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Oriana House, Inc. Website Privacy Policy

As a general rule, Oriana House, Inc. does not collect or store any personal information about you when you visit our websites (https://www.orianahouse.org and https://www.northstarreentry.org). We do not share information with 3rd parties for the purpose of marketing or advertising.

Cookie Policy

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded to your computer or device when you visit certain websites. Cookies usually fall into one of four categories:

Strictly Necessary: Temporary information needed for basic site features like navigation and search to work properly. These are usually cleared when you close your web browser.
Functional: Optional information that is saved to remember your personal preferences or account information while using the site. These are usually persistent and stay on your device.
Performance: Information about your web browser and device to improve how the website loads and displays. These can be temporary for one session or persistent on your device.
Targeting: Information about your device, location, or other websites you have visited to help show you advertisements relevant to your interest.

For more general information about cookies and their impact on you and your browsing visit https://www.aboutcookies.org

How Oriana House, Inc. Uses Cookies

Cookies from Oriana House, Inc. webpages only collect nonspecific information about your browser’s visit to the site; they do not collect any personal information about you. Oriana House, Inc. does not display advertisements on our websites or participate in information collection or sharing for marketing purposes.

Session Cookies: We use session cookies for technical purposes such as to enable better navigation through our site. These cookies let our server know that you are continuing to visit our site.
Persistent Cookies: We use persistent cookies to differentiate between new and returning visitors to our site. Persistent cookies remain on your computer between visits to our websites for up to six months. We also use persistent cookies to hide the notification about cookies.

If you do not wish to have session or persistent cookies stored on your machine, you can opt out by disabling cookies in your browser. However, turning off cookies may affect the functioning of this and other websites.

Website Analytics

Oriana House, Inc. uses the 3rd party provider Google Analytics to automatically collect the following types of information about your visit:

Domain from which you access the internet;
IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to a computer when surfing the internet);
Operating system and information about the device or browser used when visiting the site;
Date and time of your visit;
Content you visited or downloaded; and,
Website (such as google.com or bing.com) or referral source (email notice or social media site) that connected you to the website.

This information is automatically sent to Google and is immediately aggregated in a way that does not directly identify anyone. Neither Oriana House, Inc. nor Google ever have access to the specifics of your particular site visits. Our staff can only see the aggregate data from all users for a particular time period.

We use this information to improve our websites and have opted not share the aggregate data with Google for advertising purposes.

Information about Google Analytics privacy can be viewed at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

Oriana House, Inc. uses the 3rd party provider Algolia to provide a search function on our website. Search terms entered into the site are collected and aggregated by the provider for 30 days to provide us with overview information that helps us improve website navigation and to determine what information is of most interest to our visitors. No identifying information is collected that could match searches to you or your visit to our website. Oriana House, Inc. may save reports containing aggregated information such as the total number of web searches and whether they were successful.

Information on how Algolia handles information you submit into our website search can be viewed in Section 9 of Algolia’s privacy policy: https://www.algolia.com/policies/privacy/#9-subscriber-data-submitted-to-our-services-or-collected-through-our-services-on-behalf-of-our-subscribers

Third-Party Website and Applications

Oriana House, Inc. may use social media websites [TSN1] and other kinds of third-party websites to engage in dialogue, share information and media, and collaborate with the public. These sites have their own privacy policies and may collect information according to their terms of service.

Our websites may contain links to government agencies, private organizations, and commercial entities. These websites are not within our control and may not follow the same privacy, security, or accessibility policies. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the policies of that site.

Information you choose to share with us

Recruitment

Information you provide to us in the interest of applying for employment may be retained and used for the purpose of reviewing a candidate. Oriana House does not directly collect or process any personal information through our website. Rather, all such information is provided directly through our third-party recruitment portal on their website.

Our third-party processors currently include UKG, and UKG’s privacy policy can be viewed at https://www.ukg.com/privacy

Email

Any information you choose to share with us electronically by email may be used by Oriana House, Inc. for the purpose of corresponding with you. Depending on the nature of your message the message contents may be used or retained for business or legal purposes.

Oriana House, Inc. strongly discourages sending any sensitive information like date of birth, social security number, credit card information, or personal medical information by email. If you need to communicate anything sensitive ask us about our secure messaging portal. Messages sent or received in the secure messaging portal are privately stored for your access only and are automatically removed after 14 days.

Our secure messaging portal currently includes Zix, and Zix’s privacy policy can be viewed at https://zix.com/privacy-policy

Financial Information

We use third-party payment processors to process payments and donations made to us. Any personal information you enter into our website for a donation or payment is sent directly to a third-party payment processor and is not retained. We never collect or store any financial information such as credit card numbers. Rather, all such information is provided directly to our third-party processors on their website. Receipts and general transaction information without your financial details will be sent to us from the payment processor for our records.

Our third-party processors currently include Stripe and GovPayNow (aka AllPaid). Stripe’s privacy policy can be viewed at https://stripe.com/us/privacy. GovPayNow’s privacy policy can be viewed at https://www.aventiv.com/privacy.