Hope Ventures Privacy Policy
Hope Ventures is committed to user privacy.
We respect your privacy and will not rent, sell, or exchange the information you share with us. This policy does not include your use of affiliate organizations that are linked to the Hope Ventures website.
Collecting Your Personal Information
Individuals and groups that sign up to receive Hope Ventures communications provide us with contact information voluntarily (such as name, e-mail, phone, etc). You can always "opt out" at any time if you no longer want to receive messages from us.
How Personal Information Is Used
We use personal information for specific, limited purposes related to communicating with you, processing donations, keeping you informed of our projects, and providing you personalized service by sending updates and alerts and of course, responding to your requests.
Additionally, we may use your information to track activity on our website. This allows us to see how to best serve the needs of our users. By utilizing aggregate data (not identifying you personally) about the traffic on our website we can learn how visitors use our site and what features as we interact with outside parties.
What is Shared and When
As stated above, Hope Ventures will not rent, sell, trade your information with any organizations who intend to use it to solely market their products or services to you. That said, there may be some occasions where we share your information with others. Some examples would be in conjunction with a project you’ve helped sponsor with related parties or when required by law, or to cooperate with legal proceedings, to protect your security or to protect the rights of Hope Ventures.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
As with most websites, our servers may utilize “cookies” to track a user’s activity within our website. Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your browser when you visit a site and are stored on your computer. This information can be used to help us better serve our users (both clients and donors) and understand their online needs. If you prefer to opt out of this type of data collection, please disable cookies in your web browser. Please note that eliminating the use of cookies may limit your experience on our website.
IP Addresses
Hope Ventures may use your IP address to help identify problems with our server and for statistics used to track our website traffic.
External Links
Hope ventures may provide links to external websites. These links do not fall under our privacy policy and Hope Ventures is not responsible for the content or practices of these external websites.
Securing Your Data
All forms on our donation pages asking for confidential information (such as credit card numbers or checking account info) utilize the Internet security protocol known as “Secure Sockets Layer” or “SSL.” This is kind of encryption technology is designed to make using your personal information and credit card as safe as possible on the Internet.
While no platform of commerce is 100% safe, research indicates that statistically speaking, using a credit card on the internet through SSL technology provides greater security than submitting your credit card at a brick and mortar store, or over an open telephone line.
https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/12/have-online-payments-become-safer-than-offline/
Whenever making a donation make sure the web address read "https://" as opposed to "http://". If you are using a browser that recognizes SSL, you will generally receive a message and/or see a symbol, such as a lock, in the address window that indicates you are on a secure page. Any information you provide on that secure page is sent over the Internet through encrypted technology. If your browser doesn't support SSL technology, you should see an error message when trying to access the SSL on our donation page.
Referrals
Hope Ventures provides you with the opportunity to share with others about the impact and opportunities that happens through our work. If you choose to refer someone to Hope, we will ask you to share your referral’s email address or in some cases mailing address, to send them either an electronic or paper communications inviting them to participate in our efforts.
We will store this info for the purpose of sending email or paper communication and monitor the success of these actions to expand our mission. If you choose to refer someone to Hope Ventures, you are verifying that you have a personal relationship with that person or organization and that you have permission to share their information with us for the purpose of communicating with them.
Policy Changes
We recommend that you regularly review our privacy policy as we reserve the right to make changes to this policy without advance notice.