PRIVACY POLICY

The Marcus Foster Education Institute (MFEI) places a high priority on protecting the privacy of our community. This privacy policy demonstrates MFEI’s commitment to the privacy of website visitors. This policy explains the types of information MFEI collects, both online and offline, and how this information is used.

What Information is Collected?

Individuals that sign up to receive MFEI e-communications and/or donate to MFEI or any of our fiscally sponsored organizations voluntarily provide us with contact information. We may use this information for specific purposes. You may always “opt out,” either now or at any time in the future, if you do not wish to receive our messages.

How will information be used?

We use your personal information to provide you with personalized service; to send email alerts to you; to answer your requests; to process your donations; etc. You may choose to opt out at any time, which will cease communications from us. We may also use your information to track visitors to our website. This allows us to understand which of our website features are accessed the most so that we can better serve our users’ needs. It also lets us report aggregate data about our traffic (e.g. showing how many visitors have accessed our website) to outside parties. We will not provide personal data to outside parties.

Email Privacy Policy

MFEI does not provide, sell, or rent email addresses to anyone outside the organization.

Donor Privacy Policy

MFEI will not sell, trade or share your personal information with anyone else, nor send donor mailings on behalf of other organizations.

IP addresses

MFEI uses IP addresses for statistical metrics in tracking website visitor traffic.

Cookies

www.marcusfoster.org uses “cookie” messages to automatically help provide better services. They remind us who you are and your preferences for our website based on what you’ve done and told us before. The “cookie” is placed in your computer and is read when you come back to our website. Cookies let us take you to the information and features you’re particularly interested in. They also let us track your usage of www.marcusfoster.org, so we know which parts of our sites are most popular. You can reject cookies or cancel them by instructing your Web browser accordingly.

External Links

www.marcusfoster.org includes links to external websites. These links do not fall under the www.marcusfoster.org domain, and MFEI is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of external websites. Your use of any linked website is solely at your own risk.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may amend this privacy policy from time to time; please review it periodically. We maintain the option to modify this privacy at any time by electronic notice posted on our website. Your continued use of www.marcusfoster.org after the date that such notices are posted will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.