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Privacy StatementMake-A-Wish Foundation® of Alaska & Washington Your PrivacyThe Make-A-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington has created this statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site: www.northwestwishes.org.Personal Contact Information We Collect and What We Do With ItWhen you are making a donation, expressing an interest in referring a wish child, or subscribing to our online newsletter, we ask you for personal contact information such as your name, mailing address, phone number and e-mail address. We may use this contact information to provide you with a receipt or financial report; to contact you to clarify or obtain information about a donation you made or a wish child you have referred; or to send you additional information about the Make-A-Wish Foundation.Your e-mail address is safe with us. We do not sell or trade our mailing list. Personal Billing Information We Collect and What We Do With ItIn addition to personal contact information, we ask for billing information, such as your billing address and credit card number, when you make a donation. Your billing information is not shared with any other organizations, and your credit card number is not retained once your transaction has been authorized and processed.Other Contact Information We Collect and What We Do With ItIn some instances, we ask for contact information for people other than yourself including, for example, the mailing address of someone you wish us to notify of a donation you have made. The information we collect is used to send the donation notification or information you requested and/or to inform the recipient of Make-A-Wish Foundation updates, wish stories and opportunities to get involved. Such contact information is not shared with any other organizations.Your IP Address and Cookies and Plug-insFor each visitor to our Web site, our Web server automatically recognizes only the visitor's IP address, although no personally identifiable information (such as e-mail addresses) is recognized by the server. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to gather broad demographic information and is then discarded. Occasionally, we may use cookies to improve content and provide easier access. This technology lets us review which parts of the site are popular and which are not, allowing us to offer future improvements to the site. However, cookies that we generate contain no identifiable information about you, any children that may visit this site, or your computer. Our Web site does not include stand-alone or plug-in applications that report individually indentifiable information back to us or to any other organization.Information from FormsOur site's forms require users to give us contact information (like their name, phone number, and e-mail address). We use customer contact information from these forms to send users information about the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Users may opt-out of receiving future communications or contact us with their concerns about our privacy policy; see the Opting Out section below.Links to Other SitesThis Web site contains links to other sites, including ones (such as event registration sites) that may gather personal contact information. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. However, any personal information obtained by us through other sites is treated as if it was gathered on our site and our privacy policy applies.Our PartnersOur Web site (www.northwestwishes.org) is hosted by EasyCGI. No information gathered from users is shared with EasyCGI. In the case of online donations, on our behalf, the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America partners with CharityWeb, which provides and manages secure servers to host the transactions and gather pertinent donation information from users. CharityWeb is TRUSTe certified and all transactions use an encrypted channel, take place on secure servers and occur in real time. No financial data, such as your credit card number, is transferred via a less-secure channel, such as encrypted e-mail, for processing. Moreover, once your transaction has been completed, your credit card number is not retained.SecurityThis site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Specifically, secure servers are used to gather financial information, and encrypted channels are used to transfer this information.ChildrenWith respect to children, the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America does not collect personally identifiable contact information without prior parental consent, nor do we distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information without prior parental consent. We do not give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information on our Web site.Opting OutOur site provides users the opportunity to opt out of receiving communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor. If you receive communications from us and wish not to, this site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications. Please provide your exact name and address when communicating with us. 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