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The Dax Foundation Privacy Statement and Policy
The Dax Foundation is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our Web site www.daxfoundation.org, and ensuring you have a positive experience on our site. We encourage you to read this privacy policy to ensure you understand the Dax Foundation's privacy practices. This policy outlines and explains our personal information handling practices and the choices you can make about the way the information you provide us is collected and used. If you provide us with personal information, we will treat it according to this policy. This policy covers the Dax Foundation Corporate website and is applicable worldwide. Some of our programs may have their own, possibly different, policies. We encourage you to read this privacy policy and those of all websites you visit. For easy and direct access, we provide a link to this statement from our home page and all other pages of the site.
Privacy
Other than the specific instances outlined in this policy, the Dax Foundation does not collect personal information about users or how they use the site. The Dax Foundation does not sell, rent, or exchange your personal information such as opt-in subscriber email addresses or other personal information and does not share personal information of shoppers, members, donors, or other users of this site with other organizations or individuals. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third-parties for marketing purposes unless you have granted us permission to do so. We may share your personal information within the Dax Foundation or our subsidiaries for purposes of data processing or storage.
We may also share your personal information with authorized third-party agents or contractors in order to provide a requested service or transaction. For example, if we need to ship something to you, we must share your name and address with a shipping company. We only provide third-party agents with the minimum amount of personal information necessary to complete the requested service or transaction. We may respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process by disclosing your personal information and other related information, if necessary. We also may choose to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
We may collect and possibly share personal information and any other additional information available to us in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of the Dax Foundation’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. We will ask you for your opt-in consent to share your personal information with a third party for any other reason. In some instances, the Dax Foundation may collect non-personal data such as aggregate, demographics, etc. through cookies, web logs, and web beacons. This information is used to better understand and improve the usability, performance and effectiveness of the www.daxfoundation.org website. We may customize websites or newsletters for certain users based on the information they previously provided or that was collected through the Dax Foundation.com websites in order to enhance the overall web experience.
Cookies
The Dax Foundation website may use "cookies", small pieces of data that may be sent to your Web browser, from a server and stored on your computer's hard drive for the convenience of our site visitors and members for the purpose of making donations and/or purchasing items from the Foundation via our e-commerce components. Our Web site does not track individual user's visits, but it does examine user data in aggregate in order to facilitate site visitor's online experience and improve the quality of our content. These policies do not extend to external commercial e-commerce Affiliate sites that may be linked on our Web site. Please check with these companies and sites for their policies regarding data privacy, including the use of "cookies." We may use third parties to monitor web traffic, statistics, and other activities on the Dax Foundation’s site. Where authorized by the Dax Foundation, such third parties may use cookies, the Dax Foundation’s web log files, web beacons, and other monitoring technologies to compile anonymous aggregate statistics on the Dax Foundation’s website visitors. We may also include web beacons in HTML-formatted e-mail newsletters in order to count how many newsletters (or particular articles, links, etc.) are being accessed. Current versions of web browsers offer enhanced user controls regarding the placement and duration of both first and third party cookies. For more information on cookie management features available to you, access your web browser’s Help menu.
Security
The Dax Foundation takes the confidentiality of your information very seriously and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. For this reason, we use the highest level of security that technology provides when dealing with your credit card and/or other personal information. We utilize a combination of security technologies, procedures, and organizational measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. To guard against fraud, your information is securely encrypted and automatically passed directly to the financial network for processing. At no time is this information made available to anyone else. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of the information you transmit. We recommend you to take every precaution in protecting your personal information when you are on the Internet. For example, change your passwords often, use a combination of letters and numbers when creating passwords, and make sure you use a secure browser.
Online Donations
The Dax Foundation collects information through our secure online financial-transaction pages including name, address, e-mail address, phone number, and credit card information. This personally identifiable information is used to acknowledge receipt of your donation for tax purposes and to include you on the Dax Foundation's mailing list if you choose to join it.
Mailing List
The Dax Foundation provides a separate online form to join our mailing list. The information we collect includes personal information such as name, address, phone number, email address, etc. This information is securely stored internally and accessed only when we correspond with our mailing list periodically during the year, either via e-mail or regular mail.
Please contact us directly by email at info@daxfoundation.org if at any time you wish to be removed from the mailing list or if you would like to correct or change the personal information you have previously provided. To protect your privacy and security, we will take certain steps to verify your identity before granting access to your information or making corrections. Callers will be asked specific questions, including full name, address, phone number, and, if applicable, credit card numbers and/or expiration date, in order to verify their identity and protect the privacy of the Dax Foundation's donors and members of its mailing list.
Data Retention
The Dax Foundation will not retain your personal information longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by applicable laws or regulations.
Updating Your Personal Information
We need your help in keeping the personal information you have shared with us accurate and up to date. Please notify us of any changes to your personal information.
Links To Other Web Sites
The Dax Foundation's site includes links to other Web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy and security practices of any other Web site or the nature of the content contained therein.
Children's Privacy
None of the content and information in the Foundation's Web site is targeted toward children under 13 years of age. We make every effort possible to ensure that we do not collect or maintain information on our Web site from those we know to be younger than 16 unless parental consent has been obtained in writing.
Changes To This Policy
In the event that the Dax Foundation decides to alter its privacy policy, the changes will be added directly to this statement. We will, however, always use information in accordance with the version of the privacy policy under which it was originally collected.
Disclaimer
Any information (including personal and financial information) that you submit or reveal on or to a third party Web site accessible from this Site is not protected or governed by the terms of this Privacy and Security Policy, and will be seen by third parties not related to us and may be used by them to contact you or for other purposes beyond our control. This may occur if you link to a third party Web site from this Site, so please be aware that any information you submit to or reveal on that Web site is not subject to this Privacy and Security Policy and you should consult the privacy/security policy of such third party Web site prior to providing any information to such Web site. We can not and are not responsible for the disclosure or use of any information revealed in the manner described above.
Contact Us
If you have specific questions or concerns about the Dax Foundation's privacy policy, please contact us at info@daxfoundation.org or at the following address:
The Dax Foundation
914 Westwood Boulevard, MS-546
Los Angeles, CA 90024
©Copyright 2007 - Dax Foundation.
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