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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 collect information to provide services that you request. This privacy statement explains our policies about data collection and data use of both personal information submitted to us by you and non-personal information that we may collect. By visiting our website, you consent to the information practices described in this policy.

This Privacy Policy only applies to our website. Our website contains links to other websites that are operated by third parties, and this Privacy 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 only obtain personally identifiable information about you through our website that you have elected to give us. Types of personally identifiable information collected include your name, address, zip code, telephone number, email address, credit card number and expiration date (for online donations) and/or the name of your organization (where applicable).

Information Collected Automatically

As is true of most websites, when you visit our website we automatically collect and store certain information about your visit that does not identify you personally, including without limitation Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet services provider (ISP) and your operating system. We also track the date, time, and pages you visit. Collecting this information helps us design the website and improve its functionality to better suit your needs.

How We Use Collected Information

Generally, our uses of information collected through our website include responding to your inquiries about the KPMS Foundation, enabling you to make a donation or delivering services to you, 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

To enhance your experience at our website, we may use a feature on your Internet browser called a “cookie.” A cookie is a small data file that a website sends to your browser and which is 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. You have the option of setting your Internet browser to reject cookies. Doing this, however, may hinder performance and negatively impact your experience on our website.

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.

Disclosure of Information

The KPMS Foundation may 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, and volunteer opportunities, providing you with information about MS or processing credit card payments. Third parties that we retained to provide such services, however, 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. The KPMS Foundation also wants your information and preferences to be accurate and complete. To opt out of receiving marketing communications from the KPMS Foundation or to update or change your information, send a request to The Kelly Packowski MS Foundation, PO Box 384, Needham Heights, MA 02494, call us at 1-866-KPMSFND, or email us at info@kpmsfoundation.org.

Internal Controls; Collection of Information from Children

We are committed to properly securing the information we collect online. To help us accomplish this, we maintain reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect the confidentiality of your personal information. Any personal information that you provide to us through the website will be stored on our computer network servers. The security measures in place on our website and computer system aim to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of the information you provided to us.

Our website does not knowingly 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.

Business Transitions

In the event the KPMS Foundation goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another organization, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personal information might be among the assets transferred.

Policy 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.

Effective Date

This Privacy Policy is effective as of November 3, 2009.

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 384, Needham Heights, MA 02494, call us at 1-866-KPMSFND, or email us at info@kpmsfoundation.org.