Make-A-Wish Website
Privacy Policy
Make-A-Wish of Northwest
Ohio • Copyright 2000-2007 • All Rights
Reserved
Personal contact information we collect and what we do with it.
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When you are
making a donation, purchasing a product, expressing
an interest in referring a wish child, 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, a receipt,
or a financial report, or we will use your information
to contact you to clarify or verify other information,
such as an order you placed, a donation you made,
or a wish child that you have referred. |
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We will not add your name
and contact information to any mailing lists
without your prior knowledge or express permission.
In other words, we will always ask or inform
you before adding you to a mailing list. If we
do not, you will not be added. If you have agreed
to be added to one of our mailing lists, such
as our e-mail newsletter list or regular mailing
list, then you may receive from us news about
the Make-A-Wish Foundation and information on
how you can support the organization's mission. |
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If you make a donation
and agree to be added to our postal mailing list,
we may contact you from time to time to offer
you services from third parties that will directly
benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation (for example,
a Make-A-Wish Foundation affinity credit card). |
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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 shipping
Make-A-Wish Foundation products or sending Make-A-Wish
Foundation mail). We have contracts to protect
your privacy with all of our agents. In some
cases, when you wish to refer a child, make a
donation to your local chapter, or ask for local
information, your contact information may be
passed on to your local chapter. Local chapters
will not add you to their mailing lists unless
you have expressly asked to be added. |
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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 hosted by our agent CharityWeb, which
is 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. |
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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 or the mailing address of someone
you wish to have us notify of a donation you
have made. 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. |
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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 at Make-A-Wish
Foundation of Northwest Ohio
405 Madison Ave., Suite 210,
Toledo, OH 43604,
419-244-WISH (9474),
800-666-8539 or Make-A-Wish Foundation of America,
3550 North Central Avenue, Suite 300
Phoenix, AZ 85012-2127,
1-800-722-WISH (9474). |
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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, are 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. Session cookies
are also used to support our e-commerce pages.
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. |
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This site contains links
to other sites, including ones that gather personal
contact information.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the
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.. |
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With respect to children,
the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America only collects
personally identifiable contact information from
children who are referring themselves as potential
wish children. That information is passed on
to the Make-A-Wish of Northwest Ohio chapter
so that
the chapter
can contact
the child’s
family to make an assessment of wish eligibility,
but we do not share it in any other way or with
any other third parties. We do not give the ability
to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally
identifiable contact information on our Web site. |
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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 online, how we use
it, and what choices you have. |
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All financial transactions
on our headquarter's Web site, specifically online
donations and online purchases, are managed through
their
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. |
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