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Effective Date: September 29, 2025

Online Privacy Policy

This Online Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes the Meriwest Community Foundation’s (“Foundation”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) online user privacy practices and applies to our Website (https://www.meriwestfoundation.org) this Policy. The Foundation respects your privacy and commits to complying with our policies in order to protect your privacy.

By using our Website, you consent to the terms and conditions of this Policy, including your consent to our use and disclosure of information about you in the manner described in this Policy.

 

INFORMATION WE COLLECT – AND HOW WE COLLECT IT

When you use our Website, we may collect Personal Information that you submit to us voluntarily, or Online Activity that we collect passively in the background. We will not obtain Personal Information about you unless you choose to provide such information.

Personal Information is information that you provide, such as your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, or other information that identifies you. This information may be collected when you voluntarily provide it to us through forms on our Website. These forms could include information temporarily saved in form fields, and sign in pages.

Online Activity Data includes information such as your IP address, browser type, and display/screen settings; how you interact with our Website; mobile device and advertising IDs; social media preferences and other social media data; and other data that may be aggregated and that does not identify individual consumers/customers. This data may be collected using cookies and other online tracking devices such as web beacons, depending on your browser settings. Cookies are small pieces of data sent from a website and stored on your computer by your web browser that can allow other websites that you visit to track your browsing activities. A web beacon is a small string of HTML code that represents a graphic image on a website or email. We may also partner with third parties to monitor activities on our own Website and other websites. These partners may use cookies, web beacons, and/or other monitoring technologies to compile statistics about website visitors. Additionally, we may collect Online Activity Data when you use your mobile device browser to access our Website, i.e., location data (if you have enabled location services on your device). We may also collect Online Activity Data or information such as your likes, interests, feedback, and preferences when you interact with our official pages on social media websites such as Facebook, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram or from our social media partners (but only if you choose to share with them and they, in turn, share that information with us). Please refer to the policies of those companies to better understand your rights and obligations with regard to your activity on those websites.

  1. Use of Cookies

The Foundation or our service providers may deploy and use cookies for various purposes. Some of these tracking technologies may detect characteristics or settings of the specific device you use to access our Website. “Cookies” are pieces of information that are stored directly on the device you are using. We do not use cookies to find out the identity of any user of our Website. We use cookies to display information more effectively to our users and to gather data about the usage of our Website. We do not use cookies to collect information about you. Your browser can be set to warn you when a cookie has been sent, allowing you to decide whether to accept or reject it. You will need to manage your cookie settings for each device and browser you use. If you choose to reject cookies, you limit the functionality we can provide you and you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Website. You also may not receive customized advertising or other offers from us that may be relevant to your interests and needs.

  1. How to Control and Delete Cookies

    1. Using Your Browser

Many of the cookies used on our Website can be enabled or disabled by disabling the cookies through your browser. To disable cookies through your browser, follow the instructions usually located within the “Help,” “Tools” or “Edit” menus in your browser. Please note that disabling a cookie or category of cookies does not delete the cookie from your browser unless manually completed through your browser function.

Many browsers have adopted Global Privacy Control (“GPC”). The GPC is a technical specification for transmitting universal opt-out signal that communicates a consumer’s choice to opt-out of the sale or sharing of their personal information for behavioral advertising. Where required to do so under applicable law, our Website will honor GPC signals.

    1. Using Your Mobile Device

Some mobile devices come with a non-permanent advertising identifier or ID which gives companies the ability to serve targeted ads to a specific mobile device. In many cases, you can turn off mobile device ad tracking or you can reset the advertising identifier at any time within your mobile device privacy settings. You may also choose to turn off location tracking on your mobile device. By turning off ad tracking or location tracking on your mobile device, you may still see the same number of ads as before, but they may be less relevant because they will not be based on your interests.

