Privacy Policy
- what information we may collect about
you and how we collect it;
- what we may do with that
information; and
- how we protect personal information about you.
Information We May Collect
From You: We may obtain information directly from you in discussions about your charitable intentions or when you submit a document containing personal information, such as to open a Donor-Advised Fund account or to establish another fund at TOF. Typically, this information includes your name, address, employment, and sometimes details about your family or financial condition. In addition, your transaction history with TOF is a type of personal information that we record.
From Others: In the course of providing services, we may acquire information about you from other individuals or organizations that know you or have information about you.
From Our Website: When you visit our website (www.oceanfdn.org), you may voluntarily register to receive our TOF Quarterly Newsletter. Our website may place a session “cookie” on your computer to enable the use of frames but does not gather information from you. We do track aggregate data on website users’ browser, operating platform, pages accessed, and time spent; but we do not record this information for individual users. This aggregate data is used to improve our website based on usage patterns.
What We Do With Personal Information
We use personal information to develop, offer and deliver services to you and to communicate with you. On occasion, we may forward to you materials supplied by unaffiliated third parties, if we find those materials consistent with our mission. However, we will never sell any list of donors or other clients.
We may share personal information as follows:
- We may share personal
information with unaffiliated third parties
when necessary to provide services or
otherwise carry out our mission,
but
we generally do so only where the third
party has a duty to maintain the
confidentiality
of the information. Examples include
communications with attorneys or
other advisors. Donors who request that
their donations be used to support
one
of our fiscally sponsored projects may
be identified to the project organizer
unless the donor requests
anonymity.
- We publicize the names and
sometimes descriptions of grant or
loan recipients and sponsored
projects.
- We will share information with others when legally required to do so, such as to comply with tax laws or court orders, or when necessary to enforce or protect our legal rights.
How We Protect Personal Information
We have adopted a variety of physical, electronic and procedural safeguards designed to protect the security and integrity of personal information. For example, every employee of TOF is covered by a confidentiality policy. Where feasible, we restrict access to personal client information to those employees who need the information to perform their functions. In addition, volunteers and other individuals who have access to personal client information are asked to sign confidentiality agreements. We will honor requests to be removed from our mailing list. If you do not wish to receive the TOF Quarterly Newsletter and other general materials we distribute periodically, please send your request to info@oceanfdn.org
January 2005