THE VILLAGE GROUP (“VILLAGE GROUP ”) provides www.TheVillageGroup.org (the “Website”) and related services for your personal non-commercial use only and subject to your compliance with this Privacy Policy Statement and VILLAGE GROUP ’s Terms of Use Agreement (collectively the “Agreement”). Please read this Agreement carefully before using this Website. Your use of this Website constitutes your acceptance to be bound by this Agreement without limitation, qualification or change. If at any time you do not accept all the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you must immediately discontinue use of this Website. This Agreement sets forth VILLAGE GROUP ’s policies with respect to its operation of this Website. Certain products or services offered by this Website may be governed by additional terms (“Additional Terms”) presented in conjunction with those products or services. You must agree to these Additional Terms before using those areas or VILLAGE GROUP Services. The Additional Terms and this Agreement shall apply equally. In the event of an irreconcilable inconsistency between the Additional Terms and this Agreement, the Additional Terms shall control.
YOU MAY NOT USE THIS WEBSITE FOR ANY PURPOSE THAT IS UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED BY THIS AGREEMENT AND/OR ANY APPLICABLE ADDITIONAL TERMS. YOUR ACCESS TO THIS WEBSITE MAY BE TERMINATED IMMEDIATELY IN VILLAGE GROUP ’S SOLE DISVILLAGE GROUP ETION, WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE, IF YOU FAIL TO COMPLY WITH ANY PROVISIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND/OR ADDITIONAL TERMS, OR FOR ANY OTHER REASON, OR NO REASON.
Personalization
We may use the contact information you give us to better tailor your Website experience to your interests, and to send you information about VILLAGE GROUP and its services as well as promotional material on behalf of some of our partners. We may use other information that you provide to us to show you content in which you may be interested and to display the content according to your preferences. We will also share this information within the VILLAGE GROUP family in order to enhance your experience on this and other VILLAGE GROUP Websites. In addition, we may share this information with advertisers or other third parties that are not part of the VILLAGE GROUP family on an aggregate or other basis that does not disclose your identity or contact information.
IP Address and Log Files
We may use your IP address to administer our Website, to help diagnose problems with our server, to analyze trends, to track users’ webpage movements, to help identify you and your shopping cart, and to gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
Cookies
This Website may use a standard technology called a “cookie” to collect information about how you use the Website. Cookies reside on your computer and help our Website to recognize your computer’s browser as a previous visitor. This information allows us to customize delivery of information. For example, our Website may use cookies to save and remember registration information or preferences that you may have set while browsing the Website, to keep track of your shopping cart, to ensure you don’t see the same ad content repeatedly, to deliver content specific to your interests, and to save your password so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. We use cookies only to gather information as indicated in this policy. In addition, on occasion our site may also set a “session cookie” which helps us administer the Website. The session cookie expires when you close your browser and does not retain any information about you after it expires. Finally, we may also use an ad network provider to help present advertisements on this and other VILLAGE GROUP websites. This ad network provider, like other advertising service vendors, uses cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies on the hard drive of your computer to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, and to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, the provider collects non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these ad network providers is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours.
Security of Your Personal Information
VILLAGE GROUP employs reasonable security measures consistent with standard industry practice, for information collected through this Website. We believe that we have adequate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of the information we collect on our Website. We also use internal protections to limit access to users’ personal information to only those employees who need the information to perform a specific job.
Sale or Merger
If this Website is sold to, or merges with, another company not owned by VILLAGE GROUP, you should expect that some or all of the information collected from this Website may be transferred to the buyer/surviving company. If so, VILLAGE GROUP will seek to obligate the acquiring company to use any personal information transferred by this Website in a manner consistent with this statement, but cannot guarantee that it will be able to impose that requirement or that the acquiring company will comply.
Legal Process
You should be aware that VILLAGE GROUP may be required to disclose your personal information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, such as in court or regulatory proceedings.
Contacting the Website
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, the practices of this Website, or your dealings with this Website, please contact us at Info@TheVillageGroup.org
General Information
This Agreement and the Additional Terms shall be governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of South Carolina, as it is applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within such state, without regard to conflict of law principles. You agree that any cause of action you or VILLAGE GROUP brings to enforce this Agreement and/or the Additional Terms, or in connection with any matters related to this Website and/or the Privacy Statement, shall be brought only in either the state or Federal courts located South Carolina. You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts of the State of South Carolina for any cause of action arising out of this Agreement. You agree to file any cause of action with respect to this Agreement within one (1) year after the cause of action arises. You agree that a cause of action filed after this date is barred. If any provision of this Agreement, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid or for any reason, unenforceable including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations, then such provision shall be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that matches, as closely as possible, the original provision, and the other provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. The failure of either party to insist upon strict performance of any provision of this Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. Unless expressly provided otherwise, this Agreement is the entire agreement between you and VILLAGE GROUP with respect to the use of this VILLAGE GROUP Website and shall not be modified except in writing, signed by an authorized representative of VILLAGE GROUP.
European Union and Other Foreign Nations
This Website is governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of United States of America and is intended for enjoyment of residents of the United States. VILLAGE GROUP makes no representation that this Website is governed by or operated in accordance with the laws of other nations. By using this Website and submitting any personal information, visitors from outside of the United States acknowledge the this Website is subject to U.S. law, consent to the transfer of personal data to the U.S., and waive any claims that may arise under their own national laws.
