The policy of the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy (“Johnson Center”) of Grand Valley State University (“GVSU”), is to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://learnphilanthropy.org/ (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, “our website”, “service” or “https://learnphilanthropy.org/”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us through email at jcp@gvsu.edu.
You may provide us with certain demographic (often called “personally identifiable” information), such as your information name, email address, postal mailing address, and telephone numbers. You may provide us with this information if you use certain applications or forms, or otherwise use the features and functionality accessible via our site.
Like most website operators, the Johnson Center collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Johnson Center also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users who register on our site. The Johnson Center only discloses logged in user IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Like any other website, the Johnson Center uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
We keep contact form submissions for one year for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.
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.
We share some information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you.
The Johnson Center of GVSU does not request or store any credit cardholder data. We accept payments through a third-party PCI compliant vendor solution.
Please see the GVSU privacy policy for more details.
The Johnson Center uses the collected data for various purposes:
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
The Johnson Center will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an external organization.
The Johnson Center may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Users that register on our website (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can contact us to see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site, you can request that we remove your personal data at any time. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
We use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about use of this site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.
The Service uses Google Maps API and the User is bound to the Google Maps API terms of service found here: https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en
Our Service may contain links to third-party web sites or services that are not owned or controlled by the Johnson Center.
The Johnson Center has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that the Johnson Center shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites or services.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
