Felicia Children’s Center Foundation Privacy Policy

Last Updated: April 8, 2025

 

This Felicia Children’s Center Foundation Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes the personal information the Felicia Children’s Center Foundation (“FCCF,” “we,” “us”) collects, the purposes for which we use it, the parties with whom we may share it, and your choices with respect to such information. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “personal information” or “personal data” means any information that relates to you as an individual and could reasonably be used to identify you. This Privacy Policy applies to our collection and use of personal information through this website, as well as through any other means where a link or reference to this Privacy Policy is provided. To the extent permitted by applicable law, your use of FCCF’s services and/or website constitutes your acknowledgment and/or consent to the practices described in this Policy.

 

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into the FCCF Terms of Use (the “Terms”). Capitalized terms that are not defined in the Privacy Policy have the meaning given to them in the Terms.

 

I.  The Personal Information That We Collect:

 

FCCF collects personal information directly from you that includes: your name; contact information, such as your email address, home or office address, and phone number; marketing preferences; information associated with your donations to FCCF; and any other information that you provide to us when you complete forms, including on our website, surveys, or when you otherwise provide us with information.

 

When you use the website, FCCF may also collect information automatically that includes: information about your website usage (for example, pages visited, search terms entered, and frequency of visits); and technical information automatically collected when you visit our website using your computer or mobile device (for example, browser type, IP address, and operating system). This may also include information collected via one or more “cookies” when you visit our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on browsers or devices by websites, apps, online media, and advertisements. You may be able to decline our cookies through your browser settings; however, this may interfere with your ability to use our website or certain features in our website.

 

II.  How We Use the Personal Information We Collect:

 

We may use the personal information we collect for the following purposes:

 

    • Provide and improve the website. We may use your personal information to make available and improve the website, to receive services in connection with the provision of the website or administration of our business, and to fulfill our contractual obligations.

 

    • Risk mitigation and security. We may use your personal information for risk mitigation and security purposes, including to maintain the security of our data, to conduct internal audits or investigations, and for data security testing and business continuity purposes.

 

    • Communicate with you. We may use your personal information to communicate with you and respond to your questions using any of the contact methods you voluntarily provide to us (such as email, mail or telephone).

 

    • Comply with the law and exercise our rights. We may use your personal information as reasonably necessary to assess and ensure compliance with applicable laws, legal requirements, and company policies; to protect our assets or to investigate or defend against any claims of illegality or wrongdoing (including to obtain legal advice or to establish, exercise or defend legal rights); and in response to a court order or judicial or other government subpoena or warrant.

 

    • Corporate transaction. We may use your personal information in the event we undertake or are involved in or contemplating any merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or insolvency event.

 

    • Manage our website. We may use your personal information to enable, analyze and improve our website, authenticate you, track pages viewed or messages opened, to personalize your browsing experience, and to provide you with tailored content.

 

We may also aggregate, anonymize, or otherwise use your personal information without identifying you for any purpose permitted by applicable law.

 

III.  When We Share Your Information

 

We may disclose your personal information, to be used only for legitimate purposes in keeping with this Privacy Policy, to:

 

    • Service providers and professional advisors. We may disclose your information to third-party vendors who provide services in support of our business operations, such as website development, marketing management, service optimization, and data analytics. We may also disclose your personal information to our professional advisors such as our attorneys, accountants, and insurance providers.

 

    • Parties involved in a corporate transaction. We may disclose your information to relevant third parties in the event of a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy.

 

    • Law enforcement or other governmental entities. We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary to comply with the law, prevent unlawful activity, defend our rights, or maintain security.

 

    • Other third parties with your consent. We may disclose your information to any other third party where you have provided consent to such disclosure.

 

IV.  Protecting Your Personal Information

 

We have implemented and maintain technical and organizational measures designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and security of your personal information. Please note, however, that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We therefore cannot guaranty and do not warrant the absolute security of your personal information. If you reside outside the United States, please note the personal information we collect about you may not be subject to the same level of protection of personal information as it would be in the jurisdiction in which you reside. You may contact us using the contact information provided below to learn more about the safeguards that apply to your personal information and to request a copy of such safeguards.

 

V.  Additional Information

 

a.  Opt-out from communications

 

As explained above, we may use your e-mail address or other personal information to send you promotional materials. You can opt-out of receiving promotional communications by following links provided in the messages or by contacting us directly at privacy@fccftz.org. Although your request to stop receiving information will be reflected promptly in our database, we may retain all information you submit for a variety of purposes, including backups and archiving, prevention of fraud and abuse, and analytics or statistics about our users. To make a request related to your personal information or otherwise exercise your rights, you may contact us using the contact information provided below. In order to fulfill your request, we may require additional information from you. You may decline to share certain information with us, in which case we may not be able to provide you with our services.

 

b.  Data retention

 

We retain information as long as it is reasonably necessary to provide our services, and for other purposes including to comply with the law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigation, or enforce our Terms or other agreements.

 

c.  Children

 

We do not knowingly collect information online directly from persons under thirteen (13) years of age (“children”), and no part of the website is directed to children. If you are under thirteen (13) years of age, then please do not use or access the services at any time or in any manner. If we learn that information has been collected through the services from children and without verifiable parental consent, then we will take the appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian and discover that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us using the contact information below to request that we delete the information from our systems.

 

d.  Visitors from outside the United States

 

FCCF operates in the United States, and any personal information collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy may be accessed from and/or stored by FCCF, or those acting on FCCF’s behalf, in the United States. If you access the website from outside the United States, you acknowledge that your personal information may be transferred to or accessed from the United States, and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, you consent to such transfer or access.

 

e.  Requests and inquiries

 

To submit a request relating to your personal information, or other inquiries regarding the information in this Privacy Policy, please contact us by e-mail at privacy@fccftz.org.

 

f.  Updates to this Privacy Policy

 

We may update or make other changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time, without notice. We will notify you about changes that significantly impact our use of your personal information by placing a prominent notice on this website. We recommend revisiting this page periodically to make sure that you have the most recent information regarding our collection and use of your personal information. To the extent permitted under applicable law, we will understand your use of our website or services after an update to this Privacy Policy to reflect your consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. For the avoidance of doubt, disputes arising as considered in this document will be resolved in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect at the time the dispute arose.

 

g.  Contact information

 

Please contact us with any questions, comments or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our use of your personal information by e-mail at privacy@fccftz.org or by mail at Felicia Children’s Center Foundation, Attn: Felicia Walker, 130 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011.