Privacy Statement

Camp Matoaka has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site: www.matoaka.com

REGISTRATION FORMS

Our site’s registration form requires users to give us contact information (like name, email, and home address), and demographic information (like zip code and age).

Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.

Demographic and profile data is also collected on our site. We use this information for the purposes of reuniting alumni and updating our client address database. We also collect some demographic information in order to verify a user is a camper or parent, in order to provide access to some restricted portions of the web site for camp families only.

EXTERNAL LINKS

This site contains links to other sites. Camp Matoaka is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

PUBLIC FORMS

Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

SECURITY

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Employment and mailing list information/submissions are encrypted and password protected.

CAMPER GUIDELINES

We care about children and understand that they have special privacy needs. Therefore, we have adopted the following privacy policy regarding children:

We will NOT collect, use, or distribute to third parties not associated with Camp Matoaka, personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental consent.

We will NOT give camper information to other campers to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental consent.

When verifiable parental consent is not obtained, we will only use the online contact information (such as email) to:
Respond directly to the camper’s request on a one-time basis and not use that information to re-contact the camper for other purposes.

Respond more than once directly to a specific request from a camper (such as in the case where a camper requests a newsletter subscription) and not used to re-contact the camper for other purposes.

We will provide the parent a description of the specific types of a personally identifiable information collected from their camper upon request. We will allow the parent to refuse further use or future online collection of personally identifiable information and provide a way for a parent to obtain any personally identifiable information collected from their camper.

We will provide notice to children in age appropriate terms of what personally identifiable information is to be collected.

We will NOT provide any links to Web sites that are unsuitable for children.

We will encourage children to get their parent’s permission before sharing personal information online.

To review the information submitted by your child, please submit a request to [email protected] and upon verification, we will forward you a copy of the information submitted. Upon request, we will delete any information in our database collected from your child.

CHOICE/OPT-OUT

You can choose not to provide any information about yourself that will be posted to public areas of the website.

DATA QUALITY/ACCESS

To modify any options for changing and modifying information previously provided, please contact us.

CONTACTING CAMP MATOAKA

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact us.