Privacy Policy
Welcome to the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation’s (the “Foundation”) website. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personal information that you choose to provide us through our site. The following informs you how we collect, use and disclose information related to an identifiable individual — in other words, personal information — along with any other data that users provide to us through our website. The Privacy Policy describes personal information that we may collect from you or that you provide us with when you visit the site, and the policy shares how we collect, use, maintain, protect and disclose such information. The policy only applies to the website and doesn’t reference other communications with the Foundation. By accessing or using our website, you agree to the Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to update the policy, so please revisit the policy from time to time to check for any changes. You acknowledge that your continued use of our website after we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy means that the collection, use and sharing of your personal information is subject to the updated Privacy Policy.
Personal information we collect
We only collect personal Information about you if you provide us with such information or access our website. This may include, without limitation:
- Information from you when you choose to interact with us, such as if you attend our events, respond to our surveys or otherwise communicate with us.
- Technical information that we automatically collect in connection with your use of our website, such as:
- Log data: This is information that your browser automatically sends whenever you use our website. Log data includes your internet protocol address, browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interacted with our website.
- Usage data: We may automatically collect information about your use of the website, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use and the actions you take, your time zone, your country, the dates and times of access, user agent and version, type of computer or mobile device, computer connection, IP address, and the like.
- Device information: Includes name of the device, operating system and browser you are using. Information collected may depend on the type of device you use and its settings.
- Analytics: We may use a variety of online analytics products that use cookies to help us analyze how users use our services and enhance your experience when you use the services.
- We use cookies and other tracking technologies to help us collect and process technical information. Please see the “Tracking technologies we use” section below for more information.
If you don’t want us to have personal information, please don’t provide it or access our website. When you provide such information or access our website, you are giving us consent to collecting, using and disclosing that information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Use of information we collect
We may use personal information that we collect or you provide us in the following limited circumstances:
- At your direction or instruction, or for any other purpose with your consent.
- To deliver and improve the website and your overall user experience.
- To protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized or illegal activity.
- To link or combine with other personal information.
- To develop, improve or expand our organization and services.
- To conduct internal reporting, auditing and research, including focus groups and surveys.
- To compare and verify information for accuracy and update our records.
- To email, message or otherwise contact you with information and updates about us and the website.
- To respond to your comments and questions and provide support services.
- To send you information including confirmations, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
- To analyze how you use the website with tools such as Google Analytics and other tools that help us understand traffic patterns and know if there are problems with the website.
- In connection with a merger, acquisition reorganization or similar transaction.
- When required by law or to respond to legal process.
- To protect our users, other individual lives and/or the rights or property of the Foundation.
- To maintain the security of our website.
Disclosure of personal information we collect
In addition to the specific situations discussed elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we disclose personal information in the following circumstances:
- With your consent or at your direction.
- With third parties that perform services to support our core business functions and internal operations, which may include database administrators, cloud computing services, payment processors, advertising services and application service providers.
- With third parties that we have partnered with, such as to jointly create and offer a service.
- To support our audit, compliance and corporate governance functions.
- In connection with a change of ownership or control of all or part of our organization (such as a merger, acquisition, reorganization or bankruptcy).
- If we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to detect or protect against fraud or security issues.
- If required or permitted by applicable law or regulation, including laws and regulations of the United States and other countries, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with a legal obligation or in response to a request from law enforcement or other public authorities wherever the Foundation may do business; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Foundation; (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users, customers and contractors/employees of the Foundation or others; or (d) enforce our terms of service or otherwise protect against any legal liability.
- With your consent or at your direction.
Storage and transfer of information we collect
Information that we collect or you provide us may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may be different from those of your jurisdiction. By providing information on our site, you hereby expressly consent to such a transfer for the purposes described herein.
Tracking technologies we use
Some of the features on the website may require the use of “cookies” — small text files that are stored on your device’s hard drive. We use cookies to enable our servers to recognize your web browser and tell us how and when you visit and use our website, to remember your preferences, analyze trends, and operate and improve our website. You may delete and block all cookies from our website, but parts of the website may not work or your overall user experience may be diminished.
We want to be open about our cookie use. The following sets out how we may use different categories of cookies and your options for managing cookie settings:
Use of analytics
We may use analytics services to help us understand how users access and use the website. Our third-party analytics services providers may use cookies to collect and store technical information to be used for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.We use Google Analytics to help collect and analyze certain information for the purposes discussed in this Policy. You may opt out of the use of cookies by Google Analytics at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Links to other sites
We may provide links to other websites. We have no control over these websites and they are subject to their own terms of use and privacy policies. As such, we do not endorse and are not responsible for the availability of, or for any content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from these third-party websites.
Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. This Privacy Policy only applies to the information we collect on this site. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of other websites you link to from this site or that you otherwise visit.
How we respond to do-not-track signals
Your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a do-not-track signal to websites and other online services you visit. We do not alter our practices when we receive a do-not-track signal from a visitor’s browser, because we do not track our visitors to provide targeted advertising. To find out more about Do Not Track, please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
Children
We will not knowingly collect personal information from children under age 16. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at info@maxwell-hanrahan.org.
How to contact us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or personal information that we have collected from you, updated, transferred to a third party or erased, please contact us at info@maxwell-hanrahan.org.