LaunchPad is a program of The Village Community Foundation, Inc. (VCF).
Privacy Policy
Last updated: August November 12th, 2024
1. Introduction
The Village Community Foundation (“we,” “our,” “us,” “VCF”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our websites and any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”). We encourage you to read this entire Privacy Policy as well as our Terms and Conditions. By accessing our Site or Services or providing your information to VCF, you accept and agree to this Privacy Policy.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:
Contact Information and Preferences. We may request contact information such as your name, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address, and your preferences for how you would like to be contacted by VCF. If you become a registered user on one or more VCF sites and/or apps, we will collect login and profile information and may also collect information about your areas of interest. We may also use third-party services to supplement or to ensure accuracy of contact information.
Demographic Information. We may request limited demographic information such as your gender, race or ethnicity, marital status, geographic location, and/or primary language. Depending on the Services or programs you choose to use, we may also request or collect race or ethnicity data with your consent as required.
Your Experience. We may receive information from you about your business and relationship to our entrepreneurial services, which may include information such as whether you would like to be recognized as a success story, your business goals and challenges. We may request more detailed information such as the specific challenges you have faced and continue to face. In those cases where we may request or invite you to provide the foregoing information, we will do so with your consent or where there is a clear reason that we have communicated for doing so—such as where VCF is arranging your travel and accommodations for your participation in a sponsored event.
Financial Information. If you donate to VCF, make a retail purchase on a VCF Site, support a VCF program in any manner, or otherwise financially support VCF, VCF uses third-party payment service providers to collect and process payment information and process your transaction. We may also collect the name of your employing company, if you would like for that company to make a matching donation. If you participate in direct services, we may collect income information to verify eligibility.
Inquiry Information. We collect information when you communicate with us, including when you contact VCF through our various online, phone, chat, or application channels for information or assistance. We may record or otherwise capture your communication or maintain a transcript of the communication for communication, fundraising, training and quality assurance purposes.
Device Information. We collect information about the computers, phones, and other devices used when interacting with our Services, including browser type, version, IP address (which may be used to infer general location at a city or county level), cookie ID, and other similar tracking technologies.
Activity and Usage Information. We collect information regarding your use of our Services, including your referrer URL (which is the URL for the website that you were viewing prior to visiting the website), how you were directed to the Services, which specific pages you accessed, how long you view each page, the time and date you access our Services, and anonymous traffic data.
Social Media Engagement. We receive information regarding your use of and engagement with VCF social media, including online public forums, discussion boards, or chat rooms. Please note that any information you post within public forums will become public and may be read, collected, and used by anyone, and is subject to our Terms of Use. If you elect to connect your social media account to a VCF account for fundraising purposes, certain Personal Information from your social media account will be shared with us. Your interactions with social media companies and the use of their features are governed by their privacy policies.
Employment or Volunteer Participation. If you seek employment with VCF or volunteer for VCF, we will collect information related to your role or application. If you are volunteering, we may ask about your experience in similar roles, your relationship to our services, and/or for any other background information needed for the specific role, such as background checks or licenses.
Other Sources. We may receive Personal Information from other sources, including third-party organizations we collaborate with to provide support services and information to patients and their caregivers. We may also receive Personal Information from other sources when we conduct fundraising campaigns, promotions, or events. In these instances, we may receive access to donor reports that include donor name, contact information, and donation amount. We also may receive your Personal Information if you respond to a cause-related marketing campaign or other promotion benefitting VCF that is conducted by a corporate partner
3. Use of Your Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:
Providing Services. We use Personal Information to provide our Services to you, including to provide you with the information, resources, and support services you request and to communicate special activities for you and anyone associated with your business. For example, if you contact VCF to utilize Services provided by the TKA, we may ask you for contact information, demographic information, and business information to connect you to services, education, financial assistance, and/or other resources relating to participating in TKA services or the services of our partners.
