Effective Date: 1/1/2021
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
Pope Francis Center gathers personally identifiable data when voluntarily submitted by a user, which may include: name, addresses, zip codes, e-mail addresses, donor choice information, user groups, etc. For example, personally identifiable information may be collected in order to record a stated desire to donate online to Pope Francis Center via a direct gift or through a company sponsored campaign. This information is used solely by Pope Francis Center or other parties to the transaction for the purpose of executing the transaction, to improve your experience with us, and for the internal business purposes of Pope Francis Center.
We are the sole owners of the information collected. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization other than agencies, affiliates, contractors, advisors, service providers or in our reasonable discretion to investigate or prevent fraud, illegal activity or misuse of our web site.
Periodically Pope Francis Center will send electronic communications in newsletter format or another format to our constituents, which include donors, volunteers and other business contacts. Typically these communications include information regarding community investment reporting, funded program information and results, news and events, as well as other pertinent information we feel should be reported to our constituents. Recipients retain the option to opt-out of these communications at any point in time.
If you sign up to receive news and information from us via our web site, you are electing to receive e-mail communication from us. During registration a user is required to give certain information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you about our programs and other areas on our site in which you have expressed interest. At your option, you may also provide additional preference information, but it is not required.
We may collect your IP (Internet Protocol) address to administer our web site. When a web browser or email application requests a web page or email from another computer on the Internet, it automatically gives that computer the address where it should send the information. This is called the computer’s “IP address”. This “address” does not contain any personally identifiable information.
Cookies that are used on the web site are called “session” cookies, and are used to identify a particular visit to the web site. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser. Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the web site Pope Francis Center automatically receives the URL of the web site from which you came and the web site to which you are going when you leave the web site. We also receive the IP address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web) , your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your internet service provider (ISP). We may use this information to analyze overall trends to help us improve our services, but we do not generally link this information to personally identifiable information in any way.
The information which Pope Francis Center automatically gathers, such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to our site and its areas, is used only in the aggregate very much like television ratings that tell the networks how many people tuned in to a program. This collective data helps us determine how much our visitors use parts of the site, so that we can continuously improve our site. We also may provide aggregated statistical “ratings” information, never information about you personally, to our partners about how our visitors, collectively use our web site.
Your Access to and Control Over Information
You are given the opportunity to “opt-out” of having your personally identifiable data used for communication purposes. To access your data, you can do the following at any time:
If at any time you would like to update, correct or delete your information, you can simply contact us directly to change your information. You may also select to opt-out to receive any future communications from us on any of our e-mail communications, registration or pledge forms or by contacting us directly using the contact information provided at the bottom of this page.
Links
This web site contains links to other web sites. These web sites that you may link to from our site, including our partners’ web sites, have their own privacy policies. Pope Francis Center is not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites or affiliate. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of web sites or affiliate agencies before providing them with any of your personally identifiable data.
Google Analytics
We use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about use of this site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use(link is external) and the Google Privacy Policy(link is external). You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies(link is external) on your browser.”
Security
We have put in place commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures designed to safeguard and secure the information we collect online for reasonable foreseeable risk. However, due to the open communication nature of the Internet we cannot guarantee that communication between you and us and us and you will be free from unauthorized access by third parties. POPE FRANCIS CENTER MAKES NO WARRANTIES AS TO THE SECURITY OF YOUR DATA COMMUNICATIONS, OR THAT THIRD PARTIES WILL NOT GAIN UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR MONITOR YOUR COMPUTER(S) OR ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS. YOU AGREE THAT POPE FRANCIS CENTER WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY SUCH ACCESS.
We encrypt customer data in transit and at rest, provided that the customer uses their default domain or a custom domain with an SSL certificate.
Acceptance of Privacy Policy
By using this web site (www.popefranciscenter.org), you indicate your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you have any concerns about our privacy policy, please contact us at (313) 964-2823. Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted to this URL. Please return and check it regularly to be certain you are aware at all times. To the extent permitted by applicable law, your use of our web site and our use of your personally identifiable information shall be governed by the most current privacy policy.
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please send us an email at info@popefranciscenter.org.
By agreeing to these Terms and Conditions you acknowledge that when responding to an opportunity that is sponsored by the or one of its community partners, your registration information will be shared with and its community partner for the purposes of facilitating and coordinate the volunteer placement and for the purpose of reporting volunteer impact data back to the community.