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The Colleton Center - Privacy Policy

We at The Colleton Center, the owner of this Website, or Site: www.thecolletoncenter.org want to thank you for visiting.

This Site, www.thecolletoncenter.org, is owned and operated by The Colleton Center.

Within this document, The Colleton Center. may also be referred to as "Us" or "We". We may also use the word "Our" which implies a belonging to The Colleton Center.

First and foremost, we want your visit to be pleasant, enjoyable, and informative. We also want you to feel safe and comfortable, not just in visiting our site, but in conducting business with us. You see, by visiting our site, you are conducting business with us.

This document refers strictly to Privacy Matters and concerns that you may have regarding your information. We have described our operations that would affect your privacy throughout this document in great detail, however we realize that you may still have questions. If you do have a question, or concern, you may feel free to contact us. Our staff will do everything possible to answer your questions and alleviate any fears you may have regarding your privacy in relation to our website and online business practices.

How We Collect Your Information

Site Forms - If you complete one of our website's forms such as the form on our Contact Us page, your information is then passed through to our database. Because we us a password secured server, we are making every effort to protect your information.

Cookies - We are not currently using cookies on our site.

Email - If you send an email to us, we will retain your email address on file, along with the message you sent to us.

What Information We Collect

The information we collect is limited to that information you enter through any of our website's forms or any information you send us via email.

How We Use Your Information

Contact Requests - By completing our Contact Form on our Contact Us page, we consider your submission to be a request that we contact you.

You should know that we answer each contact request personally, either by email or by telephone. We will use the information you submit to respond to your request.

Make a Pledge, Sponsorship Agreement, Space Rentals & Agreement and Purchasing Event Tickets Online - By completing any of the forms on any of these pages you understand that any information you provide will be kept on file with the exception of payment information. Any payment information given to us by you via Paypal is handled entirely by Paypal. You may review their privacy statement by visiting their website.

How Your Information is Stored

We store your information in our databases on our secured webserver and periodically, we download that information to our company's internal network, removing it from the server. We do not make any guarantees to the times or dates when we will be performing such tasks. Your information will remain in our archives for as long as we are required to retain it as mandated by Federal and South Carolina State Laws.

Our Responsibilities, Liabilities and Limitations Regarding Your Information

We will not sell, rent, lease, share or give your information to anyone not directly employed by The Colleton Center, unless we are subpoenaed to do so by law enforcement authorities. The only exception to this is if you violate any of the Terms of this Privacy Policy or Our Website Terms Of Use Agreement, such as submitting child pornography or using our email addresses to send spam mail. We will then do everything within our power to submit your information to the proper authorities.

Although we make every effort to protect your information, we can not guarantee that we will never lose it, as "crashes" and other unfortunate events occur. Therefore we can not and will not be liable for any crimes against us or our website such as theft, hacking, copying, republishing, redistribution, or other such illegal actions performed by individuals/entities not associated with The Colleton Center.

Children's Privacy

Our Site does not contain any information that would be of interest or value to children nor do we knowingly target children in any of our advertisements or advertising campaigns, including email campaigns or offline direct mail campaigns.

Additionally, if you are under the age of 18 years, you should not post anything through this website. If you are a parent of under-aged children, you should supervise them when they are visiting this website.

If, by an oversight on our part, you are a child or the parent of a child who receives information from this website, or any of the websites owned by The Colleton Center, you should forward a copy of the email to us immediately upon your receipt of the email to the email address shown below.

Disputes

You should send any disputes to our Administration Department by email or by U.S. Mail to the addresses included within the section "Contact Information" below. You may also reach us by phone at the number listed below or on our "Contact Us" page.

Contact Information

You may contact us as follows:

By Snail Mail:

The Colleton Center
Post Office Box 468
494 Hampton Street
Walterboro, South Carolina USA 29488

By Email:

administration @ thecolletoncenter.org

By Telephone:

1-843-549-8360

By Facsimile:

1-843-549-9122

Thank you again for visiting our Website. We appreciate your business!