Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

The Kelly Packowski MS Foundation ("KPMS Foundation") is committed to handling personal information responsibly. You can visit most pages on our website without giving us any information about yourself, but sometimes we need information to provide services that you request. This privacy statement explains our policies about data collection and data use in those situations. By visiting our website, you consent to the information practices described in this policy.

This Privacy Policy applies to our website. Our website contain links to other websites that are operated by third parties, and this policy does not apply to those other websites that may be accessible through our website. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of those other websites to learn how they collect and use information about you.

Information You Provide to Us
We may obtain personally identifiable information about you only if you elect to give us that information. Types of personally identifiable information we ask you to provide may include your name, address, zip code, telephone number, email address, credit card number and expiration date (for online donations) and/or name of organization (where applicable).

Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, we automatically collect information about your visit that does not identify you personally. We can tell the type of computer, browser, and web service you are using. We also know the date, time, and pages you visit. Collecting this information helps us design the website to suit your needs.

How We Use Collected Information
Generally, our uses of information collected online include responding to your inquiries about the KPMS Foundation, enabling you to make a donation or delivering services such as sending information. We may also use personally identifiable information for our own internal purposes, such as tracking demographic data to make our website more useful to our visitors.

Cookies and other Technologies
A cookie is a small data file that a website may send to your browser and which may then be stored on your hard drive. Our website uses cookies to simulate a continuous connection —cookies let us "remember" information about your preferences and session, and allow you to move within areas of our website without reintroducing yourself. No personally identifiable information is stored in these cookies.

Our website may also use other technologies to track which pages on our website our visitors view. This data, which is not personally identifiable, helps us understand how visitors use our website.

Sharing of Information
The KPMS Foundation may need to share your personal information with third parties in limited circumstances. For example, we may release your personal information to third parties to perform services on our behalf such as: advising you of our upcoming events, products, volunteer opportunities, providing you with information about MS or processing credit card payments. However, third parties that we retained to provide such services are obligated to maintain the confidentiality of this information and are not authorized to use this information for any purpose other than providing those services.

From time to time, we may be required to provide personal information in response to a valid court order, subpoena, government investigation, or as otherwise required by law. We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we, in good faith, believe to be unlawful. We may release certain personal information when we believe that such release is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of others and ourselves.

If your information is currently being used to send you marketing communications, you can opt out at any time. All marketing e-mail communications from the KPMS Foundation tell you how to stop receiving them. To opt out of receiving marketing communications from the KPMS Foundation, send a request to The Kelly Packowski MS Foundation, PO Box 601, Newton, MA 02456, call us at 1-866-KPMSFND, or email us at info@kpmsfoundation.com.

The KPMS Foundation wants your information and preferences to be accurate and complete. To update or change your information, send your updated information to The Kelly Packowski MS Foundation, PO Box 601, Newton, MA 02456, call us at 1-866-KPMSFND, or email us at info@kpmsfoundation.com.

Internal Controls; Collection of Information from Children
We are committed to properly securing the information we collect online. To help us accomplish this, we employ internal access controls to ensure that the only people who see your information are those with a need to do so to perform their official duties, we train relevant personnel on our privacy and security measures, we physically secure the areas where we hold hard copies of the information we collect online, we regularly back up the information we collect online to insure against loss, and we use technical controls to secure the information we collect online as appropriate, including but not limited to: Secure Socket Layer (SSL), encryption, firewalls, password protections.

Our website does not intentionally collect information from children under the age of 13. If we discover that we have inadvertently collected information from a person under the age of 13, we will delete it.

Questions
If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, call us at 1-866-KPMSFND, or email us at info@kpmsfoundation.com.

Policy Subject to Change
Because our website and business will continue to implement new technologies and improve the services and features we provide, this policy is subject to change. If there are changes or additions to this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes here or in other formats we deem acceptable, so that you will always know what information we collect online, how we use it and what choices you have.

For More Information
If you have any questions about the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy, please contact us at The Kelly Packowski MS Foundation, PO Box 601, Newton, MA 02456, call us at 1-866-KPMSFND, or email us at info@kpmsfoundation.com.