Earning and keeping your trust is at the core of our business. We are committed to protecting the personal and financial information you’ve entrusted to us. In accordance with federal privacy regulations, we would like to share with you the principles and policies that we use to ensure the privacy of User information.
While information plays a large role in our ability to provide superior service, we know that our most important asset is our User’s confidence in us. Keeping information secure, and using it only as our Users would want us to, are matters of principle. With this in mind, here is our pledge to each and every User.
The information we collect and maintain about you comes primarily from you during the course of establishing your account. This information, not available publicly, comes from the following sources:
Our mission is clear: to help you reach your fund raising goals. Information about you and your accounts plays a key role in our ability to succeed in this mission. It also helps us service your accounts and administer our business. For example, we use information about you to:
We limit access to the information we have about you to those employees who need to know to provide you with services to help you meet your goals. We maintain appropriate physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your information.
We have security standards and procedures in place designed to prevent unauthorized access to your accounts and information. A key part of this process ensures that all information we have about you is accurate and up-to-date. If you ever discover inaccuracies in our data or if your information changes, we urge you to notify us immediately.
To protect your privacy, we limit the information we share with third parties. We conduct our business with great respect for the confidential nature of the information being provided. We will not share information about you except as outlined below. Sharing Information With Companies Who Help Us Provide You Services We may share the information described under the section captioned “Information We Collect” with external companies to complete a transaction you have requested or to help us service your account. We are highly selective in choosing these companies. All companies with whom we do business are contractually obligated to comply with strict standards regarding security and confidentiality, and the information can be used only for the sole purpose of providing the service we have requested the company to perform. Examples of the types of outside companies with which we may share information include non-financial companies that perform services for us such as data processing and companies that perform securities execution and transfer services on our behalf.
We may share the information described under the section captioned “Information We Collect” when we are permitted or required by law. Examples include responding to a subpoena or conducting a fraud investigation. We also may share this information when authorized by you.
