Privacy Policy

Mississippi Center for Justice Website Privacy and Security Policy

Thank you for visiting our Website located at www.mscenterforjustice.org (our “Website”) and reviewing our Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy is clear: we will collect no personal information about you when you visit our Website unless you elect to provide that information to us. This Privacy Policy discloses what personal information we collect from you when you visit and use our Website, how we use that personal information, and how you can correct or make changes to that information.

By using this Website, you consent to the terms of our Privacy Policy, as described in this document. If you do not consent to the terms of our Privacy Policy you do not have the right to use this Website in any way, including to review information available on our Website. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy at any time. In the event we decide to make material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will attempt to notify you and other users of this Website by sending a notice to the primary email address provided to us and/or by placing a notice on our Website. You should periodically check our Website for such notices.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information Collected and Stored Automatically

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the Website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store the following non-personally identifiable information about your visit:
The Internet domain (for example, “xcompany.com” if you use a private Internet access account, or “yourschool.edu” if you connect from a university’s domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our Website;

  • The type of browser and operating system used to access our Website;
  • The date and time you access our Website;
  • The pages you visit; and
  • If you linked to our Website from another website, the address of that third party website.

We use this information to help us make our Website more useful to visitors, to learn about the number of visitors to our Website and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.

If You Send / Submit Personal Information

If you choose to provide us with personal information by sending an e-mail to us, by completing and submitting our “Contact Us” form, or by completing and submitting our registration form through our Website, you may be requested to provide certain personal information about yourself, such as your name, company name, email address, postal address, and phone number. We use that information to:

  • respond to your questions or comments,
  • establish a private account for you on our Website,
  • to send you newsletters, emails and announcements about the Mississippi Center for Justice if you opt-in to receive such communications at the time of submitting a form to us, and
  • to help us provide you with information that you request.

Mississippi Center for Justice does not collect, use, share, sell, lease or otherwise disclose your personal information for our or any third party’s commercial or direct marketing purposes.

The information you provide is not shared with any third parties or private persons, other than certain third party companies with whom we may contract to perform services on our behalf. These services may include postal and e-mail delivery, customer service, data analysis, fraud protection, and payment processing (e.g. through PayPal or a similar service which collects and processes donations on our behalf). The third parties we contract with for the provision of these services will be permitted to obtain only such personal information as they require to deliver the services. Further, such third parties are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information disclosed to them and otherwise to comply with the terms of this Privacy Policy, and are prohibited from using personal information disclosed for any purpose other than as required for their provision of the applicable services to us.
We may disclose information, including your personal information, to the extent required to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, to enforce our rights or to protect the safety and security of our Website or other users.

Children

This Website is not intended for children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from such children. Children under the age of 13 should not use our Website at any time, except in the presence of, and with the express consent of, his or her parents or legal guardian. In the event that we learn that we have inadvertently gathered personal information from children under the age of 13, we will use reasonable efforts to erase such information from our records.

Links to Other Websites

Our Website has links to the websites of many other public and private entities. Once you link to another site from ours, you are subject to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use of the new site, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such third party websites. If you have any questions about how these other sites use your information, you should contact them directly.

We greatly appreciate receiving all donations contributed by visitors to our Website. Please note that if you wish to make a donation through the link provided on our Website, you will be redirected to the website of our third party payment processor (e.g. PayPal), and the completion of your transaction will be subject to the privacy, security and legal policies and practices adopted by that third party.

Correcting, Updating and Reviewing Personal Information

You may contact us at webmaster@mscenterforjustice.org and request to review, amend or delete your personal information collected by us, and/or request us to cease collecting personal information from you in the future.

Opting-out of Communications from Mississippi Center for Justice

If at any time after opting-in to receive newsletters, special announcements and other communications from Mississippi Center for Justice, you no longer wish to receive any such communications, you may send us an email at webmaster@mscenterforjustice.org with a request to cease receipt of further communications. Please note that once we receive your request, it make take an additional period of time for such opt-out to become effective.

Mississippi Center for Justice Internet Security Policy

For Website security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, we implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information. Our hosting provider’s computer systems employ software to monitor network traffic in order to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this Website are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, while we take reasonable precautions against possible security breaches of our Website and our customer databases and records, no website or Internet transmission is completely secure. Consequently, we cannot and do not guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never occur. We urge you to take steps to keep your personal information safe.

Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or the practices of our Website, please contact us at webmaster@mscenterforjustice.org.

Mississippi Center for Justice
5 Old River Place, Suite 203 (39202)
P. O. Box 1023
Jackson, MS 39215-1023
Phone: (601) 352-2269
Fax: (601) 352-4769