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Our Mission: To enable others to enhance the quality of life in Richmond, in all its cultural and ethnic diversity, by the attraction and prudent stewardship of donated capital, distributing the income by way of grants to respond to local needs and interests as a caring, ethical and independent community foundation. |
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Our privacy policy Thank you for visiting richmondfoundation.org and for reviewing our privacy policy. By visiting the Richmond Community Foundation online at www.richmondfoundation.org, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy notice. Richmond Community Foundation reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Our privacy policy will be kept up-to-date and posted on our website. Cookies In order to improve our site on an ongoing basis, we use cookies to track your visit. Richmond Community Foundation also uses cookies to provide users with certain features (for example, customized delivery of information based on your choice of language and your preferred province/territory) available our website. A cookie is a small amount of data that is transferred to your browser by a web server and can only be read by the website that gave it to you. It functions as your identification card. It is not a program and cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses. Cookies can also customize the site to your particular interests or store your personal information – like passwords or user IDs. If a site ever greets you with your name, chances are it’s using a cookie to do so. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie – this gives you the chance to decide whether to accept it. To learn more about cookies and how to change your settings, please use the help function in your browser. The alerts will be quite frequent, however, and may eventually become annoying. You can use the Richmond Community Foundation website without cookies, but you may have to re-enter information each time you visit. Aggregate information We collect aggregate information regarding overall website traffic patterns. Normally, web servers collect this type of standard web server/visitor traffic information as part of their web log processes. We do not report on individual user sessions. Personal information: what we collect and how we use it We collect personal information only when you provide it to us by filling in an online form or making a donation. You do not need to give personal information to receive information from this site. We do not share any personal information we collect about our donors with any other organization and we never rent or sell lists of any type. Online donations When you choose to make an online donation through the Richmond Community Foundation website, we may request the following information: 1. Contact information: first and last name, street address, city, province or state, postal or zip code, country, telephone number, e-mail address and other contact information. This information is used to process your donation and your tax receipt. 2. Credit card information: for donations, we process standard credit card information (card number, card type and expiration date) via a secure, 128-bit encrypted Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) session. SSL is the proven standard for secure web transactions. This information is only used to process the payment of your donation. We do not store credit card information. Event registrations Our web site contains registration forms for events. These forms are designed to register your place in the event and collect basic information that we need to organize the event and ensure that we meet the needs of participants. Online payments may be available and we may request the following information: 1. Contact information: first and last name, street address, city, province or state, postal or zip code, country, telephone number, e-mail address and other contact information. This information is used to process your donation and your tax receipt. 2. Credit card information: for donations, we process standard credit card information (card number, card type and expiration date) via a secure, 128-bit encrypted Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) session. SSL is the proven standard for secure web transactions. This information is only used to process the payment of your donation. We do not store credit card information. E-mail inquiries Our website contains several e-mail links that allow web visitors to easily send an e-mail inquiry or feedback to the Richmond Community Foundation. When you use the e-mail links, your e-mail address and the subject of your inquiry are provided to Richmond Community Foundation. We only use this information to respond to your inquiries. This information helps us improve our website, provide more relevant information to our site visitors and update our site as need be. Future contact with Richmond Community Foundation Richmond Community Foundation may contact online donors or event participants with further communications on a variety of topics. Donors may be contacted by mail, telephone or e-mail. If you do not wish to be contacted, we will honour this request. Simply contact us at: Richmond Community Foundation Suite 520 - 8100 Granville Avenue Richmond, BC, V6Y 3T6 Telephone : (604) 270-4483 Occasionally, Richmond Community Foundation may contact individuals who have provided their individually identifiable information through the website, and have agreed to be contacted, specifically in order to conduct surveys seeking feedback. These surveys are used to improve our level of service to you. While aggregate information about survey results may be publicized, individual data from these surveys will not be shared with other organizations. Links to other sites Richmond Community Foundation may contain links to other websites that are not under its control. Richmond Community Foundation is not responsible for the contents of any linked website, any link contained in a linked website or any changes or updates to such websites. The inclusion of any link does not mean that Richmond Community Foundation endorses that website. Please be aware that Richmond Community Foundation is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites that we link to. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every website that requests personal information from you. Last revised January 31, 2007. |
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