PRIVACY POLICY
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EFFECTIVE DATE: 1 January 2024
This Policy is designed to help you understand generally how theteacherfund.org and our other web properties (the "Site") collect personally identifying information about you and how the Foundation uses and discloses that personal information. Theteacherfund.org is a web site of The Teacher Fund (the "Foundation," "we," "us" etc.), a charitable private foundation existing under the laws of North Carolina, U.S.A. This Policy applies to information that personally identifies you (other than publicly available information) ("personal information") collected on theteacherfund.org or any additional web properties or third-party sites managed by The Teacher Fund or, where indicated, other information you provide to us.
Please understand that whenever you voluntary disclose personal information online this information cannot be made one-hundred percent secure, and, in some cases, that information can be intercepted, collected and used by others. However, we work hard to protect your information at all times, and protect your information in several ways.
USE OF OUR SITE OR PROVISION OF ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION CONSTITUTES AGREEMENT TO THIS POLICY. DO NOT USE THE SITE OR PROVIDE INFORMATION (OR ALLOW OTHERS TO DO SO ON YOUR BEHALF) IF YOU (AND YOUR PRINCIPAL IF YOU ARE ACTING AS AGENT) DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THE TERMS OF USE INCLUDING THIS POLICY AND ANY APPLICABLE SUPPLEMENTAL PRIVACY POLICY.
1. Information You Provide
2. Information We Collect that You Do Not Provide / Use of Cookies
3. Information You Provide About Others
4. How We Use Your Personal Information
5. How Your Personal Information is Disclosed
6. Web Statistics & Shared Data
7. Children's Policy
8. Scope of this Policy; Third Party Websites
9. Amendments
10. Information About the Enforcement of Our PolicY
1. Information You Provide.
It is always your choice, or the choice of anyone acting for you, whether to provide personal information. However, some must be provided to participate in certain programs or activities (such as to apply for a grant), so the decision not to provide information might limit or eliminate certain functions of the Site or the ability to participate. Other information is up to your good judgment, e.g., do not provide personal information about yourself that could be misused by others in a chat room, bulletin board, blog or similar forum and do not provide personal information about others without their permission. The kinds of personal information we tend to request about you or others include but are not limited to your name, email address, native language, organization name, job title, city, state / province, region, age, locations for internet access and devices used. Additional information about what we collect is available in any supplemental privacy policies for particular activities.
Please note the Foundation will never ask for the following:
your social security number, personal banking information, or personal credit / debit card information. If ever prompted to fill out this information, please contact us immediately.
2. Information We Collect that You Do Not Provide / Use of Cookies.
Sometimes we collect personal information without you having to enter any information on the Site. For example, we may receive personal information from public sources or from third parties (which we may combine with other information from other sources).
In addition, we collect some information automatically from visitors to the Site, for example through the use of "cookies", "web beacons", and other tracking mechanisms. We collect at least the following: your domain name and host for Internet access; the Internet address of the site from which you came; the date and time of your access; your computer's IP address and information about its operating system, browser and host; the date and time you access the Site and the pages you visit. If you do not want to receive cookies, you may set your browser to reject them. However, if you turn cookies off, you may not have access to some of the Site's services and features. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you access the Site. We also may employ Web beacons from third parties to help us compile aggregated statistics regarding the operations of our site. We prohibit Web beacons on our site from being used by third parties to collect or access your personal information.
3. Information You Provide About Others.
Do not supply personal information about others unless you are authorized or required to do so by applicable law or contract and you consent to the Terms of Service (including this Policy and supplemental policies) on behalf of yourself and the "data subject" (the person about whom you supply personal information). Before supplying personal information about others (except as otherwise allowed by law or contract), you must make available for the data subject's review, and obtain their written consent to, said Terms of Service and policies. By submitting any personal information about others, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so and that you did all of the foregoing before submitting the information. If applicable law allows you to supply the information without doing the foregoing, you represent and warrant that you have abided by that law and that it allows us to receive and Disclose the information under this Policy without any further action on our part. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless against any failure by you to comply with this paragraph.
The Foundation works with Third Parties on certain programs, and often those Third Parties own and/or are responsible for that program’s Web site. In those cases, if you provide personal information, you will be giving it to a third party and their privacy policy will apply. You agree that if they provide it to us then we may apply our Policy to what we receive.
4. How We Use Your Personal Information.
The Foundation may use the personal information you provide for purposes such as: carrying out a registration made by you; customizing advertising and content you see; fulfilling your requests for products and services (including grants); improving the content and overall look and feel of our website and services; contacting you; conducting research; providing anonymous reporting for internal and external clients; contacting users regarding the changes to our website or business; and customizing the content that you see on the Foundation's website.
The Foundation reserves the right to utilize this data to improve service for all persons and teachers using our services, including this website and our grant applications, by, in an anonymous form, analyzing data to improve teacher/student learning outcomes and further our charitable mission. The Foundation may share this information with third parties for the purpose of improving teacher/student learning outcomes and further our charitable mission; please refer to Sections 5 & 6 of this Policy. This will be done in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.
5. How Your Personal Information is Disclosed.
It is the Foundation's policy not to disclose, sell or rent your personal information to any individual, business, government entity, or outside parties except: (i) to provide products or services you've requested through us; (ii) in response to a validly-issued subpoena, court order, or other legal process; (iii) when necessary to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal action; or (v) where you request the Foundation to do so.
6. Web Statistics & Shared Data.
We collect and use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement, and gather broad demographic information for reporting and sponsorship purposes. From time to time, we may use this information to better design our website and to share select partners and/ or affiliates; however, IP addresses are not linked to personal information. For example, we may tell an affiliate that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our grant application form, but we will not disclose to these partners and/or affiliates anything that could be used to personally identify those individuals.
7. Children's Privacy.
Protecting the privacy of children is especially important to us. For that reason, we do no collect information provided by users under the age of 13, we do not solicit information from users under the age of 18, nor do we allow persons under the age of 18 to apply for our grants. If a child under 13 has provided personal information, a parent or guardian may so inform us here (and/or refer to our Terms of Service for more information) and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete it from our database, subject to applicable law and this Policy.
8. Scope of this Policy; Third Party Websites.
Although this policy applies to all information obtained by you for the purpose of accessing or using content controlled and owned by the Foundation, it does not apply to businesses or entities that are not owned or controlled by us.
9. Amendments.
We will be changing what we do and how and why we disclose data periodically—this Policy describes what we currently envision, but that will change as we change. You agree that this Policy amends and replaces any previous privacy polic(ies). We may further amend all or part of this Policy in the same way that we make amendments to our Terms of Use and such amended versions will be posted on this page.
10. Information About Enforcement of Our Policy.
This Policy is part of and supplemented by our Terms of Service, which together with any supplemental privacy policy form a contract. If there is a conflict between the Terms of Service and this Policy, the latest version of this Policy will control. We and you are bound by the Terms of Service, including this Policy. If you think we are in default, you may contact us here or at privacy@theteacherfund.org.
There are no third party beneficiaries of this Policy.