Receptions for Research – The Greg Olsen Foundation (R4R) is pleased to provide information about its privacy policy. Please be assured that this is very important to us and R4R uses its best efforts at all times regarding privacy protection and data security.

Types of Information Collected and How It Is Used

R4R gathers personal information, such as first and last names, home addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers, only when voluntarily submitted by you. If you donate, personal information will be collected from you in order to process that donation.

We will use personal information collected from you to send you information, such as R4R updates, information regarding events, fundraising campaigns, programs we have supported or other similar information. At any point, you have the right to opt out of receiving such information.

Security of Donor Information

Donor information is stored within a donor management database within R4R. Access to the database is restricted to personnel with a legitimate business need to access or modify the information contained therein.

Sharing of Personal Information

Companies may be engaged by R4R to perform a variety of functions such as database maintenance, providing technical services for our Internet sites, etc. Such companies may have access to personal information if needed to perform certain functions. However, these companies may use such personal information only for the purpose of performing that function and may not use it for any other purpose. R4R does not sell, transfer or otherwise disclose personal information to third parties.

R4R reserves the right to use or disclose any information as needed to satisfy any law, regulation, or legal request, to protect the integrity of the site, to fulfill your requests, or to cooperate in any law enforcement investigation.

Access

You are in control of all personal information you provide to us. If at any time, you would like to correct the personal information we have about you or if you would like to change your preferences for contacts from us, you can let us know by contacting us at the following address: admin@receptionsforresearch.org. In order to review any personal information we have about you or to ask us to delete that information or to stop further use of the information, please contact us through the phone number or postal address listed above. If you would like to unsubscribe from our email list, please use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our newsletter emails or contact us through the postal address listed above. It may take up to two weeks to remove you from all of our correspondences, if we have one in production when you request to be removed.

Cookies

“Cookies” are pieces of information that an Internet site transfers to an individual’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies allow a certain Internet site to remember important information that will make your use of the site more convenient. Like most Internet sites, R4R uses cookies for a variety of purposes in order to improve your online experience. For example, we track the total number of visitors to our site on an anonymous, aggregate basis. We may also employ cookies so that we remember you when you return to the site. We may associate personal information with a cookie file in that instance.

Use the options in your Internet browser if you do not wish to receive a cookie or if you wish to set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. Click on the “Help” section of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. If you disable all cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of the R4R website.

We use Google services, such as Google Analytics, as well as other third party vendors that place first-party and/or third-party cookies on a browser across our websites. To opt out of Google tracking, please visit their opt-out page. We also use Google AdWords “remarketing” to market our sites across the web. We place a cookie on a browser, and then Google reads these cookies and may serve an ad on a 3rd party site. You may opt out of this ad serving on Google’s opt out page. If you are concerned about 3rd party cookies served by networks, you should also visit the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

Links to Other Sites

We may offer links to sites that are not operated by R4R. If you visit one of these linked sites, you should review their privacy and other policies. We are not responsible for the policies and practices of other companies.

Payment Processing and Data Storage

R4R uses stripe (stripe.com) for payment processing and data storage. Stripe has modified every one of its applications that processes, stores and transmits cardholder data based on PCI DSS and PA-DSS compliance standards. Stripe fully adheres to PCI standards regarding secure storage of data, strong access control and other requirements. For further information on this subject please visit https://stripe.com/docs/security/stripe and https://stripe.com/docs/security

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy became effective on January 6, 2017. From time to time, it may be necessary for R4R to change its privacy policy to comply with new laws or regulations, so we suggest that you check here periodically. Rest assured, however, that any changes will not be retroactively applied and will not alter how we handle previously collected information.