer. While actual "cookie" technology is currently among the most common, we may use a wide variety of technological tools, means and mechanisms (e.g., XML technology, clickstream data, etc.) to help us to customize your experience to better match your interests and preferences and otherwise improve and enhance the services we provide. We will use the term "cookie" to refer to any and or all of these tools, means and mechanisms, whether they are currently available and in use, developed or discovered in the future or otherwise. We may use cookies in a variety of ways. For example, we may use cookies to save your user ID, Member number, account number, or other information (so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit or use our services) and to help us keep count of your return visits to our Site which helps us determine which services, promotions, features, content and functions users like best. In general, browsers or separately purchased software tools may allow you to erase cookies from your hard drive. You acknowledge and understand that erasing cookies may limit or restrict your ability to use any or all the features and functions of our Site and services. We may also use technology to detect the absence or presence of any versions of software or software updates installed on your computer and to track and monitor content you are downloading, streaming, using or otherwise accessing. Any or all of these activities can occur periodically or when necessary, without any other specific notice to you. We may also use cookies to identify your computer each time we automatically update or attempt to update your software. Cookies allow us to transmit and arrange for automatic installation of updates, modifications and even full re-installations of software on your computer to address security, digital rights management, interoperability or performance issues or to enhance the range of features and functions available through our Site. Any or all of these activities can occur periodically or when necessary, without any other specific notice to you.
Research and Tracking Techniques Web beacons, pixel tags, passive capture technologies or other technologies may be used by Illinicrows.com, third parties we engage or third party application providers for purposes such as researching and tracking certain usage, site interaction, and other activities on our Site, on certain network enabled devices, and in emails you receive from us. Information collected through these technologies is typically in an aggregate, non-personally identifiable form. However, in some cases, the information collected may include personally identifiable information provided by the user where it is deemed advantageous to collect such information for purposes such as improving the usability of our Site, providing customer support, and enabling users to access third party content and applications.
"Do Not Track" Signals Note that your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a "Do Not Track" signal to website and online services you visit. There is no consensus among industry participants as to what "Do Not Track" means in this context. Like many website and online services, Illinicrows.com currently does not alter its practices when it receives a "Do Not Track" signal from a visitor's browser. To find out more about "Do Not Track," you may wish to visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
In addition, note that third parties may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you visit our Site or other online websites and services.
Use and Disclosure of Anonymous Information Anonymous information about you, such as your hobbies, interests, purchases, Member benefits, viewing preferences, downloads, burns, transfers, page visits and other information related to your user activity may be collected, and in some cases aggregated, by Illinicrows.com and/or third parties whose applications you may access through your devices. This information can then be used to, among other things, tailor promotions, advertising, and communications that may be relevant to you. Such anonymous information may also be shared with advertisers, business associates, sponsors, licensors, content rights holders and other third parties to, for example, inform them about demographics or content preferences of visitors to our Site and users of our products, or to ensure proper royalty reporting
Consent to Processing By providing any Personal Information to Illinicrows.com, all persons in any country, including without limitation persons in the member states of the European Union, fully understand and unambiguously consent to the collection and processing of such information in the United States of America, and/or in territories or countries outside of the United States of America, and understand and acknowledge their consent, notwithstanding that some governmental authorities may consider the level of protection of such data in the United States not equivalent to that required within the European Union or any other particular jurisdiction.
Consent to Assignment By providing any Personal Information to Illinicrows.com, and not notifying us that you want to restrict sharing of your Personal Information, you will be deemed to have consented to Illinicrows.com's disclosure and transfer of your Personal Information, or of other information about you that we have obtained and that is governed by this Privacy Policy, to, and the of your Personal Information by: (a) any party who acquires all or any portion of any Illinicrows.com service or business unit, whether through merger, acquisition, assignment, or sale; and (b) any party who acquires all or substantially all of the assets of Illinicrows.com, whether through merger, acquisition, assignment or sale.
Your Communications Unless otherwise required by law, we are not responsible for monitoring or recording any activity on our Site, including communications, but we reserve the right to do so.
To help protect you and others, we may monitor use of the Site, and we use the Personal Information and other information we collect in order to: (a) ensure that our policies regarding use and our terms and conditions are being complied with and not being violated (e.g., no obscenity, defamation or abusive language, no content that may infringe rights); (b) identify fraudulent activities and transactions; prevent abuse of and investigate any potential threats or misuse of our Site; and (c) otherwise protect the rights and property of Illinicrows.com, its business associates and customers. Monitoring may result in the collection, recording, and analysis of online activity or communication through our Site. We have the right to block, remove and/or report any such communications and activities as appropriate. We may analyze and keep records of users' messages and, among other things, the email addresses involved. If you do not consent to these conditions, you must discontinue your use of our Site.
Links to Other Websites From time to time we may offer links to other websites from our Site. Other websites may also reference, advertise, or link to our Site. However, we do not endorse or sponsor other websites, are not responsible for the privacy policies, practices or the content of such websites, expressly disclaim any statements or assertions made on such websites, and disclaim and deny all liability associated with your use of, and the content on, such other websites. You may arrive at one of these websites by selecting a link on any of our Site pages. These websites might issue their own cookies or collect Personal Information, so please use caution when visiting an external website. You should also be aware we sometimes permit third parties to offer subscription and registration-based services on our Site. We are not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties with respect to Personal Information or other information you may give them, and you should carefully read and understand the applicable privacy policy whenever you provide Personal Information to anyone.
Policy Governs Use: Changes to Privacy Policy The terms of this Privacy Policy will govern the use of any information collected while it is in place. Illinicrows.com reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time, so please re-visit this page often. In case of any material change, we will change the "Last Update Date" in this Privacy Policy and/or post a notice on the Site. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective as of the stated "Last Update Date" and your continued use of the Site on or after the "Last Update Date" will constitute acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those changes.
Questions If you have any questions or comments about our Personal Information practices or about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to send us an email at: illinicrows@gmail.com or write to us at: Webmaster, Illinicrows.com, 15806 Sorawater Drive, Lithia, FL 33547.