AFSC online privacy policy
The American Friends Service Committee values your support and is committed to protecting your online privacy. You can visit our web site without revealing any personal information.
Collection of general information
Our web servers do automatically collect some non-identifying basic information from your visit to help measure web site activity and improve our site. This information includes your IP address, browser type, computer type, the pages requested, and referring web site.
Like many other websites, the AFSC web site also deposits certain bits of information called “cookies” in a visitor’s computer. Cookies help us distinguish repeat visitors from first-time visitors and give us helpful information about how our pages are viewed. This technology does not collect personal, identifiable information.
On occasion, we may conduct online surveys to learn more about our audience and their preferences. Information requested on such surveys will not be personally identifying and will be used only in aggregate for research purposes (except in cases where you request follow up information or specifically consent to another use).
We want to be clear. We will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site unless you choose to provide such information.
Volunteering personal data
You may voluntarily submit your email address or other personally identifying data to take part in an activity on the site, such as to sign up for a mailing list. In this case, we will use your data to send you the requested information. We may also send you occasional messages about other AFSC programs and information sources. You can unsubscribe from an AFSC mailing list at any time by responding to the instructions provided at the bottom of each message. We do not share our email lists with other organizations.
If you have any questions about or want to correct any information you have shared with AFSC via one of AFSC’s web sites or email lists, please contact us by email at actioncenter@afsc.org.
Email This Page/Tell-A-Friend
From many of our web pages, you can email a message to your friends recommending that they visit a page. When you use our “email this page” feature, we ask for your name, email address, and up to five friends’ email addresses at a time. We do not collect this personal information; it is used only to let your friends know who sent the email message. We do check our web logs to see which pages are forwarded most often, but we do not capture any personally identifying information about you or your friends from this feature.
Donation information
If you choose to make a donation to AFSC, you will be asked to submit financial and contact information to allow us to collect the donation and provide you with a receipt. The AFSC makes every effort to insure the secure collection and transmission of sensitive visitor information using industry-accepted data collection and encryption methodologies.
To keep our donors informed about the work of AFSC, we send
out periodical mailings with program details and other information.
Once a year we offer an opportunity to be removed from our mailing
list. On occasion, we may exchange the contact information from
our donor lists with other non-profit organizations. If you do
not wish to participate in such exchanges, you may opt out by calling: 1-888-588-2372,
emailing: ischafroth@afsc.org,
or writing to:
Donor Relations,
AFSC
1501 Cherry St.
Philadelphia,
PA 19102.
Updates to our policy
We may occasionally update this policy. If so, we will post revisions here. (To be sure you're viewing the most recent version of this policy, see the version on the AFSC website.)
Comments and questions
To make comments or ask questions regarding the Internet Privacy Policy, write to us at afscinfo@afsc.org.
