National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Privacy Policy
Effective Date: July 1, 2006
The National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation (“Foundation”) is committed to safeguarding your
privacy. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains the
way information is collected and used on web sites we operate,
including:
Known collectively as
“Sites.” For easy and direct access, we provide a link to
this Privacy Policy from our home page and all other pages of the
Sites.
Changes To This Policy
In the event that the
Foundation changes this Privacy Policy, the changes will be updated and
the effective date will be revised accordingly.
Collection and Use of Personal and Anonymous Information
Visitors to the Sites may
access information while remaining anonymous. We do not require you to register or provide personal
information to view the Sites. There are
occasions when you will be asked for additional
information. This is in response to your
needs, in an effort to provide you with services that you have
requested. For example, contact information will be requested when
you make a donation to the Foundation using our secure, online
contribution form (“Donor Information”). This information is used to process your
contribution. We may also use this
information to contact you in the future with additional information
that may be of interest to you. Further,
information is collected if you submit an application for a grant
(“Grantee Information”). We will use this information
to process your application and administer any grants
awarded. We may also use this information to
contact you with information that may be of interest to
you.
From time to time, we may
offer online surveys. Only anonymous
information such as demographics and conservation interests is gathered
via surveys, and such information is not linked to users of the
Sites. Information gathered from these
surveys will be used for internal purposes only to tailor the Sites for
the needs of our users.
Cookies
A cookie is computer code
placed on your hard drive when you visit the Sites.
We may use cookies to help us recognize you when you come
back to the Sites. We may also use cookies
to monitor traffic on the Sites. This will
help us better develop the Sites and tailor them to the needs of our
visitors. Some browsers may enable you to
refuse cookies, which you may do, but please note that navigation on the
Sites will become more difficult if you choose to do
so.
IP Addresses and
Demographics
The Sites may collect
information through IP addresses or demographic variables.
An “IP address” is a number used by computers
on the network to identify your computer so that data can be transmitted
to you. “Demographic variables”
include, among other things, the domain from which you access the
internet, the time you accessed the Sites, type of web browser and
operating system or platform used, the internet address of the web site
you visited to link to the Sites, the names of the pages you visit while
visiting the Sites, and the internet address of the web site you then
visit. We collect all of this
information to allow us to monitor broad demographic trends, to provide
information tailored to your interests, and to enhance your experience
on the Sites.
Sharing of Information
The Foundation does not
share Donor Information with any third party. The one exception to that general principle is that the
Foundation will share Donor Information with hosting and Internet
business partners to provide you with services or information pertaining
to the Foundation. Federal funding source
information is shared for the purposes of grants
research.
Grantee information may
be shared with third parties for a variety of purposes, including but
not limited to the marketing of goods and services, disclosure of use of
public funds, and project conservation outcomes for the purposes of
bettering conservation. Some grantee
Information will also be accessible and searchable to visitors to the
Sites (i.e., project name, description, funding
information). This information is intended
as a public resource for conservation and for perspective grantees when
filing proposals to the Foundation. If you do not wish your information
to be used in that manner, contact us prior to submitting an application
for instructions for opting out. If you’re a grantee that wishes
to remove its information from our web site, please send an e-mail to
optout@nfwf.org.
Information posted on
public areas of the Sites, such as the eCommunities pages, will be
viewed by others and the Foundation has no control over how that
information will be used. The Foundation
cautions you not to post information that you do not wish to share on
the Sites.
Links to Third Party Sites
This web site provides
links to third party sites that may have privacy policies that differ
from ours. You should review the privacy
policies posted on each site.
Feedback
The Foundation welcomes
comments and questions about this Privacy Policy. We are committed to securing your personal information, and
will make every reasonable effort to keep that information
protected.
Opt-Out
You may request that we delete your information or refrain from
contacting you further by sending us an email to this address: optout@nfwf.org Please note that this
opt-out policy does not apply to Grantee Information or that it may not
be possible to delete all copies of the information as some of it may be
contained on back-up disks or in legally-required records. Nevertheless,
we will strive to honor your request to the best of our ability.
Security
The Sites have security
measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the
information under our control. No system is
impenetrable, however, and the Foundation will not guarantee absolute
security of the information in our possession. Foundation staff is provided annual training on how to carry
out these policies.
All credit card
transactions are conducted over a secure server. If you do not wish to make a donation online, contributions may
be made by printing out the contribution form and mailing or faxing it
to the Foundation or related organization as indicated in the address
below.
