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Privacy Statement
Your right to privacy and data security is a prime concern. This document reflects the privacy policy of dvmsfoundation.org.
The information that this site gathers/tracks about you is general. You can visit this website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Our site does collect information such as IP address, browser type and operating system, but this information does not personally identify you. Instead, this information is used to help better understand the overall audience and to improve the website.
We may ask you to provide certain information about yourself in order to access certain sections of the website. This can include, but is not limited to name, mailing address, e-mail address, phone number and other personally identifying information when you register, make a donation or ask us to contact you. Participation is completely optional. If you elect to give us personal information over the Internet, we will take reasonable precautions to ensure the security of your information.
What Happens When I Register on the Website?
In order to use the “Make Donations” page of the website, a user must register with the website and create a profile which is maintained in the Parent Panel. During the initial registration, the user is asked to input an e-mail address and to establish a password. Once registration is established, an individual Parent Panel is created when the user inputs contact information such as a name, address, and phone number(s). To complete the Parent Panel, the user is asked to select student(s) name(s) from a database or input student(s) name(s) as necessary. Profiles maintained in the Parent Panel can be revised or updated at anytime by logging in and using the previously established registration e-mail and password.
What Happens When I Make a Donation on the Website?
When making a donation, the user is asked to provide billing and payment information. The billing information input by the user includes name, address, city, state, zip code, e-mail address and phone number. The payment information includes credit card number, expiration date, and the card’s security code. This billing and payment information is not maintained and must be input again by the user when additional donations are made to the Foundation during any future visits to the website. A summary of donations made per donor, per student is maintained on the website and can be accessed for informational purposes only under the “My Donations” section of the website by the donor using the secure password login.
- How Does the Foundation Use Personal Information?
First and foremost, the personal information provided by you on this web site will be used in the manner for which it was provided. That is, to identify the donor and to complete the donation transaction. In the event there is a discrepancy with your donation, the personal information will be used to contact you and to clear up the discrepancy. Additional uses of personal information by the Foundation can include the following:
- Internal reporting purposes -- personal information will be compiled and compared against the school population list in order to streamline names for future mailings and to reduce mailing costs. Also, donor information is compiled by grade in order to determine where additional resources can be tapped.
- Subsequent recognition – donor information is compiled and family giving levels are compared against pre-established thresholds under the Sponsor Program. This information is then used to determine those donors who qualify under the Silver, Gold, and Platinum levels. From these lists, family names are placed on the Foundation’s Sponsor Program Plaques maintained in the school office.
- Tax receipt purposes – personal information is downloaded to thank you letters which are sent out to families once a year. The sole purpose of these letters is that they are to be used by the donor when preparing their individual income taxes forms as evidence of the donor’s charitable donation in accordance with Internal Revenue Service guidelines.
- Processing of matching funds – when a donor indicates that matching funds are available, their personal information will be used to complete the matching fund administrative procedure as defined by their respective employer(s).
How Does the Foundation Use Billing and Payment Information?
The billing and credit card information is used to complete the processing of the donation. The Foundation has partnered with Authorize.Net, a payment gateway since 1996, to offer safe and secure credit card transactions for our customers.
The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway manages the complex routing of sensitive customer information through the credit card processing networks. The company adheres to strict industry standards for payment processing, including:
- 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology for secure Internet Protocol (IP) transactions.
- Industry leading encryption hardware and software methods and security protocols to protect customer information.
- Compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.
For additional information regarding the privacy of your sensitive cardholder data, please read the Authorize.Net Privacy Policy [link to http://www.authorize.net/company/privacy/ ].
www.dvmsfoundation.org is registered with the Authorize.Net Verified Merchant Seal program.
How Does the Foundation Protect Personal Information?
The Foundation takes reasonable measures to protect the personal information it collects, uses, stores or discloses. We have implemented physical, technological and organizational procedures designed to protect the integrity and security, and to ensure the appropriate use, of your personal information. These procedures are appropriate for to the nature, sensitivity and format of the personal information collected, used, stored or disclosed by the Foundation. For example, the Foundation uses Secure Sockets Layering (SSL) to encrypt your personal credit information, including your credit card information, before it travels over the Internet. SSL technology is the industry standard for secure online transactions.
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