The Grover and Sara McKenzie Family Foundation, Inc. (“the Foundation”) recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of all information provided by users of the mckenziefamilyfoundation.org (the “Site”) and our related subscriber mailing lists. The creation of the following privacy policy guidelines grow from our fundamental respect for our users’ right to privacy and will serve to guide our relationships with our users and subscribers.
INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THE FOUNDATION
On our Site, the Foundation collects information
about users during their registration for our subscription lists; grant
applications; their participation in certain activities on our websites,
including polls, and through the use of cookies. When users request
pages from our server, our Web server automatically collects some
information about the users, including their IP addresses. These IP
addresses are used by computers to send the requested pages to users.
SUBSCRIPTION LIST E-MAIL AND/OR NEWSLETTER
If a user wishes to subscribe to our mailing list
and/or newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email
address.
SURVEYS
From time-to-time our site may request information
from users via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely
voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose
this information. Information requested may include contact information
(such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such
as zip code, age level). Survey information will be used for purposes of
monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
USE OF INFORMATION
The Foundation will not reveal any personal information that users provide to us to any third party. The Foundation uses visitors’ IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. We also use it to gather broad demographic information about our users in general. This information does not contain anything that can identify users personally. We may combine demographic information supplied by a subscriber at registration with site usage data to provide profiles, in aggregate form, about our users and their preferences in the content of the site and advertising.
Using e-mail addresses provided at registration or
otherwise, the Foundation periodically sends out e-mail to our
subscribers about activities and programs of the Foundation,and our
partners. Third parties will not contact our subscribers through the use
of our e-mail lists except through message from our partners within the
e-mail themselves, or unless users ask to be placed on a list to
receive e-mail from our partners on subjects of interest. Upon request,
the Foundation will remove users (and their information) from our
database or permit them to “opt-out” of any further e-mail or contact.
POLICIES FOR INDIVIDUALS UNDER 13
This web site is not directed to children.
Although the Foundation does not specifically seek to obtain any
information from children, there are certain areas of our websites that
children may visit. the Foundation does not knowingly collect personal
information from individuals under 13. If we find that we have
inadvertently collected information from individuals under 13 years of
age without parental consent, we will promptly delete that information
from our database.
GENERAL
The Foundation is not responsible for the content or the privacy polices of websites to which it may provide links.
The Foundation uses reasonable precautions to keep
the personal information disclosed to us secure and to disclose such
information only to responsible third parties after permission from the
user.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.