Privacy Policy

At The Arc of Southern Maryland, your privacy is our priority. We are committed to protecting your privacy at all times, in all situations. The information we collect about you (member) when you become a member, donor or constituent, is used to process your membership, order, donation, or request for information and referral, and to provide you member benefits.

How Do We Use the Information We Collect?
When you become a member of The Arc of Southern Maryland, we ask you to fill out a form that requests (or we otherwise seek to collect), your name, address and e-mail address, and telephone.

Your name and address information is used solely to process your membership, donation, order, or request for information and referral. By policy of The Arc of Southern Maryland, this information will never be sold, given, rented or traded to others for purposes other than providing you member benefit opportunities.

File Security
All employees of The Arc of Southern Maryland take your personal information very seriously. All employees must learn and obey our security policies. Access to members’ personal information is limited to key management personnel and our member and donor services departments. The information is ID and password protected. Our Web security is reviewed regularly.

Links to Other Sites
The Arc of Southern Maryland's Web site contains links to other Web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you may be leaving The Arc of Southern Maryland's site and entering another Web site. These sites may independently collect or request information about you and we encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policy may differ from ours.

Communication
From time to time we may send out email messages soliciting your support, prompting a call to action, or alerting you of what’s new at The Arc of Southern Maryland. In addition, you may receive communications from us if you have contacted us for a particular reason, and/or to receive the information or service you have requested.

Our Use of Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that your browser stores on your computer's hard drive which, for some sites, identifies you when you enter. The ability to select or download information on our site is not cookie-driven.

Your Consent
By becoming a member, donor or constituent of The Arc of Southern Maryland, and/or by using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of the information you provide to us as described above. If we make any material changes in our privacy practices or in how we use your personally identifiable information, we will post a prominent notice on our Web site prior to implementation of the change.

If you prefer not to receive member benefit offers or requests for donations, please contact The Arc of Southern Maryland at 410-535-2413 or or write us at :
268 Merrimac Court
P.O. Box 1860
Prince Frederick, MD 20678