Privacy Policy

This website is owned and operated by Girl Scouts of Western Washington, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Our online properties include, but are not limited to, all pages found under girlscoutsww.org. This privacy policy applies to these sites and other sites, mobile apps, or other services we provide that link to this policy (collectively referred to below as the site).

Girl Scouts of Western Washington is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. This privacy policy discloses how we collect, protect, and use Personal Data we collect online or that you provide to us in other ways, as well as how we protect children's privacy. “Personal Data” is any information relating to an identified or identifiable person, for example, your e-mail address, name, or phone number. If our policy practices change in the future, we will let you know by posting our revised privacy policy on our site. By using the pages on this site or other services covered by the posted Privacy Policy, you are accepting the practices described in the Privacy Policy.

PERSONAL DATA COLLECTION

We do not collect Personal Data from individuals unless they provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly and as described in this Privacy Policy. This means we do not require you to register or provide information to us in order to view our site. Girl Scouts of Western Washington only gathers Personal Data, such as names, addresses, Zip/postal codes, email addresses, etc. when it is voluntarily submitted to us. Once collected, we may combine this information with other information collected from external sources, where permitted by applicable law.

Girl Scouts of Western Washington may automatically collect certain technical information from your computer such as your Internet service provider, your Internet Protocol address, your browser type, your operating system, the web pages viewed, the web pages viewed immediately before and after accessing the Web site, and the search terms entered to get to our site. This information may contain Personal Data. This information will only be used and processed by us to improve and customize our services. We and our service providers may collect this information using "cookies," which are small text files that many websites save on your computer, or similar technologies. See the section on "Use of Cookies and Similar Technology" below for more information.

USE AND SHARING OF PERSONAL DATA

The Personal Data you provide and that we collect is used and processed by Girl Scouts of Western Washington and other entities we involve in the operation of this site or who provide support for the Girl Scouts of Western Washington mission and programs, for general business purposes and for the purposes for which you provided the information. General business purposes are Girl Scouts of Western Washington membership activities, program participation, marketing, promotions, sales, merchandising, and fundraising activities and communications. The purposes for which you provide information includes, for example, our use of your Personal Data to process online transactions, purchases, and donations, facilitate participation in Girl Scouts of Western Washington programs, promotions and services, or process job applications.

We do not sell Personal Data or other information you provide to us with third parties. We may share Personal Data with the following categories of third parties: (i) with Girl Scout Councils; (ii) when the person submitting the information authorizes us to share it; (iii) when sharing the information is with a service provider in furtherance of our operations or the operation of the site, for instance, to process a purchase or other transaction you make; (iv) to facilitate participation in Girl Scouts of Western Washington programs, promotions, and services, or to engage in Girl Scouts fund raising, marketing communications and promotions; (v) to comply with legal processes such as a subpoena or court order or to otherwise protect your or our legal rights; or (vi) for other purposes for which you provided the information. Girl Scouts of Western Washington has no control over or responsibility for the data collection and use practices of third parties that process online transactions. For example, if you make a purchase on our site using a PayPal account or a similar account of a third-party payment provider, certain information is transmitted to the payment provider and is subject to the third party's own privacy policy. We do not share or exchange your Personal Data collected online or offline with third parties (other than our chartered Girl Scout Councils) for their fundraising or marketing purposes, and only in accordance with applicable law and any required consents.

Your Personal Data is collected through, stored, and processed by us or our service providers in the United States of America or other countries that may not be your home country and that might not be deemed to provide protections equivalent to your home country.

CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

Girl Scouts of Western Washington is committed to providing a safe, secure, and fun experience for children who visit our site or otherwise participate in our services. We are dedicated to safeguarding any Personal Data collected and to helping parents and children have positive experiences on and off the Internet.

We will never knowingly request Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. With parental consent, we may collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13 such as: name, address, email address, account information, and user generated content. This information allows us to fulfill a requested transaction, facilitate participation in programs, keep records, undertake certain marketing activities (only in accordance with applicable law and any required consents), or to otherwise customize or enhance the Web site experience for children.

Children under the age of 13 may be able to make certain content such as user generated content visible to others or the public. This could include, for example, a webpage or parts of webpages operated by children that have been designed for group or public viewing. However, absent parental consent, children under 13 would be allowed to display only limited information such as a first name or unique user name or other information that does not allow for online contacting by third parties.

