Website Privacy Policy

Your right to privacy is important to us. We recognize that providing us with personal information is an act of trust. Therefore, we have created a privacy policy to protect you and your information. If you have questions regarding this statement, please direct them to The Galveston County Food Bank by sending an e-mail message to webmaster@galvestoncountyfoodbank.org. Please reference this privacy policy.

Your Personal Information

Personal Information Collected
In general, when you visit our web site and access information you remain anonymous. We do not require you to register or provide personal information to us to view our web site. You do have an option to join our mailing list on the web site, or to make a financial contribution and in both cases we collect contact information and if a contribution is involved, credit card information. Similarly, we collect information on individuals who may volunteer services or attend events.

What Information We Collect and How We Use That Information
Our mailing list form requires users to give us contact information that may include name, e-mail address, format preference (HTML vs. plain text), physical address, and similar information. We do not request or store sensitive information from our visitors, such as social security numbers. The credit card transaction available through our web site is handled by a secure, encrypted process provided by a third party processor under contract to The Galveston County Food Bank.

Use of Your Personal Information On a selective basis, personally identifiable information is used internally to identify recipients for written and e-mail communications designed to inform individuals of organizational updates, events, food drives, and campaigns for financial support. You have the right to opt-out of these mailings, and can do so by notifying The Galveston County Food Bank in writing of this preference. The Galveston County Food Bank never shares your personal information with outside organizations.

Links to Third-Party Web Sites
We sometimes provide links to third party web sites existing outside of The Galveston County Food Bank. Since we do not control the content or functionality of these web sites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these third-party web sites. Any link from http://gfthgalveston.com to such a third-party web site does not denote an affiliation with the web site or an endorsement of its viewpoint(s) or mission(s).

Security of Your Information

Security All sensitive information (such as your credit card information) provided to The Galveston County Food Bank is transmitted using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption. SSL is a proven coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt, or scramble, data before you send it to us. We also protect account information by placing it on a secure portion of our web site that is only accessible by certain qualified employees of The Galveston County Food Bank.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can ever be 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information to the fullest extent, we cannot ensure or completely guarantee the security of such information.

Your Credit Card Information
When you enter your credit card information into a form field on https://gfthgalveston.com , your credit card information is encrypted and transmitted securely to our third party processor. Neither The Galveston County Food Bank nor our third party processor store your credit card information on a permanent basis.

We take the utmost precaution to keep your credit card information safe and secure. If you are uncomfortable submitting your credit card information online, you can also contribute to The Galveston County Food Bank by mailing it to:

Attn: Development
The Galveston County Food Bank - Gleanings From The Harvest
624 4th Avenue North
Texas City, TX 77590

You can also call our Office at (409) 945-4232 (GCFB) (409) 744-4384 (GFTH).

Cookies

What are "Cookies"?
Cookies are small files sent from a web server to your computer through your browser program.

A non-persistent cookie enables a web site to temporarily keep information on your computer as you travel from one page to another on our web site. This cookie is automatically deleted from your machine when you close your browser. Because these cookies are necessary to provide some functions, failure to allow such cookies may make some of the functions on our web site unavailable to you.

Our Use of Cookies
The Galveston County Food Bank uses cookies for various reasons. We only read information from the specific cookies that are written by our web sites. Cookies may be used to store some history about the parts of our web site that you visited to help you navigate our web sites more easily or to alert you to related pages on our web site that may interest you.