Privacy policy

This page explains what information the Marine Corps League of Illinois collects through this website, why we collect it, how long we keep it and how you can ask us to see, correct or delete it. If anything here is unclear, please contact us.

• Contact form: your name, email address, phone number (if you give it), the topic you choose and your message.
• Membership applications: your name, contact details, mailing address, service information and, if you choose to give it, your date of birth.
• Newsletter sign-up: your name, email address and, if you choose, your Detachment. We ask you to confirm by email before we send anything.
• Forms and files you upload to us: the files and the details you type with them.
• Donations, dues and other payments: your name, email, the amount, what it is for and a reference number. Card and bank details are typed on the payment company's own secure page and never reach this website.
• Member records kept by our officers: contact details, membership type, member numbers, dues status and payment history.

We use your information only to run the Marine Corps League of Illinois: to answer your questions, process applications, keep membership records, record dues and donations, send receipts and report membership totals to the Marine Corps League organization we belong to. We never sell, rent or trade your information, and we do not use it for advertising.

We send email only when it is needed: replies to your messages, receipts, membership notices, sign-in links and, if you signed up, the newsletter. Every newsletter email has a link to unsubscribe at once. We keep a short record that an email was sent; the text of automatic emails is deleted after 30 days.

Online payments are handled by the payment companies listed on this page. They receive only what they need to take the payment, under their own privacy policies. If you pay by check or cash, an officer records the payment by hand.

This website uses only the cookies it needs to work: a cookie that keeps officers and members signed in, and a short-lived cookie that protects our forms from spam. We do not use advertising cookies, tracking cookies or third-party analytics, and we do not follow you to other websites.

Only our officers who need it for their duties can see member and applicant information, and each officer sees only what their role requires. Officers' own contact details appear on this website only when that officer has agreed. We share membership totals, and the details needed for membership records, with the Marine Corps League organization we report to.

• Messages and uploaded forms are deleted 24 months after an officer marks them done.
• Membership applications that are declined are deleted 12 months after the decision. Approved applications become part of the member's record.
• Member and payment records are kept while you are a member, and afterwards for as long as the League's rules and the law require, so that dues and reports stay correct.
• Items removed from the website are kept for 30 days in case they were removed by mistake, then deleted for good.

You can ask us for a copy of the information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Members can update their own contact details on their member page. For anything else, contact us using the details on this page. We will answer within 30 days. We may need to keep payment records that the law requires us to keep.

This website is meant for adults. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you think a child has sent us information, please contact us and we will delete it.