Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to ShawneeYMCA.org, any subdomains, and Shawnee Family YMCA’s governing of data collection and usage. By using the Shawnee Family YMCA's site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of Personal Information

In order to better provide you with information on products and services, Shawnee Family YMCA may collect personally identifiable information, such as your first and last name, mailing address, email address, and phone number. Shawnee Family YMCA may also collect anonymized demographic information which is not unique to you, such as age, gender, race, household income, general geographic location, and interests.

We do not collect any personal information unless you voluntarily provide it to us; you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use a certain service (for example, complete an event registration in order to participate in programs we provide). We will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We may also gather additional personal or non-personal information not listed above in the future. We may store your data on servers provided by third-party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Use of Personal Information & External Storage

Shawnee Family YMCA does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties. Shawnee Family 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 (email, name, address, phone number) is not transferred to the third party. Shawnee Family YMCA may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email, or provide customer support. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Shawnee Family YMCA, and are required to maintain complete confidentiality with your information.

Shawnee Family YMCA may disclose your personal information without notice if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Shawnee Family YMCA or the website, protect and defend the rights or property of Shawnee Family YMCA, and/or act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of ShawneeYMCA.org or the public.

Auto-Collected Information & Tracking User Behavior

Information about your computer’s hardware and software may be automatically collected by Shawnee Family YMCA. This information can include your IP address, browser type, device type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operations of Shawnee Family YMCA, to maintain quality of service, and to provide general statistics regarding the use of the website. Shawnee Family YMCA may keep track of the pages our users visit within the website in order to determine what pages are most popular, as well as to discover any issues with the website services themselves.

Use of Cookies

This website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is atext 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 issues the cookie to your device. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time – to tell a web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you register with a Shawnee Family YMCA site or service, a cookie helps Shawnee Family YMCA to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as shipping addresses, emails, and so on. When you return to the Shawnee Family YMCA website, the information you previously recorded can be retrieved. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings 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 Shawnee Family YMCA services or websites you visit.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other such sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Security of Your Personal Information

Shawnee Family YMCA secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure through the use of SSL (secure socket layer) protocols throughout the Shawnee Family YMCA website. We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, by using this website, you acknowledge that there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control, and security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this site cannot be guaranteed.

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will delete your personal information from our records and direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records as well. Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

• Complete a transaction for which the personal information was collected

• Fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall in accordance with federal law

• Provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us

• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity or prosecutethose responsible for that activity

• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality

• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech,or exercise another right provided for by law

• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act

• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other application ethic and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided that we have obtained your informed consent

• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us

• Comply with existing legal obligation

• Otherwise use your personal information internally in a lawful manner that is compatible with thecontext in which you originally provided the information.

  
  

Email Communications

From time to time, Shawnee Family YMCA may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Shawnee Family YMCA or click on a link therein. If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional emails from Shawnee Family YMCA, you may opt-out of such communications by using the unsubscribe buttons available at the bottom of marketing emails, or by emailing a request for unsubscribe to Barbara Boise at bboise@shawneeymca.org.

Changes to this Statement

Shawnee Family YMCA reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy as necessary. We will notify you of significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address you submitted to Shawnee Family YMCA, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or services available after such modifications will constitute your acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy, and your agreement to abide by and be bound by that Policy.

This privacy policy is effective as of October 1, 2025.