Military Families Foundation, Inc. ("Military Families Foundation" or "we") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets out our privacy policy and explains what we do with the personal information we collect from you. Please read the following to understand our views and practices regarding personal information, and how they affect you as you use our features, services, and products. This statement discloses the current privacy practices for our Web site. If we make any material changes to this policy, we'll announce them. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact Military Families Foundation's site coordinator.

This Privacy Statement answers the following questions:

What information does Military Families Foundation gather about you?
How do we use "cookies" and "IP Addresses"?
How does Military Families Foundation use your personal information?
How do we use IP addresses and cookies?
Will Military Families Foundation disclose any of your personal information?
What kind of security measures do we take to protect your information from accidental loss or disclosure?
Will Military Families Foundation use your information for direct mailings?
How do we respect children's privacy?
How will you know if Military Families Foundation's privacy policy has changed?
What is your Refund Policy?

What information does Military Families Foundation gather about you?
Military Families Foundation collects information about our users so that we can provide a more interesting and useful Web site. We may ask for your name, email address, or other information at times, such as when you make donations or enter promotions sponsored by Military Families Foundation and/or our partners. Sometimes we conduct surveys, too, although you don't have to respond to them.

If you use our recommendation service to suggest our Web site to a friend, you will need to provide us with your friend's email address and your email address as a return address. Military Families Foundation will automatically send this person a one-time email, attaching information about the site. We will also invite him or her to visit our site. We will not use these email addresses for any other purpose.

How do we use "cookies" and "IP addresses"?
We collect IP addresses for site security and to help us understand how people use our site so we can improve our site and our users' overall experience. For similar quality reasons, we use a feature known as a "cookie." Cookies contain bits of information that Web sites transfer to your computer's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies can make the Web more convenient by storing information about your preferences on a site. Although we may assign your browser a cookie, it doesn't tell us who you are. Only you can do that. We discuss cookies later in this Privacy Statement.

When you make a donation to Military Families Foundation, the transaction is processed using the Verisign service and encrypted using Secure Socket Layers (SSL) technology. This service has its own strict privacy policy designed to protect you and your personal information. Please review this policy during checkout.

Besides cookies, we may also use tiny electronic images (called "single-pixel GIFs" or "Web beacons"), which allow us to count users who have visited specific pages or accessed certain cookies. We may use single-pixel GIFs in the following ways:
To count and recognize users.
To conduct research and for auditing purposes.
To determine aggregate information about users, including demographic and usage information.
When we send HTML-formatted email messages (messages resembling Web pages that include graphics), we may include single-pixel GIFs to determine which email messages were opened and/or acted upon.
Partners or advertisers that serve ads on our site may also use single-pixel GIFs in their advertisements. In general, any electronic image viewed as part of a Web page, including an ad banner, can act as a Web beacon.

How does Military Families Foundation use your personal information?
Military Families Foundation collects personal information to provide you, the user, with the best and most personalized experience. In short, by knowing a little about you, Military Families Foundation can deliver more relevant content and information to you.

Sometimes we ask for personal information when providing special features and services. If you don't want to give us that information, you certainly don't have to.

We may occasionally send you alerts and notices about programs and events that we think may be of interest to you. If you'd prefer us not to send you those notices, simply unsubscribe directly from one of our emails. Subsequent use of the site that requires personal information, as described above, may resubscribe you to receive additional alerts and notices about our programs.

How do we use IP addresses and cookies?
IP Addresses
Your Web browser or email application automatically provides your Internet Protocol address ("IP address") to other computers with which you communicate over the Internet, so that they know where to send you information. We receive an IP address each time you view one of our Web pages or make a donation because the browser automatically reports it to us.

We may use IP addresses for various purposes, including:
Diagnosing service or technology problems
System security
Sending the most appropriate offerings
Studying how people use our site and products and how we can improve it

Cookies
Cookies are used on our sites in the following ways:
We or some of our partners may use cookies to measure advertisement effectiveness of alerts and notices about programs or event material sent to our users. When you browse our site, cookies help us keep track of the effectiveness of information and promotions on our site.

Most browsers are set up to accept cookies, but you can configure yours to refuse cookies or notify you when you've received one. Browsers differ, so check your Help menu to learn how to change your cookie preferences. If you reject cookies on our site though, you may not be able to use some of the features. When you accept our cookies, we can't use them to find out who you are, unless you choose to tell us.

Will Military Families Foundation disclose any of your personal information?
Military Families Foundation will not disclose any personally identifiable information about individual users, except as described in this Privacy Statement.

If you donate to us, we will disclose your personal information to the extent necessary to fulfill your donation and charge your credit card. We may use a fulfillment company to fill and ship your donation gift (if applicable), and a credit card processing company to verify your card number and process the transaction. We may also give your information to a delivery or postal service so they can get your donation gift to you.

We may disclose your personal information as required by applicable law, or in response to legal process, to protect the rights or property of Military Families Foundation, or to protect the safety of Military Families Foundation, our users, or others.

We may disclose personal information in some other limited circumstances, but we will specifically describe them to you when we collect the information, such as in the rules of a contest or a new program or fundraising event. For example, if we're going to give personal information to a contest's sponsor, we'll disclose it when you sign up for the contest, so that you can decide whether to enter.

With your consent, we may disclose personal information you provide in surveys or email about our programs. For example, if you complete a survey and provide comments and your name & location, we may use these comments in advertising on our site or other sites.

What kind of security measures do we take to protect your information from accidental loss or disclosure?
Military Families Foundation is committed to protecting your personal information. We store information you provide us on secure servers. Further, the information you provide when making a donation is encrypted with SSL technology.

Will Military Families Foundation Use Your Information for Direct Mailings?
If you donate to Military Families Foundation, we may send you information about other programs or fundraising events we feel may interest you. Only Military Families Foundation and its partners in co-branded products (or people working on our behalf and under confidentiality agreements) will send you these notices. If you do not want to receive such offers and mailings, you can unsubscribe at any time. Follow the instructions at the end of the email.

How Do We Respect Children's Privacy?
Our site is not directed at children under the age of 13. We operate our site in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and will not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 13.

Changes to This Privacy Statement
We may change this Privacy Statement at any time, but we'll give notice of any material change.

What is your Refund Policy?
Since we are a charitable organization we cannot make any refunds. If you've made a mistake on the amount of your donation, please contact us.

Last Updated: January 31, 2005