United Way of Hampshire County is committed to respecting your online privacy and security. Once you choose to provide us personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified), you can be assured that it will only be used to support your relationship with the United Way of Hampshire County.

Awareness
United Way of Hampshire County provides this Online Privacy Statement to make you aware of our privacy policy and security practices, and to inform you about the way your information is collected and used.

What We Collect
On some United Way of Hampshire County web pages you can make donations and request information. The types of personal information collected on these pages are name, contact and billing information, transaction, and credit card information.

How We Use It
United Way of Hampshire County uses your information to understand your needs and provide you with better service. Specifically, we use your information to help you complete a transaction or communicate back to you with updates on special events. We may also use information submitted by you for internal uses related to the purposes for which you submitted the data, including but not limited to processing pledges, internal traffic monitoring, usage monitoring and projections. United Way may provide personal information and data to third parties to assist in internal administrative functions such as sharing data with employers for the purpose of processing donations made by payroll deduction and for United Way of Hampshire County’s annual financial audit. Credit card numbers are used only for payment processing and are not retained for other purposes. From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research or provide you with information we think would be of particular interest. At a minimum, we will always give you the opportunity to decline such direct marketing or market research contact.

Who We Share It With
United Way of Hampshire County will not sell, share, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to others. Unless we have your permission or are required by law, we will only share the personal data you provide online with United Way entities and/or business partners who are acting on our behalf to complete the activities described above. Such United Way entities and/or business partners are governed by our privacy policies with respect to the use of this data.

Choice
United Way of Hampshire County will not use or share the personally identifiable information, which you provide to us online, in ways unrelated to the ones described above without first letting you know and offering you a choice. As previously stated, you may let us know if you do not wish to receive unsolicited direct marketing materials from us, and we will do everything we can to honor such requests.

Security
United Way of Hampshire County is committed to ensuring the security of your information. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We use Internet encryption software, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol, when collecting or transferring sensitive data such as credit card information.