Your privacy is critically important to us, so at Connecting Champions we have a few fundamental principles. If you find content on the Connecting Champions website you believe violates our Privacy Policy, please contact us immediately.

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.

We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, facilitate our program, or protect our rights.

We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.

“Connecting Champions” operates a website at ConnectingChampions.org. It is Connecting Champions’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact our support team.

Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Connecting Champions 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. Connecting Champions’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Connecting Champions’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Connecting Champions may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Connecting Champions also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on articles published. Connecting Champions only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Connecting Champions’s websites choose to interact with Connecting Champions in ways that require Connecting Champions to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Connecting Champions gathers depends on the nature of the interaction.

Those who engage in transactions with Connecting Champions — by making a donation, for example — are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Connecting Champions collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Connecting Champions. Connecting Champions does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics
Connecting Champions may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance, Connecting Champions may monitor the most popular pages and articles on the Connecting Champions.org site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spammers. Connecting Champions may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Connecting Champions does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Business Transfers
If Connecting Champions were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Connecting Champions goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Connecting Champions may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Comments
Comments are saved on our servers.

Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Connecting Champions may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Connecting Champions’s sole discretion. Connecting Champions encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Protection of Information
Connecting Champions discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that

(i) need to know that information in order to process it on Connecting Champions’s behalf or to provide services available at Connecting Champions’s websites, and

(ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.

By using Connecting Champions’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information. Connecting Champions will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.

Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Connecting Champions discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Connecting Champions believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Connecting Champions, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a user of an Connecting Champions website and have supplied your email address, Connecting Champions may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new programs, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Connecting Champions and our services. We primarily use our website to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.

If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support others. Connecting Champions takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Email Communication
Connecting Champions sends a newsletter and occasional nonprofit updates that we believe will be useful to individuals that subscribe to our newsletter. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every email. We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law.

Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Connecting Champions uses cookies to help Connecting Champions identify and track visitors, their usage of Connecting Champions website, and their website access preferences.

Connecting Champions visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Connecting Champions’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Connecting Champions’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.