Regardless of what information is displayed, parents can revoke their consent and ask that information about their children be deleted from the site by contacting our offices by phone at 1(800) 541-9852 or by email at customercare@girlscoutsww.org. To do this or to review Personal Data collected from children, we must verify the identity of the requesting parent. When a parent revokes consent, we will stop collecting, using, processing, or disclosing information from that child. To respect the privacy of parents, information collected and used for the sole purpose of obtaining verifiable parental consent or providing notice is not maintained in retrievable form by the site if parental consent is not obtained after a reasonable time.

The Personal Data and other information collected from or about children under the age of 13 or otherwise may be collected by or shared with the child's Girl Scout Council and troop. To find contact information for the relevant Council with whom information may be shared, please visit our Council Finder.

SUBMISSIONS

Girl Scouts of Western Washington welcomes children to learn more about our organization and, where appropriate, participate in polls and surveys, as well as submit comments, artwork, writings, and other submissions for posting on our Web site. For this reason, Girl Scouts of Western Washington follows the guidelines for interactive electronic media published by the Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the Better Business Bureau for pages targeted to children under 13. However, we encourage this be done only with their parent's knowledge and supervision. We also encourage children to use an alias (e.g., "Bookworm", "Skater", etc.), first name, nickname, initials, or other alternative to full names or screen names which correspond with an email address for any activities which will involve public posting.

In keeping with CARU's Principle regarding respecting and fostering the parents' role in providing guidance for their children, we encourage parents to check and monitor their children's use of email and other online activities regularly.

USE OF COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

Visitors should be aware that Personal Data and non-personal information and data may be automatically collected by the Girl Scouts of Western Washington Web site through the use of "cookies" or other similar technologies such as web beacons. "Cookies" are small text files a Web site can use to recognize repeat visitors, facilitate the visitor's ongoing access to and use of the site, and allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements. Cookies are not programs that come onto a visitor's system and damage files. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to the visitor that has no meaning outside the assigning site. If a visitor does not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the visitor to deny or accept the cookie feature. "Web beacons" are a small snippet of code embedded in webpages typically used to monitor activity on a webpage and transfer or collect information, such as information about your Internet Protocol address, the URL of the page on which the beacon is located, the browser type that is accessing the site, and the ID and number of cookies placed on your computer.

Girl Scouts of Western Washington uses "cookie" technology only to obtain information including Personal Data from its online visitors, in order to improve visitors' online experience and facilitate their visit within our site. Girl Scouts of Western Washington may use web beacons to improve website services, conduct website analytics, first party advertising relating to us and our sponsors, and to optimize the browsing experience.

Cookies expire after they have fulfilled their purpose. Our websites use cookies that expire when you close your browser (i.e., session cookies) or that expire after a set period of time (i.e., persistent cookies). Cookies that are stored by third parties will have their expiration period determined by the third party, not us.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our site. These companies may use Personal Data and other information (but not your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you on this or other websites. Read more information about this practice at http://www.networkadvertising.org and http://www.aboutads.info/choices to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies.

CREDIT CARD SAFETY

Protecting the safety of your credit card information is also important to us. For card transactions we process, we use Transport Layer Security (TLS) technology to protect the security of your credit card information as it is transmitted to us. TLS is an Internet encryption technology, and a method of scrambling data as it travels from your computer to our Web site servers. We also encrypt your credit card number when we store your order and whenever we transfer that information to participating merchants.

To make sure you are accessing our secure server before you submit sensitive information, check the document for your browser for indication of a TLS connection (most browsers utilize an unbroken or closed padlock). Verify that TLS is active before submitting sensitive information to our server. To double-check, verify that the TLS or Address line of your browser for our site begins with "https."

It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

CHILDREN

If you are under 18, you need parent/guardian permission to use a credit card to make purchases online.

YOUR RIGHT TO OPT OUT FROM RECEIVING COMMUNICATIONS

You may opt out from our using your Personal Data to send marketing communications to you. For example, e-mail messages will contain instructions on how to “unsubscribe” from receiving the e-mail in question.

YOUR RIGHT TO ACCESS, CORRECT, AND DELETE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Girl Scouts of Western Washington serves customers in Washington state.

Regardless of your state of residency, Girl Scouts of Western Washington and Girl Scouts of the USA honors the following rights with respect to Personal Data collected from you when you visit our Sites:

Confirm whether GSUSA is processing your Personal Data and, if so, access that Personal Data.
Rectify/correct any inaccuracies in your Personal Data.
Ask us to delete any of your Personal Data that is stored in our systems.
Obtain a copy of the Personal Data we have for you in a format that allows you to transmit it to another data controller (also known as the "Right to Data Portability").
Opt out of having your Personal Data processed for purposes of targeted advertising.

