The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation 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 Fort Scott Area Community Foundation website and governs data collection and use. By using the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
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Collection of your Personal Information
The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Fort Scott Area Community Foundation public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation does not read any of your private online communications.
The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation website so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation and Fort Scott Area Community Foundation family of websites.
Use of your Personal Information
The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation collects and uses your personal information to operate the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation website and deliver the services you have requested. The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation and its affiliates. The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners 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 Fort Scott Area Community Foundation may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation, in order to determine what Fort Scott Area Community Foundation services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation websites 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 Fort Scott Area Community Foundation or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation web uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. 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. For example, if you personalize Fort Scott Area Community Foundation pages, or register with the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation site or services, a cookie helps the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Fort Scott Area Community Foundation website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation features that you customized.
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 the interactive features of the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation services or websites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation 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 websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation is protecting your information.
Contact Information
The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation has not adhered to this Statement, please contact the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.