Privacy Statement

The National Children’s Fund Fund, Inc., (the “Fund”) is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Fund web site and governs data collection and usage. By using this web site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

The Fund collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by the Fund. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by the Fund for the operation of this web site and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Fund’s Web site.

In addition to personal contact information, we ask for billing information, such as your billing address and credit card number, when you make a donation. We use secure servers of authorized billing processors to gather and process your billing information, which are bound by our site policies. Your billing information is not shared with any other organizations, and your credit card number is not retained once your transaction has been authorized and processed.

Use of your Personal Information.

The Fund collects and uses your personal information to operate the Fund’s Web site. The Fund also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of information regarding The Children’s Guild, Inc. (the “Guild”), an organization supported by the Fund. The Fund may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current information or of potential new information that may be offered regarding the Guild or the Fund.

The Fund does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. The Fund may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of the Guild and its affiliates about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, The Fund may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, or provide customer support. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to The Fund, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information

The Fund Web site will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on The Fund or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Fund; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the Fund, the personal safety of users of The Fund site or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Fund’s Web site may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience any interactive features of the Fund’s Web site.

Security of your Personal Information

The Fund secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

This Web site contains links to other sites that may gather personal contact information. The Fund is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such Web sites. However, any personal information obtained by us through other sites is treated as if it was gathered on our site and our privacy policy applies.

Changes to this Statement

The Fund will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect Fund and customer feedback. The Fund encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how the Fund is protecting your information.

Contact Information

The Fund welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that the Fund has not adhered to this Statement, please contact The Fund at webmaster@ncgfund.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.