Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is applicable to this Site [www.bostonkapsi.org)] and not necessarily to other sites on the World Wide Web. When leaving this Site, please read the privacy policy applicable to the site you are visiting. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use this Site.
Who We Are
We are the Boston (MA) Alumni Chapter, a member of the Northeastern Province of Kappa Alpha Psi® Fraternity, Inc.
Non-Personal Information Collected Automatically
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.® (and this associated site bostonkapsi.org) is committed to the privacy of its website visitors. Please note that we may provide aggregate statistics about our customers, traffic patterns, and related site information to reputable third parties, but these statistics will include no personally-identifying information.
Personal Information
In order to respond to your questions or fulfill your requests, it may be necessary to ask for personal information such as your name, address, e-mail address and telephone number. We may use this information to respond to your requests, or to contact you via mail, e-mail or phone to inform you of events or announcements regarding our chapter or fraternity. We will not provide this information to a third party without your permission, except as necessary to fulfill your request.
Security
Bostonkapsi.org has taken appropriate measures to prevent unauthorized access to, improper use, and the inaccuracy of your personal information. For example, we use encryption technology when collecting or transferring sensitive data such as credit card information.
Browser Cookies
From time to time, we may place information on your computer to allow us to identify you. This information is commonly known as “cookies”. By showing how and when our visitors use this Site, this information can help us to improve our Site on a continual basis. We will only use cookies to view information on your hard drive that was put there by a cookie from this Site. The use of cookies is an industry-standard and many Web sites use them. If you do not wish to receive cookies, or want to be notified of when they are placed, you may set your web browser to do so, if your browser so permits.
Children
No information may be submitted to Bostonkapsi.org by persons under the age of 18 without the consent of a parent or legal guardian, nor may persons under the age of 18 make purchases or other legal acts on this Site without such consent.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Boston (MA) Alumni Chapter service privacy policy is available here: https://bostonkapsi.org/privacy-policy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
MediaIf you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact formsCookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
