Scope of this Policy

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This privacy policy applies to:

  • The Wesley Mittman LePatner Foundation (collectively, “we,” “us,” “our,” or the “Foundation”).
  • The Foundation’s online properties (including our websites and any of our websites or mobile applications that link to it), our social media pages or handles, our products and services, and any in-person services, events (the “Services”).
  • Our website (https://thewmlfoundation.org) and any communications we send to you (collectively, the “Services”).

This Policy applies when you interact with us through our Services. It also applies anywhere it is linked. It does not apply to third-party websites, mobile applications, or services that may link to the Services or be linked to from the Services. Please review the privacy policies on those websites and applications directly to understand their privacy practices.
We may change this Policy from time to time. If we do, we will notify you by posting the updated version.

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Information We Collect

We collect information from you directly and automatically when you interact with our Services. We may combine information we collect across the Services. We may also use and share information that we aggregate (compile to create statistics that cannot identify a particular individual) or de-identify (strip information of all unique identifiers so that it cannot be linked to a particular individual) at our discretion.

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Information you give us
You may provide the following information to us directly:

  • Contact information, including but not limited to your name, phone number and email address.
  • Information indicating your interest in supporting the Foundation.
  • Information you provide when you sign up to receive our email newsletters or alerts.
  • Information you share when you participate in our social media accounts, including by liking or commenting on our content through your own social media account.
  • Content you submit to us, such as personal stories you choose to share (including about yourself or others), and any personal information included in that content.
  • Information you provide when you register for an event that requires registration, such as your name, email address, and attendance information.
  • Your use of our Services
  • Any other information you submit to us.

‍Information we collect automatically
When you visit our website, we and our service providers may automatically collect certain information through standard website hosting and analytics practices, such as your IP address, device and browser information, and similar log or analytics data. We may use cookies or other tracking technologies on our website for behavioral tracking or online advertising purposes

  • Device information, including IP address, device identifiers, and details about your web browser.
  • Analytical information, including details about your interaction with our Services, website, app, and electronic newsletters.
  • Email interaction information, whether you subscribed or unsubscribed, or clicked through from our email communications.
  • Advertising information, including special advertising and other unique identifiers that enable us or third parties working on our behalf to target advertisements to you. Please be aware that our advertising partners may collect information about opened or received an email from us, or whether you when you visit third-party websites or use third-party apps. They may use that information to better target advertisements to you on our behalf.
  • Business record information, including records of your purchases of products and services and use of our Services.
How We Use Your Information

We may use any of the information we collect for the following purposes.

  • Service functionality: To provide you with our products and services, including processing donations, and conduct general business operations, such as accounting, recordkeeping, and audits.‍
  • Service improvement: To improve and grow our Services, including to develop new products and services and understand how our Services are being used, our audience base and purchasing trends, and the effectiveness of our marketing.
  • Personalization: To offer you recommendations and tailor the Services to your preferences.
  • Communicating with you: To communicate with you, including by sending newsletters, updates, and information about our events, programs, and mission.
  • Program development: To develop new programs, services, and initiatives to advance our mission.
  • Advertising and marketing: To send you marketing communications, personalize the advertisements you see on our Services, and measure the effectiveness of our informational communications about the Foundation on our own website and social media platforms for this purpose.
  • Security: To protect and secure our Services, assets, network, and operations, and to detect, investigate, and prevent theft, unauthorized use, or abuse of the Services and other activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal.
  • Legal compliance: To comply with legal process, such as warrants, subpoenas, court orders, and lawful regulatory or law enforcement requests and to comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
How We Share Your Information

We may share any of the information we collect with the following recipients.

  • Service providers: We engage vendors to perform specific business functions on our behalf, such as email delivery and advertising support. These vendors are contractually restricted from using your information for purposes other than providing services to us.‍
  • Social media platforms: If you interact with us on social media platforms, the platform may be able to collect information about you and your interaction with us. If you interact with social media features on our Services (for example, by clicking a LinkedIn or Instagram “like” button), both the platform and your connections on the platform may be able to view that activity. To control this sharing of information, please review the privacy policy of the relevant social media platform.‍
  • Government entities/Law enforcement: We may share information when we believe in good faith that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so to respond to lawful subpoenas, warrants, court orders, or other regulatory or law enforcement requests, or where necessary to protect our property or rights or the health and safety of our staff, volunteers, donors, or other individuals.‍
  • Other businesses in the context of a commercial transaction: We may change our ownership or corporate organization while providing the Services. We may transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. We cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information as described in this policy.
Security‍

We use a combination of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect the information we collect through the Services. While we use these precautions to safeguard your information, we cannot guarantee the security of the networks, systems, servers, devices, and databases we operate or that are operated on our behalf.

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Your Options and Rights Regarding Your Information‍

Email Unsubscribe: If you do not wish to receive marketing information from us or wish to opt out of future email promotions from us, please contact us. Please note that all promotional email messages you receive from us will include an option to opt out of future email communications.
Ad Choices: You have options to limit the information that we and our partners collect for online advertising purposes.

  • You may disable cookies in your browser or mobile device using their settings menus. Your mobile device may give you the option to disable advertising functionality. Because we use cookies to support Service functionality, disabling cookies may also disable some elements of our online properties.
  • The following industry organizations offer opt-out choices for companies that participate in them: the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance, and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Initiative.
  • You may use our cookie settings menu.
  • You may contact us directly.

If you exercise these options, please be aware that you may still see advertising, but it will not be personalized. Nor will exercising these options prevent other companies from displaying personalized ads to you.

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If you delete your cookies, you may also delete your opt-out preferences.

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Global Privacy Control: We do not currently sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under applicable law. However, we will honor the Global Privacy Control opt-out signal for U.S. residents with respect to any future sale or sharing of personal information.

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Your Rights: Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information. We will honor reasonable requests consistent with applicable law. To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information in the “Contact” section below.

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Other Important Information

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Data retention
We may store information about you for as long as we have a legitimate business need for it.  We determine the retention period for the personal information that we collect based on (1) the length of time we need to retain the information to achieve the purposes for which we collected it, (2) any legal or regulatory requirements applicable to such information, (3) internal operational needs, and (4) any need for the information based on any actual or anticipated litigation or investigation.

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Cross-border data transfer
We store and process your information in the United States. We do not currently transfer your information internationally.

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Information about children
The Services are intended for users who are eighteen years old and older. We do not knowingly collect information from children. If we discover that we have inadvertently collected personal information from anyone younger than the age of 18, we will delete that information. Please contact us with any concerns.

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Contact Us

Please contact us if you have questions or wish to take any action with respect to information to which this privacy policy applies.
Email: info@thewmlfoundation.org
Mail: The Wesley Mittman LePatner Foundation, 1 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020