Privacy Policy

Official Policy

Confidentiality is a hallmark of professionalism.

United Way of York County, SC uses reasonable commercial efforts to avoid disclosure of information which is confidential, privileged, or nonpublic other than in accordance with this privacy policy.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

United Way of York County, SC (UWYC) gathers personally identifiable data when voluntarily submitted by a user, which may include: name, addresses, zip codes, email addresses, donor choice information, user groups, etc. For example, personally identifiable information may be collected in order to record a stated desire to donate online to UWYC via a direct gift or through a company-sponsored campaign. This information is used solely by UWYC, or other parties to the transaction for the purpose of executing the transaction, to improve your experience with us, and for the internal business purposes of United Way of York County, SC.

We are the sole owners of the information collected. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization other than agencies, affiliates, contractors, advisors, service providers, or in our reasonable discretion to investigate or prevent fraud, or illegal activity, or misuse of our web site.

Periodically UWYC will send electronic communications in newsletter format or another format to our constituents, which include donors, volunteers, and other business contacts. Typically these communications include information regarding community investment reporting, funded program information, results, news, and events, as well as other pertinent information we feel should be reported to our constituents. Recipients retain the option to opt out of these communications at any point in time.

If you sign up to receive news and information from us via our website, you are electing to receive email communication from us. During registration, a user is required to give certain information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you about our programs and other areas on our site in which you have expressed interest. At your option, you may also provide additional preference information, but it is not required.

We may collect your IP (Internet Protocol) address to administer our website. When a web browser or email application requests a web page or email from another computer on the Internet, it automatically gives that computer the address where it should send the information. This is called the computer’s “IP address”. This “address” does not contain any personally identifiable information.

Cookies that are used on the website are called “session” cookies and are used to identify a particular visit to the website. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser. Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the website UWYC automatically receives the URL of the website from which you came and the website to which you are going when you leave the website. We also receive the IP address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and the type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your internet service provider (ISP). We may use this information to analyze overall trends to help us improve our services, but we do not generally link this information to personally identifiable information in any way.

The information which United Way of York County, SC automatically gathers, such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to our site and its areas, is used only in the aggregate very much like television ratings that tell the networks how many people tuned in to a program. This collective data helps us determine how much our visitors use parts of the site so that we can continuously improve our site. We also may provide aggregated statistical “ratings” information, never information about you personally, to our partners about how our visitors, collectively use our website.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You are given the opportunity to “opt-out” of having your personally identifiable data used for communication purposes. To access your data, you can do the following at any time:

• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• “Opt-out” of having your personally identifiable data used for communication purposes.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

If at any time you would like to update, correct, or delete your information, you can simply contact us directly to change your information. You may also select to opt-out to receiving any future communications from us on any of our e-mail communications, registration, or pledge forms or by contacting us directly using the contact information provided at the bottom of this page.

Links

This website contains links to other websites. These websites that you may link to from our site, including our partners’ websites, have their own privacy policies. UWYC is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites or affiliates. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of websites or affiliate agencies before providing them with any of your personally identifiable data.

Security

We have put in place commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures designed to safeguard and secure the information we collect online for reasonable foreseeable risk. However, due to the open communication nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that communication between you and us and us and you will be free from unauthorized access by third parties. UWYC MAKES NO WARRANTIES AS TO THE SECURITY OF YOUR DATA COMMUNICATIONS, OR THAT THIRD PARTIES WILL NOT GAIN UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR MONITOR YOUR COMPUTER(S) OR ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS. YOU AGREE THAT UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY, SC WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY SUCH ACCESS.

We encrypt customer data in transit and at rest, provided that the customer uses their default domain or a custom domain with an SSL certificate.

Acceptance of Privacy Policy

By using this website (www.unitedwayofyc.org), you indicate your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you have any concerns about our privacy policy, please contact us at 803-324-2735. Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted to this URL. Please return and check it regularly to be certain you are aware at all times. To the extent permitted by applicable law, your use of our website and our use of your personally identifiable information shall be governed by the most current privacy policy.

Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please send us an email at admin@unitedwayofyc.org.

By agreeing to these Terms and Conditions you acknowledge that when responding to an opportunity that is sponsored by the or one of its community partners, your registration information will be shared with its community partner for the purposes of facilitating and coordinating the volunteer placement and for the purpose of reporting volunteer impact data back to the community.

DONOR BILL OF RIGHTS

Philanthropy is based on voluntary action for the common good. It is a tradition of giving and sharing that is primary to the quality of life. To ensure that philanthropy merits the respect and trust of the general public and that donors and prospective donors can have full confidence in the nonprofit organizations and causes they are asked to support, we declare that all donors have these rights:

I. To be informed of the organization’s mission, of the way the organization intends to use donated resources, and of its capacity to use donations effectively for their intended purposes.

II. To be informed of the identity of those serving on the organization’s governing board, and to expect the board to exercise prudent judgment in its stewardship responsibilities.

III. To have access to the organization’s most recent financial statements.

IV. To be assured their gifts will be used for the purposes for which they were given.

V. To receive appropriate acknowledgment and recognition.

VI. To be assured that information about their donation is handled with respect and with confidentiality to the extent provided by law.

VII. To expect that all relationships with individuals representing organizations of interest to the donor will be professional in nature.

VIII. To be informed whether those seeking donations are volunteers, employees of the organization or hired solicitors.

IX. To have the opportunity for their names to be deleted from mailing lists that an organization may intend to share.

X. To feel free to ask questions when making a donation and to receive prompt, truthful and forthright answers.

©1964, Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), all rights reserved.  Reprinted with permission from the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Developed by: Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), Giving Institute: Leading Consultants to Non-Profits.

Originally Endorsed by: Independent Sector, National Catholic Development Conference (NCDC), National Committee on Planned Giving (NCPG), Council for Resource Development (CRD), United Way Worldwide