Updated: March 2025
Spark Discovery Foundation (SDF) provides this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. No personal information is sold or rented to third parties.
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on SDF's website. On some pages, you can make donations, sign up for the e-newsletter, or register for events. The types of personal information collected at these pages are:
On some pages, you can submit information about other people. For example, you might make a donation in another's name and enter their address, e-mail address, and other personal information. In this circumstance, the types of personal information collected might include:
When you make a donation online, sign up for an electronic newsletter, send a comment via the information and contact request forms online, or register for an event on the web site, your name and contact information will be relayed to SDF. When you are engaged in a transaction, whether through event registration or an online donation the amount of your gift will also be relayed to SDF. Your contact information will enable SDF to acknowledge you/your donation directly. Additionally, you will be asked to enter your credit card information when making a transaction online. SDF uses a third-party vendor to process credit card transactions. This information is transferred for processing purposes only. Any information collected by our credit card processor is used only for transactional and/or financial record-keeping purposes, or as required by law.
Unless you opt out of receiving e-mail messages, SDF uses the e-mail address that you provide to send out periodic news regarding the organization.
SDF may disclose information we collect from you if we have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, or (b) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (c) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of SDF, its employees or the public as required or permitted by law.
SDF may also collect and store aggregate (non-identifying) or anonymous information about user contact, site use, website traffic patterns, and related site information to assists us in improving outreach efforts, and improve our website design. SDF may share this knowledge with site advertisers, and reputable partners serving a similar mission. This information does not identify you individually.
Except as provided in this policy, SDF will not disclose information we collect from you to any third party, including other nonprofit organizations, unless you specifically request that we share your information with a third party. Only SDF staff who are responsible for administering our website have access to personally identifiable information collected about you. This group will not share personally identifiable information about you with anyone else without your permission.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and help ensure the correct use of information, SDF has established appropriate and reasonable security methods (physical, electronic and administrative) to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
To correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information, contact SDF via our online contact form.
If you do not wish to be contacted after submitting any online personal information, you may opt out at the bottom of any e-mail communication you receive. To do this, select the "unsubscribe" option included at the bottom of a recent e-mail. You may also ask us to remove you from our mailing list and cease further contact from us at any time by sending a request through our online form. If you submit a donation and then choose to opt out, you will still receive an acknowledgement of your gift, and your gift will remain tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.
SDF may change this policy at any time without prior notice. If we change this policy, we will post those changes on this page, so that you will always know what type of personally identifiable information is collected and used. SDF will not reduce your rights under this policy without your explicit consent. Any continued use of our website following the posting of changes implies agreement to the terms of our policy.
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