Fundraising. We use Personal Information to process donations and purchase transactions, including to verify identity and/or contact you for the purpose of raising money for VCF, to determine the effectiveness of fundraising campaigns and mission activities, and to send you a receipt and/or thank you for your donation.
Ensuring Quality. We use Personal Information to help ensure the quality of our Services, including to maintain your account, to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our websites, to develop, evaluate, and improve our Services, to update and expand our business activities, and to provide other support services.
Personalization. We use Personal Information to help deliver Services that are better tailored to you, including to provide you with customized, personalized services and content, to keep you informed about entrepreneurial news developments, to notify you of VCF services that may be of interest to you based on the information that you provide and to invite you to upcoming VCF events in your area.
Data Analytics. We use Personal Information to conduct data analytics so that we can better understand the individuals we serve, better communicate with you, improve our Services, and gain a greater understanding of the issues that challenges that we address in service of our mission. This analysis can help us improve talent experiences, mission delivery, and support.
Responding to Inquiries. We use Personal Information to respond to your inquiries, including to manage your preferences, facilitate technical support, respond to volunteer inquiries, respond to research study inquiries, and assist you if you contact VCF seeking Services information or request support or Services from VCF and/or its partners.
Communicating with You. We may use Personal Information to communicate with you, including sending emails, newsletters, or additional content to market our Services; responding to your questions and comments; and to update you about changes to your account.
Security. We may use Personal Information to secure our Services, including verifying your identity and protect against malicious conduct, fraudulent activity, or unsafe experiences.
Other Business Purposes. We may use Personal Information for other business purposes, such as recruiting, hiring, conducting audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, and recordkeeping.
To Comply with Applicable Law. We may use Personal Information to comply with applicable law, including to respond to valid legal process, including, but not limited to, a search warrant, subpoena, or court order, and any other instance when we believe we are required to do so by law.
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
Third Party Service Providers. We share Personal Information with third-parties that provide operational services on our behalf, such as website hosting, professional services, information technology and infrastructure, data analytics, email delivery, credit card processing, order fulfillment, auditing or other services, or that assist VCF in providing you with support and resources. These third parties may not use Personal Information for any other purposes.
Volunteers. We may share limited Personal Information, such as contact information, with volunteers who are assisting VCF and who require the information as part of their duties. We will only share the information necessary to enable the volunteer to perform their duties.
Other Uses or Disclosures of Personal Information. We may also use and disclose your Personal Information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) to comply with applicable law, which may include laws outside your country of residence, to respond to requests from public and government authorities, which may include authorities outside your country of residence, to cooperate with law enforcement, or for other legal reasons; (b) to enforce our Terms of Use; and (c) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others. In addition, VCF may use, disclose or transfer your information to a third-party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our organization (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
5. Security and Retention of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. VCF retains Personal Information that we receive for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which the information was collected, to provide our services and products, to pursue legitimate business purposes, to enforce our agreements, and comply with all applicable laws.
6. Policy for Children
You must be 18 years old to use our Services and our Services are not targeted at children. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from minors. If you become aware of any Personal Information we have collected from a minor, please contact us using the contact options on our websites.
7. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on our Site. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
8. Links to Third-Party Websites. Our Services may contain links to third-party websites, whose privacy practices may be different from VCF’s. This Privacy Statement does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including any third-party operating any website or service to which the Services link. Links to other sites do not imply VCF’s endorsement of the products or services or privacy or security practices of those websites. In addition, we are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure of security policies or practices of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM, GiveSmart, Donorbox, or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including with respect to any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with our sites or our social media pages.
9. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: foundation (at) thevillagestamford (dot) com
10. Updates to this Privacy Policy.
Since we will continue to implement new technologies and improve our services and features, we reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time, consistent with applicable law. When changes are made, we will update the date at the top of our Privacy Policy. Otherwise, your continued use of VCF’s Services after the effective date of any modification to the Privacy Policy will be deemed to be your agreement to the updated terms.