St. Margaret Foundation
Filling in the Gaps with Hope
PRIVACY STATEMENT OF ST. MARGARET FOUNDATION

This website is maintained by St. Margaret Foundation located at 815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15215. By accessing or using the www.stmargaretfoundation.org website, you agree to the terms of the St. Margaret Foundation Privacy Statement, as outlined below. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not access or use this website.

This Privacy Statement applies only to the online collection of Personal Information by St.Margaret Foundation. This Privacy Statement does not apply to collection of Personal Information that is Protected Health Information or to information collected by means other than the Internet.

St. Margaret Foundation has established this Privacy Statement to help you understand how we intend to treat your Personal Information. We at St. Margaret Foundation are committed to respecting your online privacy and recognize the need for appropriate protection and management of personal identification information you share with us. Personal Information includes information that identifies you, such as: first and last name, home or other physical address, telephone numbers, email addresses or other such information that is provided to us online by you. In general, you may visit St. Margaret Foundation's website without telling us who you are or revealing any Personal Information about yourself.

WHO MAY USE THIS WEBSITE:
The St. Margaret Foundation website is not intended or designed to attract children. We do not collect personally identifiable data from any person we know to be under the age of 13 and instruct users under 13 not to send us any information.

The St. Margaret Foundation website is designed for users from the United States. Users from other countries are advised not to disclose Personal Information to the St. Margaret Foundation website unless you consent to having your information used as set forth in this website’s Privacy Statement rather than under the law of user’s home country. You transmit data to a server located in Pennsylvania subject to United States and Pennsylvania law. You should not send any Personal Information to the St. Margaret Foundation website unless you agree to be bound by this Privacy Statement and by United States and Pennsylvania law.

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES:
When you visit www.stmargaretfoundation.org, you can surf the site anonymously and access important information without revealing your identity. In order to analyze and improve our site, we may use "cookies" to track your visit. A cookie is small amount of data that is transferred to your browser by a web server and can only be read by the server that gave it to you. It cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses.

Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept the cookies. While St.Margaret Foundation may uses cookies to track your visit to www.stmargaretfoundation.org, and our web servers automatically log the IP/internet address of your computer, this information does not identify you personally and you remain anonymous unless you have otherwise provided St. Margaret Foundation with Personal Information. To protect your privacy, we have adopted the following principles:

NOTICE – HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION:
This Privacy Statement gives you notice on how your information may be used. The primary purpose of this website is to provide information about St. Margaret Foundation, its mission in the community and about ways in which you can help with that community mission. We will inform you about current giving opportunities and other ways in which you may help St. Margaret Foundation better serve the community. We do not share or lease Personal Information except as set forth.

In the event that St. Margaret Foundation and some of our assets are sold or transferred or used as security, the information collected on our website may be transferred to third parties as part of that transaction. St. Margaret Foundation may also provide information or provide access to information to any of our affiliated businesses or to our business partners or to companies that work or provide services on behalf of St.Margaret Foundation.

St. Margaret Foundation may use your contact information to reply to you and send information to you. St. Margaret Foundation does not intend to reveal individually identifiable information to third parties except in the manner stated in the Privacy Statement. St. Margaret Foundation will provide aggregated information received from you to third parties. St. Margaret Foundation takes commercially reasonable precautions to prevent the aggregated information provided to third parties from including significant individually identifiable information.

If St. Margaret Foundation is requested by law enforcement officials or judicial authorities to provide information on individuals, St. Margaret Foundation may, without your consent, provide such information. In matters involving claims of personal or public safety or in litigation where the data is pertinent, St. Margaret Foundation may use or disclose your Personal Information without your consent or court process.

CHOICES REGARDING USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION:

  • You can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to take advantage of St. Margaret Foundation website features.
  • You can add or update certain information that you send to us. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for our records.
  • If you do not want to receive e-mail from us or if you wish to check your information, please e-mail us at privacy@stmargaretfoundation.org or by mail at 815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15215.

SECURITY:
St. Margaret Foundation recognizes you may be concerned about the security of your Personal Information, and we are committed to employing reasonable technology in order to protect the security of our website. Even with such technology, no website is 100% secure. We will take reasonable measures which we believe are appropriate to protect your information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction, and, where possible, will ask that any third parties to whom we may transfer your information take comparable steps to protect that security.

If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any access information and password, if any, and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your password.

We are the owner of data you supply to us.

ACCESS / ACCURACY:
You can add or update certain information that you send to us. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for our records.

SENSITIVE INFORMATION:
We do not collect medical, health, racial, ethnic, political, religious, philosophic, union membership or sexual orientation information on this website. We ask you not to send such information to us.

COMMITMENT:
We are committed to privacy and support current industry initiatives to preserve individual privacy on the internet. Protecting your privacy on-line is an evolving area, and St. Margaret Foundation's website is evolving to meet these demands. If you have any comments or questions regarding our Privacy Statement, please contact us at privacy@stmargaretfoundation.org.

INFORMATION-SHARING DISCLOSURE REQUEST:
If you are a California resident, you have the right to request one Notice of Information-Sharing Disclosure per year which will identify the third parties with whom St. Margaret Foundation or any of its affiliates has shared the information we have collected from you. California residents may request the Notice of Information-Sharing Disclosure by writing to us at St. Margaret Foundation, 815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15215. You may also send us your Information-Sharing Disclosure Request via e-mail at privacy@stmargaretfoundation.org. We will respond to your request for a Notice of Information-Sharing Disclosure within 30-days.

OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT AND OUTSIDE LINKS:
As a convenience to our visitors, our website may contain links to a number of third party websites that we believe may offer useful information. Our Privacy Statement does not apply to other websites. We suggest contacting those websites directly for information on their data collection and distribution policies.

PRIVACY STATEMENT MODIFICATIONS:
From time to time we may modify or amend this Privacy Statement in order to comply with new laws or regulations or to reflect future changes in our business practices. Any changes in our policies will be communicated in this page so please check back on occasion. We also may post a notice on our website or send an email describing the changes.

CONTACTING US:
If you have any questions about our handling of Personal Information, please contact us at St. Margaret Foundation, 815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15215 Attention: Privacy Office or e-mail us at privacy@stmargaretfoundation.org.



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