Privacy Policy

At Heritage Humane Society we are committed to protecting the privacy of the users of our site and the security of the information they provide to us.
The only "personal information" (i.e. information that identifies an individual, such as a user's full name or email address) that Heritage Humane Society will collect, through site about our users is information that is voluntarily submitted by a user or received by Heritage Humane Society in connection with our website membership and receipt of donations.
Heritage Humane Society shall not disclose your personal information to any third party without your consent. Heritage Humane Society may offer additional services, contests, forums, bulletin boards, or other similar promotions on our website. In connection with these offerings, Heritage Humane Society may request that you provide personal and other information. We will identify what personal information is required to provide you with the service or promotion and how that information will be used. By participating in such offerings, you consent to the identified uses of your personal and other information. Such information will not otherwise be disclosed without your consent.
Heritage Humane Society may provide non-personal statistical information and data related to our users and their pets to our partners, sponsors, suppliers, vendors and other third party affiliates. We have taken great care to protect against the loss and misuse of information within our control. We employ a secure database and send personal information only via an encrypted transmission channel.
Our website may contain various links to third party websites. Although these links provide greater services and resources to visitors to our site and our affiliated private label websites and they may even contain web and/or affiliated private label websites trademarks and branding, we exert no authority over these linked sites. When you access a link from the website or our affiliated private label websites to a third party site, you exit web and our affiliated private label websites and enter a third party's site. Heritage Humane Society has no control over the privacy standards of such third party sites and assumes no responsibility or liability for the privacy and data collection policies or actions of any linked sites. Heritage Humane Society recommends you review the policies of third-party sites before providing personal information to any third party sites.
Our website may employ "cookie" technology to collect non-personal information from our users. Cookies are used to help our site provide content tailored to a user's specific interests. Such information is used in the aggregate to help us understand how visitors make use of our site and affiliated private label websites and the services and other resources we provide. While most browsers are set to receive cookies, you can alter your browser setting to refuse cookies or provide an alert when cookies are being sent.
Our website employs an "opt-out" methodology. When you register on our website you implicitly "opt-in" to receiving e-mail, marketing and/or promotional materials from our site or from our partners. This methodology provides that users will have the opportunity to receive at least one (1) e-mail, marketing, and/or other promotional piece from our site or from our partners. Upon receipt of any e-mail, marketing, or other promotional material, you will have the ability to "unsubscribe" or to "opt-out" of receiving future electronic notifications. This status flag will be stored as part of your permanent database record.
Heritage Humane Society does not desire or intend to collect any personal information of children on our website or on any of our affiliated private label websites. We ask that children under the age of 13 do not submit any personal information to us. If you are under the age of 13, you can access the offerings on web or our affiliated private label websites requiring input of information only in conjunction with your parents or guardians.
Any individual information voluntarily supplied by you that we have within our database will be available to you upon written request and proof of identification to Heritage Humane Society, 430 Waller Mill Road, Williamsburg, VA 23185. Heritage Humane Society will correct any errors in your personal information upon your request.
Your acceptance of Heritage Humane Society's Privacy Policy for the website is signified by your use of our website. Your continued use of web following the posting of changes to these terms will mean that you accept those changes.