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Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting our web site ("Site") and reviewing this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy"). This Site is operated and controlled by Gede Foundation ("Gede") with its principal office at 1875 Eye Street, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC.

The purpose of our Privacy Policy is to inform you about the types of information we gather about you when you visit our site, how we may use that information, whether we disclose it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding our use of, and your ability to correct, the information. By your use of our Site you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you are not permitted to use our Site.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information posted by you on public areas of the Site such as bulletin boards, comment sections or blogs.

Information Which We Collect

You may choose to voluntarily supply us with personal information, such as your name or associated company name, e-mail address, postal address, home or work telephone number and credit card information for purposes such as correspondence, registering for a service, requesting a product demonstration, making a donation, or participating in online surveys.

Like many other non-profit and commercial sites, our Site places a small text file called a "cookie" on your computer’s hard drive. We use a session ID cookie to make it easier for you to navigate the Site. The session ID cookie expires shortly after you leave the Site. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, most computers allow you to change your browser setting to prevent acceptance of cookies. If you reject cookies, certain parts of the Site may not work properly. We also collect certain information that does not identify you personally when you visit our Site such as your internet protocol address, browser type (e.g., Internet Explorer, Firefox), originating Internet Service Provider (e.g., AT&T, Comcast) and traffic statistics.

Use of User Information

We may use the information that we collect from you for any of the following purposes:

Transactional. We may use your information in order to respond to your queries and requests, manage your account and passwords, process applications submitted by you and communication with you about transactions you have requested. For example, if you apply for a job on the Site, we will review the application materials and respond as appropriate. If you submit a donation through the Site, we will process the credit card and complete the request.

Marketing. We may use your personal information in order to communicate with you about our products and services, volunteer opportunities and other information related to our business that may be of interest to you.

Analysis and Maintenance. We may use information for internal marketing analysis, for example, to assess trends amongst our users, to better understand our user base or to measure the amount of traffic to our websites. We may also use your information to help maintain our Site and to diagnose problems. We also aggregate information we collect from you and other users to help us improve the design of our Site so that we may better meet the needs of visitors to our Site. The aggregate information cannot be used to personally identify you.

Sharing of Information

We may share your personally identifiable information with affiliates and trusted third parties who assist us by providing services to users of the Site, including, but not limited to, surveys, credit card processing, fulfillment processing, e-mail distribution, and website management. We may also share your personally identifiable information with non-profit organizations when you make a donation to, or request volunteer or other information from, such organizations unless you request that we not share your information. We do not control the use of your information once it is shared with such non-profit organizations.

We may disclose information we collect from you if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that disclosure is necessary (a) to obey the law or comply with legal process served on us or our affiliates; (b) to protect and defend our rights or property or the rights or property of other users of our web site; or (c) to act in an emergency to protect the personal safety of users of our web site or the public.

If we merge or are combined with any other organization, or if we transfer all or substantially all of our assets or operations to another organization, we may disclose information we collect from you to the other organization so that the other organization can continue to provide services to you. The other organization will be bound by this Privacy Policy.

Except as provided in this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose, sell or rent information we collect from you to any third party, including nonprofit organizations, unless you specifically request that we share your information with a third party.

Collection of Information from Children

We respect the sensitive nature of children’s privacy online. We are a general audience web site and do not direct any of our content specifically at children. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable information from a user under the age of 13, we will delete the information from our records as soon as it is discovered by us.

External Links

For your convenience, we may provide links to web sites operated by third parties, such as links to third party volunteer organization websites. We do not monitor the privacy practices of these linked web sites and do not exercise authority over such web sites. We therefore assume no responsibility for the privacy and data collection policies and procedures of linked web sites, nor for the content or reliability of such web sites. If you choose to access a third party web site linked to our site, you do so at your own risk.

Data Security Commitment

To decrease the risk of unauthorized access, to maintain data accuracy, and to help ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place certain physical, electronic, and administrative procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Notwithstanding our efforts to protect your information, no security system is completely impenetrable, so we cannot guarantee the absolute security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply to us will not be intercepted while in transit to us over the Internet.

Safe Harbor Compliance

Gede adheres to the Safe Harbor principles issued by the United States Department of Commerce in coordination with the European Commission for the transfer of personal data from the European Union to the United States.

Contacting Us; Opting Out

At your request and where the law requires us to do so, we will confirm what personal information we hold about you, update your information, remove your information, fulfill specific opt-out requests, including requests where you have previously opted-in with respect to the use of your personal information, and/or correct any inaccuracies in such personal information if you contact us using the unsubscribe details provided below. To make such requests or if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices or your interaction with this web site, or you suspect we have handled the information you provided in a manner that does not comply with this Privacy Policy, please contact Gede at info@gedefoundation.org or writing to us at: Gede Foundation, 1875 Eye Street, NW, Suite 500, Washington, D.C. 20006.

Policy Changes

If we decide to make a change to this Privacy Policy, such change will be reflected herein and the last date on which the Privacy Policy was updated will be listed below. By your use of our Site following posted changes to this Privacy Policy, you signify your acceptance of such changes.

This policy was last updated on February 2, 2009