Variety – the Children’s Charity of the United States ("USV") has created this policy to demonstrate our commitment to privacy. The following statement explains our information-gathering and dissemination practices for our web site at www.usvariety.org (the "Site"). This policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically. Throughout this policy, "we," "us," and "our" will mean USV. This policy does not apply to the practices of persons or entities that USV does not control, manage or employ.

USV knows that you care how information about you is used. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

When you are making a donation, purchasing a product, expressing an interest in referring a grant, or subscribing to our online newsletter, we ask you for personal contact information, including your name, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address. We will use this contact information to provide you with information or resources you have requested, such as information about USV, a receipt, or a financial report, or we will use your information to contact you to clarify or verify other information, such as a donation you made, or a grant that you have submitted.

We will not add your name and contact information to any mailing lists without your prior knowledge or express permission. In other words, we will always ask or inform you before adding you to a mailing list. If we do not, you will not be added. If you have agreed to be added to one of our mailing lists, such as our e-mail newsletter list or regular mailing list, then you may receive from us news about USV and information on how you can support the organization's mission.

Personal contact information is not shared with any organization outside of USV. In some cases, if you make a donation to your local chapter, or ask for local information, your contact information may be passed on to your local chapter. Local chapters will not add you to their mailing lists unless you have expressly asked to be added.

We do not collect any billing information as all donations are done through JustGive.org, a site that processes our credit card donations. Any information collected through donations at JustGive.org is subject to JustGive.org’s privacy policy which can be found at http://www.justgive.org/html/about/privacy.html

In some instances, we ask for contact information for people other than yourself – for example, e-mail addresses of friends to whom you wish to send a copy of one of our pages or the mailing address of someone you wish to have us notify of a donation you have made. Such contact information is not added to any mailing list nor is the information shared with any other organization. Collecting such information for our own use is called prospecting. USV does not prospect.

With the exception of credit card numbers, which are not retained, you can view and request changes to all the information you have given us, including any mailing lists you may be on, by contacting us one of two ways:

Send a letter to:

Variety – the Children’s Charity of the United States
Attention: Donor Care
5757 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 445
Los Angeles, CA 90036-5810

E-mail us at: Info@usvariety.org

For each visitor to our web site, our web server automatically recognizes the visitor's IP address (no personally identifiable information, such as e-mail addresses, are automatically recognized by our server). We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address may also be used to gather broad demographic information. Occasionally, we may use session cookies to improve content, provide easier access, and understand how visitors use our Web site. Session cookies are also used to support our e-commerce pages. These cookies persist on your system for the duration of your browser session only. Our web site does not offer stand-alone or plug-in applications that report individually identifiable information back to us or to any other organization.

With respect to children, USV only collects personally identifiable contact information from children who referred as potential grant recipients. We pass that information on to the child’s local Variety chapter so that the chapter can contact the child’s family to make an assessment of grant eligibility, if there is no local chapter, USV handles those requests, but we do not share it in any other way or with any other third parties. We do not give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information on our Web site.

All financial transactions on our web site, specifically online donations, are managed through our agent JustGive.org, and are therefore subject to JustGive.org’s security precautions. To see their security statement please visit http://www.justgive.org/html/about/privacy.html.

By viewing and/or using this Web site, you are agreeing to all of the terms and conditions explained below.

1. This World Wide Web site with its home page in the domain "usvariety.org" (the "Web site") is a complimentary information service offered by Variety – the Children’s Charity of the United States ("USV ") at no charge to you as a user of the World Wide Web, with the express condition that you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth in this User Agreement. USV reserves the right to change these terms and conditions any time, and you must consult the most recent version of this User Agreement (not an older cached version) each time you view the Website. Do not use the Website if you do not agree to all of the following terms and conditions.

2. You agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth under the Copyright and Hyperlinks sections of this Site Notice.

3. You acknowledge that the information on the Web site is provided "as is" for general information only. USV makes no warranties of any kind regarding this Web site, including but not limited to any warranty of accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, or any warranty that these pages, or the server that makes them available, are free of viruses or other harmful elements, and such warranties are expressly disclaimed.

4. You agree that you will hold harmless USV and its officers, directors, and employees from all claims arising out of or related to your access or use of, or your inability to access or use, this Web site or the information contained in this Web site or other websites to which it is linked, including but not limited to claims that you have found something you have heard, viewed, or downloaded from this Web site or another Web site to which it is linked to be obscene, offensive, defamatory, or infringing upon your intellectual property rights. In no event will USV or the contributors of information to this Web site be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken by you in reliance on such information or for any consequential, special, or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

5. You acknowledge that opinions and recommendations contained in this Web site are not necessarily those of USV or endorsed by USV.

6. USV may provide links on the Web site to other Web sites which are not under the control of USV. These links are provided for convenience of reference only and are not intended as an endorsement by USV of the organization or individual operating the Web site or a warranty of any type regarding the Web site or the information on the Web site.

7. This Web site (excluding linked sites) is controlled by USV, which is headquartered in the State of California, United States of America. It can be accessed from all 50 states, as well as United States Territories and other countries around the world. As each of these places has laws that may differ from those of California, by accessing this Web site both you and USV agree that the statutes and laws of the State of California, without regard to conflicts of law principles thereof, will apply to all matters arising from or relating to use of this Web site. You and USV also agree and hereby submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Los Angeles, the United States District Court for California with respect to such matters. USV makes no representation that materials on the Web site are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and accessing them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access this Web site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

You may provide a hypertext link to this Web site on another Web site, provided that:

(a) the link must be an active, text-only link (you may NOT use our logo without prior written approval) clearly marked "Variety – the Children’s Charity of the United States";
(b) the link must "point" to the URL "http://www.usvariety.org" and not to other pages within the Web site;
(c) the link, when activated by a user, must display this Web site full-screen and not within a "frame" on the linked Web site;
(d) the appearance, position, and other aspects of the link may not be such as to disparage USV or its services, damage or dilute the goodwill associated with USV's name and service marks, or to create the false appearance that an entity other than USV is associated with or sponsored by USV;
(e) the link will not appear on pages including content which USV finds in its sole discretion to be objectionable or which includes obscene, pornographic, violent, intolerant, tasteless, denigrating or sexually oriented content or materials; and
(f) USV reserves the right to revoke its consent to the link at any time in its sole discretion by amending this Site Notice. You acknowledge and agree that you are responsible for keeping up with any such changes.

All other hypertext links to this Web site must be approved in writing by USV. Inquiries may be directed to Info@usvariety.org.

Use of a hyperlink does not indicate or create any endorsement, approval, sponsorship or affiliation of or with your website by USV. This permission to hyperlink is provided without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including without limitation, warranties of title of non-infringement.

USV reserves the right to take action against any use of its service marks or any links to its website that do not conform to the conditions herein, or that infringe any intellectual property or other rights of the USV.

Thank you for taking the time to review our Privacy Policy and User Agreement. USV is very concerned about privacy and safety online. If you have any questions about these policy statements, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:

Variety – the Children’s Charity of the United States
5757 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 445
Los Angeles, CA 90036-5810
E-mail us at: Info@usvariety.org