PRIVACY POLICY

OUR COMMITMENT TO PRIVACY

Seeking Educational Excellence (SEE) is committed to protecting the privacy of our donors. SEE does not sell, trade, or rent personal information about our donors with third-party organizations.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://seekingeducationalexcellence.org.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Data

SEE may collect personal information about donors for a number of reasons, including:

To administer and maintain accounts related to donations
To facilitate fundraising
To communicate with donors and potential donors
To comply with legal and regulatory requirements

Such information may include: name, address, phone number, email address, and any information a donor voluntarily provides to us. In addition, SEE maintains a record of each donor’s giving history and communications with staff. This information is kept on file and may be used for the following internal purposes:

To distribute receipts for donations
To thank donors for their donation
To inform donors about events and programs
To inform donors about fundraising activities
For internal analysis and record keeping
For reporting to relevant Federal and State
government agencies, such as the IRS
For annual audits
For grant reporting
To contact donors about changes to this policy

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Safeguards

SEE safeguards donor information by:

Physical measures, including locked files and locked offices
Technological measures, including the use of passwords and digital security
Other measures, including restricting access on a “need to know” basis
Use of a secure site for online financial transactions
Destruction of credit card information after a transaction has been processed and completed

Changes to Our Donor Privacy Policy

SEE may revise its donor privacy policy at any time, without notice, and such changes will be effective immediately upon posting the revised policy to the SEE website. Changes can be necessary due to changes in law, policy, or SEE procedures. Check here periodically for any updates.

Contact Us

You may write to Seeking Educational Excellence, PO Box 542, Higley, AZ 85236 to request a review of any personal information that may have been collected by SEE and to request any corrections that may be necessary.

If you have questions about this Donor Privacy Policy or you wish to be removed from our email and postal contact lists, you may write to Seeking Educational Excellence, PO Box 542, Higley, AZ 85236.