PRIVACY POLICY
The Nanny Relief Fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation located at 555 Fayetteville
St., Suite 300, Raleigh, NC 27601. The Nanny Relief Fund (“NRF” or “us” or “we”)
values the protection of individual privacy. This document sets forth NRF’s online
privacy policy (“privacy policy”) for the website www.nannyrelieffund.org (“site”). By using the site,
you the user (“you”) indicate that you have read and agree to be bound by this privacy
policy. If you do not agree to this privacy policy, do not use the site in any manner. This
privacy policy does not govern privacy practices associated with offline activities.
Thank you for visiting the site. We are committed to the privacy of our visitors. We
collect no personal information about you when you visit the site unless you choose to
provide that information to us and we do not use personal information other than to
process the request that required you to submit personal information. We do not make
any visitor-provided information available to third parties.
Here is how we handle information about your visit to our website.
Information collected and stored automatically
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the site, read pages, or download
information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically.
This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store
information concerning your visit:
The Internet domain (for example, “xcompany.com” if you use a private Internet access
account or “yourschool.edu” if you connect from a university’s domain);
Your IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your
computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access the site;
The type of browser and operating system used to access the site;
The date and time you access the site;
The pages you visit within the site; and
If you linked to our Web site from another Web site, the address of that website.
Information that you voluntarily provide:
On certain pages of the NRF website, we may ask you to voluntarily provide personal
data such as your name, mailing address, email address, credit card information,
telephone number, and similar information.
NRF may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you,
such as your: Age-Gender-Race-Household Income
That information may be collected when you:
Donate to the NRF.
2. Apply for an NRF grant.
3. Sign up to receive NRF alerts.
There are certain instances where a visitor’s interaction with the Website will
automatically cause a visitor to be added to a mailing list. For example, if you apply for a
grant through NRF, you will be automatically added to a mailing list regarding grant
updates.
If you provide us with personally identifiable information, for example, by sending an e-
mail or by filling out a form and submitting it through the site, we use that information to
respond to your message and to help us provide you with the information and services
that you request. All uses of that information are described on the web page containing
the form.
NRF may use the information it collects for any lawful purpose, such as to:
Comply with applicable state, federal, and international law
To process relief applications
To send marketing communications
Respond to visitors’ requests
Operate and improve the Website
Customize members’ Website experience
Identify and correct cybersecurity threats to the Website
Analyze visitors’ use of the Sites and our services
For other legitimate and lawful business services
Submitting voluntary information constitutes your consent to the use of the information
for the stated purpose. When you click the “Submit” button on any of the web forms
found on the site, you are indicating your voluntary consent for us to use the information
you submit for the purpose stated.
If you no longer wish to receive emails from the NRF, you can click the unsubscribe link
located at the bottom of the NRF email.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
NRF does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
NRF may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you
email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third
parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these
services to NRF, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your
information.
NRF may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law
or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of
the law or comply with legal process served on NRF or the site; (b) protect and defend
the rights or property of NRF; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the
personal safety of users of NRF, or the public. Additionally, NRF may disclose your
personal information with other non-profits who we believe are beneficial to
members, applicants, our mailing list, and recipients of NRF funds. NRF
reserves the right to share your information with others who we believe could benefit you.
Links to other sites
The site contains links to various other private organizations. Once you link to another
website, you are then subject to the privacy policies of the new website. We cannot
control nor are we responsible for any such third-party collection or use of your personal
information. It is always a good idea to read the Privacy Policy of any website you visit.
Children
The site is a general audience site that is neither designed nor intended to collect
personal information from children who are under the age of 13. In order to ensure
compliance with the provisions of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, children
under the age of 13 should not provide any personal information to the site.
Security
We use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that any information you give to us is
stored and maintained in secure servers and not publicly accessible.
The NRF protects personal data by only allowing limited, authorized personnel to have
access to such personal data, as described above. The NRF maintains an encrypted firewall
to protect such personal data. The NRF’s software provider has level one payment card
industry compliance to ensure that online credit transactions are secure. The NRF has
technical safeguards such as “firewalls, virus and intrusion detection, and authentication protocols.”
However, despite our best security efforts, no data transmission or storage can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure.
Cookies
We may use cookies from time to time to allow us to automate access and the data
entry functions of the site such as to tailor the site to your preferences or interests,
customize promotions or marketing, or identify which areas of the site are more popular.
A cookie is a small, unique text file that a website can send to your computer hard drive
when you visit that site. We do not make any cookie information available to third
parties. Most web browsers can either alert you to the use of cookies or refuse to accept
cookies entirely. If you do not want us to deploy cookies in your browser, you can set
your browser to reject cookies or to notify you when a website tries to put a cookie on
your computer. Rejecting cookies may affect your ability to use some of the products
and/or services at the site.
YouTube Videos Embedded on Our Website
NRF may from time to time embed YouTube videos on the Website. If visitors click to
watch these videos, they agree to abide by YouTube’s Terms of Service and Privacy
Policy. Please visit YouTube for its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
California Rights
Under California law, visitors are permitted to request NRF to provide the visitor with
instances where NRF has shared their personal information with a third party. Such
requests may be made once per year. Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code
requires select businesses to disclose policies relating to the sharing of certain
categories of your Personal Data with third parties. If you reside in California and have
provided your Personal Data to NRF, you may request information about our disclosures
of certain categories of personal data to third parties for direct marketing purposes.
Such requests must be submitted to us via email at info@NRF.org.
Privacy Policy Changes:
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time at its sole discretion and
without notice to you. All Privacy Policy changes are effective immediately. Your
continued use of the site following any Privacy Policy changes will mean you accept
those changes.
Contact Information:
If you have difficulty obtaining information from the site, please contact us to get the
material in another format. You should provide the URL of the site referencing that
information. If you have any comments, or suggestions for improvement, please contact
us at info@nannyrelieffund.org.
Effective as of May 20th, 2020
Updated November 7th, 2020