Data Security Policy

Data Security

AHAF does not guarantee the security of personal information. AHAF attempts to protect the security of personal information and to honor choices for its intended use. AHAF is committed to protecting  personal information and to enable secure online transactions by preventing unauthorized access, maintaining data accuracy and ensuring correct use of information. Although no website can guarantee complete invulnerability to all security breaches, AHAF and its third party vendors have implemented electronic, physical and administrative safeguards that ensure a high level of security. Users may further protect themselves as described in the Browser Security Signals section below.

We process financial transactions (donations and book orders) via encrypted secure sockets layer (SSL) sessions. SSL is an industry standard for securing web-based transactions. All AHAF-related credit card transactions are handled by a vendor that securely stores merchant credit card data in compliance with Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards. Mandatory, global PCI security standards ensure the protection of cardholder data and are upheld by Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

AHAF staff is educated about the importance of protecting your information and is held accountable for preserving your confidentiality. However, this does not guarantee that our website is invulnerable to all security breaches. AHAF does not warrant, guarantee or represent that our website is immune from viruses, security threats or other vulnerabilities or that your information will always be secure.

When allows a third party access to personal identification information, we use procedures considered to be appropriate to help ensure that the information is used only by authorized persons for authorized purposes, consistent with AHAF visitors’ choices.  Our procedures help to maintain the security, integrity and privacy of your information. Even though AHAF uses procedures to secure your information, we cannot make any guarantees about the actions or policies of the aforementioned third parties.

For security purposes and to help protect users from credit card theft or misuse, every AHAF-related online purchase or donation transaction is encrypted. This encryption scrambles personal information sent to the AHAF website when making an online contribution or purchasing a publication. We use advanced technology to prevent information interception.

Browser Security Signals

For browser security, AHAF uses a website identification service which most browsers recognize. Please check personal browser security setting options to ensure that the desired security features are in place. This will enable the browser to send an alert or notification of questionable transmission security. The URLs (addresses) of secure web pages are identified by "https://" rather than "http:// (note the “s”) and include a security symbol, an icon of a lock, somewhere in the browser window. These indicate that any transmitted information will be encrypted and securely sent.

Privacy Policy

For information about how AHAF handles personal information obtained from a donation or publication purchase within our organization, please read our Privacy Policy.

Last Reviewed On: 11/20/08