Privacy Policy

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The trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dress and products in this Internet site are protected in the United States and internationally. No use of any of these may be made without the prior, written authorization of the owners of this site, except to identify the products or services of the company.

Any personally identifiable information in electronic communications to this Internet site is governed by this site’s Privacy Policy. The owners of this site shall be free to use or copy all other information in any such communications, including any ideas, inventions, concepts, techniques or know-how disclosed therein, for any purposes. Such purposes may include disclosure to third parties and/or developing, manufacturing and/or marketing goods or services.

The sender of any communications to this Internet site or otherwise to the owners of this site shall be responsible for the content and information contained therein, including its truthfulness and accuracy.

Initiative Latin America Foundation (“ILA Foundation”) Privacy Policy (“Policy”) was created to help you understand how the Foundation collects and uses information that is collected online through the Foundation’s links: ilafoundation.org (each, a “Site”) or that you submit to the Foundation when making a donation. The Foundation is committed to protecting your privacy. By using this Site, you agree to be legally bound by this Policy and the Terms of Use, as they may be amended from time to time. If you do not agree to this Policy or cannot form a legally binding contract, you are not permitted to use this Site.

This Policy may also cover information collected and used by the Foundation via third party social media platforms, including but not limited to; YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Information Collected

This Site collects two types of information from you: (1) General Information; and (2) Personal Information.  This information is used for the purposes for which it was collected (for example, responding to your requests, sending newsletters, administering surveys or processing donations), and the other limited purposes set forth below.

General Information

The Foundation automatically collects some non-personal information (“General Information”) when you visit our Site via “cookies,” other tracking technology, registration forms, online surveys, etc., such as:

Your domain name and host for Internet access

The date and time of your entry

Your IP address, browser type, device, or operating system

The pages you visit and links that you use

The domain name from which you linked to our Site

Your city and state

Other general demographic information

We aggregate and analyze this usage information and use it for operational and administrative purposes, including identifying levels and area of interest in our website, and to improve and refine the Site. We may also share this aggregated, anonymous data with our business partners on an as-needed basis.

Personal Information

The Foundation also collects information that may identify you (“Personal Information”) that you provide when making a donation to the Foundation (whether online, by mail or other physical means) or participating in any activity on a Site that requires your voluntarily submitted information, including completing any of our Site’s forms, for example, donation forms, registration forms, contact forms, online surveys, merchandise transactions, and position applications, such as:

Name

Mailing address

Telephone number

Email address

Credit card, payment card and bank information

Job, fellowship, internship, and volunteer position application information

Resumes and cover letters

Use of Information We Collect

We use the Personal Information for the purposes for which it was collected (for example, responding to your requests, sending newsletters, administering surveys or processing donations) and the limited purposes set forth below. The Foundation will not sell the Personal Information of donors for a third party’s fundraising or marketing purposes unless the donor explicitly grants permission to do so.  The Foundation will not exchange the Personal Information of donors for a third party’s fundraising or marketing purposes if a donor opts out of allowing the Foundation to do so.  To opt out of exchanges of Personal Information for third party fundraising or marketing purposes, please send us an email at info@ilafoundation.org.  Further, we do not share, sell, transfer, exchange or disclose your Personal Information with third parties except in the following limited circumstances:

To carry out the Foundation’s mission. Specifically, we may share your e-mail or mailing address with our subsidiaries and affiliated entities, and certain third parties with whom we work, for use for a specific, limited purpose related to the Foundation’s mission and goals, which may include responding to your requests, processing donations or merchandise orders, sending newsletters, surveys, notices or content, and administering, enhancing and troubleshooting the Site and the Foundation’s other online offerings

With your permission to disclose the information

To change website hosts or when our host transfers business assets (as further described below)

To share it with third party vendors, agents or contractors who perform services for us on a “need to know” basis

As required by law or court order (see “Legal Disclaimer” below) or to comply with the Foundation’s donor disclosure obligations (see “Donor Disclosure” below)

Control of Your Personal Information

If you prefer to not share your Personal Information as described above, please email us at any time at info@ilafoundation.org.

