Privacy Statement
Make-A-Wish Foundation®
of Alaska, Montana, Northern Idaho & Washington
Privacy Statement
Your Privacy
The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Alaska, Montana, Northern Idaho & Washington has created this statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site: www.northwestwishes.org.
Your IP Address and Cookies
For each visitor to our Web site, our Web server automatically recognizes only the visitor's IP address (e-mail addresses are not automatically recognized by our server). We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to gather broad demographic information and is then discarded. Occasionally, we may use cookies to improve content and provide easier access. This technology lets us review which parts of the site are popular and which are not, allowing us to offer future improvements to the site. However, cookies that we generate contain no identifiable information about you, any children that may visit this site, or your computer.
Information from Forms
Our site's forms require users to give us contact information (like their name, phone number, and e-mail address). We use customer contact information from these forms to send users information about the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Users may opt-out of receiving future communications or contact us with their concerns about our privacy policy; see the Opting Out section below.
Links to Other Sites
This site contains links to other sites. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Alaska, Montana, Northern Idaho & Washington is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
Our Partners
Our Web site (www.northwestwishes.org) is hosted by Doubleknot. No information gathered from users is shared with Doubleknot. In the case of online donations, on our behalf, the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America partners with CharityWeb, which provides and manages secure servers to host the transactions and gather pertinent donation information from users. This information is passed directly to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America and its financial institutions and is not used by CharityWeb.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Specifically, secure servers are used to gather financial information, and encrypted channels are used to transfer this information.
Children
With respect to children, the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America does not collect personally identifiable offline contact information without prior parental consent, nor do we distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information without prior parental consent. We do not give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information on our Web site.
Opting Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt out of receiving communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor. If you receive communications from us and wish not to, this site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications. Please provide your exact name and address when communicating with us. Send a letter to:
Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Alaska, Montana, Northern Idaho & Washington
811 First Avenue, Suite 520
Seattle, WA 98104
