Purple Heart Foundation Privacy Policy

Introduction:
Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation is a 501( c )(3) non-profit ("Charity"), and operates a website located at http://www.purpleheartfoundation.org which enables individuals, groups, companies, business partners and/or other organizations to donate to Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation. This Privacy Policy describes your rights regarding the Charity's collection, use, storage, sharing and protection of your personal information, which consists of personally identifiable information associated with a donor, including but not limited to name, address, email address, credit card information, and/or donation amount. This Privacy Policy also describes the rights regarding the Charitie's collection, use, storage, sharing and protection of your personal information, which consists of personally identifiable information associated with customer purchasing details for products and tickets related to Charity and Charity partner events. These policies apply to the Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation website ("Site") and all related sites, services, and tools regardless of how you access or use them.

Consent:
You accept this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) when you access or use our products, services, content, features, technologies or functions offered on our website and all related sites, services, and tools. We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting a revised version on our website. The revised version will be effective at the time it is posted. Your continued use of the Charity's website, services, features, content, technologies or functions following posting of amendments will be considered express consent to all amendments to this Privacy Policy.

In order to make donations and/or purchase Charity related event tickets or products, donors and customers must agree to this Privacy Policy, and the applicable terms and conditions of any third party website or service as appropriate. Participating donors and customers must complete the Charity approved donation processed made available on www.purpleheartfoundation.org and Charity Approved Partner websites. Persons and organizations with permission to use the Charity marks and promote donations to the Charity are considered “Charity Approved Partners." This Privacy Policy applies to the Charity's collection, use and disclosure of personal information from Charity Approved Partners, as well as from persons who merely visit the Site. Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation has adopted and implemented this Privacy Policy as part of our commitment to protecting your personal information.

Information Collected:
Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation collects the following types of personal information in order to personalize and improve your experience. Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation collects information both automatically and from you when you access, make a donation or purchase a product from the Charity Site. This policy extends to your access, donation or purchase of any Charity related landing page, donation, product or service provided by a Charity Approved Partner or their site.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Foundation may collect information from your computer, mobile phone, or other access device. This information may include, but is not limited to, data about the pages you access, computer IP address, device ID or unique identifier, device type, geo-location information, computer and connection information, mobile network information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, referral URL, ad data, standard web log data and other information. We collect additional information through the Charity Site that cannot be used to personally identify you (all such information is “Non-Personal Data”). Non-Personal Data ordinarily includes aggregate, summary, de-identified or other anonymous data, and may include, by way of example, statistics regarding total registrations, total amount of donations, popularity of particular pages within the Site, or information regarding types of Internet browsers used by Charity Approve Partners. We also collect anonymous information through the Charity's use of cookies.

“Cookies” are small files placed on a user’s computer by a website in order to facilitate use of that website. For example, a cookie may contain information about a user’s preferences, so that the website automatically complies with those preferences whenever the user visits that website. When using the Charity Site, we may create “cookies” on your computer for purposes of facilitating and maintaining your current user session, and may collect Personal Information using those cookies in order to enable the Charity to identify you in connection with the Site and to track use of the services for purposes consistent with this policy. You are free to decline our Cookies if your browser or browser add-on permits, unless our Cookies are required to help prevent fraud or help ensure the security of websites we control. However, declining our Cookies may interfere with your use of the Site.

Do Not Track (DNT) is an optional browser setting that allows you to express your preferences regarding tracking by advertisers and other third-parties. We do not currently respond to DNT signals. We do, however, provide you notice of the tracking by advertisers and other third parties in our privacy policies.

We may collect and store any information you provide to us, including but not limited to when processing donation payments, ticket or product purchases, or as otherwise required to access, use, donate or purchase on the Charity Site. In addition, Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation collects certain Non-Personal Data.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation collects and maintains a record of all data provided through any of the above-mentioned channels. In the course of making a donation or purchasing a product, ticket or service, donors and/or customers may be required to provide certain contact information and financial information, such as name, address, email address, credit card information or other payment method information (including but not limited to PayPal).

We also collect and maintain records of information that you voluntarily provide to us. For example, we may ask you to participate in a survey, and may ask you to provide personally identifiable information, such as age, gender or other demographic data. However, unless such information is necessary for operating the Site or required by the Terms and Conditions, we do not require you to provide such information to us. By providing such information voluntarily, you give Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation permission to use such information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation may also receive information about you from other sources, including Charity Approved Partners. This information may include, but is not limited to donor or customer name, address, and email address. This data is used to collect and maintain records of all individual transactions conducted in relation to the Charity. Please note that donor and customer credit card information, donation amounts and individual identifiable demographic data will not be shared.

The Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation products, services and requests for donation are not directed to children. Protecting the privacy of children is very important to us. We do not collect or maintain personal information from people we actually know are under 18, and no part of the Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation's products, services and requests for donation are designed to attract people under 18. If we later learn that a donor or customer is under 18, we will take steps to remove that individual's personal information from our databases.

Use and disclosure of collected information
Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation uses information collected in several ways, as outlined in this Privacy Policy. For example, we use personal information as needed to process donations made by donors and customers, and to communicate with such donors and customers. We also use both personal information and Non-Personal Data when evaluating ways to improve the Charity's Site, services, products, and more. As further described below, we may disclose collected information, including personal information, to certain third parties in connection with collecting or processing donations, or as required by law. We will not use or disclose collected information in ways different from what is described in this Privacy Policy unless otherwise required by law.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation uses information collected from you in order to provide donation services as required by law (“Necessary Disclosures”).
For example, we use such information to do the following:

- To communicate with each donor or customer to confirm payment and/or registration and to inform about the status of particular transactions, or as otherwise necessary to provide Charity products or services;
- To process donations, including but not limited to, billing donors and obtaining authorizations for payments (e.g., credit card payments, certified bank checks, wire transfers or other electronic payments);
- To send donors and customers receipts and appropriate tax documentation for transactions made through the Site.
- As a necessary part of providing Charity services, products and for processing donations, we may disclose information collected from you as described in this Privacy Policy. For example, we will disclose certain personal information collected from you through the Charity Site, or other websites and services with which we partner through Charity Approved Partners. Charity Approved Partners and other third parties are prohibited from using your personal information for any other purpose than what is disclosed in this Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions.

When you use the Charity Site to make a donation, you are designating the Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation as the intended beneficiary of a donation. Under certain limited circumstances, the Charity may be subject to legal requirements to disclose information collected, and our policy is to comply fully with all such legal requirements. The disclosures contemplated by this policy are required. If you do not want us to make such Necessary Disclosures, or to use Non-Personal Data without restriction, you must not use the Charity Site.

If we collect information that you provide to us voluntarily by participating in online surveys, through email communications, or by other means, we will treat that information as described above, as applied to both personal information and Non-Personal Data.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation uses Non-Personal Data in a variety of ways, including but not limited to, evaluating the performance of the Site and the general preferences of donors and customers, or to generate anonymous statistics for the benefit of nonprofit organizations participating in the Site or for Charity Approved Partners. Because Non-Personal Data is entirely anonymous, and therefore can never be used to identify you, this Privacy Policy does not limit the Charity's ability to use or disclose Non-Personal Data.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation will not sell, trade or rent your personal information to any third party for promotional or unknown uses.

Choice, opting-in to Optional Communications and Optional Disclosures:

Because Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation respects your privacy, we provide certain opportunities for you to indicate your preferences regarding how we use and/or disclose information collected about you from the PayPal Giving Fund Services. If you are a a donor or customer, you will be able to inform us whether you wish to receive certain Optional Communications from us and our select partners by indicating your preferences during any transaction process. Each donor or customer may also contact our administrative office to adjust their donor/customer preferences by calling (703) 256-6139. Please also note that, although we will respect preferences that you indicate regarding Optional Communications and Optional Disclosures, information is nevertheless collected from your use of the Charity Site as described above. We will treat Personal Information collected from you in accordance with your preferences, unless otherwise required by applicable law.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation does not maintain responsibility for the manner in which third parties use or further disclose personal information collected from you through the Site after the Charity has disclosed that information to those third parties. However, we do require our third-party service providers to promise not to use such information except as necessary to provide the relevant services to us. If you do not want Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation to use or disclose personal information collected about you in the manners identified in this Privacy Policy as “Necessary Communications” and/or Necessary Disclosures, you must not use the Charity Site for donations, products, tickets or services. Necessary Communications are any and all communications that are necessary to provide services to donors and customers. Please note that donors and customers are merely visitors to the Site and do not have to register an online profile therefore the Site does not collect any personal information except for information collected automatically in connection with the Site and/or provided by you for the purpose of processing a donation or transaction.

The Site contains links to other websites. Please be aware that Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites. Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation encourages it's supporters, donors and customers to be aware when they leave the Charity Site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by the Charity Site through the Site and through all related sites, applications, services and tools.

How we Protect and Store Personal Information:
Throughout this Privacy Policy, we refer to “personal information” to describe information that can be associated with a specific person and can be used to identify that person. We do not consider personal information to include Non-Personal Data. We store and process your personal information on our computers in the United States where our facilities are located. We protect your information using physical, technical, and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure and alteration.

Please be aware that, although we endeavor to provide reasonable security for information in our possession and control, no security system can prevent against all potential security breaches, and Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation bears no liability for uses or disclosures of Personal Information or Non-Personal Data arising in connection with the theft thereof.

Please contact the Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation administrative office at (703) 256-6139 if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy.

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