Privacy Policy

The Samaritans of Fall River & New Bedford Privacy Policy

Your Personal Information

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Website Privacy

Www.samaritans-fallriver.org or www.samaritans-newbedford.org is the website of the The Samaritans of Fall River & New Bedford. Our postal address is 627 State Road (Route 6) Westport, Massachusetts, 02790. We can be reached via email atsamsfrnb@aol.com or you can reach us by telephone at 508-673-3777. The The Samaritans of Fall River & New Bedford is committed to providing quality service.

One of the newest and fastest growing delivery channels is the Internet. A concern arising from the rapidly changing world of technology and specifically the Internet is your right to maintain privacy. We assure you that we share your concerns and are committed to ensure that all information you supply us is held in strictest confidence. Visitors to the The Samaritans of Fall River & New Bedford website, www.samaritans-fallriver.org or www.samaritans-newbedford.org, will remain anonymous. We do not collect personal identifying information about visitors to our site. If you provide identification (such as name and address) via email, online form, ask for information the information provided will only be used to communicate with you to handle your request. It is not sold or transferred to other parties. Our servers only collect standard non-identifying information about visitors to the site, such as date and time visited, IP address, city, state and country. This information is used to compile standard statistics on site usage.

Disclosure

The Samaritans of Fall River & New Bedford does not disclose, give, sell or transfer any personal information about visitors or callers, unless required for law enforcement or by statute.

Confidentiality

For the purposes of befriending, callers are asked if they would like to share first names. It is not required to receive befriending. All information about callers is confidential within the agency, unless:

• we have informed consent from the caller to pass on information
• we receive a court order requiring us to divulge information
• we are passed information about acts of terrorism or bomb warnings
• a caller attacks volunteers or others
• a caller threatens to attack volunteers or others
• a caller deliberately prevents the service from being delivered to other callers

We reserve the right to amend this privacy statement at any time and without notice. If we do so, we will post the change on our website.