Privacy Policy

Privacy policy
The Gables Home Page is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our Web site and subscribers to our mailing lists. This privacy policy describes what information we gather from you, how we use that information, and what we do to protect it. If you have any questions about our policy, please contact us. By using this site, you agree to be bound by this policy and its related terms and rules of use.

In this policy, the Gables Home Page refers to Gables Home Page staff, board members of the Coral Gables Community Foundation, attorneys, employees, agents, interns, volunteers and consultants (“GHP Agents”), all of whom are bound by law or contract not to disclose improperly any confidential information they receive as GHP Agents.

This Web site, www.gableshomepage.com (“site”), is operated on behalf of the Gables Home Page (“GHP,”“Gables Home Page,” “we,” “us” and “our”). It is our policy to protect your Personal Information (as defined below) and to use it in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

Web site Privacy Policy
Gables Home Page servers may record the numerical Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using; the browser software you use and your operating system; the date and time you access our site; and the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our site.

This information (“Non-Personal Information”) does NOT identify you personally. We use this Non-Personal Information to monitor the effectiveness of our site and identify areas of interest and improvements.

If you choose to use certain features and functions of the site, we ask you to provide certain personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”). By providing such information, you consent to our collection and use of it, as described in this Privacy Statement. We do not collect any Personal Information about you when you visit the site unless you explicitly consent to give us that information. The Personal Information you provide includes information provided during any registration process, including contact information, such as your name, organization name, address, and email address, and information about your interests and preferences. We ask for your date of birth to help us provide demographic information about our users to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which has provided grant funding to launch Gables Home Page, or such other foundations or potential grantors and supporters of GHP. Your date of birth will be kept private and will not be visible to anyone except the site administrators, except as required by law or provided herein. The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly. Any Personal Information is stored securely at an off-site location.

Mailing List Privacy Policy
Gables Home Page maintains several mailing lists. There are a number of ways to subscribe to the Gables Home Page mailing lists, including submitting a form at our Web site or emailing us. When you subscribe, you will receive a confirmation message welcoming you to Gables Home Page mailing lists.

You may remove your name from our email list at any time by clicking here.

Compelled Disclosure
If we are required by law to disclose the information that you have submitted, we may attempt to provide you with notice (unless we are prohibited) that a request for your information has been made in order to give you an opportunity to object to the disclosure. We may attempt to provide this notice by email, if you have given us an email address, or by postal mail if you have entered a postal address. We may independently object to overly broad requests for access to information about users of our site. If you do not challenge the disclosure request, we may be legally required to turn over your information.

Links
We provide links on Gables Home Page sites to other sites of interest. We do not endorse the content of these sites or guarantee that they will abide by this Privacy Statement and we not take any responsibility for the content or operation of any of those sitesYour use of such linked sites is subject to the terms and conditions and privacy policies of the providers of those sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each site that collects Personal Information.

COLLECTION AND USE OF CHILDREN’S PERSONAL INFORMATION

The Gables Home Page sites and services (GHP) are intended for general audiences and do not knowingly collect any personal information from children. When GHP does collect age information, and users identify themselves as under 13, the site will either block such users from providing personal information, or will seek to obtain consent from parents for the collection, use and sharing of their children’s personal information. We will not knowingly ask children under the age of 13 to provide more information than is reasonably necessary to provide our services. Please note that if you grant consent for your child to use GHP services, this will include such general audience communication services as e-mail, instant messaging, and online groups, and your child will be able to communicate with, and disclose personal information to, other users of all ages. Parents can change or revoke the consent choices previously made, and review, edit or request the deletion of their children’s personal information. For example, on GHP, parents can visit Account Services, and click on “Permission for kids.” If we change this privacy statement in a way that expands the collection, use or disclosure of children’s personal information to which a parent has previously consented, the parent will be notified and we will be required to obtain the parent’s additional consent. We encourage you to talk with your children about communicating with strangers and disclosing personal information online.

Use of Cookies
The use of cookies enables us to enhance your visits to the site. However, the site is designed to be functional when cookies are turned off. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies. This may limit some functionality, specifically registering for Gables Home Page events. Cookies enable us to recognize your browser and provide features that are tailored to your needs. We may use information from cookies for purposes of planning and tracking, as well as assessing the technical function of the site. We may also use cookies to track information about which pages you visit within the site to help us gauge the effectiveness of the site or our content.

Providing and Receiving Information
You can always choose not to provide information or to opt-out of receiving communications from us at any time. We can be contacted here. In addition, please understand that any information you post will be publicly available to others. Please use care in deciding what personal or other information to post and please refer to and follow the Terms of Use.

Changes to this Statement
We may amend this Privacy Policy at our discretion at any time. If we change this privacy policy in any substantial way, we will notify you by posting a notice of the change on our Web site. We may make an effort to send notice of the change to our users via email, provided that we have your email address on record as a patron, client, email list subscriber, or other participant in our services. If you disagree with the terms of the amended policy, you may choose to discontinue subscribing to our services at any time by notifying us.

Effective date of this privacy policy: Oct. 23, 2009