Privacy Policy

Effective Date: May 1, 2021

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for www.giffordfoundation.org. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website, except where stated otherwise. It will notify you of the following:

• What information we collect;
• With whom it is shared;
• How it can be corrected;
• How it is secured;
• How policy changes will be communicated; and
• How to address concerns over misuse of personal data.

Who We Are

The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation

The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation (The Gifford Foundation) is a private foundation dedicated to the stewardship of the funds entrusted to its care. The Foundation is committed to using its financial and human resources to build the capacity of individuals and organizations to enhance the quality of life for the people of Central New York.

126 N Salina St # 310, Syracuse, NY 13202

Phone: (315) 474 – 2489

Website: https://giffordfoundation.org

Technical Contact: Maximilian Eyle maximilian@giffordfoundation.org

Team Information: https://giffordfoundation.org/who-we-are/the-gifford-team/

Financial Information and Tax Status: https://giffordfoundation.org/who-we-are/financials/

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone, however please note that some of this information may be made publicly available for use in our directories or other purposes (see examples below).

• Forms: submissions to our website forms may be made public, and the information may be stored on our Google cloud, our Microsoft cloud, and/or on our website hosted by WP Engine.
  • Review the Google privacy policy.
  • Review the Microsoft Forms privacy policy.
  • Review the WP Engine privacy policy.
• Data Collection: we use Google Analytics to collect data about our website visitors, including their location, browser, language settings, activity on our website, age, gender, and more. Please note that our ability to collect this information may be affected by your own browser configuration.

• Review the Google privacy policy.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g., to update our email marketing database hosted by Campaign Monitor.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about our programs, changes at our foundation, new services, changes to this privacy policy, or for any other reason.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

How do we use cookies?

As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

What types of cookies do we use?

Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information.

Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.

Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.

Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.

The below list details the cookies used in our website.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us at maximilian@giffordfoundation.org or via the email address or phone number provided on our website:

• See what data we have about you, if any.
• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• Have us delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information, that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Finally, we employ specific website security software both at the CMS and Hosting level to protect against malicious attacks and to keep your data safe.

Notification of Changes

Any substantial changes made to the way in which we gather or process data will be reflected on this Privacy Page. Please check back regularly for updates, and feel free to contact us with any questions.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 315 474 – 2489 or via at contact@giffordfoundation.org.