Smile Charitable Trust Privacy Policy

The supporters of Smile Charitable Trust are highly valued individuals and businesses, and their contributions are the driving force of our organization. We understand your concerns about your privacy and the manner in which we handle all our data, especially the personal contact data of our donor’s and website visitors. To better protect your privacy, we have put in place this Privacy Policy to explain our informational collection practices and the choices available to each donor and visitor our website. By visiting this website you are accepting the terms of the Privacy Policy and the practices prescribed herein. This website, www.smilecharitabletrust.com, is maintained by Smile Charitable Trust.

Our Commitment to Privacy

The privacy of our supporters is our highest priorities and we will never rent, sell, lease, loan, exchange, trade or barter or otherwise divulge the names, home or business addresses, telephone numbers or email addresses, or any contact information we collect. We will never rent, sell, lease, loan, exchange, trade or barter or otherwise divulge donation information such as credit or debit card information, banking or wire transfer information.

What Information is collected and how it is collected

Smile Charitable Trust only collects information voluntarily given to the organization for the purpose of maintaining our records and the donor’s donation history. That information is used for the distribution of receipts and letters acknowledging those donations, sending informational material to keep our donor’s informed of upcoming events and organization news. The information is also used strictly for internal purposes to analyze spending, adding efficiency to our method of donation programs and complying with the requirements set forth by the federal government. Donors can also request removal from any list that provides information in the form of email or postal delivery and may wish to be acknowledged as an anonymous donor.

All the information given to the Trust shall be true, accurate and not misleading; shall not be fraudulent; shall not be considered an infringement on any third party copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or any other proprietary rights or privacy; shall not violate any ordinances, statutes or laws or regulations; shall not be considered defamatory in nature, unlawful, threatening or harassing; shall not contain cancel bots, time bombs, worms, Trojans or viruses that are designed to damage or be detrimental to the use of the website or the data and information contained within the website and shall not be created to increase liability for the organization or cause the organization to lose the ISP service.

Website Use and Information Provided

Smile Charitable website is designed to be open to the general public and can be visited and enjoyed by anyone without divulging any personal information. A visitor to the site will not be asked to supply any personal data, but the name of the Internet service, browser and type of machine used, the pages requested and visited and the time and date of those visits and the name of the website that provided the referral to Smile Charitable Trust website is collected as a matter of course. Smile Charitable Trust webmaster does not store any information, such as name, email address or contact information during a web visit that will identify the visitor, without the visitor’s permission.

Updates

Visitors have the option to provide contact information to join our email list for the purpose of receiving regular and news worthy updates regarding the organization. Parties that are interested in receiving information will be required to provide us a name, postal mailing address and email address. We will hold that information in compliance with our contact information privacy policy. Subscribers to our email list always have the option to request removal from the email list and that information will be provided at the bottom of each email.

Smile Charitable Trust uses cookies to track activity by visitors and record IP addresses of all visitors when an email address is entered for the purpose of interaction with the site, which includes commenting on blogs. The cookies are also used to recognize a visitor’s return to the website and for tracking and authenticating website visitors. The information is also used to identify, diagnose and repair server problems and gather broad based information about the domains and regions website visitors are from. These cookies do not contain any personal information that would identify the user by name or email address.

Online Donations and Data Security

The trust donors place in Smile Charitable Trust to achieve and accomplish their philanthropic goals. The donations and the donors personal contact information is held safe and secure through the secure socket layer (SSL) industry standard to protect and encrypt that information. The information held safe and secure includes all contact information, as well as credit card and banking information that are used to complete the donation transaction. The financial information collected is used for billing purposes only and is not stored after the donation has been processed. The contact information is used to process the donations and for the issuance of tax receipts, acknowledge donations and to contact donors and visitors to resolve and customer service issues. Donors will always have the option to unsubscribe from such emails.

Links to Other websites

Smile Charitable Trust website may contain links to third party sites and the Trust is not responsible for the privacy practices or lack of such policies or the content found on those websites. Visitors should be aware the third party website policies may differ from that of Smile Charitable Trust. It is important for visitors to review the policies of any third party and fully understand the meaning and intent before supplying any personal information.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

Smile Charitable Trust always reserves the right to modify, revise, add or subtract any and all information presented on this site without notice. This is due to the sometimes rapid change in laws, policies, regulations and the policies that govern Internet privacy. The Trust website and all the information and materials contained herein are provided to visitors without warranty. Visitors are encouraged to visit the Privacy Policy from time to time to be sure of being fully up to date about the privacy practices and how visitor’s information is protected.

If you have any questions or comments regarding Smile Charitable Trust website or the information contained herein, including this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@smilecharitabletrust.com