The Lindsey Miller Charitable Foundation is committed to protecting the privacy of its users. Information gathered by us is used to monitor the effectiveness of our site, personalize your Internet experience, and respond to your questions and requests. Because your privacy is important to us, we provide you with notice and choices about the collection and use of your information.

Additionally, each page that requests personally identifiable information reminds you of the importance of your privacy and provides a link to the privacy policy. By using our site you accept the practices described in our Privacy Policy.

Use of Cookies

We use cookies, small files that are sent to your Web browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive, to improve your digital experience. The cookie is used to speed up your access to the Site and the information you wish to see, but it does not contain any personal information. The majority of Web browsers accept cookies, but the “help” menu on your browser should give you options for preventing, accepting, or receiving notice of new cookies. However, please be aware that if you block cookies, some website functionality may be lost.

Data Collection

We collect two types of information:

  1. Standard Web server traffic pattern information.
  2. Personal information. Personal information, including, but not limited to, name, address, age and telephone number.

Contributions:
If you choose to donate to our organization, we maintain a record of your contribution.

Data Use

We limit the use of information provided to us on our Site to the following:

Internal Use

  1. If you do not make a service request, donation, purchase, or otherwise identify yourself, we will have no personally identifiable information about you. We will only use aggregate information derived, in part, from your use of our site to improve our site and our service to you.
  2. If you provide personal information, we may enter your name into our constituent database.
  3. Supply you with information including Lindsey Miller Charitable Foundation related news, campaigns, events and services.
  4. Request voluntary time or monetary contributions to Lindsey Miller Charitable Foundation.
  5. We collect the email addresses of those who communicate with us by email. Inquiries may be entered into our constituent database. If your name is entered into the database, we may contact you (see (2) above).

External Use
Your information is privileged and confidential and will not be shared or released to any organization or business entity other than those affiliated with or working in conjunction withLindsey Miller Charitable Foundation as follows:

  1. The ALS Association rents or exchanges its donor list with other qualified non-profit organizations to off-set fundraising expenses. The ALS Association respects the privacy of its financial supporters and, as such, would be pleased to exclude you from its list rental and exchange program. Please inform us if this is your desire at (888) 949-2577.
  2. We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service and prohibit them from using that information for any other purpose.

Data Security

The security of your personal information is very important to the Lindsey Miller Charitable Foundation (referred to hereafter as the LMCF) and we are committed to protecting the information we collect. Only LMCF staff, contracted consultants, and vendors have access to this data based upon minimum necessary access. We conduct annual cyber security compliance audits to ensure that all data is protected to the highest extent possible. Ongoing data security training is conducted for all staff and our information technology infrastructure has been designed with the highest grade firewalls as another layer of protection for donor information.

We have implemented and maintain appropriate technical and organizational security measures, policies, and procedures designed to reduce the risk of accidental destruction or loss, or unauthorized disclosure or access to such information appropriate to the nature of the information, concerned, including,

  • where appropriate, password protection, encryption, tokenization, and secure socket layering to protect our donation and other forms; and
  • following strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of your personal information to prevent unauthorized access to it.

Data is used for communication and solicitation processes. We use third party partners to collect data for LMCF to process donations and for event registrations. These partners are required to adhere to LMCF data use, security policies and applicable compliance requirements.