Donor Disclosure

Please note that the Foundation is obligated to disclose all donors, which it does by listing donors by range of donation amount on our website. View the contributors list here.

Corrections/Updates

This Site gives users the opportunity to change Personal Information previously provided to us through this Site. To do so, please send us an email at info@ilafoundation.org. If you have registered to receive emails from the Foundation and later change your mind, you may contact us to have your name removed from our distribution lists by sending us an email through our Contact Page, or by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email sent from the Foundation.

Transfer of Business Assets

At any time, this Site’s host may be acquired, merge with another business, or acquire or buy other businesses or assets. In such transactions, both General and Personal Information will likely be among the transferred assets.

Cookies, tracking tags, and other systems and technology

The Site may use cookies and other tracking mechanisms across our Site and social media platforms.  Cookies allow the Foundation to measure activity on the Site and to improve your user experience by, for example, remembering your passwords and viewing preferences and allowing you to visit any member-only parts of the Site without re-registering.  Cookies cannot retrieve any other data from a hard drive or obtain an email address.  Although a user has the ability to modify most browsers to either accept all cookies, notify the user when a cookie is sent, or reject all cookies, it may not be possible to use certain services on this Site if cookies are not accepted.

ILA Foundation may use electronic images known as web beacons to monitor activity on our website, as well as across social media platforms and other websites. These web beacons allow the Foundation to provide personalized services and advertising content. With both cookies and web beacon technology, the information that we collect and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable.

Our Commitment to Data Security

Personal Information is stored on our server and the servers of our third party vendors who perform services for us and is not publicly accessible.  Further, Personally Information is only accessed by Foundation staff on a “need to know” basis.  To prevent unauthorized access and maintain data accuracy, we have put in place commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.  Additionally, sensitive data such as credit card numbers are encrypted using SSL and other industry standard measures, to provide an additional level of security.

Links

This Site contains links to other sites.  We are not responsible for the privacy practices of or the contents on any other websites.  We encourage you to review the privacy policy and any other online policies of other websites that you link to, visit, and/or use.

Children

The Site does not seek to collect any information from children under 13.  If a child provides us with information, the parent or guardian may notify us, and the information will be deleted from our records.

Security

While there is no such thing as “perfect” security on the Internet, we take reasonable steps to protect the safety of your personal information. This Site has security measures in place to protect loss, misuse, and/or alteration of such information under our control. However, we do not guarantee the security of your General or Personal Information. In addition, we do not assume any liability for third party use of your General or Personal Information, whether obtained legally or illegally from or through this Site.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

ILA Foundation may update this Policy at any time.  Any changes to the Policy will be reflected on this “Privacy Policy” page, and by using this Site subsequent to any changes, you agree to those changes.  We may also notify you about significant changes in the way we treat Personal Information through such means as sending a notice to the email address that you have provided us or placing a prominent notice on our Site.

Legal Disclaimer

We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the Foundation. Although we use security that we believe to be appropriate to protect your Personal Information, we do not guarantee that our security precautions will protect against, and we expressly disclaim any liability for, any loss, misuse, or alteration of your Personal Information.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please email us at info@ilafoundation.org

ILA Foundation is committed to taking steps to avoid fraud and scams, but unfortunately we cannot stop them all.  If you receive a solicitation that you feel is suspicious, please forward it to fraudprevention@ilafoundation.org

ILA Foundation, and its employees, representatives, directors, partners, donors, sponsors and/or volunteers can not be personally liable for any fraud NOT in connection with our Organization.

Please contact us if you have any questions, if you receive suspicious emails, letters or requests at info@ilafoundation.org

THE USE OF THIS SITE SIGNIFIES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE TERMS OF USE, INCLUDING THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

EFFECTIVE: 04/01/2016

The use of this site signifies your agreement to the Terms of Use, including ILA Foundation, the  Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”).

