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Friends of Catholic Worker

PRIVACY POLICY

Friend of Catholic Worker has created this Privacy Policy to explain why we collect particular information and how we will protect your personal privacy; the policy is applicable to both online and offline users of the website and donors. Use of this website confirms your agreement to the terms of our Privacy Policy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the website located at the URL https://friendsofcatholicworker.com/.

In order to fully understand your rights, we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully. Friends of Catholic Worker reserves the right at any time and without notice to change this Privacy Policy simply by posting such changes on our website. Any such change will be effective immediately upon posting.

  1. We will not trade, share or sell your personal information with anyone else, nor send donor mailings on behalf of other organizations;

  2. Because we want to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy, this Privacy Policy notifies you of:

    • What personally identifiable information of yours is collected through the website;

    • Who collects such information;

    • How such information is used;

    • What choices you have regarding collection, use and distribution of your information;

    • What kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control;

    • How you can correct any inaccuracies in your information.

 
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to Friends of Catholic Work by sending an e-mail to info@friendsofcatholicworker.com. Please reference this Privacy Policy in your subject line.

WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE THAT INFORMATION:
Our registration forms require users to give us contact information that may include name, e-mail address, format preference (HTML vs. Text), address, interests, and similar information. We do not request or store sensitive information from our visitors, such as credit card or social security numbers. On occasion, we will solicit donations from past supporters of our mission and those solicitations may come via text (SMS), phone, or email outreach efforts. SMS opt-in, phone numbers, and emails used for the purpose of donor outreach are not being shared with any third party and affiliate companies for marketing purposes.

INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESS:
We collect an IP address from all visitors to our website. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our website, analyze trends, track users’ movement, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in order for us to improve the site, and deliver customized, personalized content. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

USE OF “COOKIES”:
Like nearly every website on the internet today, our website may use cookies to enhance your experience while using our website. Cookies allow us, Friends of Catholic Worker, to understand which parts of our website is receiving higher traffic/the most popular pages and allows us to study time spent at these pages. The information is only used to study traffic patterns on our website so we may improve your overall experience while navigating through our sections. A cookie cannot retrieve information from the following areas: hard drive, folders, personal files, it cannot pass on computer viruses, spam and does not include any phishing software. Cookies are pieces of information that some Web sites transfer to the computer that is browsing that website and are used for record-keeping purposes at many websites. Use of cookies makes Web-surfing easier by performing certain functions such as saving your passwords, your personal preferences regarding your use of the particular website and to make sure you don’t see the same ad repeatedly. Many consider the use of cookies to be an industry standard.

Your browser is probably set to accept cookies. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our website will not function properly when you view them.

REMARKETING:
We use Google AdWords Remarketing to advertise Friends of Catholic Worker across the Internet. AdWords remarketing will display relevant ads tailored to you based on what parts of the Friends of Catholic Worker website you have viewed by placing a cookie on your machine. THIS COOKIE DOES NOT IN ANYWAY IDENTIFY YOU OR GIVE ACCESS TO YOUR COMPUTER. Rather, the cookie is used to say “This person visited this page, so show them ads relating to that page.” Google AdWords Remarketing allows us to tailor our marketing to better suit your needs and only display ads that are relevant to you.

For more information, please visit your Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you are permitted to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

SECURITY:
All information provided to Friends of Catholic Worker is transmitted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. SSL is a proven coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt, or scramble, data before you send it to us. We also protect account information by placing it on a secure portion of our website that is only accessible by certain qualified employees of Friends of Catholic Worker. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information.

TELL-A-FRIEND:
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our website, we ask them for the friend’s name and e-mail address. Friends of Catholic Worker will automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail inviting them to visit the website. Friends of Catholic Worker stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time e-mail.

OTHER WEBSITES:
Our website may contain links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another website for which Friends of Catholic Worker has no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may be different than ours.
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CONTACTING THE WEBSITE:
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this website, or your dealings with this website, you can contact: info@friendsofcatholicworker.com.

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