Donor Privacy Policy

Donor privacy is important to us. East Side House Settlement respects your personal information and rights to privacy. This notice outlines how your information is collected, used, protected, and shared as well as your rights when you donate to East Side House Settlement online or offline. The information we collect about you when you become a member is used to process your orders and to provide a more personalized experience on our site. Our website uses an encryption technology SSL to increase the security of our customer’s information. We do not guarantee complete security on stored information, however, we have installed and applied our encrypted pages and installed our SSL certificate to prevent stolen information.

We collect and store your personal information that you provide whenever you make a donation. The information may include: your name, address, email address, phone number, and credit card information.

We will not trade, share or sell a donor’s personal information with anyone else, nor send donor mailings on behalf of other organizations without your consent. We use the information you provide for purchase purposes only: facilitate payment, confirm the order and delivery information. We will only share or sell personal information once the donor has given specific permission to do so. We use your return email address, home address, and telephone numbers to respond to all inquiries you make with us.

Cookies are pieces of information that your browser stores on your computer’s hard drive which identify you when you enter. The ability to select samples on our site is not cookie-driven. We may use session cookies to provide a seamless experience on the site and to combine with our log files so that we can understand our site traffic and analyze our demographic information in aggregate form. If you have set your browser to reject cookies, our site will not identify you when you enter and you will need to manually type in your ID and password.

This website may contain links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you may be leaving our site and entering another website. These sites may independently collect or request information about you and we encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policy may differ from ours.

We use various security measures, such as Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology, to protect your personal information when you do any online transaction with us. We use PayPal to process all transactions to ensure safety when making a purchase or donation on our website.

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. For this reason, we will never knowingly collect or maintain any personal information of any children under 13. 

You can access and change some of your information when you log in your account through our website.

From time to time we may send out email messages alerting you about product information and other matters. In addition, you will receive communication from us 1) if you contact us for a particular reason, or 2) to receive your orders. If you choose to receive our Newsletters or if you subscribe to a third party’s Newsletter through our site, we or the other third party may contact you via the email you provide. If you wish to not receive any electronic communications from us, please call us at 718-665-5250 or email us at donations@eastsidehouse.org any time.

If you have any other questions or concerns about this policy notice, please feel free to call us at 718-665-5250 or email us at donations@eastsidehouse.org.

Though we make every effort to preserve donor privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our website.

We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy notice at any time, so we encourage you to review this privacy notice periodically.