    1. Interest-Based Advertising on Third-Party Websites

Activity Data collected on our Website may be used to advertise our services that may be of interest to you on third party websites. Our service providers that deliver these advertisements are subject to their own privacy policies. To explore options for opting out of interest-based advertising, visit http://optout.aboutads.info/ or click on the AdChoices icon in an ad and follow the instructions. You may also use the Network Advertising Initiative's (NAI) Opt-Out Tool by visiting https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1. Furthermore, you may download the Google Analytics opt-out plug in, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/, to prevent your data from being collected and used by Google Analytics. Moreover, there may be other tools provided by the publishing platform to enable you to opt-out. Opting out relies on information in the unique cookies placed on your web browser by our service providers, so if you delete cookies, use a different device, or change web browsers, you may need to opt out again. Additionally, we may partner with services, like Google, to display ads to you based on search terms you use on those websites. Please review the privacy policies of those websites for instructions on how to limit these ads. Please note that you may still receive general online advertising from us even after you adjust your ad preferences with certain web search engines or opt out of online advertising through AdChoices or the NAI tool. Such advertising, however, should not be based on Activity Data or search term information.

However, since we do not own or control these third-party resources, we cannot ensure that you will stop receiving our advertisements by using these tools or that such advertisements will not be based on Online Activity Data or search term information, and we do not guarantee the functionality or availability of such third-party tools. While we work with vendors and service providers who are contractually obligated to comply with our policies to protect information and to comply with all applicable laws regarding the collection, safeguarding, processing and disclosure of personal information, such vendors and service providers are solely responsible for cookies, cookie tracking and your choices for managing cookies.

    1. Third Party Website Cookies That We Cannot Control

When using our Website, you may be directed to other websites for such activities as surveys, partner events, and to view content hosted on those sites such as an embedded video or news article. These websites may use their own cookies. We do not have control over the placement of cookies by other websites you visit, even if you are directed to them from our Website.

  1. Social Media

We may collect information, such as your likes, interests, feedback, and preferences when you interact with our official pages on social media websites such as Facebook, X (formerly known as Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram or from our social media partners (but only if you choose to share with them and they, in turn, share that information with us). Please refer to the policies of those companies to better understand your rights and obligations with regard to your activity on those websites.

HOW WE USE INFORMATION

We may disclose aggregated and de-identified information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may use Personal Information and Online Activity Data we have collected for a variety of reasons, including:

WHO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH

We will not disclose your Personal Information or Online Activity Data to anyone except for certain third-parties and only for our business purposes and legal requirements. We do not sell personal and sensitive information or user data with third parties for monetary consideration. The general categories of third-parties that we share with are as follows:

  1. Our third-party service providers;
  2. Other third parties to comply with legal requirements such as the demands of applicable subpoenas and court orders; to verify or enforce our terms of use, our other rights, or other applicable policies; to address fraud, security or technical issues; to respond to an emergency; or otherwise to protect the rights, property or security of our customers or third parties.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

The security and integrity of our members’ accounts is of the utmost importance at the Foundation. We strive to invest in technology and choose partners that will support and enhance our overall security posture, to protect the Foundation and its community members.

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Children’s Online Information Privacy

Website is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we request that these individuals do not provide personal information through the Website. We do not knowingly collect, maintain, or use personally identifiable information from our Website about children under the age of 13 or enable children under the age of 13 to use any feature of our Website. For more information about the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), visit FTC Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule.

 

Third-Party Links from the Foundation Website and Your Personal Information

Our Website may contain links to third party sites. Although these links were established to provide you with access to useful information, the Foundation does not control and is not responsible for any of these websites or their contents. We do not know or control what information third-party websites may collect regarding your personal information. The Foundation is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the Foundation does not endorse or make any representations about using such third-party websites or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from our Website so that you can understand how those websites collect, use, and share your information. The Foundation is not responsible for the security or privacy practices of the linked websites.

 

Updates to this Online Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may change this Policy. The effective date of this Policy, as indicated above, reflects the last time this Policy was revised. Any changes to this Policy will become effective when we post the revised Policy on our Website. Your use of the Website or App following these changes means that you accept the revised Policy.

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