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Pipestone Area Community Foundation is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Pipestone Area Community Foundation website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Pipestone Area Community Foundation website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Pipestone Area Community Foundation collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. This information is collected on an opt-in basis only, through various web forms throughout the site. Pipestone Area Community Foundation also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Pipestone Area Community Foundation. This information can include, but is not limited to: your IP address, geographical location, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Pipestone Area Community Foundation for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Pipestone Area Community Foundation website.
Pipestone Area Community Foundation encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Pipestone Area Community Foundation so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Pipestone Area Community Foundation is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Pipestone Area Community Foundation and Pipestone Area Community Foundation family of websites.
Pipestone Area Community Foundation collects and uses your personal information to operate the Pipestone Area Community Foundation website and deliver the services you have requested. Pipestone Area Community Foundation also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Pipestone Area Community Foundation and its affiliates. Pipestone Area Community Foundation may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Pipestone Area Community Foundation does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Pipestone Area Community Foundation may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Pipestone Area Community Foundation may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Pipestone Area Community Foundation, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Pipestone Area Community Foundation does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Pipestone Area Community Foundation keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within Pipestone Area Community Foundation, in order to determine what Pipestone Area Community Foundation services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Pipestone Area Community Foundation to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Pipestone Area Community Foundation websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Pipestone Area Community Foundation or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Pipestone Area Community Foundation; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Pipestone Area Community Foundation, or the public.
The Pipestone Area Community Foundation website uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Pipestone Area Community Foundation pages, or register with Pipestone Area Community Foundation site or services, a cookie helps Pipestone Area Community Foundation to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Pipestone Area Community Foundation website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Pipestone Area Community Foundation features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Pipestone Area Community Foundation services or websites you visit.
Pipestone Area Community Foundation secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Pipestone Area Community Foundation secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Pipestone Area Community Foundation will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Pipestone Area Community Foundation encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Pipestone Area Community Foundation is protecting your information.
Pipestone Area Community Foundation welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Pipestone Area Community Foundation has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Pipestone Area Community Foundation at info@pipestonecommunity.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.