Root Foundation Privacy Policy for Online and Electronic Use

Root Foundation is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of its online guests, donors, and friends. We do not collect personally identifiable information about individuals-such as their names and postal and/or email addresses-except when it is knowingly provided by such individuals. We believe that maintaining privacy on the Web is very important and we hope you will read this privacy policy carefully so that you will clearly understand both our commitment to you and your privacy and our method of collecting and using information.

This privacy policy only applies to transactions made, and data gathered, on the Root-Foundation.org Web site and does not apply to any other Web site. The terms of this privacy policy shall govern all interactions with Root Foundation through either the Root Foundation's Web site or email. A link to the privacy policy can be found on our privacy page and on other related areas throughout the Web site. By using the Root Foundation Web site or communicating with us by email, you agree to the terms of this privacy policy.

Information Provided by Visitors When You Sign-up When You Make a Donation

You may use the Root Foundation Web site without registering or submitting any personally identifiable information. However, should you decide to make a donation you must provide us with certain personal information.

If you decide to donate online, you will be asked to provide personally identifiable information necessary to process and service your donation that may include your name, billing and shipping postal addresses, telephone number, email address, and credit card number. When you make a donation online, your credit card information will be temporarily stored on a secured server.

How Root Foundation Uses Information Provided by Visitors

Root Foundation uses the information you provide to process your online donations, and to inform you of updates on how the project is progressing.

Root Foundation never shares with third parties any personally identifiable information you provide when making a donation online, except as required by law.

Information Collected Automatically Cookies

This Web site automatically collects some non-personally identifiable information about you when you request pages through your browser. We place cookies on Web site visitors' computers to collect aggregate information for site traffic analysis, such as the number of visitors and the number of pages viewed. (Cookies are small files that reside in a visitor's browser.) The aggregate information we collect through cookies helps Root Foundation monitor how you and other visitors use the site, allowing us to provide an optimal experience and better service; this information is never used to identify you personally. However, the Root Foundation Web site has been designed to provide nearly full functionality without the use of cookies. You can opt to set your Web browser to reject cookies without any significant impact to our Web site's features and functions.

Emailing Root Foundation

Root Foundation tries to respond to email messages requiring a response within seven business days. If you email us, your message and email address will be forwarded to the appropriate department within Root Foundation. We may choose to save this information. We are pleased to hear from you. However, any message, material, business information, ideas, concepts, or other information sent to Root Foundation by email will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary.

Website Data Security

Root Foundation makes every reasonable effort to ensure that all of the transactions that occur on our Web site are secure. All credit card numbers submitted to the site for donations are encrypted using "Secure Socket Layer" (SSL) encryption. SSL technology is an industry standard for protecting sensitive information as it is transmitted over the Internet.

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and administrative procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Third-Party Service Providers

Root Foundation may engage reputable third-party vendors in order to help us manage our Web site and allow us to better service our visitors and customers. These may include third-party vendors engaged to analyze, for marketing purposes, the information collected on our Web site; or third-party vendors engaged to process your donations. Root Foundation requires its vendors by contract to maintain the confidentiality and security of our information to which they are provided access and restricts the vendors from using the information in any way not expressly authorized by Root Foundation.

Root Foundation's site may contain links to other Web sites such as our third-party vendors, sponsors, and other organizations. Once you leave Root Foundation's Web site, this privacy policy will not apply.

Contact Information
If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact:

955 E Gorham Street
Madison, WI 53703
Ph: 608-232-9079
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Changes to Privacy Policy

Root Foundation may revise its privacy policy at any time. We encourage you to visit this page periodically to review our current policy so that you will always know what information we gather and how we may use that information.