Privacy Policy
This website is owned and operated by the Knox County Foundation. We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and security of personal information entrusted to us. Your right to privacy is very important to us. We recognize that providing the Knox County Foundation with your personal information is an act of trust. The following Privacy Policy was developed to assure you that we take seriously our responsibility to protect customer information and use it only in ways that are consistent with your wishes.
Online giving transactions are processed on a secure server. We have put into effect appropriate procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Once you provide us with personal, professional or financial information, that data remains confidential.
We will not sell, rent, loan or otherwise share any personally identifying information you provide with any individual or organization. While we strive to protect the personal information of our users, the Knox County Foundation will release personal information if required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary or appropriate.
In accordance with federal law and the guidelines set up by the Federal Trade Commission regarding youth privacy, the Knox County Foundation will not knowingly collect any personal information from young people under the age of 13.
Our Policy
At our site we don’t collect personally identifiable information about individuals unless they knowingly provide it to us. So, if you just want to browse and learn about our services, programs, and benefits, we invite you to do so. As a casual, unregistered visitor to our site we’ll recognize your home server, but not your e-mail address or any other personal or system information.
If you are a Knox County Foundation donor and want to access information about your fund, it will be necessary for you to provide personally identifiable information. This may include your name, address, email address, and phone number. Any information you provide is downloaded from the web server and maintained in a secure system. Changes to your information online may only occur after you have logged in with a registered username and password.
Our Customer Lists
When you register to receive information, such as an e-newsletter, or identify your areas of interest, we add your name to our customer list. Once you provide us with personal or professional information, that data remains confidential and will only be used by the Knox County Foundation. We will not share any information you provide to us with any other organization. We will never rent, sell or share information that personally identifies you for marketing purposes.
Communication From Us
We use our customer lists for follow-up contacts with you. This is our way of keeping you up to date on our services, programs, and benefits. This also enables you to receive current information about the local community to better meet your philanthropic needs. We maintain e-mail mailboxes in an effort to support customers who visit us online. We read every e-mail message that we receive and do our best to respond within 48 hours, if a response is required. We do not record your e-mail address unless you have voluntarily provided it to us when you register to receive follow-up information or an e-newsletter. If you do provide us with your e-mail address, and register your interest in receiving follow-up information, we may notify you from time to time about Knox County Foundation products, services, and benefits. At all times, we include “opt-out” instructions with the e-mail that is sent to you. You can update or delete your account information and preferences or “opt-out” at any time.
Cookies
We use “cookies” (small pieces of information stored on your computer) on certain parts of our website. The cookies allow us to track your session, particularly when you access your donor account. We do not use cookies to collect any type of personal information or to extract any information from your computer.
Security Online
When using our forms to register or receive information from the Knox County Foundation, we use secure pages to ensure that the information sent between your computer and our system is secure. We use the Secure Service Layer (SSL) encryption method for all secure submissions. This method is generally accepted to ensure that the transmission of personal information is secure. Some common browsers make it obvious when information is being passed in a secure manner by displaying either a completed key or a closed lock on the screen.
Copyright Statement
Copyright in the text materials contained in this website is owned by the Knox County Foundation. These text materials may be used, downloaded, reproduced or reprinted, provided that this copyright notice appears on all copies and provided that such use, download, reproduction or reprint is for noncommercial or personal use only. The text materials contained in the website may not be modified in any way.
Copyright in the photographs, illustrations, artworks and other graphic materials are reserved to the Knox County Foundation and/or the copyright owners (licensors). Prior permission to use, download, reproduce or reprint any photograph, illustration, artwork or other graphic material must be obtained by the copyright owner, regardless of intended use.
Any use of the Knox County Foundation, its logo, or text, or graphic materials contained in this website in any manner to express or imply endorsement, sponsorship, affiliation, or association of the user with or by Knox County Foundation, is strictly prohibited unless permission has been granted. Nonprofit organizations that are the recipient of a Knox County Foundation grant should contact the Foundation for information about publicizing grants and use of the logo.
Web Links to This Site
You may establish a hypertext link to this site from your website, so long as the page containing the link properly attributes the linked site to the Knox County Foundation and does not state or imply any sponsorship of your site by the Knox County Foundation. Without prior written consent, you may not create a link to this site that incorporates or relies upon, in whole or in part, any content from any page on this website, or that incorporates any copyrighted or otherwise intellectual property of the Knox County Foundation.
Links to Other Sites
As a service to you, the Knox County Foundation provides links to websites of various philanthropic and nonprofit organizations. A link to a website is not an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or affiliation with respect to such site, its owners, or providers. This privacy policy applies solely to the information on this site. When leaving www.knoxcf.org, we recommend you check the privacy policy of the site you are visiting before providing personal information.
Disclaimer of Warranties and Liability
Because of the number of possible sources of information available through this website, and the inherent hazards and uncertainties of electronic distribution, there may be delays, omissions and inaccuracies in such information. The Knox County Foundation cannot and does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, current-ness, noninfringement or fitness for a particular purpose of the information available through this website, nor do we guarantee that this website will be error-free and continuously available.
Privacy Policy Changes
The Knox County Foundation may amend this privacy policy from time to time. Such changes will be publicly posted in this area of our website. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us.