While we are not currently subject to the data protection laws that provide rights to residents of other U.S. states, we continue to monitor the privacy law landscape and, when necessary, will update our practices and this Notice to remain in compliance with applicable laws.

Exercising Your Rights

To exercise the rights described above, please contact us via our Girl Scout Privacy Portal or by email to customercare@girlscoutsww.org. You have the right to be free from unlawful discrimination for exercising your rights under applicable state law. You have the right to be free from unlawful discrimination for exercising your rights under applicable state law.

Only you or an adult you designate to act on your behalf (where permitted by law) may make a request related to your Personal Data. A request to exercise any of these rights must identify the right you want to exercise and describe the information to which your request relates in sufficient detail to allow us to understand, evaluate, and respond to your request.

Links to other websites and services

This site may be linked to other sites and services that are not maintained by Girl Scouts of Western Washington. These Web sites have their own privacy policies, which you should review prior to visiting them. We have no responsibility for linked Web sites and provide these links solely for the convenience and information of our visitors.

IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ THESE GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON SMS TERMS AND CONDITIONS (“TERMS”) CAREFULLY BEFORE SIGNING UP FOR THE TEXT MESSAGING PROGRAM. BY SIGNING UP FOR THIS TEXT MESSAGING PROGRAM, YOU AGREE TO ABIDE BY AND BE BOUND TO THESE TERMS and you expressly consent to receive marketing or non-marketing text messages, as applicable, from Girl Scouts of the USA and Girl Scout organizations (together, “Girl Scouts”), and others texting on behalf of Girl Scouts, including text messages made with an automatic telephone dialing system (“autodialer”), at the telephone number(s) that you provide.

You may opt-out of these communications at any time. Consent to receive marketing text messages is not required as a condition of purchasing any goods or services. Message frequency may vary. By signing up, you are confirming you are over the age of 18.

Program Description

Girl Scouts, through third-party service providers, may use an autodialer to deliver text messages to you. Girl Scout text messages are intended to provide you with information regarding Girl Scouts.

Opt In

Opt in by checking the “SMS Opt In” box at the bottom of “My Profile” in your myGS account.  Message and data rates may apply. (See below.)

Cost

Message and data rates may apply to each text message sent or received in connection with Girl Scout text messages, as provided in your mobile telephone service rate plan (please contact your mobile telephone carrier for pricing plans), in addition to any applicable roaming charges. Girl Scouts does not impose a separate fee for sending Girl Scout text messages; however, you are responsible for any fees imposed by your mobile carrier of any kind whatsoever.

STOP Information

Text STOP in response to any text to opt out.

Your Mobile Telephone Number

You represent that you are the account holder for the mobile telephone number(s) that you enroll. You are responsible for notifying Girl Scouts immediately if you change your mobile telephone number.

You agree to indemnify Girl Scouts of Western Washington in full for all claims, expenses, and damages related to or caused in whole or in part by your failure to notify Girl Scouts of Western Washington if you change your telephone number including, but not limited to, all claims, expenses, and damages related to or arising under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Access or Delivery to Mobile Network is Not Guaranteed

It is your responsibility to determine if your mobile carrier supports text messaging and if your mobile device can receive text messages. Your receipt of Girl Scout text messages is subject to the terms and conditions of your agreement(s) with your mobile carrier.

Delivery of information and content to a mobile device may fail due to a variety of circumstances or conditions. You understand and acknowledge that network services, including but not limited to mobile network services, are outside of Girl Scouts of Western Washington’s control, and Girl Scouts of Western Washington is not responsible or liable for issues arising from such network services (e.g., delayed or undelivered messages or the security of any messages).

Changes in SMS Terms and Conditions

We may modify these Terms from time to time with or without notice to you. Unless we indicate otherwise, modifications will be effective as of the date they are posted on this page or any successor page and supersede any prior Terms. You should look at the Terms regularly. Your continued opt-in to receive messages from Girl Scouts following any changes to these Terms will constitute your acceptance of such changes.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can contact us at:

Girl Scouts of Western Washington
5601 6th Avenue South
Suite 150
Seattle, WA 98108

Phone: 1(800) 541-9852
Email: customercare@girlscoutsww.org

Thank you for visiting our site.

This Privacy Policy was last updated April 2026.