The Hunger Forum shares your concerns about privacy on the Internet. In order to better protect your privacy, the Hunger Forum has provided this notice explaining its online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used on the Site. On occasion, the Hunger Forum may run promotions or conduct other activities with affiliate partners from this Site. In such event, we may post additional privacy terms in conjunction with such promotion or activities that modify and/or supplement this Privacy Policy and govern the use of information related to or received through such promotions or activities.

Hunger Forum's Collection and Use of Your Information

In the course of using the Site, the Hunger Forum may ask you for your name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, fax number as well as other relevant information. The Hunger Forum also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows 2000 or Mac OS), the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink), aggregate data about the number of visits to the Site and/or aggregate data about the pages visited.

How Hunger Forum Uses the Information

The Hunger Forum uses the non-personally identifiable information to improve the design and content of the Site and to enable the Hunger Forum to personalize your Internet experience. The Hunger Forum may use the Aggregate Data to analyze Site usage as well as create services and/or products to fit your needs. Also, the Hunger Forum shares this data with the Hunger Forum's related entities, advertisers, partners and/or other third party vendors. The Hunger Forum shall own such data and maintain copies of such as part of its records. Except as otherwise indicated, the Hunger Forum uses the personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") you provide about yourself: (a) to respond to any of your inquiries or questions about our services; (b) for internal marketing purposes and as part of the Hunger Forum's donor database; (c) to provide you additional and updated information, materials and other advertisements regarding the Hunger Forum services; (d) to offer you other materials and/or information that the Hunger Forum believes may be of interest to you; (e) to cooperate with government officials or parties in litigation under process of law, or as otherwise required by law; (f) to protect the security or integrity of the Site; (g) to protect against a threat of safety or destruction of property; and/or (h) to protect against legal liability. In all cases, however, the Hunger Forum agents, employees and contractors who have access to Personal Information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. Furthermore, the Hunger Forum encourages all its business Partners to adopt and adhere to standards of protection consistent with this Privacy Policy. The Hunger Forum will not use the Personal Information, except as set forth herein, without your permission; provided, however, the Hunger Forum shall own all such Personal Information and maintain copies of such as part of its records. If you do not wish to receive any such information or to allow the Hunger Forum the right to use your personally identifiable information as described, please contact the Hunger Forum in the manner identified in the "Opt-Out" section below. The Aggregate Data and Personal Information may be transferred, distributed or sold as part of the Hunger Forum or its assets.

Opt Out

You may choose not to receive such information and/or to allow the Hunger Forum to use your information in the manner described above by contacting us directly at chale@foodbankcenc.org. Upon receipt and processing of an "opt out" request, the Hunger Forum will, within its commercially reasonable amount of time, remove your information from any future marketing communications.

IP Addresses and Cookies

Like other web sites, the Hunger Forum uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with the Hunger Forum's servers, to administer the Site and for security purposes. "Cookies" are pieces of data sent from a Web server to a Web browser that enable a Web server to identify users that visit a site hosted by that server. The Hunger Forum may use Cookies in order to identify you to our site so that the Hunger Forum can provide more customized information and services to you. In addition, our site may contain advertisements that may contain Cookies. In general, if you choose, you can disable the use of Cookies by reviewing your browser's preferences and options.

Modification of Privacy Policy

The Hunger Forum may change this Privacy Policy at any time, consistent with the terms set forth in the Terms and Conditions of Use, by posting the changed or amended Privacy Policy on the Site. Your continued viewing of or use of this Site following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Policy will signify your assent to any such changes or amendments.

How to Contact Hunger Forum for Any Reason

You may contact the Hunger Forum with questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, updating any personally identifiable information or anything else related to the Hunger Forum and/or this Site at www.foodbankcenc.org or at 919-875-0707.