General Provision

Initiative Latin America Foundation (“ILA Foundation”) owns and operates ilafoundation.org, ilanow.com (each, a “Site”), located on servers in the United States. By visiting and/or using this Site, you agree to the Terms of Use (“Terms of Use” or “Agreement”), as it is amended from time to time. This Agreement contains conditions of use, disclaimers, and other provisions, some of which limit our liability to you. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use or cannot form a legally binding contract, you are not permitted to use this Site.

Submissions & Restrictions on Use

You agree that you are responsible for any submissions you make on this Site. You shall not submit unlawful, defamatory, abusive, obscene, or offensive material. You agree that you will not submit anything to the Site that will or may violate any rights of a third party, including but not limited to copyright, trademark, and/or privacy rights.

You agree that you shall not place false or misleading information on this Site or upload any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, or other computer programs that may interfere with the proper operation of this Site.

Copyright & Trademark

Unless expressly noted otherwise, all materials on this Site are protected by copyright, trademarks, service marks, and/or other intellectual property rights held by the Foundation, its initiatives, affiliates, or other parties that have allowed the Foundation to use their materials. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

If you would like to reproduce, distribute, or use any materials on this Site, please contact info@ilafoundation.org.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

ILA Foundation attempts to respond to claims of copyright infringement in a timely manner. If you believe this Site (or any material contained on this Site) is infringing your copyright, please send the following information to info@ilafoundation.org:

A description of your copyrighted work, including the United States Copyright Office registration number

A description of the material that you believe may be violating your copyright

Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address

A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the copyright is not authorized

A statement that the information you have provided is accurate

Links to Other Sites

Links on this Site may connect you to other websites that are not related to the Foundation or under its control. The appearance of links to other sites does not imply an affiliation or endorsement to any of those websites or to any entities associated with or supporting any of those websites, and you access other websites at your own risk.

Donations

All donations made using this Site must be made in compliance with federal, state, and local laws relating to charitable contributions, including but not limited to the U.S. Patriot Act and the IRS Tax Code, as they may be amended from time to time.

Sale of Goods

All prices for products listed for sale on this Site are displayed in U.S Dollars ($) unless otherwise specified. The Foundation reserves the right to change product specifications, availability, and/or pricing without prior notice.

Privacy Policy

The Foundation is committed to helping you understand how information collected from your computer or submitted by you to the Site is used. This information is contained in our Privacy Policy, which is part of these Terms of Use and is incorporated fully herein.

Modification

ILA Foundation may and will modify any of these Terms of Use, including our Privacy Policy, at any time, for any reason, by making changes to the Terms and/or these postings. Your continued use of this Site, after such modifications, constitutes acceptance of such modifications.

Disclaimer of Warranties & Liabilities

The Foundation does not guarantee that the functions and contents contained in or on the Site will be without errors, that this Site will be free of viruses, or that any Site defects will be corrected, even if the Foundation is aware of them.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Foundation, its affiliates, initiatives, members of its Boards, employees, and agents from any and all losses, damages, liabilities, and costs of every nature incurred by any of them in connection with any claim, damage, or loss related to your unlawful, unauthorized, and /or inappropriate use of this Site or any materials contained on this Site.

Jurisdiction

Any dispute rising from these Terms of Use, including our Privacy Policy, shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of New York without regard to the principles of conflicts of law.  You acknowledge and agree that the courts of the State of New York shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any and all such disputes, that you shall submit to that jurisdiction and those courts, and that you expressly waive any and all rights you may have, or that may hereafter arise, to contest the propriety of such choice of jurisdiction and venue, including issues of forum non convenes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about these Terms of Use, including any particular provision or our Privacy Policy, please send us a message through email: info@ilafounation.org

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The ILA Foundation is committed to supporting diversity in all its forms. Our work recognizes and values equally all people regardless of religion, socioeconomic status, race, gender, physical ability, sexual orientation.

“What unites us must be stronger than what divides us”

The ILA Foundation is not partisan or political organization. Our 501(c)(3) organization is apolitical. We are dedicated to primarily serving communities of color.

Who are our contributors?

The ILA Foundation is thankful to receive the support of individuals and organizations that want to make a positive impact in the community and share our values.