Privacy Policy
Ave Philomena, Inc is a Kansas not-for-profit corporation organized within the meaning of Sections 170(c)(2)(B), 2055(a)(2) and 2522(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code and is currently in the process of being approved for 501 (c)(3) status. We are responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “Ave Philomena Inc.”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy). We have provided this Privacy Policy (updated April 2022), which details how we gather and use information, in order to demonstrate our commitment to online privacy and respecting your personal data. Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy.
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you. Some examples of personal data that we may collect is listed below.
Personal Data can include:
- Identity Data which includes first name, last name and title.
- Contact Data which includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
- Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details – where you have given this to us. See ‘Use of Donation Information’ for more information.
- Marketing and Communications Data which includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us.
- Technical Data. See ‘Cookies’.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements.
When you make a monetary donation to Ave Philomena, Inc. through our website, these payments will be handled by our third party payment service providers (such as Stripe and PayPal) and we will not receive nor retain a copy of your bank account or payment card details. We do collect your transaction data which includes details about payments to and from you.
Ave Philomena Inc. also collects your email address in order to issue a receipt for your contribution. We may also retain your email address for future communications and as part of your contact data.
We have security measures in place to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed or accessed in an unauthorised way. Ave Philomena Inc. website uses an SSL digital certificate for secure credit card transactions.
We do not collect or use any online contact information or identifiable off-line contact information about a child without parental consent. We do not distribute personally identifiable information about children without parental consent. We do not give children the ability to post or distribute personal information without prior consent. We do not entice children with games or contests that would encourage them to disclose personal information.
As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plugin types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie notice when you visit our website for further details. You can customize your cookie preferences by pressing the ‘preferences’ drop down option at the bottom of our website.
If this site contains links to other websites (third-party websites), plugins and applications, Ave Philomena Inc. is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of these sites. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any third-party website you visit.
Ave Philomena Inc. allows you to change or modify your personal information (eg. removing or updating an email address) by sending us an email. If you wish to correct or update you information, we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity. This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response. We try to respond to all legitimate requests as soon as is practicably possible. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
Please contact us if you have any additional questions or concerns about our privacy policy.