Parents Via Egg Donation (PVED) understands how important the privacy of personal information is to our users. This Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect about you and about your use of PVED and its services. It will explain the choices you have about how your personal information is used and how we protect that information. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.

This privacy policy applies to the use of: www.pved.org and our private forum: HERE. We highly value your privacy and make this policy easily available throughout our site to assist you in understanding the handling of information in the course of using this site.

This website utilizes industry standard analytics packages which gathers limited information on visitors to our website automatically, and stores this anonymous information in server log files. This information may include IP addresses, browser type, basic IP information, referring pages, operating system used and date/time stamps. This information does not identify individual users; it is used only for site administration, as well as for analysis of website usage and trends.

Additionally, cookies may be used to provide easier and faster access to website features such as logins and/or repeat visits. Cookies are very small text files that are stored on personal computers for reference purposes. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally unidentifiable information you have submitted while on our site.

We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie expires when your browser is closed, and a persistent cookie may stay on your hard drive for an extended period. Session cookies make it easier for you to navigate our site; persistent cookies can perform such activities as storing your password for forums or blogs so you do not have to sign in every time you visit those areas, and/or may be used to enable us to track and target the interests of our users so as to enhance the overall experience of using our site.
We have no access to or administration abilities over any cookies that are used by any advertisers on our site.

Registration is not required in order to use or access this (PVED.ORG) website. However, this site may make forums, blogs, message boards or similar available to its users. To use these features you are required to register and complete an application particularly if you wish to leave comments or provide articles.
 

If you do register and in the process provide us with personally identifiable information, rest assured that any such information you provide will not be shared with any third-party organization except with your express consent. Once your application is approved your person information such as name and telephone number are destroyed.

If you choose to provide us with additional information about yourself through an e-mail message, form, survey, etc., we will only maintain the information as long as needed to respond to your question or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication.
Please note that if you post comments or articles to any forum, blog or message board on this site, any personally identifiable information you provide in those comments or articles may be read, collated and used by anyone viewing them. As such, we are not responsible for personally identifiable information you may choose to make available through these channels.

We also provide visitors to our website the opportunity to opt-in to receive communications from us. In this case, we ask the visitor for his or her email address and name. These communications will include our regular newsletter, other information that we feel may be pertinent to the visitor. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications by emailing us at marna@pved.org , and requesting to be removed from the forum

Again, if you provide us with your email address and/or name for the purposes of receiving communications from us, this information will not be shared with any third-party organization except with your express consent.

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer wish us to possess your information, you may request correction, updating, or deletion of your information by emailing us at marna@pved.org. You may also complete any corrections, updates or deletion requests at https://www.pved.org/forums/index.php you also may make your request by phone or postal mail at the address/phone number indicated at the end of this privacy policy.
 

We follow accepted industry standards to protect any personal information you have provided to us. However, please be aware that no method of electronic storage can ever be 100% secure. Therefore – as is the case with any organization - we are not in a position to guarantee the absolute security of your information.

You may submit any questions you may have about our security procedures by emailing us at marna@pved.org.

This website may contain links to other sites that are not controlled in any way by us. Please be aware of this when you click on any such links; we are not responsible for the privacy practices and/or policies of any website other than our own. Consequently, we strongly suggest that you review the privacy policy of every website you visit, whether or not they are linked to by our own site.

Privacy questions: marna@pved.org
By US Mail: PVED, 14234 NW Lakeshore Ct, Portland, OR 97229

This privacy policy was last updated on June 1, 2013