Our Privacy Policy

Personal contact information we collect and what we do with it

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 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.

We will not add your name and contact information to any mailing lists without your express permission. In other words, we will always ask you before adding you to a mailing list. If we do not ask, you will not be added. If you have asked to be added to one of our mailing lists, such as our e-mail newsletter list or regular mailing list, then you may receive from us news about the Make-A-Wish Foundation and information on how you can support the organization's mission.

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 we collect and what we do with it

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 one of two ways:

Send a letter to:
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Suffolk County, NY, Inc.
1 Comac Loop
Suite 1A1
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779

E-mail us at:
wishmail@makeawish-suffolkny.org

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 Suffolk County, NY, Inc. 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 Suffolk County, NY, Inc. 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 Suffolk County, NY, Inc. 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.

Copyright

The works of authorship contained in this Web site, including but not limited to all design, text, and images, are owned or licensed by the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Suffolk County, NY, Inc. and may not be copied, reproduced, transmitted, displayed, performed, distributed, rented, sublicensed, altered, stored by subsequent use, or otherwise used in whole or in part in any manner without our prior written consent, except that you may make such temporary copies in a single computer's RAM and hard drive cache as are necessary to browse the Web site, and you may make one permanent printout of each page of the Web site (unmodified in form, with a copy of this Site Notice attached) to be used by you for personal and non-commercial uses that do not harm the reputation of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

User Agreement

Please go to www.wish.org/home/sitenotice.htm to read User agreement

Thank you for taking the time to review our Privacy Policy/ User Agreement. The Make-A-Wish Foundation is very concerned about privacy and safety online. If you have any questions about these policy statements, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:

Make-A-Wish Foundation of Suffolk County, NY, Inc.
1 Comac Loop
Suite 1A1
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779
631-585-9474