Updated May 6, 2025
This website is owned and operated by Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered at 9620 SW Barbur Blvd., Portland, Oregon, 97219, USA (“Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington”, “GSOSW” or “we”). Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington’s online properties include, but are not limited to, all pages found under www.girlscoutsosw.org and certain partner sites. This privacy policy applies to these sites and other sites, apps or other services we provide that link to this policy (collectively referred to below as the site).
Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. This privacy policy discloses how we collect, protect, and use Personal Data we collect online or that you provide to us in other ways, as well as how we protect children’s privacy. “Personal Data” is any information relating to an identified or identifiable person, for example, your email address, name, or phone number. If our policy practices change in the future, we will let you know by posting our revised privacy policy on our site. By using the pages on this site or other services covered by the posted Privacy Policy, you are accepting the practices described in the Privacy Policy.
PERSONAL DATA COLLECTION
We do not collect Personal Data from individuals unless they provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly and as described in this privacy policy. This means we do not require you to register or provide information to us in order to view our site. Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington only gathers Personal Data, such as names, addresses, ZIP/postal codes, email addresses, etc., when it is voluntarily submitted to us. Once collected, we may combine this information with other information collected from external sources, where permitted by applicable law.
Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington may automatically collect certain technical information from your computer such as your Internet service provider, your Internet Protocol address, your browser type, your operating system, the web pages viewed, the web pages viewed immediately before and after accessing the website, and the search terms entered to get to our site. This information may contain Personal Data. This information will only be used and processed by us to improve and customize our services. We and our service providers may collect this information using "cookies," which are small text files that many websites save on your computer, or similar technologies. See the section on "Use of Cookies and Similar Technology" below for more information.
USE AND SHARING OF PERSONAL DATA
The Personal Data you provide and that we collect is used and processed by Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington and other entities we involve in the operation of this site or who provide support for Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington’s mission and programs, for general business purposes and for the purposes for which you provided the information. General business purposes are Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington membership activities, program participation, marketing, promotions, sales, merchandising, and fundraising activities and communications. The purposes for which you provide information includes, for example, our use of your Personal Data to process online transactions, purchases, and donations, facilitate participation in Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington programs, promotions and services, or process job applications.
We do not sell Personal Data or other information you provide to us to third parties. We may share Personal Data with the following categories of third parties: (i) with Girl Scouts of the USA; (ii) when the person submitting the information authorizes us to share it; (iii) when sharing the information is with a service provider in furtherance of our operations or the operation of the site, for instance, to process a purchase or other transaction you make; (iv) to facilitate participation in Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington programs, promotions, and services, or to engage in Girl Scout fundraising, marketing communications and promotions; (v) to comply with legal processes such as a subpoena or court order or to otherwise protect your or our legal rights; or (vi) for other purposes for which you provided the information. Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington has no control over or responsibility for the data collection and use practices of third parties that process online transactions. For example, if you make a purchase on our site using a PayPal account or similar account of a third-party payment provider, certain information is transmitted to the payment provider and is subject to the third party's own privacy policy. We do not share or exchange your Personal Data collected online or offline with third parties (other than Girl Scouts of the USA) for their fundraising or marketing purposes, and only in accordance with applicable law and any required consents.
Your Personal Data is collected through, stored, and processed by us or our service providers in the United States of America or other countries that may not be your home country and that might not be deemed to provide protections equivalent to your home country.
No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington is committed to providing a safe, secure, and fun experience for children who visit our site or otherwise participate in our services. We are dedicated to safeguarding any Personal Data collected and to helping parents and children have positive experiences on and off the Internet.
We will never knowingly request Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. With parental consent, we may collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13 such as: name, address, email address, account information, and user generated content. This information allows us to fulfill a requested transaction, facilitate participation in programs, keep records, undertake certain marketing activities (only in accordance with applicable law and any required consents), or to otherwise customize or enhance the website experience for children.
Children under the age of 13 may be able to make view certain limited content. However, absent parental consent, children under 13 would not be permitted full access to the site.
Regardless of what information is displayed, parents can revoke their consent and ask that information about their children be deleted from the site by contacting our offices by phone at 800-338-5248 or by email at answers@girlscoutsosw.org. To do this or to review Personal Data collected from children, we must verify the identity of the requesting parent. When a parent revokes consent, we will stop collecting, using, processing, or disclosing information from that child.
