Pride Fundraising Privacy Statement 

Pride Fundraising processes sensitive information for licensees, event participants, event supporters and donors.  We recognize that your privacy is very important and that you have a right to control your personal information.  We understand that providing personal information is an act of trust and we strive to protect your personal information and safeguard the privacy and security of our licensees, participants, supporters and donors.    

This privacy statement covers the Internet web site www.PrideFundraising.com and all licensee sub domains of our event websites, FunRunforPride.com, BikeRideforPride.com and WalkforPride.com (further referred to as 'Pride Fundraising', 'we', 'us' or 'our'). 

The following sections describe in detail how we handle and protect your personal information. 

Information collection and use  

Licensees 

For those groups that license fundraising events through Pride Fundraising, we assure our licensees that Pride Fundraising is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. Information collected on this site will never be sold to third parties or spammers.  When licensing our fundraising services or purchasing any products from Pride Fundraising, we will use the email address you have submitted to contact you regarding the status of your order and also from time to time to send you information on updates to our products and services as well as promotional information on products and services of our partners that may be of some interest to you. You may choose to stop receiving those updates at any time.  In order to provide additional services to your fundraiser or fundraising group, Pride Fundraising may, at its discretion, share certain information about your fundraising event to our trusted partners.    

Event Participants and Donors 

Information collected on behalf of event participants and the information collected from those who donate to a Pride Fundraising event is recognized by Pride Fundraising as very sensitive information.  Pride Fundraising is the sole owner of this information and we will NEVER sell, rent, or share this information with any other party, other than information that we process through our secure merchant account.  

Fundraising groups, managing the event, may use participant information to communicate necessary information to event participants with event management tools provided by Pride Fundraising.  Pride Fundraising will notify participants and donors via e-mail of online Donations processed by the Pride Pledge secure transaction server.  Participant information is password protected and will be removed from the password protected Event Management interface once the fundraising event is completed and closed out in our system.    

Online Transaction Processing  

We use an outside credit card processing company, First National Merchant Solutions to process credit/debit card transactions for event licenses, services, products and online donations provided through Pride Fundraising. Financial information is NEVER, at any time, stored on Pride Fundraising servers. 

First National Merchant Solutions uses encryption and secure servers to process your order and does not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.  For more information about First National Merchant Solutions' privacy policy, please click here.

Links to other sites  

This website contains links to other websites. Please note that we do not cover privacy practices of those web sites. If you decide to purchase any services from those websites or sign up for any offers or newsletters while being on the sites, you must carefully review the privacy policy of these web sites before making your decision.

Disclosure  

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information in the cases where such disclosure is required by law and/or is necessary pursuant to legal proceeding or a court order, or to protect our business interests and the interests of our users, as decided in the sole discretion of Pride Fundraising. 

Cookies  

A "cookie" is a small data file that can be placed on your computer's hard drive by some web sites you are visiting. Our web site uses cookies for the purposes of tracking referrals and delivering the service to our users, and analyzing the user's aggregate data for statistical purposes and improving our services and products. The cookies we use do not enable third parties to access any of your personally identifiable information. 

Our partners and advertisers may use their own cookies. We do not control the cookies used by other web sites you may be visiting through the links on this web site, and we expressly disclaim any liability for the information collected through the cookies set by any other site than Pride Fundraising. 

Log Files   

Our web site uses IP addresses to administer the site, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. 

Newsletter  

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use your email address to send the newsletter to you. You can unsubscribe ("Opt-out") at any time, in which case your email address will be permanently removed from our database. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter, simply follow the unsubscribe instructions included in every newsletter. 

Personal Information Stored with Pride Fundraising  

The Pride Fundraising Event Management interface hosts information for our customers that allows them to contact and communicate with their participants.   Participants also use our solutions to request online donations which are then confirmed via e-mail back to the participant.  Donors also enter personal information when donating on-line to participants.  To provide this level of integrated services, for the benefit of our customers, it is necessary for Pride Fundraising to store a limited amount of personal information on our servers.  These activities are performed for a specified period of time on behalf of our customers only while the service is made available.  Data is removed off our servers and the service is terminated once the licensee closes their fundraising event with Pride Fundraising.  

Financial information is NEVER, at any time, stored on Pride Fundraising's servers. 

Pride Fundraising is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will NEVER sell, rent, or share this information with any other party, unless it is required to provide the services you are requesting. 

Data Security  

We strive to protect your personal information and prevent misuse or alteration of the information that we collect from our users. While we do our best to ensure security of our website and network, we cannot guarantee that the security measures we undertake will prevent third parties from illegally obtaining this information. 

Contacting Pride Fundraising  

If you have any questions about the information we collect from our users, you may contact us through the contact page of this website, or by sending a mail request to: Pride Fundraising Communication Manager, PO Box 410, Woodward, IA 50276 

Revisions to This Privacy Policy  

We reserve the right to make changes to this policy and/or our Terms Of Use agreement at any time, such updates to be effective by posting on the site. 

If you have any question about our privacy policy or the use of the information we collect from our users, please contact us here.