Contact Us
Please use the following
address for all communication and contributions with the Foundation,
including e-mail, postal service, and telephone:
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
1133 Fifteenth St., N.W.
Suite 1100
Washington, D.C. 20005
Email: info@nfwf.org
Telephone: (202) 857-0166
Facsimile: (202) 857-0162
Children’s Information
Most pages on the Sites
are designed for a general audience. On
those pages, we do not knowingly collect information about
children. Should we become aware that a
child under 13 has submitted personally identifiable information in a
manner that is not compliant with this Privacy Policy, we will delete it
immediately. We do not accept donations from
individuals under 18 years of age.
A few pages on select
Sites, such as the Save the Tiger Fund and More Fish , are specifically
designed for kids. Personal information is
not collected on those sites, except as provided herein.
Wherever the Foundation has reason to believe that pages
are likely to attract a large amount of visitors under 13 years of age,
a link is posted to this children’s portion of this Privacy
Policy.
A Note to Kids
The Foundation encourages you to get permission from your parents
before sending any information about yourself over the Internet, to us
or to anyone else.
A Note To Parents
PLEASE READ. This section of the privacy policy
explains our information collection and use practices online for
children under the age of thirteen, including what we do with
information that we collect and with whom we share that information. We
ask that you take the time to review our policy so that you can know
exactly how we collect and use information from kids, and so that you
will know how you can review or request that we delete your child's
information. If you ever have any questions or concerns about this
policy, please contact us at:
http://www.nfwf.org/contact_form.cfm. This privacy policy is
intended to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection
Act (“COPPA”).
What Information We Collect From Children Under Thirteen
Except as provided herein,
personal information from children under thirteen years of age is not
collected on the Sites without parental consent.
However, children may
sign up on the Save the Tiger Fund site to receive a children’s
newsletter. To do so, children submit their email address along
with a parent or guardian’s. We are
prohibited by law from collecting more information than these email
addresses in conjunction with this newsletter. Upon receipt, we will send a newsletter to the
child. At the same time, we will send you an
email informing you that your child has subscribed to the
newsletter. If you do not want your child to
receive the newsletter, please contact us and we will delete your
child’s address from our records. If
we do not receive a response from you, we will continue to send the
newsletter until you or your child requests us to stop.
Please note: If we do not
receive a response from you requesting that we delete your child's
information, your consent to your child's receipt of the newsletter will
be presumed.
As a parent or guardian, you
may exercise your right to have your child's information deleted at any
time. Additionally, you may review your child's personally identifiable
information at any time. See Parent's Rights, below.
How We Use Information We Collect From Children Under Thirteen
When we collect
personally identifiable information from children under the age of
thirteen, we will use that information only for the express purpose for
which it was collected, i.e., transmission of a children’s
newsletter. The information will not be used
for any other purpose and the information will not be used after a
request to delete the information has been received from the child or
you.
Children under thirteen may not post information to the public areas
of the Sites, such as the eCommunities pages. The following companies
have agreed to comply with this policy:
Armstrong Enterprise
Communications
10389 Democracy Lane
Farifax, VA 22030
703-691-4301
Biz Net Technologies
Corporate Research Center
1715 Pratt Dr., Suite 3500
Blacksburg, VA 24060
Additionally, in the unlikely
event that all, or substantially all, of our assets are sold or
transferred to another party, all email addresses collected and saved by
us may be transferred to the acquiring party. Finally, we may disclose
your child's email address to third parties in order to comply with the
law, to law enforcement agencies, to protect our rights in or the safety
of the Sites, or to protect the safety or rights of other users of the
Sites.
Cookies and Non-Personally Identifiable Information
To help make the Sites more
responsive to the needs of our visitors, we invoke a standard feature
found in browser software, called a "cookie," to assign each visitor a
unique, random number, a sort of anonymous user ID that resides on your
computer. The cookie doesn't actually identify the visitor, just the
computer that a visitor uses to access our site. A cookie can't read
data off your hard drive. We do not link cookie data with personally
identifiable information, nor do we store a child’s personal
information in our cookies. You can disable cookies at any time by
changing the preferences in your browser.
Finally, records of certain
non-personally identifiable information such as the number of hits a Web
page receives, IP address, and other aggregate data are maintained via
the Sites. We do not link this aggregate data with any personal
information. Third parties that help us administer the Sites may have
access to this non-personally identifiable, aggregate data,. However,
these third parties are bound to keep this information
confidential.
Parent's Rights
We want you to be comfortable
with what your child is doing on the Site. Therefore, you may contact
the Foundation at any time regarding privacy questions or concerns, or
to request to review personally identifiable information we have
collected from your child. You may also contact us at any time to
request that we delete your child's personally identifiable information,
and/or refuse to permit further collection or use of your child's
information. We will take steps to ensure that any person contacting us
for a child's information is that child's parent or guardian.
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation National Office
1133 Fifteenth St., N.W.
Suite 1100
Washington, D.C. 20005
Phone: 202-857-0166
Fax: 202-857-0162
Email: childrens.privacy.policy@nfwf.org
