Privacy policy.

Your privacy is important to us. It is Direct Impact Foundation’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our website, https://www.directimpactfoundation.org.

We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide a service to you. We collect it by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also let you know why we’re collecting it and how it will be used.

We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide you with your requested service. What data we store, we’ll protect within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

We don’t share any personally identifying information publicly or with third-parties, except when required to by law.

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy policies.

You are free to refuse our request for your personal information, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired services.

Your continued use of our website will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, feel free to contact us.

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace and Google Analytics, our website analytics providers, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit About the cookies Squarespace uses.

Order and Account Emails

We may email you with messages about your donation. It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.

We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, and Stripe, our payment processor, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

Fonts

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

Visitor Data

For Customers

When you donate on this website, we collect personal information from you to complete the transaction. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing address

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online hosting provider, and Stripe, our payment processor, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

For Website Visitors

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

This policy is effective as of 15 December 2020.