Privacy and Security
TouchDC.org values and respects all individuals and organizations seeking to donate time, money, or resources
to groups in need. We understand that you may be concerned about privacy issues that surround the use of the
Internet. We believe that you should have control over who receives your personal information, whether it
concerns where you live, what your interests are, or how you choose to conduct transactions. We're focused
on only one thing: helping you help others in a safe and secure environment. Therefore, we do not disclose,
share, sell, or trade information about your individual visits to TouchDC.org or the information that you may
give us such as your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number, to any outside companies except for
the use of completing a donation transaction that you initiate or a request to volunteer with a nonprofit
organization. We will release personal information about you, if necessary, in order to comply with valid
legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena or court order. Other web sites that you may link to from
our site, including our partners' web sites, have their own privacy policies. TouchDC.org is not responsible
for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of web sites
before providing them with any of your personal information.
How TouchDC.org Uses Information About You
When you make donations or select a volunteer opportunity, we may specifically ask for information about you
— such as name, home or Internet address, and billing information -- in order to provide that service or
information to you. This information will be used solely for the purposes of completing your donation or locating
the volunteer opportunity you are seeking. Your personal information will be shared with the organization to which
you are donating unless you choose not to make it available to them. When you make an online donation, you will
have the opportunity to keep your personal information private by electing to make your donation anonymously.
If you do elect to provide your name and information to the charity, that organization will likely retain your
name and may use it for future solicitations. They may also provide it to other organizations for their use. If
you do not want to be contacted again by that charity or want to make sure that the organization you have given
money to does not share your name, you will need to let them know directly. For more information on making an
online donation, visit the Help area on Network for Good, our partner that powers TouchDC.org. The information
which TouchDC.org 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
improve our site to assure that it is as appealing as we can make it for as many of you as possible. We also may
provide aggregated statistical "ratings" information, never information about you personally, to our TouchDC.org
partners about how our visitors, collectively, use TouchDC.org. We do this so they too can understand how often
people use their areas and our site in order for them to provide you with the best possible experience.
TouchDC.org Security
TouchDC.org takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via
the web site, your information is protected both online and offline. When our registration/order form asks users to
enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted
and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry. TouchDC.org uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
technology to keep your personal information as secure as possible. TouchDC.org helps to protect your information by
working with partners that provide a secure and safe environment for credit card donations. Our system automatically
gathers information about the areas you visit on our site. We do not use any of this navigational data about where
you — as an individual — go on the site. Nor do we share any of this data with outside companies. We do
use navigational information in the aggregate to understand how our members as a group use the service so that we can
improve the site. If we change our privacy statement, we will post those changes prominently so that you will always
know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone.