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Personal contact information we collect and what we do with it
When you are making a donation, purchasing a product, expressing an interest in referring a wish child, contributing to our guest book, or subscribing to our online newsletter, we ask you for personal contact information, including your name, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address. We will use this contact information to provide you with information or resources you have requested, such as information about the Make-A-Wish Foundation or a financial report, or we will use your information to contact you to clarify or verify other information, such as a wish child that you have referred.
If you make a donation, we may contact you from time to time to offer you an opportunity to make another gift, or to offer services from third parties that will directly benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation (e.g., a Make-A-Wish affinity credit card).
Personal contact information is not shared with any organization outside of the Make-A-Wish Foundation and our agents (reputable companies we use for services, such as sending Make-A-Wish Foundation mail). We have contracts to protect your privacy with all of our agents.
Other contact information we collect and what we do with it
In some instances, we ask for contact information for people other than yourself – for example, e-mail addresses of friends to whom you wish to send a copy of one of our pages. Such contact information is not added to any mailing list nor is the information shared with any other organization. Collecting such information for our own use is called prospecting. The Make-A-Wish Foundation does not prospect.
Personal billing information we collect and what we do with it
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 or purchase a product. We use secure servers to gather and process your billing information. These secure servers 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.
How to view or change your information
If you do not wish to participate in our list rental or exchange activities, or if you wish to modify the frequency of future communications from the Make-A-Wish Foundation of San Diego, please write to us at our address below.
With the exception of credit card numbers, which are not retained, you can view and request changes to all the information you have given us, including any mailing lists you may be on, by contacting us one of two ways:
Send a letter to:
Make-A-Wish Foundation of San Diego
2440 Hotel Circle North, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92108
E-mail us at: info@wishsandiego.org
Your IP address, cookies, and plug-ins
For each visitor to our Web site, our Web server automatically recognizes the visitor’s IP address (no personally identifiable information, such as e-mail addresses, is automatically recognized by our server). We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address may also be used to gather broad demographic information. Occasionally, we may use session cookies to improve content, provide easier access, and understand how visitors use our Web site. These cookies persist on your system for the duration of your browser session only. Our Web site does not offer stand-alone or plug-in applications that report individually identifiable information back to us or to any other organization.
Children
With respect to children, the Make-A-Wish Foundation of San Diego does not collect personally identifiable contact information from or about children. We do, however, provide a link to the Web site of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, which collects personally identifiable contact information from children who are referring themselves as potential wish children. If the self-referring child resides in our service area, they then share that information with us. The Foundation does not share it in any other way or with any other third parties.
Volunteers
We invite people who wish to become volunteers for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of San Diego to complete and submit volunteer applications. We use the information collected on these applications only for screening and volunteer assessment purposes, and do not share this information with any third parties. We do require potential volunteers to complete a separate written form authorizing us to complete a background check, and the information provided therein may be shared with third parties only as needed to complete the background check process. Results of all background checks are kept confidential.
Links to Other Sites
This site contains links to other sites that may gather personal contact information. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of San Diego is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. However, any personal information obtained by us through other sites (such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America Web site) is treated as if it was gathered on our site, and our privacy policy applies.
Changes to this policy
Our privacy policy is subject to change from time to time. Any changes to this privacy policy will be posted on this Web page, and we will mark the link to our privacy policy from our Internet home page to note the date of any changes so that you will always know what information we collect, how we use it and what choices you have.
Financial transactions and our secure servers
All financial transactions on our Web site, specifically online donations and online purchases, are managed through our agent, CharityWeb, which is TRUSTe certified. All transactions use an encrypted channel, take place on secure servers and occur in real time. No financial data, such as your credit card number, is transferred via a less-secure channel, such as encrypted e-mail, for processing. Moreover, once your transaction has been completed, your credit card number is not retained.
Copyright
The works of authorship contained in this Web site, including but not limited to all design, text, and images, are owned or licensed by the Make-A-Wish Foundation of San Diego and may not be copied, reproduced, transmitted, displayed, performed, distributed, rented, sublicensed, altered, stored by subsequent use, or otherwise used in whole or in part in any manner without our prior written consent, except that you may make such temporary copies in a single computer’s RAM and hard drive cache as are necessary to browse the Web site, and you may make one permanent printout of each page of the Web site (unmodified in form, with a copy of this Site Notice attached) to be used by you for personal and non-commercial uses that do not harm the reputation of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
User Agreement
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Thank you for taking the time to review our Privacy Policy/ User Agreement. The Make-A-Wish Foundation is very concerned about privacy and safety online. If you have any questions about these policy statements, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:
Make-A-Wish Foundation of San Diego
2440 Hotel Circle North, Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92108
(858) 707-9474