How and why we collect information from our visitors
We collect personally identifying information that users voluntarily provide to us about themselves or others by using services such as newsletters, donations, and grant applications. We may use that personal information editorially to improve and customize our content. In addition to personal information–such as name, street and e–mail addresses, and telephone numbers – we may also collect information that is in no way personally identifiable. This may include the operating system you are working on, the internet browser you are using, the domain name of your internet service provider (ISP), and the web sites you visit directly before and after your visit to foundationformidwifery.org.
Cookies
Our Web site may use “cookies,” which are text files places in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. To keep improving our site to meet user demand, we may gather some general information about those who access our sites. Cookies enable us to determine the user’s operating system, browser type and version, Internet Service Provider (ISP), and other such general information. Cookies, which do not contain any personally identifying information, are a standard industry technology and help readers by saving such information as passwords and editorial preferences on user hard drives. A cookie cannot pass on a computer virus, or even capture e-mail address. Visitors have the ability to configure their browsers to refuse acceptance of cookies.
E–mail
When visitors send e–mail inquiries to FAM, the return e-mail address is used to answer the inquiry. FAM does not use the return e–mail address for any other purpose unless users register their email to receive emails or newsletters from FAM.
Advertisers and Other Third–Party Sites
We may share aggregated and non–personally identifying information about our visitors collected on our site with our advertisers. This privacy policy applies only to FAM and its web site, www.foundationformidwifery.org. Other sites that we link to or that advertise with us may have practices different from ours. Please consult the other sites’ privacy notices, as we have no control over those of our advertisers, or any other sites we may link to.
Our Commitment to Security
We are committed to protecting the information you share with us. Our web site and our host have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. However, we cannot guarantee that these security measures will prevent third–party “hackers” from illegally obtaining this information.
Special Cases
FAM may disclose personal information about visitors, or about their uses of the web site, if, in our sole discretion, we believe it is reasonable to do so, including; to satisfy laws such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, regulations, or governmental or legal requests for such information, to operate our site properly and to protect FAM and our visitors.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our policy, please [ email ] us.