Approved:  04/2012 | 8/17/2020  

Our Commitment to Privacy:
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our website footer.  

Our Policy:
At the Greene County Foundation, we maintain information that supports our efforts to keep accurate financial records and provide information about the Foundation that is appropriate for building relationships with donors, potential donors, volunteers, nonprofit organizations, vendors, etc. We gather this information from phone calls, correspondence, grant applications, scholarship applications and thirdparty sources. This information is for internal office use only, to keep you updated on services, programs, and other information that may be helpful to you. This also enables you to receive current information about the local, national, and global community to better meet your philanthropic needs.  

The Information We Collect:
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Foundation website. On some pages, you can donatesubmit requests, and register to attend events. Following are the types of personal information collected at these pages: 

  • Name 
  • Organization 
  • Address 
  • E-mail address 
  • Phone numbers 
  • Credit/Debit Card Information  

The Way We Use Information: 

  • We do collect aggregate information, such as the number of hits per page, for internal and marketing use only; we do not provide your personally identifying information to the public. 
  • We use the information you provide about yourself during transactions. We do not sell or rent this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete your request. 
  • We use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail we receive. Such addresses are not sold to outside parties.  
  • We may send you information through newsletters or social media, and you have the opportunity to opt-out. 

 Use of IP Addresses and Cookies:
A unique number called an IP address identifies every computer on the Internet. Each time you connect to the Internet your machine is assigned an IP address. An IP address is a number that identifies each sender or receiver of information that is sent in packets across the Internet. The Greene County Foundation uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer the website. 

The Greene County Foundation may set and access cookies to improve our level of service to our visitors. Cookies are lines of text that are transmitted to your web browser when you click on a site. Your browser stores the information on your hard drive and when you return to that site later, the cookie is transmitted back to the server that originally sent it to you. Cookies provide a way for a server to recall a previous request or registration or to keep track of a transaction in progress so that information does not have to be repeated.  

The Greene County Foundation may also collect certain demographic information about visitors to our site through the use of cookies. The Foundation only uses this data to improve the overall website and for internal business purposes. 

Sharing Information:
Information on our volunteers, such as lists of committee members, is provided in several of our publications. We will periodically publicize information about our donors, but only with the permission of the donor. We never sell information to third parties.  

 We do work with a few third-party sites to perform certain tasks on our behalf. We may need to share personal information with these sites in order to provide products or services to you. These sites do not have any right to use Personal Information or other information we share with them beyond what is necessary to assist us. You hereby consent to our sharing of Personal Information with these providers. We currently use Google Analytics (traffic analysis, SEO optimization), Mailchimp (mailing list management), CommunitySuite (scholarship and grantmaking), and PayPal (payment portal). Feel free to check out their own Privacy Policies to find out more. 

 We also use social buttons provided by services like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Your use of these thirdparty services is entirely optional. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices of these thirdparty services, and you are responsible for reading and understanding those thirdparty services’ privacy policies. 

External Links:
You may establish a link to this site from your website, so long as the page containing the link properly attributes the linked site to the Greene County Foundation and does not state or imply any sponsorship of your site by the Foundation. As a service to you, the Foundation provides links to websites of various philanthropic and nonprofit organizations. A link to a website is not an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or affiliation with respect to such site, its owners, or providers. If you choose to follow such links to external websites, you do so at your own risk. 

Our Commitment to Data Security:
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect. 

Opt-Out:
You may ask us to delete any information about you at any time by contacting us. 

How to Contact Us:
If you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please call us at 812-659-3142 or email at gcf@greenecountyfoundation.org. 

You also may contact us via mail at:
Greene County Foundation
4513 W St Rd 54
Bloomfield, IN 47424 

Effective date of approval. Please note that this policy is subject to change at any time. Revisions will be effective as of the time they are posted on the site.