EXTERNAL PRIVACY NOTICEOld Colony YMCA makes reasonable efforts to protect your personal information in accordance with these guidelines.1.0 PRIVACYWe keep your private information private byNot selling your information. You have entrusted the National Council of Young Men’s Christian Associations of the United States of America and its independent and autonomous member associations (collectively “The Y”) with your personal information, and we are committed to using it wisely. The Y will not sell, share or otherwise transfer your personal information to anyone without your consent.Restricting who has access to your information. The Y takes reasonable precautions to restrict access to your account and personal information only by employees or contracted partners who are authorized to have such access for business purposes.COLLECTION OF NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATIONWe collect non-personally identifiable information without limitation, using the following types of methodology: “Cookie” technology: A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system to help enhance your experience in using our sites and to provide us with technical information about your usage. IP address tracking: An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer when you are on the Internet. When you request pages from our site, our servers log your IP address. Non-personally identifiable information might include the browser you use, the type of computer you use, technical information about your means of connection to our websites (such as the operating systems and the Internet service providers utilized), and other similar information. Our systems may also automatically gather information about the areas you visit and search terms you utilize on our websites and about the links you may select from within the sites to other areas of the World Wide Web or elsewhere online.COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHSThe Y may also collect your photograph, by capturing your image at a YMCA or scanning your personal identification card, for identifying you as a member, volunteer or program participant. The YMCA periodically takes pictures and video of YMCA members and persons participating in Y programs to use for promotional purposes and programming materials including social media and the YMCA website.HOTJARWe use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device's IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf.For further details, please see the ‘about Hotjar’ section of Hotjar’s support site.FEATHR, COOKIES, AND WEB BEACONSIn order to help enhance the performance and functionality of the Site, we utilize session, persistent and third-party “cookies” that store a small piece of data on a users’ computers and collect certain information about the users’ visit to our Site. We also use cookies to understand users’ browsing and buying activities so that we can measure the success of online advertising campaigns we run on the Site.Our Site also uses web beacons (either directly or from our partners), along with cookies, to determine if a user has visited a particular website. These beacons aid in providing more relevant advertising to the user, as well measuring the success of an advertising campaign, but provide no personally identifiable information. Cookies are small text files that web servers typically send to users’ computer when they visit a website. Cookies are stored as text files on users’ hard drive, and can be accessed by web servers when the user visits a website or views an advertisement. A session cookie is a cookie that stores information as a user is using the Site but is deleted once the browser session is finished. A persistent cookie is a cookie that stores information as a user utilizes the Site and stores and uses that information in connection with future visits of the user to the Site. Third-party cookies and/or web beacons are cookies or web beacons provided by our technology and/or advertising partners. Any third-party cookie or web beacon that we authorize for use on the Site only collects that information described below for the same stated purposes as if we were directly collecting the information. For a third-party cookie or web beacon, the third-party will have access to the collected information in order to provide us with information or services to enhance the performance and functionality of the Site.The cookies and web beacons we use collect non-personally identifiable information about users of the Site, including: browser used to access the site, date and time, the URL of the page being loaded, users who have visited a particular website(s), any previously assigned cookie identification (a unique identifier assigned to a user to identify repeat visitors), browser window size, the geographic location of the user, device and operating system used to access the Site. The information we collect from these cookies and web beacons is used to determine information about a user’s visit to our Site, including the number of visits, average time spent, pages viewed, navigation history through the website, and other statistics. This information is used to enhance the users experience while visiting our Site and to improve the performance of our Site by, among other things, allowing us to monitor Site performance, making the Site easier to use, measuring the effectiveness of promotional placements, and tailoring the Site (including the ads and offers a user receives) to better match a user’s interests and preferences. Users who prefer not to accept cookies can set their Internet browser to notify them when they receive a cookie or to prevent cookies from being placed on their hard drive.If you consent to our collection of cookies and you subsequently wish to withdraw your consent, you will need to manage the settings on your web browser to delete all cookies and disallow further acceptance of cookies. Please note that disabling cookies on your browser will prevent us from tracking your activities in relations to our Site, however, it may also disable some of the functions and features of the Site and the Site may not work properly.If you would like to determine your consent status or to talk about your user data deletion please contact us at: mbarnes@oldcolonyymca.orgBy continuing to use our Site, you are agreeing to our placing cookies and/or web beacons on your computer in order to analyze the way you use our Site. Please read this cookie policy carefully for more details about the information we collect when you use the Site.If you do not wish to accept cookies or web beacons in connection with your use of this Site, please discontinue use of the Site.Texting - Terms & ConditionsText message communications. We use text messaging to communicate with you about your service. Normal messaging rates apply and the frequency of messages may vary. Mobile Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All other categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.Account & Service Text Updates: Opt-out of account & service text update communications. You may opt-out of text messaging at any time by replying to any message with STOP contacting us at ymca@oldcolonyymca.org. This will end the communications from that particular phone number. You may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing text messages from other phone numbers managed by Old Colony YMCA, and you may opt out of those in a similar fashion.Text messaging will include but is not limited to facility updates, account updates, program updates, transactional notices, and marketing messages.You can cancel the SMS service at any time. Just text "STOP" to the short code. After you send the SMS message "STOP" to us, we will send you an SMS message to confirm that you have been unsubscribed. After this, you will no longer receive SMS messages from us. If you want to join again, just sign up as you did the first time and we will start sending SMS messages to you again.If you are experiencing issues with the messaging program you can reply with the keyword HELP for more assistance, or you can get help directly at ymca@oldcolonyymca.orgCarriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messagesAs always, message and data rates may apply for any messages sent to you from us and to us from you. Message frequency varies. If you have any questions about your text plan or data plan, it is best to contact your wireless provider.Promotional Text Alerts: By opting-in to Old Colony YMCA Alerts, you agree to receive important messages from Old Colony YMCA regarding general information about our products, services, fundraising, and happenings as well as marketing and promotions. Text “HELLO” to 30892 to receive alerts from Old Colony YMCA. Text “HELP” to 30892 for help, text “STOP” to 30892 to end. You may also opt in by visiting www.oldcolonyymca.org/mobile-alerts. Consent not required for purchase. Msg frq varies. Msg&Data rates may apply. By opting in, I authorize the seller to deliver marketing messages using an automatic telephone dialing system and I understand that I am not required to opt in as a condition of purchasing any property, goods, or services. Didn't find what you're looking for? Try our other pages below!Code of Conduct & PoliciesFAQs