Terms & Conditions

Welcome to the official website of Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois, a non-profit organization headquartered in Glen Carbon, Illinois with a regional service center in Mt. Vernon, Illinois.

Please read the following Terms and Conditions carefully. By using the pages on this site, you signify your agreement to these Terms and Conditions.

Online Orders

Online orders will be processed and shipped within three business days. Please allow two weeks for backordered merchandise unless otherwise notified.

Exchange/Return Policy

• No item may be returned 90 days after purchase.
• Returned item must have a receipt and tags attached.
• Item with tag, but no receipt, will be given a shop gift card for current value of item.
• Cash refund will be given for returns that are less than $10 with receipt.
• Discontinued item may not be returned or exchanged.
• No refunds on current insignia. (Exchanges Only)

Shipping and Handling Costs

Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois will use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver items as quickly as possible and within any time periods indicated; however, Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois will not be responsible for any delays in delivery which are beyond its control. Please note that shipping rates are not guaranteed but vary with the national average delivery time. Where delivery is delayed, Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois will notify you as soon as possible.

Credit Card Safety

Protecting the safety of your credit card information is important to us. We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to protect the security of your credit card information as it is transmitted to us. SSL is the industry standard in Internet encryption technology, which is a highly sophisticated method of scrambling data as it travels from your computer to our website servers. We also encrypt your credit card number when we store your order and whenever we transfer that information to participating merchants.

Site Contents

Information on any Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois Website is provided with the understanding that Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois is not rendering professional advice or recommendations. You should not rely on any information on these pages to replace consultations with qualified professionals to meet your individual needs.

Inaccuracy Disclaimer

The material in this site could include technical inaccuracies, typographical errors or omissions. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions and to change or update information at any time without prior notice.

Limitation of Liability

Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall we be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, any Girl Scout site or a site that is linked to this site, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In no event shall our total liability to you for all damages, losses and causes of action (whether in contract, tort [including, but not limited to, negligence], or otherwise) exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, costs and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising from or related to your use of the site.

User Comments, Feedback, Submissions and Postings

All comments, feedback, submissions or other information communicated to Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois through this site (collective, the “Submission”) will forever be the property of Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois. Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois will not be required to treat any Submission as confidential and will not be liable for any ideas for its business (including without limitation, product or promotion ideas) and will not incur any liability as a result of any similarities that may appear in future Girl Scout business. Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois will be entitled to use the Submission for any noncommercial or other purpose whatsoever, without compensation to you or any other person sending the Submission. You acknowledge that you own whatever material you submit, and use of your Submission by Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party.

Links to Other Web Sites and Services

This site may be linked to other sites and services that are not maintained by Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois. Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois is not responsible for the content of those sites. Consequently, we cannot be held responsible for the accuracy, relevancy, copyright compliance, legality or decency of material contained in sites listed on or otherwise linked to a Girl Scout site. The inclusion of any link to such sites does not imply endorsement by Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois. Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois makes no representations whatsoever about any other web site which you may access through this one. Please exercise discretion while browsing the Internet. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, solicit personal information or contain information that you may find inappropriate or offensive. Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online that information can be collected and used by people you don’t know. While Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois strives to protect your personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online; you make such disclosures at your own risk. We reserve the right to disable links from third-party sites to any Girl Scout site.

We respect your privacy!

Any and all the information collected on this site will be kept strictly confidential and will not be sold, reused, rented, disclosed or loaned!

Any information you provide will be held with the utmost care and will not be used in ways that you have not consented to.

If you have any questions, please feel free to call us at 800.345.6858.

General Provisions

These Terms and Conditions will be governed and be interpreted pursuant to the laws of the State of Illinois, United States of America, excluding its conflicts of law rules. You expressly agree that the exclusive jurisdiction for any claim or action arising out of or relating to these Terms and Conditions or your use of this site shall be filed only in the federal courts located in Illinois. If any part of these Terms and Conditions is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. Possible evidence of use of this site for illegal purposes will be provided to law enforcement authorities. This is the entire agreement between the parties relating to the use of this site. Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois can revise these Terms and Conditions at any time by updating this posting.

Copyright and Trademark Information

Girl Scouts has the sole and exclusive right by virtue of its Congressional Charter, 36 U.S.C. § 80106 et. seq., to have and use all service marks, trademark, emblems, badges, descriptive or designating marks and other words now or heretofore used in carrying out its program and is the owner of the GIRL SCOUTS name, service mark and trademark and of all other associated names, marks, slogans, insignias, logotypes and designs, including but not limited to the distinctive TREFOIL design mark, the GSUSA uniforms and other indicia, names and marks. All other trademarks displayed on this site or through links to other sites are the property of the respective trademark owners.

Children’s Privacy

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) protects the personal information of children under the age of 13. This applies to individually identifiable information about a child that is collected online, such as full name, home address, e-mail address, telephone number or any other information that would allow someone to identify or contact the child. The Act and Rule also cover other types of information – for example, hobbies, interests and information collected through cookies or other types of tracking mechanisms – when they are tied to individually identifiable information. It is important for you to understand this law; we encourage you to read more about COPPA.

Note to Parents on Our Privacy Policy

Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois is committed to providing a safe, secure and fun online experience for children who visit our site. We are dedicated to safeguarding any personal information collected online and to helping parents and children have positive experiences on the Internet.

Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent.

Parents can revoke their consent and ask that information about their children be deleted from the site by contacting our offices by phone at 800.345.6858. To do this or to review personal information collected from children, we must verify the identity of the requesting parent. When a parent revokes consent, we will stop collecting, using 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.

Girl Scouts believes it is good policy not to collect more personally identifiable information from children under 13 than is necessary for them to participate in our online activities. In addition, be aware that all sites that are targeted to children under 13 are prohibited by law from collecting more information than they need.

How to Contact Us

If you have any comments or questions regarding our Terms and Conditions, you can contact us at:

Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois

#4 Ginger Creek Parkway

Glen Carbon, IL 62034

800.345.6858

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