Privacy policy
The MACE Foundation Privacy Policy
What Information Do We Collect? When you visit our website at www.themacefoundation.org, you may provide us with two types of information: (a) personal information you freely choose to provide that is collected on an individual basis and (b) website use information collected on an aggregate basis.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide We may request that you voluntarily supply us with personal information, including your email address, postal address, home or work telephone number and other personal information for such purposes as correspondence, registering for an event, placing an order, or participating in online surveys. If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.
Your email address is stored when you submit a form (Contact).
Your email address is stored when you complete a donation form (Donation).
Your IP address is stored until your account is deleted.
Website Use Information Similar to other websites, www.themacefoundation.org may utilize a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and web server logs to collect information about how our website is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our website, the sites visited just before and just after ours. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.
How Do We Use the Information that You Provide to Us? Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering our business activities. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our website, news events and special programs we think you will find valuable. The lists used to send you notifications are developed and managed under our traditional standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy of all personal information provided by our users. You may at any time notify us of your desire not to receive additional correspondence.
What Are Cookies? Cookies are a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to recognize the computer used to access a website. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's web browser on the user's hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that website by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user's transactions on related web pages.
How Do We Use Information Collected from Cookies? We use website browser software tools such as cookies and web server logs to gather information about our website users' browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our website and better serve our users. This information assists us to design and arrange our web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our website to better meet the needs of our users and prospective users. Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our website as they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our website and evaluate our website's visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture your individual email address or any personally identifying information about you.
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions? When you send confidential personal information to us via our website, a secure server software, which we have licensed, encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. The information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our website. However, we ask that you do not send confidential information such as Social Security, credit card or account numbers to us through an unsecured email.
How Do We Protect Your Information? (1) Information Security -- We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure, accidental loss, alteration or destruction. (2) Evaluation of Information Protection Practices -- Periodically, our operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with our organization’s policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of our information. (3) Employee Access, Training and Expectations -- Our organization’s values, ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the protection of user information. In general, our business practices limit employee access to confidential information and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information? You may request access to all of your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing us using the contact form provided to you within www.themacefoundation.org.
Responsibility of Website Visitors. www.themacefoundation.org has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the www.themacefoundation.org, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material's content, use or effects. By operating the website, www.themacefoundation.org does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes and other errors. www.themacefoundation.org may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. www.themacefoundation.org disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.
Content Posted on Other Websites. We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through websites and web pages. www.themacefoundation.org does not have any control over those non-www.themacefoundation.org websites and web pages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-www.themacefoundation website or web page, www.themacefoundation.org does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or web page. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. www.themacefoundation.org disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-www.themacefoundation.org websites and web pages.
Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless www.themacefoundation.org, its contractors and licensors and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising out of your use of the website, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.
Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties? We may provide aggregate information to our affiliates or reputable third parties, but this information will not include personally identifying data, except as otherwise provided in this privacy policy.
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information? We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so. In other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.
Permission to Use of Materials. The right to download and store or output the materials in our website is granted for the user's personal use only, and materials may not be reproduced in any edited form. Any other reproduction, transmission, performance, display or editing of these materials by any means mechanical or electronic without our express written permission is strictly prohibited. Users wishing to obtain permission to reprint or reproduce any materials appearing on this site may use the contact form at www.themacefoundation.org.
Additional Questions. If you have additional questions about our policies the best way to contact us is at www.themacefoundation.org by clicking here.