Welcome to AKASF's community web site that includes a membership center and online store ("Site"). The Association of Korean Adoptees – San Francisco ("AKASF") is committed to serving the greater adoptee community and their families. We are equally committed to protecting your privacy.

Under federal law, we are required to give you this privacy notice. It describes our organization's privacy policy and practices concerning the personal information we collect and disclose about our members, partners and sponsors.

It also includes information about the parties who receive personal and sometimes nonpublic information from us as we conduct the business of the administrator. If after reading this notice you have questions, please contact us at 800-450-7896; or at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Information We Collect About You

We collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:

• Information we receive from you including your membership applications and other forms.
• Information about your transactions with us such as membership payments, donations on line and purchase of product or services and event registration

We will allow any of this information we collect, as described above, except to as required to provide the specific membership registration, program and event services you have enrolled in.

Disclosure of Information to Parties That Provide Services to Us

In order to fulfill our obligations of your membership or event registration, we may disclose all of the information collected, as described above, to partners that perform specific services on our behalf.

To protect our members' privacy, we only work with partners and companies that agree to maintain strong confidentiality protections and limit the use of information we provide. We do not permit these partners or companies to sell the information we provide to other third parties.

Disclosure of Information about Former Clients

If you terminate your AKASF membership, we will not share information we have collected about you, except as may be permitted or required by law.

How We Protect Your Information

We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those AKASF board members who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, or procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to guard your nonpublic personal information.

What Clients Can Do to Help

We are committed to protecting the privacy of its members. Members can help by following these simple guidelines:

• Protect your account numbers, PINs (personal identification numbers) or passwords.
• Keep your information with us current. If your address or phone number changes, please let us know.
• It is important that we have current information on how to reach you. If we detect potentially fraudulent or unauthorized activity or use of an account, we will attempt to contact you immediately.
• Let us know if you have questions. Please do not hesitate to call us - We are here to serve you!

Right to Change This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If you continue to use this website, we ask that you periodically review this page to insure you are familiar with the most current version of our Privacy Policy.