Donor Security and Privacy
The Charlotte Maxwell Clinic is committed to protecting the security and privacy of our donors. Donation activity is 100% secure and donor information will not be shared with any third party.
SECURITY
SSL (Secured Sockets Layer). SSL is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private and integral. SSL is an industry standard and is used by millions of websites in the protection of their online transactions with their customers.
PRIVACY
Awareness. The Charlotte Maxwell Clinic’s Donor Privacy Policy is to inform you of the way your information is used. Also, you can remove your name from our email and postal mailing lists at any time.
Information Collected
Here are the types of donor information that we may collect and maintain:
Contact information: name, complete address, phone number, email address
Payment information: credit card number, expiration date, and billing information
Information you wish to share: questions, comments, and suggestions
Your request to receive updates: communications related to specific fund-raising appeals, clinic events, and new programs/services, if desired.
How Information Is Used
The Charlotte Maxwell Clinic uses your information to understand your needs and provide you with better service. We respond to your questions and concerns, and update you on clinic happenings. Credit card numbers are used only for donation or payment processing. Once your credit card payment is posted, CMC does not keep your card number for other purposes. We appreciate and use any comments you offer. CMC takes each recommendation seriously as to how we might improve what we do.
No Sharing of Personal Information
Hate those robo calls and phishing emails? We do, too. The Charlotte Maxwell Clinic will not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to any other organizations, The identity of all our donors is kept confidential.
Removing Your Name from Our Mailing List
Charlotte Maxwell works to improve communication with our supporters. If you wish to change your communication preferences, feel free to opt out. You can be removed from our mailing list or use our Safe Unsubscribe option to no longer receive emails.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://charmax.dreamhosters.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.