United eWay is committed to protecting your privacy. Because your privacy is important to us, we have adopted and implemented this Privacy Policy as part of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information.

What information we collect and how is it used:

• When you register to use our site, you must complete a form about yourself. Our registration process asks you to provide us with a variety of personal information, including without limitation your name, postal address at work and at home, email address, phone number, personal URL, gender, ethnicity, profession, spouse/partner information and donor group information. We store this information in a database. If you choose to opt in to receive email messages from us, we use your email address and the stated preferences in your individual profile to send you email messages about volunteer opportunities that may be of interest to you and to inform you about new features or services offered by our web site. We use the stated preferences in your individual profile to tailor your experience at our site. For example, we may provide you with customized content based on the stated preferences in your individual profile.
• We may use the information that we collect from you as follows:

1.       to use the information in connection with providing you and charitable organizations services through the Web Site;

2.       to protect the Web Site against unauthorized access by verifying the identity of users using the Web Site;

3.       to improve our Web Site’s content; and

4.       to use your IP address (the number assigned to your computer while it is logged on to the Internet) to diagnose problems with the server or to administer the Web Site.

• Our site places a small text file called a "cookie" on your computer’s hard drive for record keeping purposes. Cookies enable us to identify you when you revisit our web site so that you do not need to re-enter your password. Cookies also allow us to track how long it has been since you last visited our site. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, most computers allow you to change your browser setting to prevent acceptance of cookies.
• We also aggregate information we collect from you and other users to help us improve the design of our web site so that we may better meet the needs of visitors to our web site and to report on the status of volunteerism in various communities. The aggregate information cannot be used to personally identify you.

• We may disclose information we collect from you if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that disclosure is necessary (a) to obey the law or comply with legal process served on us or our affiliates; (b) to protect and defend our rights or property or the rights or property of other users of our web site; or (c) to act in an emergency to protect the personal safety of users of our web site or the public.
• If we merge or are combined with any other organization, or if we transfer all or substantially all of our assets or operations to another organization, we may disclose information we collect from you to the other organization so that the other organization can continue to provide services to you. The other organization will be bound by this Privacy Policy.
• Except as provided in this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose, sell or rent information we collect from you to any third party, including other nonprofit organizations, unless you specifically request that we share your information with a third party, nor will we use information we collect from you to market services or products to you if you have not previously expressed an interest in such services or products.
• If you do not want us to use your information as described above, you may choose not to provide us with your information by not registering with us or by modifying your information as provided at http://www.volunteersolutions.org/mfcvp/volunteer/register/ . If you choose not to provide us with your information, you will not enjoy all of the services offered through our web site.

Collection of Information from Children:

We respect the sensitive nature of children’s privacy online. We are a general audience web site and do not direct any of our content specifically at children. You must be at least 13 years old to register to use our web site. If we learn that a user is under 13 years of age, we will promptly delete any personally identifiable information we have collected about that user. If you are under the age of 13, please do not send us any information about yourself.

Who has access to the information:

Only The Mid-Fairfield County Volunteer Partnership , its employees, agents and officers and employees of the United Way of America who are responsible for administering our web site have access to personally identifiable information collected about you. Neither group will share personally identifiable information about you with anyone else without your permission.

How you can "opt out" of receiving communications from us:

When you register to use our site, you are given the opportunity to opt in or opt out of receiving communications from us. If you opt in but later decide to opt out of receiving communications from us, you may do so by visiting the following URL and following the instructions: http://www.volunteersolutions.org/mfcvp/volunteer/register/

Data Security Commitment:

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and help ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate and reasonable physical, electronic, and administrative procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. In addition we use firewalls to help prevent outside parties from accessing our database server through the Internet, and physical access to the database server is restricted to authorized individuals.

How you can access or correct your information:

If you would like to review or modify the information we have collected from you, you may do so by visiting the following URL and following the instructions there: http://www.volunteersolutions.org/mfcvp/volunteer/register/profile/manager.tcl

External Links:

For your convenience, we provide links to web sites operated by third parties. We do not monitor the privacy practices of these linked web sites and do not exercise authority over such web sites. We therefore assume no responsibility for the privacy and data collection policies and procedures of linked web sites, nor for the content or reliability of such web sites. If you choose to access a third party web site linked to our site, you do so at your own risk.

Changes to Privacy Policy:

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time in our sole discretion, by providing thirty (30) days notice to you by displaying a prominent notice, in all caps, above the text of the Privacy Policy. If we change this Privacy Policy, we will post the changes on our web site’s Privacy Policy page so that you will always know what type of personally identifiable information we collect and how we use this information. If you continue to use our web site following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy, you agree to be bound by the changes to the Privacy Policy.

Contacting us:

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices or your interaction with this web site, or you suspect we have handled the information you provided in a manner that does not comply with this privacy policy, please contact your human resource administrator or United eWay.