The Iowa Council of Foundations has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy for our web site users and our membership. The following paragraphs disclose our information gathering and dissemination practices. The privacy statement may change at any time; any changes will be posted on this page. Should you have additional questions, comments or concerns please contact: Iowa Council of Foundations
P. O. Box 13229
Des Moines, IA 50310

Telephone: (515) 537- 6956
Fax: (319) 287-9105

The following topics describe how the Iowa Council of Foundations uses your information voluntarily submitted by its members and other visitors to this site.

E-Mail Privacy

Your e-mail address will only be used within the ICoF and its entities. We do not sell or rent e-mail addresses to anyone outside the ICoF. If you do not wish to receive e-mail correspondence, please e-mail your request to office@iowacounciloffoundations.org or call our Administrative Center at 319-287-9106.

Use of Cookies and IP addresses

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. We use cookies to maintain user session identity, and, in some non-member areas, to store your username and password locally for ease of access. "Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. A unique number called an IP address identifies every computer on the Internet. Each time you connect to the Internet your machine is assigned an IP address. An IP address is a number that identifies each sender or receiver of information that is sent in packets across the Internet.

IowaCouncilofFoundations.org Site/Membership Registration Forms

Our site's registration forms require users to give us contact information (like name and email address), method of payment, and demographic information. We use customer contact information from the registration forms to send the user information about the Council. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary. Information regarding method of payment is collected for member enrollment, registration and to process orders for products and services.

External Links

Iowacounciloffoundations.org contains links to other external web sites that do not fall under this domain. Iowacounciloffoundations.org is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such external web sites. If you choose to follow such links to external websites, you do so at your own risk.

E-Commerce for Conference Registration/Publications Sales/Foundation News & Commentary Subscriptions

Our site uses an order form for customers to request information, products, and services. We collect visitor's contact information (like email address) and method of payment. Contact information from the order form is used to process orders and to send information about our association. User payment information that is collected is used to check the user's qualifications and bill the user for products and services. This information is transmitted via a secure email. Because the ICoF site is designed with frames this may not be apparent to the user.

Surveys

Our online surveys ask respondents for contact information (like email address) and demographic information (like zip code, age). We also may use contact data from our surveys to send information about our association.

Public Forums

This site makes chat rooms, forums, e-mail lists and message boards available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Although iowacounciloffoundations.org tries to protect your personal information when using these public forums, iowacounciloffoundations.org cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.