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PRIVACY POLICY



Last Updated: March 28, 2019
The Maky and Shaun Zanganeh Foundation (MSZ) has created this privacy policy in order to demonstrate its firm commitment to privacy. Please be advised that the practices described in this Privacy Policy apply only to information gathered online at our Website. They do not apply to information that you may provide us with offline or to websites maintained by other companies or organizations to which we may link. When users use this Website, they are using a service provided by the foundation and therefore agree to be bound by this privacy policy. This policy addresses only activities connected with the foundation’s servers. Other sites, including those that we link to, third-party sites, services that the foundation co-brands, may have their own policies, which the foundation does not control and are not addressed or controlled by this privacy policy.
 

What Information We Collect

You do not need to give us any personal information to browse the MSZ website. As a general matter, when you do provide information it is completely voluntary. The information that we typically collect and store is:
 

  • Your name

  • Your organization

  • Your email address (can be either business or personal depending on what you provide us)

 

 

How We Collect Your Information

The following lists the most common ways in which we collect your identifying information:
 

  • When you request information

  • When you contact us

  • When you give information


We may also collect and store other publicly available organization information from third-party sources (e.g Foundation Center, GuideStar, Internal Revenue Service of the United States, etc.) on your customer record, including annual giving amount, assets, and other date reported via IRS forms 990 and 990-PF.

How We Combine Your Information
We may combine information gathered from the Website and information that we have received, gathered, acquired, or stored from other sources, both information collected offline by the Foundation and information received from third parties including information that currently exists in our files, into a single customer record. We also use and/or combine information that we collect offline or receive from third-party sources (e.g., contact information from government funders or grantor information) to edit, enhance, and/or check the accuracy of your customer record.

How We Use Your Information

In general, we use the information we collect from you to pursue and to engage in the ctivity for which we collect it. Most commonly, we also may use your personal and non-personal information in the following ways:
 

  • For editorial purposes;

  • Responding to your inquiries;

  • Optimizing or improving our programs, services, and operations;

  • Research and development;

  • Detecting, investigation, and preventing activities that may violate our policies or may be illegal;

  • Improving and personalizing our websites and communications;

  • Performing statistical, demographic, and marketing analyses regarding website traffic and usage patterns; and

  • Managing our organization


How We Share Your Information

The Maky and Shaun Zanganeh Foundation is dedicated to the ethical practices in all of our operations and to protecting the privacy of all visitors to our websites and all individuals whose data we collect and store. Except as disclosed below, we don’t sell, barter, give away, rent, or permit anyone outside the Maky and Shaun Zanganeh Foundation to use or access your personal information where it is in the legitimate interest of furthering the philanthropic aims of the Maky and Shaun Zanganeh Foundation.

We may occasionally use independent contractors and third-party agents, affiliates, platforms, and partners to perform functions and provide services such as marketing, analytics, e-commerce, customer record retention, online communities, etc. on our behalf. These entities have access to the personal information needed to perform their functions and are contractually obligated to maintain the confidentiality and security of any personal information we collect. They are restricted from using, selling, distributing, or altering this data in any way other than to provide the requested services to the Maky and Shaun Zanganeh Foundations.

We may also occasionally share your personal information with our organizational and funding partners, grantees, or co-sponsors of our programs, activities, initiatives, and events from time to time. We endeavor to share your personal information only with partners, grantees, and co-sponsors who will respect your personal information. Although our treatment of your personal information is governed by this Privacy Policy, our partner or co-sponsor’s treatment of your personal information will be governed by the partner or co-sponsor’s privacy policy. You may withdraw your consent to our sharing of your personal information with partners and co-sponsors at any time by following the opt-out process described below.
We may also use or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us or the Website; (b) protect and defend our rights or property, the Website, or our users; and (c) act under emergency circumstances to protect the personal safety of us, our affiliates, our agents, or the users of the Website or the public.
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How We Use Cookies

The Website may use a standard technology called “cookies.” Cookies are small pieces of information stored by the browser or hard drive used to access our website. We may use cookies to track use of our Websites and online services. We may also use cookies to monitor traffic, improve the Websites, and make it easier and/or relevant for your use.  

For more information on cookies and how to disable and delete them, you can consult the information provided by the Interactive Advertising Bureau at www.allaboutcookies.org (http://www.allaboutcookies.org/).

Third-Party Functionality and Links to Third-Party Sites
This website may contain links to sites operated by third-parties.Please be advised that the practices described in this Privacy Policy do not apply to information gathered through these other websites.

Security

The Maky and Shaun Zanganeh Foundation takes steps to protect the information provided via our Services from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error-free. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Information or other information via e-mail or the Internet.

Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time and continued use of the Website following any changes will mean you accept those changes. Our Services and our business may change from time to time. As a result, at times it may be necessary for the Maky and Shaun Zanganeh Foundation to make changes to this Privacy Policy. The Maky and Shaun Zanganeh Foundation reserves the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time without prior notice. If we make any material changes in the way we use or disclose your Personal Information, we will post a notice on our Services. If you object to any such changes, you must cease using our Services. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically, and especially before you provide any Personal Information to us. This Privacy Policy was last updated on the date indicated above. Your continued use of our Services after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy shall indicate your agreement with the terms of such revised Privacy Policy.

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