Privacy Policy

Personal contact information
When you are subscribing to our regular mailing list or subscribing to our online newsletter, we ask you for personal contact information, including your name, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address. We will use this contact information to provide you with information or resources you have requested, such as information about the Make-A-Wish Foundation, newsletter, e-newsletter, seasonal mailings or a financial report, or we will use your information to contact you to clarify or verify other information, such as a wish child that you have referred. Personal contact information is not shared with any organization outside of the Make-A-Wish Foundation and our agents (reputable companies we use for services, such as sending Make-A-Wish Foundation mail). We have contracts to protect your privacy with all of our agents.

Other contact information
In some instances, we ask for contact information for people other than yourself - for example, e-mail addresses of friends to whom you wish to send a copy of one of our pages. Such contact information is not added to any mailing list nor is the information shared with any other organization. Collecting such information for our own use is called prospecting. The Make-A-Wish Foundation does not prospect.

How to view or change your information
You can view and request changes to all the information you have given us, including any mailing lists you may be on, by contacting us at: Send a letter to: Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana Attention: Mailing List Information 2545 Farmers Drive, Suite 300, Columbus, OH 43235

Your IP address, cookies, and plug-ins
For each visitor to our Web site, our Web server automatically recognizes the visitor's IP address (no personally identifiable information, such as e-mail addresses, is automatically recognized by our server). We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address may also be used to gather broad demographic information. Occasionally, we may use session cookies to improve content, provide easier access, and understand how visitors use our Web site. These cookies persist on your system for the duration of your browser session only. Our Web site does not offer stand-alone or plug-in applications that report individually identifiable information back to us or to any other organization.

Children
With respect to children, the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana does not collect personally identifiable contact information from or about children. We do, however, provide a link to the Web site of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, which collects personally identifiable contact information from children who are referring themselves as potential wish children. If the self-referring child resides in our service area, they then share that information with us. The Foundation does not share it in any other way or with any other third parties.

Volunteers
We allow people who wish to become volunteers for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana to complete and submit volunteer applications through our Web site. We use the information collected on these applications only for screening and volunteer assessment purposes, and do not share this information with any third parties. We do require potential volunteers to complete a separate written form authorizing us to complete a background check, and the information provided therein may be shared with third parties only as needed to complete the background check process. Results of all background checks are kept confidential.

Links to Other Sites
This site contains links to other sites that may gather personal contact information. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. However, any personal information obtained by us through other sites (such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America Web site) is treated as if it was gathered on our site, and our privacy policy applies.

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