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Below are our online policies for Privacy, Copyright, COPPA, and Ethics. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to ask.

Privacy:{top}
How we handle the information we gather when you visit our web site.

• Web server activity logs - Like most web servers on the Internet, our servers collect and store all of the information that your web browser sends when it requests a web page, including:
  • the name, domain, and numerical Internet address of the "host" computer (typically a computer belonging to your Internet Service Provider and not your personal computer) from which you access the Internet. For example, your host computer's name is Harriet and its numerical address is 63.145.212.102;
  • the date and time you accessed our site;
  • the Internet address of the web page that you came from;
  • the page you requested from our site and the number of characters sent to your computer; and
  • the information your web browser software sends as its so-called "User Agent," which typically identifies the browser software and may also indicate the operating system and type of CPU used in your personal computer.
  • It is impossible to determine the actual identity of an individual user from this information. The logs are periodically summarized and analyzed in order to study site usage over time and to perform other studies to help us improve the site's organization, performance, and usefulness.
• Electronic mail - When you send us personal identifying information via email (that is, in a message containing a question or comment, or by filling out a form that email's us this information), we use it to respond to your requests. We may forward your email to individuals who are better able to answer your questions. We do not retain or distribute lists of email addresses to any parties outside of Association of Fundraising Professionals. In no event, do we distribute lists of email addresses.

Collection and release of gathered information
We want to make it clear that we will not obtain personal identifying information about you when you visit our web sites, unless you choose to provide such information to us. We do not attempt to identify individual users or share any information we receive with any parties outside of Association of Fundraising Professionals. The only exceptions to this are:

• officially authorized law enforcement investigations wherein Association of Fundraising Professionals has been served with an appropriate warrant to provide specific information, or
• a suspected attempt to deliberately circumvent our system's security with the intent to gain unauthorized access or to do physical damage for example, an attack by hackers. In this case, collected information associated with a suspected intruder will be provided to the FBI.

Retention of collected information
Cookies - Some applications may save a "cookie" on your computer's hard disk to provide a temporary history of actions taken. A common example is the tracking of items placed in an online "shopping basket." We do not retain any record of "cookies" beyond what is necessary for running the application.

• Web server activity logs - Monthly extracts of the log files are archived and stored off-line at our discretion for an indefinite period of time. Some statistical summaries derived from these data may be retained online or off-line at our discretion for an indefinite period of time.
• Email - Information collected via email will be retained at our discretion in a directly readable form for as long as necessary to complete our response. The email itself may be retained in an archival form.

Copyright:{top}

• All content provided on this web site, including but not limited to button icons, formatting, graphics, images, logos, software, and text, is copyrighted by Association of Fundraising Professionals under United States law and is protected by worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. Any reproduction, modification, storage in a retrieval system or retransmission, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, for reasons other than personal use, is strictly prohibited without prior written permission.
• You are welcome to make a link to any of the Association of Fundraising Professionals web pages published on the Internet. There is no need to request permission.
• Use of the Association of Fundraising Professionals logo is prohibited.

COPPA:{top}
Association of Fundraising Professionals does not operate a commercial web site directed to children under 13. We do not collect personal information from children. We do not have actual knowledge that we are collecting personal information from children. If at a future date Association of Fundraising Professionals establishes or provides services on a web site that in anyway meets the criteria of the Act, Association of Fundraising Professionals will ensure that full compliance is met by Association of Fundraising Professionals in every aspect of the Act. Compliance

Ethics:{top}
AFP pledges to act ethically and as responsible and responsive corporate citizens in compliance with the law In the community of which we are a member and with the laws of the on-line community in general.

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