Privacy Policy

This Statement of Privacy applies to the WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG (The Will County Center for Economic Development) and governs data collection and usage. By using the WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information
The Community Foundation of Will County may collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, address, and telephone number. The Community Foundation of Will County may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your Postal Code, preferences, interests and favorites.

Information about your computer hardware and software also may be automatically collected by WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This visitor data and traffic information is used by The Community Foundation of Will County for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

The Community Foundation of Will County encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. The Community Foundation of Will County is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG and The Community Foundation of Will County family of websites.

Use of your Personal Information
The Community Foundation of Will County collects and uses your personal information to operate the WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG website and deliver the services you have requested. The Community Foundation of Will County will send confirmation emails following registration to all registered patrons. We will also periodically send updates and newsletters to users.

The Community Foundation of Will County may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from The Community Foundation of Will County and its affiliates. The Community Foundation of Will County may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services or products that may be offered.

The Community Foundation of Will County does NOT sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. The Community Foundation of Will County employs other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance and processing credit card payments. They may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use such information for other purposes.
The Community Foundation of Will County does NOT collect, use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

The Community Foundation of Will County keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG in order to determine what WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content within WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG to users whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

The Community Foundation of Will County website will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Will County Center for Economic Development; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG, or the public.

Opting Out
You may opt-out of receiving our marketing emails by clicking on the opt-out link included in every marketing email we send. At any time, customers may discontinue receiving SMS offers by sending the SMS message “STOP” to the applicable shortcode, or by following other instructions provided by in the SMS message. Opting out from one particular offer source from WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG will not apply to all communications from WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG.

Use of Cookies
The WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. It is used to store small amounts of information, which is collected for traffic analysis only. Cookies do not contain personal information; they only collect information about your “surfing” habits on the website of the provider of the cookie. They do NOT contain personally identifiable information. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG pages, or register with WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG site or services, a cookie helps WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG features that you customized. The Community Foundation of Will County and WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG do not sell, give or trade the statistics they store to any third parties for data-mining or marketing purposes.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the The Will County Center for Economic Development’s services or websites.

Security of your Personal Information
Willcountycf.org secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. WILLCOUNTYCF.ORG secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement
The Community Foundation of Will County will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. The Community Foundation of Will County encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how The Community Foundation of Will County is protecting your information.