Privacy Statement

Terms & conditions

Valley Shore YMCA is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Valley Shore YMCA Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Valley Shore YMCA website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Valley Shore YMCA collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Valley Shore YMCA also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Valley Shore YMCA. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Valley Shore YMCA for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Valley Shore YMCA Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Valley Shore YMCA public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Valley Shore YMCA does not read any of your private online communications.

Valley Shore YMCA encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Valley Shore YMCA so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Valley Shore YMCA is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Valley Shore YMCA and Valley Shore YMCA family of Web sites.

Valley Shore YMCA collects and uses your personal information to operate the Valley Shore YMCA Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Valley Shore YMCA also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Valley Shore YMCA and its affiliates. Valley Shore YMCA may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Valley Shore YMCA does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Valley Shore YMCA may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Valley Shore YMCA may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Valley Shore YMCA, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Valley Shore YMCA does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Valley Shore YMCA keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Valley Shore YMCA, in order to determine what Valley Shore YMCA services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Valley Shore YMCA to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Valley Shore YMCA Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Valley Shore YMCA or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Valley Shore YMCA; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Valley Shore YMCA, or the public.

The Valley Shore YMCA Web site use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Valley Shore YMCA pages, or register with Valley Shore YMCA site or services, a cookie helps Valley Shore YMCA to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Valley Shore YMCA Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Valley Shore YMCA features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Valley Shore YMCA services or Web sites you visit.

Valley Shore YMCA secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Valley Shore YMCA secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Valley Shore YMCA will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Valley Shore YMCA encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Valley Shore YMCA is protecting your information.

Valley Shore YMCA welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Valley Shore YMCA has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Valley Shore YMCA. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

Please read the following terms and conditions relating to your use of this website carefully.

By using this website, you are deemed to have agreed to these terms and conditions of use. We reserve the right to modify them at any time. You should check these terms and conditions periodically for changes. By using this website after we post any changes to these terms and conditions, you agree to accept those changes, whether or not you have reviewed them. If at any time you choose not to accept these terms and conditions of use, please do not use this website. The YMCA may periodically change their Terms, so please check back from time to time. By using this Site, you agree to these Terms and as they may be amended.

Please also review our Privacy Policy for an explanation of the YMCA’s practices and policies related to the collection, use and storage of our users’ information.

The contents of the YMCA’s website (the website) are protected by copyright and trademark laws, and are the property of the Valley Shore YMCA (VSYMCA). Unless we say otherwise, you may access the materials located within the website only for your personal use. This means you may download copies of posted materials for personal noncommercial use only, so long as you neither change nor delete any author attribution, trademark, legend or copyright notice. When you download copyrighted material, you do not obtain any ownership rights to that material.

You may not modify, copy, publish, display, transmit, adapt or in any way exploit the content of the website. Only if you obtain prior written consent from us—and from all other entities with an interest in the relevant intellectual property – may you publish, display or commercially exploit any material from the website.

The trademarks, service marks, designs, and logos (collectively, the “Trademarks”) displayed on the Site are the registered and unregistered Trademarks of the YMCA and its licensors. Your use of the Trademarks displayed on this Site, except as provided in these terms, is strictly prohibited.

You may use or download material displayed on this Site for noncommercial personal use only and in order to communicate with the YMCA. If you download material, you must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices displayed on the materials. You may not distribute, modify, transmit, post, or otherwise use the content of this Site for public or commercial purposes without the YMCA’s written permission.

Users may be able to communicate comments, make applications, submit photos or make other submissions to the YMCA and you agree that any and all such information that you submit to the Site is the property of YMCA and may be used by it for any purpose.

Terms of Use shall be governed by the laws of the State of Connecticut, without respect to its conflict of laws principles. We each agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of a state court located in Middlesex County, Connecticut or the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Your use of this site is at your own risk. All contect, functionality, the information of this site and any liked websites are provided to you “as is” without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to warranty of non-infringement or any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose. Any third party content providers make no warrantied, express or implied, as to the ownership, accuracy, or adequacy of the site content. In no event shall the YMCA be liable to you for an indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages arising from your use of the site whether economical or personal injury alleged and regardless of the theory of liability.

Your use of this site is at your own risk. All contect, functionality, the information of this site and any liked websites are provided to you “as is” without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to warranty of non-infringement or any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose. Any third party content providers make no warrantied, express or implied, as to the ownership, accuracy, or adequacy of the site content. In no event shall the YMCA be liable to you for an indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages arising from your use of the site whether economical or personal injury alleged and regardless of the theory of liability.

Under no circumstance, including but not limited to negligence, will we be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials on the website, or any products of services provided pursuant to the website, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages (including but not limited to lost data), so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In no event shall the total liability to you by us or any of our licensors or suppliers for all damages, losses, and causes of action (whether in contract, tort, or otherwise) exceed the amount paid by you to use, if any, for accessing the website.

We control and operate this website from our offices in the United State of America. We do not represent that materials on the website are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Persons who choose to access this website from other locations do so on their own initiative, and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Notice

Materials may be made available via the website by third parties not within our control. We are under no obligation to, and do not, scan content used in connection with the website for the inclusion of illegal or impermissible content. However, we respect the copyright interests of others. It is our policy not to permit materials known by us to infringe upon another party’s copyright to remain on the website.

If you believe any materials on the website infringe upon a copyright, you should provide us with written notice that at a minimum contains:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online website are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that website.
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disable, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
5. A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized to by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

All DMCA notices should be sent to our designated agent as follows:

It is our policy to terminate relationships regarding content with third parties who repeatedly infringe the copyrights of others.