LEGAL

You can travel through much of our site without giving us any information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you. Malama Hawaii will have sole ownership of any information collected on this site. We will not use such information other than as described in this statement. Malama Hawaii reserves the right to modify or amend this notice and it shall be effective upon posting to this site.

Information Collection and Use
When you register for information on our proprietary site, we will retain the registration content in order to determine general and specific interests and to facilitate information sharing. We will also use your personal information to send appropriate news and updates from Malama Hawaii, such as site enhancements, new initiatives or special alerts. If at any time you wish to stop receiving news and updates via e-mail, please let us know by sending a note to info@malamahawaii.org. When you send us e-mail, we will retain the content of the e-mail, your e-mail address, and any applicable response in order to handle any follow-up questions you may have.

To help us enhance and optimize a users' overall site experience, certain types of anonymous information about visits to this site may be collected on a regular basis. This data is not associated with any of your personal information. Such information includes a visitor's Internet service provider, IP address, browser type, operating system, pages accessed on our Web site, referring Web sites and the date and time of access. We retain the right to share any information collected on this site with our partnering organizations.

We may share anonymous, aggregated information about the collective uses of our site with third parties. This anonymous information is not linked to any personal information and may be used to analyze usage trends and statistics in order to help us determine interests, monitor activity and to improve our web site.

We may occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf. We will only provide those companies with the information they need to deliver the service they are providing and they will be prohibited from using that information for any other purpose. We may disclose your personal information without notice if (and only if) required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary for us, our partnering organizations or this site to conform to the requirements of the law, comply with legal process, protect and defend our rights or property, or act in urgent circumstances to protect personal, company or public safety.

Like many websites, Malama Hawaii may use "cookies" as part of the technology to improve our website. A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your hard drive but does not itself contain any personal information. Cookies enhance your experience by saving the effort required to provide information each time you visit a Malama Hawaii Web page and by customizing content based on your interests. We do not use cookies to collect and distribute information to third parties for any purpose. You can configure your browser to be alerted when a site is attempting to send a cookie and refuse the cookie.

Data Security
We protect the quality and integrity of any personal information you choose to submit via the available data entry forms on the site. The data is stored on a secured server protected by password and monitored on a regular basis. Your personal information is never shared outside our company without your permission, except under the conditions explained in this statement.

Protecting Children
While most of the content on our site is suitable for children of any age, our collection of personal information is not directed at children, and we make every reasonable effort to ensure that we do not accept personal information from persons under 13 years of age. (Waiting for confirmation from Dave on age validation)

Third Party Information and Links
Malama Hawaii encourages other organizations to post information to our web site. We make all reasonable attempts to provide the source of third party somewhere within the posting. Malama Hawaii is not responsible for the accuracy nor does it validate such posted information. The site also contains links to other parties' web sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of any such outside sites. We encourage our users to consider reading the applicable privacy statements of each third party web site that collects personal information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected on malamahawaii.org.