Submissions
Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington welcomes children to learn more about our organization and, where appropriate, participate in polls and surveys, as well as submit comments, artwork, writings, and other submissions for posting on our website and for use in GSOSW publications and PR. For this reason, Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington follows the guidelines for interactive electronic media published by the Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the Better Business Bureau for pages targeted to children under 13. However, we encourage this be done only with their parent's knowledge and supervision. We also encourage children to use an alias (e.g., "Bookworm", "Skater", etc.), first name, nickname, initials, or other alternative to full names or screen names which correspond with an email address for any activities which will involve public posting.
In keeping with CARU's Principle regarding respecting and fostering the parents' role in providing guidance for their children, we encourage parents to check and monitor their children's use of email and other online activities regularly.
USE OF COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Visitors should be aware that Personal Data and non-personal information and data may be automatically collected by the Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington website through the use of "cookies" or other similar technologies such as web beacons. "Cookies" are small text files a website can use to recognize repeat visitors, facilitate the visitor's ongoing access to and use of the site, and allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements. Cookies are not programs that come onto a visitor's system and damage files. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to the visitor that has no meaning outside the assigning site. If a visitor does not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the visitor to deny or accept the cookie feature. "Web beacons" are a small snippet of code embedded in web pages typically used to monitor activity on a web page and transfer or collect information, such as information about your Internet Protocol address, the URL of the page on which the beacon is located, the browser type that is accessing the site, and the ID and number of cookies placed on your computer.
Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington uses "cookie" technology only to obtain information including Personal Data from its online visitors, in order to improve visitors' online experience and facilitate their visit within our site. Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington may use web beacons to improve website services, conduct website analytics, first party advertising relating to us and our sponsors, and to optimize the browsing experience.
Cookies expire after they have fulfilled their purpose. Our websites use cookies that expire when you close your browser (i.e., session cookies) or that expire after a set period of time (i.e., persistent cookies). Cookies that are stored by third parties will have their expiration period determined by the third party, not us.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our site. These companies may use Personal Data and other information (but not your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you on this or other websites. Read more information about this practice at http://www.networkadvertising.org and http://www.aboutads.info/choices to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES AND SERVICES
This site may be linked to other sites and services that are not maintained by Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington. These websites have their own privacy policies, which you should review prior to visiting them. We have no responsibility for linked websites and provide these links solely for the convenience and information of our visitors.
SECURITY SAFEGUARDS
The safety and security of your experience is of the utmost concern to us. We take measures to implement reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect.
Your Right to Opt Out from Receiving Marketing Communications
You may opt out from our using your Personal Data to send marketing communications to you. For example, email messages will contain instructions on how to “unsubscribe” from receiving the email in question.
Your Rights Concerning Your Personal Data
Subject to certain exceptions, you have the right to make the following requests, at no charge:
- Access/Data Portability: You may request confirmation regarding whether Girl Scouts of the USA and Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington is processing your Personal Data and, up to twice per calendar year, to receive a copy of your Personal Data delivered electronically in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily useable format that allows you to transmit this information to another entity without hindrance;
- Correction: You may request a correction of your Personal Data if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
- Deletion: You may request the deletion of your Personal Data;
- Opt-Out: You may request that we not sell your Personal Data or process your Personal Data for targeted advertising.
You have the right to be free from unlawful discrimination for exercising your rights under applicable state law.
To exercise the rights above, please contact us via our Girl Scouts Privacy Portal or by email to Girl Scouts of the USA at info@girlscouts.org.
Only you or a person that you authorize to act on your behalf may make a request related to your Personal Data. A request to exercise any of these rights must (1) provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify that you are the person about whom we collected Personal Data (or an authorized representative of that person); and (2) describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to understand, evaluate, and respond to your request. We will verify your identity by comparing the information you provide us with information we have in our records. In certain cases, we may need to ask for more information. We may not be able to respond to your request or provide you with the information you requested if we are unable to verify your identity (or establish the authority of an authorized agent acting on your behalf).
You may also have a right to appeal a decision we make relating to requests to exercise these rights. To appeal a decision, please follow the instructions we provide in our communication to you regarding the status of your request.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can contact us at:
Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington
9620 SW Barbur Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97219
Phone: 800-338-5248
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Pacific Time.
You can also contact us via answers@girlscoutsosw.org. Send us your question and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
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