Donor Confidentiality and Security Policy

Privacy Statement for Donors (web-applicable) Your privacy is a personal and fundamental right. Desert Communities United Way values and protects your privacy and places strict controls on the gathering and use of personally identifiable data. Desert Communities United Way Policy Desert Communities United Way uses industry standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, including firewalls and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption. Desert Communities United Way treats data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company.

Privacy for Data You Submit Desert Communities United Way sends and stores data in an encrypted, archived format that is not accessible to users who do not possess the encryption key and password for the account that backed up the data. Desert Communities United Way employs strict policies on controlling this secure information.

The Way We Use Your Information We use the information you provide about yourself when donating only to record that donation so that we can acknowledge your gift to our community. We do not share this information with outside parties.

Your personal information is not disclosed, made available, or otherwise used for purposes other than those specified at the time of collection, except with your consent or as authorized by law or regulation. We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

Secure Information All personal information submitted to Desert Communities United Way is secured against loss, damage, modification, unauthorized access, or disclosure as required by Federal and Ohio Law. Information voluntarily provided by you will be protected by the appropriate computer, network, and Internet technical security controls at the employee and departmental level to prevent unauthorized access. Some of these security controls are: password and user identification verification, data encryption, confidential transmissions, secure storage areas, and audit trails.

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, Desert Communities United Way implements and annually updates appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect.

To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections. In addition, Desert Communities United Way employees are educated regarding the requirements of working with confidential and personally identifiable information as well as the consequences of misuse.

To help ensure the confidentiality of your personal information, it is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

Privacy on the Desert Communities United Way Web Site Your personal data is NEVER stored in the form of Cookies (not even temporarily).

dcuw.org is safe. There is no need to download any software to use our applications and services. Hence, your system's security is not compromised by their use, and your personal data - other than data you submit in the donation form, and the user-agent information that is transmitted by your browser - is never transmitted to our servers.

As a general rule, we do not log on-line behavior of individuals (other than normal logging of webserver 'hits'). However, in cases of abuse, hacking, unauthorized access, Denial of Service attacks, or any other harmful behavior, Desert Communities United Way system administrators are empowered to log, track, identify, publish, and ban misbehaving individuals - even if this leads to banning entire blocks of IP addresses, or disclosing users' identities.