PRIVACY POLICY

The North Carolina Community Foundation, Inc. (“NCCF”, “we”, “us”, “our”) is committed to maintaining the privacy, confidentiality, integrity, and security of Confidential Information entrusted to us by current and potential donors, community partners, grant applicants and recipients, scholarship applicants and recipients, vendors, independent contractors, board members, volunteers, and staff members (“Stakeholder(s)”), as well as the Personal Data of Stakeholders and of others who access our website.

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how NCCF collects, uses, and discloses the Confidential Information and Personal Data that Stakeholders provide to us directly or through our website, our online portals or other technology systems, as well as the Personal Data of others who access our website and/or receive email and text (SMS) messages from the organization. It also describes the choices available to Stakeholders regarding provision of Confidential Information.

“Confidential Information” collected from Stakeholders may include materials regarding individuals and their family members, advisors, and business interests; contribution histories; charitable gift information; estate plans; trusts, wills; tax information; letters; grant files; contracts; agreements; notes; notebooks; reports; memoranda; budgets; and financial statements.

Confidential Information may include information received orally or in writing, during or after a person or organization’s association with NCCF.

“Personal Data” is information that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact you, for example: your name, email address, address, usage data, phone numbers, unique device identifiers, company affiliation (if any); log data, such as device and browser identifiers and information (including device, application, or browser type, version, plug-in type and version, operating system, user agent, language and time zone settings, and other technical information), advertising identifiers, cookie identifiers and information, and similar data; usage metrics (including usage rates, occurrences of technical errors, diagnostic reports, settings preferences, backup information), content interactions (including searches, views, downloads, and prints), and user journey history (including clickstreams and page navigation, URLs, timestamps, content viewed or searched for, page response times, page interaction, and similar data).

Your visit to the NCCF website or use of our online portal(s) and/or our other technology systems, means that you are consenting to the terms of this Policy. If you have any questions about this Policy or the practices of the NCCF website, its online portals or other technology systems, please contact us at 919-828-4387 or info@nccomunityfoundation.org or by writing to us at 3737 Glenwood Ave., Suite 460, Raleigh, NC 27612.

Please note that our website and its content are not directed to children under the age of 13 years, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone under the age of 13 years. Personal information submitted by a person over the age of 13 and under the age of 18 will be assumed to have been submitted under the supervision and consent of that person’s parent or guardian.

This Policy is only applicable in the United States and is intended to align with all applicable United States privacy laws and standards.

This Policy may change over time, so please reread it from time to time. Changes to this Policy will be posted at nccommunityfoundation.org/privacy-policy and will be effective immediately when posted, and your continued access/use of the website, our online portals and/or our other technology systems means that you consent to changes to this Policy. If you do not agree with the terms in this Policy or any changes to it, please do not use the NCCF website, portals or other technology systems, and do not provide any information to us.

Stakeholder Privacy

NCCF pledges to keep confidential all nonpublic Stakeholder Confidential Information unless otherwise required by law. Each NCCF board member, advisory board member, staff member, committee member, volunteer, and any other individual who will have access to Stakeholder Confidential Information is required to sign a statement affirming that they agree to comply with NCCF’s policies regarding Stakeholders’ confidential information.

Except for the disclosures of Personal Data and Confidential Information described in the subsection of this Policy captioned Collection and Use of Personal Data and Confidential Information, NCCF does not provide, share, exchange, rent, or sell any Stakeholder Confidential Information to any outside source.

NCCF does not send Stakeholder mailings on behalf of other organizations.

NCCF protects Stakeholder rights to privacy and anonymity. We will not disclose Confidential Information about individual stakeholders without prior consent.

Stakeholders included in NCCF’s electronic distribution lists may opt out of future communications at any time by notifying NCCF through identifiable and convenient tools linked to our communications systems.

Stakeholder Demographic Information

Demographic data may, at times, be collected in order to enable NCCF to provide certain of its services, analyze the makeup of Stakeholder subgroups, and assess the impact and reach of NCCF’s services. Therefore, Stakeholder subgroups may be asked to provide demographic information, such as (but not limited to) age, race, ethnicity, language, and gender identity, through NCCF grant or scholarship applications, as well as other NCCF surveys or reports. Aggregated subgroup demographic information may be shared publicly in NCCF reporting or analysis.

