Privacy Policy

Thank you for your interest and support of the David Ortiz Children’s Fund. We value and respect our supporters and want you to be comfortable and confident sharing contact information with us.

Any information collected on the David Ortiz Children’s Fund website will be used only for the purposes stated.

The David Ortiz Children’s Fund does not sell, distribute, or transfer personally-identifiable information obtained through our website from you (our “Visitor”) to a third-party organization. The only exception to this is when it is necessary to share certain information for processing online donations.

Registration on the Site
In several areas of the David Ortiz Children’s Fund website, Visitors have the option to sign up or register for specific information or events. Visitors will be asked to provide, at a minimum, name, email address, and zip code/postal code. In return for providing this information, Visitors will gain access to additional resources and may be able to participate in other activities such as posting comments on our site.

Only Visitors who register, who request information from us, or who donate to the David Ortiz Children’s Fund through our website will receive periodic programmatic or promotional email communications from us. To request that the David Ortiz Children’s Fund no longer send email communications, Visitors can email us at info@davidortizchildrensfund.org to request to be removed from the list. By signing up for email updates, Visitors may receive print mail communications from the David Ortiz Children’s Fund as well.

When a Visitor contacts the David Ortiz Children’s Fund through our Contact page, the David Ortiz Children’s Fund will respond by email only to address the Visitor’s question or comment.

For All Visitors
The David Ortiz Children’s Fund may use technology to obtain non-personal information from your browser when you visit our website and your browser interacts with us; these are often called cookies.

Cookies
A cookie is a way for websites to recognize whether or not you have visited the site before. It is a piece of data given to a browser by a web server and handed back to the browser on subsequent visits. Recording a cookie makes your online experience easier and more personalized. It also allows us to recognize you and automate your online experience. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your browser. Most of our web pages are viewable even if you disable the cookie function on your browser. However, if you disable cookies, some advanced and customized features of our site will not be available to you.

Cookies and Privacy
Cookie technology is not used by the David Ortiz Children’s Fund to obtain personal information, nor do we share the non-personal information obtained with third parties. For each Visitor to our website, we collect information on what pages you access or visit. The information we collect is used to improve the content of our websites for your future visits.

Transactions/Donations
Any financial transactions made on our website are done through secured services to protect our Visitors from online theft or fraud. At any time, a Visitor may opt to donate to the David Ortiz Children’s Fund, or purchase David Ortiz Children’s Fund merchandise, offline by telephone or mail.

Credit Card Encryption with SSL
Donations made on davidortizchildrensfund.org are handled by Paypal, which is committed to safeguarding customer information and combating fraud.

Paypal dedicates significant resources toward a strong infrastructure and industry-leading technologies and protocols, such as 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and is compliant with a number of government and industry security initiatives such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

Web Links
Please note that we are not responsible for the collection, use or security of information by companies or organizations outside of the David Ortiz Children’s Fund that may be linked to our website. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of websites reached through the use of links from the David Ortiz Children’s Fund website.

David Ortiz Children’s Fund Donor Privacy Policy
On occasion, the David Ortiz Children’s Fund recognizes and thanks donors publicly. If you would prefer not to be recognized, or that your gift remain anonymous, please let us know. Your wishes will be respected.

If you would prefer not to receive fundraising communications from David Ortiz Children’s Fund, simply let us know by email at info@davidortizchildrensfund.org.

The David Ortiz Children’s Fund maintains physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with industry best practices to guard website visitors’ personally identifiable information.