Montgomery County Volunteer Center

Terms & Conditions for Registered Agencies

REGISTRATION AGREEMENT

RECITALS

R-1. The mission of the Montgomery County Volunteer Center ("the Center") is to mobilize people and resources to deliver creative solutions to community problems.

R-2. This Agreement governs the terms and conditions under which the Registered Agency may use Center services ("the Program").

AGREEMENT

1. Accurate Information. The Registered Agency certifies that all information it has provided or will provide to the Center in connection with its participation in the Program is true and correct and can be relied upon by the Center in taking any action with respect to this Agreement.

2. Non-Profit Status. The Registered Agency certifies that it is a non-profit tax-exempt organization under the IRS code or is a public agency. The only exception is private for-profit nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospice programs may register and post volunteer opportunities only if the positions directly serve clients. Political campaigns may not register.

3. Compliance with applicable nondiscrimination laws. The Registered Agency must comply with all applicable federal, state, and local nondiscrimination laws, including Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

4. Professional Behavior. The Registered Agency must act in a professional manner while participating in the Program, including its interactions with the Center staff, potential volunteers, and donors. Examples of unprofessional conduct include discourtesy, harassment, and any other behavior that would violate standards applicable to County employees.

5. Donations Hotlink Program. Participation in the Donations Hotlink program is limited to Registered Agencies approved by the IRS to accept tax-deductible donations, such as 501(c)(3) agencies. The Registered Agency is responsible for contacting the donor and arranging for the pick up of the item. The Registered Agency must not pass on donor information to clients or other individuals, except for the staff and volunteers of the Registered Agency.

6. Insurance. The Registered Agency must provide any insurance required for volunteers. The Center assumes no responsibility for insurance coverage.

7. Registered Agency Must Maintain Updated Information. The Registered Agency is solely responsible for posting/updating your agency content. Your agency/opportunities then go through an approval process. The process usually takes about 48 hours. Student Service Learning Approval by Montgomery County Public Schools may take longer, up to two weeks. Agencies must login to update at least once a year.

8. Statistical Information. The Registered Agency must provide the Center with statistical information concerning placement of volunteers referred through the Center as requested, when available.

9. Suitability Of Potential Volunteers. The Registered Agency has sole responsibility for determining suitability of potential volunteers referred through the Center. The Volunteer Center strongly recommends that the Agency develop an interview process which adequately screens volunteers using reference checks and police background investigations when deemed appropriate.

10. Termination. The Center may reject the Registered Agency's application, terminate the Registered Agency from the Program, and pursue any other appropriate remedy if the Registered Agency violates any provision of this Agreement. If the Center wishes to terminate a Registered Agency from the Program, the Center will first provide it with written notification of the reason(s) for termination and five business days to respond in writing. The Center's decision is final.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us.

By continuing, you agree to both the above terms of service and the Privacy Policy Below

Privacy Policy for All Users

Confidentiality is a hallmark of professionalism.

Montgomery County Volunteer Center uses reasonable commercial efforts to avoid disclosure of information which is confidential, privileged or nonpublic other than in accordance with this privacy policy.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

Montgomery County Volunteer Center gathers personally identifiable data when voluntarily submitted by a user, which may include: name, e-mail addresses, addresses, zip codes, etc. This information is used solely by Montgomery County Volunteer Center and other parties to the transaction for the purpose of facilitating and coordinate volunteer referrals between volunteers and our registered agencies.

We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization other than affiliates, contractors, advisors, service providers or in our reasonable discretion to investigate or prevent fraud, illegal activity or misuse of our web site. We are the sole owners of the information collected. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

Periodically Montgomery County Volunteer Center will send electronic communications in newsletter format or another format to our constituents, which include donors, volunteers and other business contacts. Typically these communications include information regarding volunteer opportunities, program information and results, news and events, as well as other pertinent information we feel should be reported to our constituents. Recipients retain the option to opt-out of these communications at any point in time.

If you sign up to receive news and information from us via our web site, you are electing to receive e-mail communication from us. During registration a user is required to give certain information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you about our programs and other areas on our site in which you have expressed interest. At your option, you may also provide additional preference information, but it is not required.

We may collect your IP (Internet Protocol) address to administer our web site. When a web browser or email application requests a web page or email from another computer on the Internet, it automatically gives that computer the address where it should send the information. This is called the computer's "IP address". This "address" does not contain any personally identifiable information.

Cookies that are used on the web site are called "session" cookies, and are used to identify a particular visit to the web site. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser. Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the web site Montgomery County Volunteer Center automatically receives the URL of the web site from which you came and the web site to which you are going when you leave the web site. We also receive the IP address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web) , your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your internet service provider (ISP). We may use this information to analyze overall trends to help us improve our services, but we do not generally link this information to personally identifiable information in any way.

The information which Montgomery County Volunteer Center automatically gathers, such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to our site and its areas, is used only in the aggregate very much like television ratings that tell the networks how many people tuned in to a program. This collective data helps us determine how much our visitors use parts of the site, so that we can continuously improve our site. We also may provide aggregated statistical "ratings" information, never information about you personally, to our partners about how our visitors, collectively use our web site.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You are given the opportunity to "opt-out" of having your personally identifiable data used for communication purposes. To access your data, you can do the following at any time:

Change/correct any data we have about you.
"Opt-out" of having your personally identifiable data used for communication purposes.
Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

If at any time you would like to update, correct or delete your information, you can simply contact us directly to change your information. You may also select to opt-out to receive any future communications from us on any of our e-mail communications, registration or pledge forms or by contacting us directly using the contact information provided at the bottom of this page.

Links

This web site contains links to other web sites. These web sites that you may link to from our site, including our partners' web sites, have their own privacy policies. Montgomery County Volunteer Center is not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites or affiliate. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of web sites or affiliate agencies before providing them with any of your personally identifiable data.

Security

We have put in place commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures designed to safeguard and secure the information we collect online for reasonable foreseeable risk. However, due to the open communication nature of the Internet we cannot guarantee that communication between you and us and us and you will be free from unauthorized access by third parties. MONTGOMERY COUNTY VOLUNTEER CENTER MAKES NO WARRANTIES AS TO THE SECURITY OF YOUR DATA COMMUNICATIONS, OR THAT THIRD PARTIES WILL NOT GAIN UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR MONITOR YOUR COMPUTER(S) OR ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS. YOU AGREE THAT MONTGOMERY COUNTY VOLUNTEER CENTER WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY SUCH ACCESS.

Acceptance of Privacy Policy

By using this web site (montgomerycountymd.galaxydigital.com), you indicate your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you have any concerns about our privacy policy, please contact us at {{domain_phone}}. Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted to this URL. Please return and check it regularly to be certain you are aware at all times. To the extent permitted by applicable law, your use of our web site and our use of your personally identifiable information shall be governed by the most current privacy policy.

Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please send us an email at volunteer@montgomerycountymd.gov.

By agreeing to these Terms and Conditions you acknowledge that when responding to an opportunity that is sponsored by the or one of its community partners, your registration information will be shared with and its community partner for the purposes of facilitating and coordinate the volunteer referral and for the purpose of reporting volunteer impact data back to the community.