Demographic data will never be disaggregated at the individual level or shared in a personally identifiable manner outside the organization. Organization-level demographic data may be shared with NCCF donors and other funding partners when that information is relevant to collaborative service strategies or common funding goals.

Collection and Use of Personal Data and Confidential Information

Stakeholders visiting the NCCF website, online portals, and/or NCCF’s other technology systems may be asked to disclose Confidential Information, and NCCF may also collect Personal Data from Stakeholders and others visiting the NCCF website. NCCF follows generally accepted standards to protect Personal Data and the Confidential Information submitted to us, both during transmission and once received, to protect information technology systems from being accessed by unauthorized users. NCCF takes reasonable precautions and has security measures in place that are designed to ensure that all systems, services, and equipment used for storing, processing or transmitting data meet acceptable security standards, and performs regular checks and scans to ensure security hardware and software is functioning properly, to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the correct use of information. NCCF initially and periodically evaluates third-party services utilized to store and/or process data to confirm that they meet these standards. However, despite NCCF’s best efforts, no transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be fully secure.

We will only use and/or disclose Personal Data about you for legitimate business purposes, such as to provide information about our programs and services and to communicate with you; for internal research and development purposes, such as data analysis; when needed for our employees, agents, service providers and contractors to support our operations, including to operate, maintain, improve, increase efficiency of, or correct a technical problem with, the NCCF website, online portals or other technology systems, or to process payments; to detect and prevent fraud and abuse; to comply with the law and our legal obligations, including to respond to a request or order from a court, regulator, or government authority, or to assist law enforcement agencies to assist in identifying individuals who have been engaged in, may be engaged in, or be the victim of unlawful activities; and to effectuate the sale, merger, acquisition, or other disposition of NCCF or its assets or business.

NCCF sites use Google Analytics for web analytics services. Data recorded by Google Analytics may include information such as how users arrived at the NCCF site (including the URL Stakeholders or others came from, if they arrived from another site), the user’s browser type, internet protocol (IP) addresses, which type of internet browsing device users are utilizing, the country, state, and city where the user’s server is located, and the pages that were viewed during the user’s visit to the NCCF site.

NCCF sites may use Google Analytics features that generate information about a user’s age, gender, and interests from Google’s interest-based advertising or third-party audience data for ads personalization. This information is tracked using Google’s DoubleClick cookie. Data from Google Analytics are not shared publicly.

NCCF does not merge any Personal Data with non-personally identifiable information previously collected unless Stakeholders have been given notice of and provided prior affirmative (i.e. opt-in) consent to that merger of their Personal Data. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about a user’s visits to NCCF sites is restricted by Google’s privacy policy. For information about Google’s privacy policy, visit their page at policies.google.com/privacy. To provide website visitors with more choice regarding how their data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed an Opt-out Browser Add-on, which is available by visiting Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Collection of Other Data

NCCF and our service providers may collect and/or track information such as domain names, computer type, browser types, screen resolution, and other statistical data involving the use of this Site (“Monitoring Data”). We use Monitoring Data to help us understand who uses NCCF’s website, and to improve and market the website. We may use Monitoring Data uncombined with Personal Data for any purpose.

Cookies and Other Tools

We may use cookies to enhance the Internet experience on NCCF’s website, online portals and other technology systems. Cookies are data that a web server transfers to an individual’s computer for recordkeeping and other purposes. We and our service providers may also use various common Internet tools such as ‘pixel tags,’ ‘action tags,’ ‘web beacons,’ ‘gif tags,’ ‘JavaScript’ or similar technologies (together, “Tools”) in connection with NCCF website pages, online portals and email and text messages. Cookies and Tools are used by us to facilitate access to and use of the NCCF website, online portals and other technology systems, to track the actions of users of the website, to determine the success of marketing campaigns, and to compile statistics about website usage, response rates and email and text message opening rates. We believe cookies and Tools add value to the user experience. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, please refer to your Internet browser provider’s website, which will provide information about disabling cookies. If cookies are disabled, however, all features of NCCF’s website and portals may not operate as intended.

Credit Card Transactions

NCCF partners with Stripe to securely process online credit card payments for Stakeholders that prefer to contribute by credit card. For information about Stripe’s privacy policy, visit their page at stripe.com/privacy. Stripe’s webpage is not hosted by NCCF, and any Personal Data that you provide to Stripe is subject to Stripe’s privacy policy, rather than this Policy.