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The American Institute For Direct Democracy © takes your privacy seriously. All financial and personal information collected with your purchases from the Institute Webstore are securely stored by PayPal and are not made available to third parties. Read PayPal's Privacy Policy that follows.

All personal information collected from you by the American Institute For Direct Democracy © as a result of webstore purchases, membership in either the Institute or the American Humanism(sm) organizations, or by joining or forming a Chapter For Change (sm) are securely stored by the Institute and are not made available to third parties.

This Privacy Policy applies to the United States only. To view the Privacy Policy for a different country or region, please visit the PayPal website

This policy describes the ways PayPal collects, stores, uses and protects your personal information. You accepted this policy when you signed up for either their Service, or the services of a merchant, such as the Institute, using any PayPal Payment Plan. PayPal may amend this policy at any time by posting a revised version on their website. The revised version will be effective at the time PayPal posts it. In addition, if the revised version includes a substantial change, PayPal will provide merchnats with 30 days’ prior notice by posting notice of the change on the "Policy Updates" page of their website. PayPal last modified this Policy on July 9, 2008.

How PayPal collects information about you.

When you visit the PayPal website, they collect your IP address and standard web log information, such as your browser type and the pages you accessed on our website.

If you open an account, they collect the following types of information from you:
* Contact information - your name, address, phone, email, Skype ID and other similar information.
* Financial information - the bank account numbers and credit card numbers that you link to your PayPal account.

Before permitting you to use their Service, PayPal may require you to provide additional information they can use to verify your identity or address or manage risk, such as your date of birth, social security number or other information. They may also obtain information about you from third parties such as credit bureaus and identity verification services.

When you are using a PayPal Service, they collect information about your account transactions and may collect information about your computer or other access device for fraud prevention purposes.

Finally, they may collect additional information from or about you in other ways not specifically described here. For example, they may collect information related to your contact with their customer support team or store results when you respond to a survey.

When you access their website, PayPal, or companies they hire to track how their website or the Institute webstore is being used, may place small data files called "cookies" on your computer

They send a "session cookie" to your computer when you log in to your account. This type of cookie helps them to recognize you if you visit multiple pages on our site during the same session, so that they don’t need to ask you for your password on each page. Once you log out or close your browser, this cookie expires and no longer has any effect.

They also use longer-lasting cookies for other purposes such as to display your e-mail address on a PayPal sign-in form, so that you don't need to retype the e-mail address each time you log in to your PayPal account.

PayPal encodes their cookies so that only they can interpret the information stored in them. You are free to decline their cookies if your browser permits, but doing so may interfere with your use of the Institute webstore.

Throughout this policy, PayPal uses the term "personal information" to describe information that can be associated with a specific person and can be used to identify that person. They do not consider personal information to include information that has been anonymized so that it does not identify a specific user.

PayPal stores and process your personal information on their computers in the US, and they protect it by maintaining physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in compliance with applicable US federal and state regulations. They use computer safeguards such as firewalls and data encryption, they enforce physical access controls to their buildings and files, and they authorize access to personal information only for those employees who require it to fulfill their job responsibilities.

PayPal's primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. They may use your personal information to:
* provide the services and customer support you request;
* process transactions and send notices about your transactions
* resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;
* prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce their User Agreement;
* customize, measure, and improve their services and the content and layout of their website;
* send you targeted marketing, service update notices, and promotional offers based on your< communication preferences;
* information for accuracy and verify it with third parties.

How PayPal shares personal information with other PayPal users

To process your payments, PayPal needs to share some of your personal information with the person or company that you are paying or is paying you. Your contact information, date of sign-up, the number of payments you have received from verified PayPal users, and whether you have verified control of a bank account are provided to other PayPal users who you transact with through PayPal.
* If you are buying goods or services and pay through PayPal, PayPal may also provide the seller with your confirmed credit card billing address to help complete your transaction with the seller. The seller is not allowed to use this information to market their services to you unless you have agreed to it.
*PayPal works with merchants to enable them to accept payments from you using PayPal. In doing so, a merchant may share information about you with PayPal, such as your email address, when you attempt to pay that merchant. PayPal uses this information to confirm to that merchant that you are a PayPal customer and that the merchant should enable PayPal as a form of payment for your purchase.
* Regardless, PayPal will not disclose your credit card number or bank account number to anyone you have paid or who has paid you through PayPal, except with your express permission or if they are required to do so to comply with a subpoena or other legal process.

They may share your personal information with:
* Members of the eBay Inc. corporate family -- like eBay, Shopping.com or Skype -- to provide joint content and services (like registration, transactions and customer support), to help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and violations of their policies, and to guide decisions about their products, services and communications. Members of their corporate family will use this information to send you marketing communications only if you have requested their services.
* Service providers under contract who help with parts of their business operations; (fraud prevention, bill collection, marketing, technology services). Their contracts dictate that these service providers only use your information in connection with the services they perform for PayPal and not for their own benefit.
* Financial institutions that PayPal partners with to jointly create and offer a product such as the PayPal Plus credit card where they share information with GE Money Bank to determine whether you should receive pre-approved offers for the PayPal Plus credit consent for other uses.
* Credit bureaus to report outstanding negative balance accounts, as allowed by law.
* Companies that PayPal plans to merge with or be acquired by. (Should such a combination occur, they will require that the new combined entity follow this privacy policy with respect to your personal information. If your personal information could be used contrary to this policy, you will receive prior notice.)
* Law enforcement, government officials, or other third parties when
o PayPal is compelled to do so by a subpoena, court order or similar legal procedure
o PayPal needs to do so to comply with law
o PayPal believes in good faith that the disclosure of personal information is necessary to prevent physical harm or financial loss, to report suspected illegal activity, or to investigate violations of their User Agreement.
* Other third parties with your consent or direction to do so.

PayPal will not sell or rent any of your personal information to third parties in the normal course of doing business and only shares your personal information with third parties as described in this policy.

Federal and state laws allow you to restrict the sharing of your personal information in certain instances. However, these laws also state that you cannot restrict other types of sharing. Because PayPal has chosen to refrain from certain types of data sharing, the only type of sharing of your personal information that you may restrict is as follows:/p>

If you do not want PayPal to share your personal information with other financial institutions for the purpose of marketing their jointly offered products to you, please log in to your account and uncheck the box in the Information Sharing section of the Notifications and Information Sharing page. This page can be accessed by going to the Profile subtab under the My Account tab.

You can also control how PayPal uses your contact information to market their services to you in the notifications preferences.

You can review and edit your personal information at any time by logging in to your PayPal account and clicking the Profile subtab under the My Account tab.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, you should contact PayPal by using the PayPal form or writing to PayPal at PayPal, Attn: Privacy Department, P.O. Box 45950, Omaha, NE 68145-0950. PayPal maintains offices at 2211 N. First Street, San Jose, CA.

PayPal is a TRUSTe licensee. If after contacting PayPal their response to your privacy concern is unsatisfactory, then you may contact TRUSTe by completing the form located at: http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will serve as a liaison to PayPal to resolve your concerns regarding their privacy practices. Please note that TRUSTe will not intervene for any other type of issue with your account.