Privacy Policy

General Privacy Information
Hindman Settlement School respects your privacy. When you visit our web site you may be providing information to us and we want you to be aware of how we may use that information.

• We do not sell, lend or give your e-mail address to outside third parties.
• We do not reveal credit card information to any third party other than those parties necessary to complete the financial transaction.
• We do not supply third parties information regarding your visit to our site or even the fact you did visit our site.
• We may use cookies from time to time for the sole purpose of measuring the performance and use of our web site. Information gathered is for the sole purpose of improving our site and will not be made available to any third party.
• You may e-mail us to inquire about the availability of your name and address to third parties or to request that we remove your name from any list we may have.
• We may periodically send promotional e-mails regarding new developments, new services and newsletters to those individuals who have given us their e-mail address for such a purpose. All such e-mail will include information on how to be removed from the list.

If you wish to communicate with us in a form other than e-mail, please call the Settlement School's main number: 606.785.5475 or write to Hindman Settlement School, P.O. Box 844, Hindman, KY 41822.

Credit Cards
You can shop or donate at www.HindmanSettlement.org online with confidence. We have partnered with Authorize.Net, a leading payment gateway since 1996, to offer safe and secure credit card and electronic check transactions for our customers.

The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway manages the complex routing of sensitive customer information through the credit card and electronic check processing networks (see an online payments diagram). The company adheres to strict industry standards for payment processing, including:

• 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology for secure Internet Protocol (IP) transactions.

• Industry leading encryption hardware and software methods and security protocols to protect customer information.

• Compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.

For additional information regarding the privacy of your sensitive cardholder data, please read the Authorize.Net Privacy Policy.

www.HindmanSettlement.org is registered with the Authorize.Net Verified Merchant Seal program.