Privacy Policy
Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. Our ongoing commitment to the protection of your privacy is essential to maintaining the relationship of trust that exists between NKYHelps.org and all of our users, whether they be nonprofit organizations or volunteers, or other visitors to the site. This notice of our privacy policy is intended to help you understand our online information security practices.
The Information We Collect
You may have accessed NKYHelps.org directly by visiting our Web site, the home page of which is located at www.NKYHelps.org, or through the Web site of one of our partners with whom we have teamed to provide volunteering services, such as (a) your employer; or (b) a NKYHelps.org partner. This notice applies to all information you submit to NKYHelps.org, whether through the NKYHelps.org Web site or through the Web site of one of our Partners. Please note that we cannot be responsible for the information you submit directly to third parties, including our Partners, who may have their own posted policies regarding the collection and use of your information. We urge you to review the policies of our Partners through whom you may access our services.
For NKYHelps to be effective, we will collect information from participating volunteers and organizations. The types of information may include, but not be limited to, this type of information:
For volunteers with registered profiles
First and Last Name
Email address
Telephone number
Address, City and State (optional)
Zip Code
Information about skills and interests that you are willing to share with the community
Username and password
Customized email preferences (optional)
Referral History
Comments about volunteer opportunity (optional)
For Participating Nonprofit Organizations, Community Groups, and Governmental Bodies:
Administrator Information –
First and Last Name; Email; Telephone Number; Zip Code;
Username and Password.
Address; City; State (optional)
Organization Information –
Organization Name;
Contact Information (Contact Title, First and Last Name, Telephone Number, Address, City, State, Zip Code, Email);
Description Of Services;
Mission Statement;
Tax ID/EIN;
Affiliations;
Volunteer Type Category.
Web site Address;
Fax (optional).
Volunteer Opportunity Information - Opportunity Title; Contact Email; Description; Volunteer Type; Location Information (either Street Location or "Virtual" Designation). Required Skills; Date; Time; Commitment Information; Volunteer Age; Group Size (optional).
Material Needs (Donations requested)
How We Use Information
We use the Information we collect about you to facilitate the volunteering process and to provide information to you about NKYHelps.org and related topics. We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. We do not, however, sell, rent or trade our volunteer, administrator, nonprofit, or other email addresses to outside parties.
Please be aware that, to the extent required to provide our services, we share your information with volunteers, nonprofit organizations, or our Partners, as applicable:
For Nonprofit Organizations:
If you submit Information to us as a nonprofit organization, then, subject to the terms and conditions as a nonprofit member of NKYHelps.org, your Information (excluding your Tax ID/EIN number) will be accessible by anyone who accesses NKYHelps.org
Nonprofits who receive email addresses from potential volunteer signups are strongly encouraged to adopt privacy standards similar to those of NKYHelps.org. Each such organization, however, has its own policies regarding collection and use of personal information and we are not responsible for their use of your Information. Inappropriate use of personal information received from NKYHelps.org may jeopardize nonprofit membership with NKYHelps.org. NKYHelps.org reserves the right to determine, in its discretion, what constitutes inappropriate use of this information. For more about a nonprofit organization's policy, please contact them directly using the contact information posted for that organization on our site.
Children's Privacy
We welcome Volunteers of all ages, including children under the age of thirteen. Due to our status as a non-profit organization, we are not required to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). However, we strongly encourage our Volunteers aged thirteen and under to use our services only with parental consent.
Cookies
Cookies are tiny data files that Web sites commonly write to your hard drive when you visit them so that they can remember you when you visit. A cookie file contains information that can identify you anonymously and maintain your account's privacy. Our site uses cookies to maintain a user's identity between sessions so that the site can be personalized based on user preferences or a user's history. You can set your Web browser to prompt you before you accept a cookie, accept cookies automatically or reject all cookies. However, if you choose not to accept cookies from this Web site, then you may not be able to access and use all or part of this Web site or benefit from the information and services which it offers.
Third-party Access and Use
Occasionally, we or our Partners may hire third-party service providers to help provide or improve the services we offer you. Sometimes it is necessary for these providers to have access to the Information we collect about you. In those cases, we take reasonable steps to ensure that these providers do not use or otherwise disclose any Information we collect about you except for the purpose of fulfilling their service obligations to us and our Partners. We may share your Information with third-party service providers in connection with the following:
Our partners may hire third-party service providers to help coordinate volunteer events. We may share information with these third-party service providers in order to facilitate coordination of these events.
Information collected from nonprofit members may be shared with other websites, such as nky.com and Cincinnati.com and their related sites, in order to advertise volunteer events. We may share aggregate information about our users with certain third parties. This information shows user activity as a whole rather than on an individual basis; such aggregate information cannot be used to individually identify you. We use aggregated information we collect about users to continue to improve our service for you.
In the unlikely event that NKYHelps.org undergoes a sale or transfer of all or substantially all of its assets, the acquiring entity will be subject to this Privacy Policy in its use of your personally identifiable Information. In addition, in the further unlikely event that NKYHelps.org is adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent (a) there will be no further use or disclosure of your personally identifiable Information by NKYHelps.org and (b) your personally identifiable Information will be destroyed. In addition, there will be no use or disclosure of your personally identifiable Information by any entity that acquires assets of NKYHelps.org pursuant to such bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings.
Your privacy is very important to us. Due to factors beyond our control, however, we cannot fully ensure that your Information will not be disclosed to third parties. For example, we may be legally obligated to disclose Information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may circumvent our security measures to unlawfully intercept or access your Personal Information.
Links
This site contains links to other sites. NKYHelps.org is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
How You Can Review Or Correct Your Information
If you are a nonprofit member or volunteer with an account you may review and make changes to all of your Information that we collect and maintain online by simply inputting your username and password where indicated on the Web site.
If you are a volunteer with an account, once you login in, you may make any changes or correct factual errors in your account by changing the information on your login page. This option is available 24 hours a day to better safeguard your Information. You do not need to contact us to access your record or to make any changes. If you have problems changing your Information, please contact us.
For Nonprofit Organizations:
If you are a nonprofit administrator, you may make any changes or correct factual errors in your administrator, organization and opportunity information 24 hours a day. We use this procedure to better safeguard your Information. You do not need to contact us to access your record or to make any changes. If you have problems changing your organization's Information, please contact us.
If you are a nonprofit member or volunteer with an account and would like to have your Information deleted from the site, you may do so by contacting us.
Your Ability to Opt-out of Communications
We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the NKYHelps.org service, such as the occasional service and product announcement or administrative message, that are considered part of your NKYHelps.org account without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
Our Commitment To Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of Information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the Information we collect online.
Changes to Policy
NKYHelps.org may change this privacy policy from time to time. NKYHelps.org will notify you of any such changes by posting notice of the changes on the NKYHelps.org start-up screen. If you object to any such changes, your sole recourse shall be to cease using the NKYHelps.org Web site. Continued use of the NKYHelps.org Web site following notice of any such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.
How To Contact Us
We appreciate your questions or comments about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with NKYHelps.org. Please contact us.
