We Respect Your Privacy
 

Friends of the Children is committed to respecting the privacy of its financial and in-kind donors, whether the donation is made online, by mail, or any other method. When you make a financial or in-kind donation, you provide your name and contact information. Financial donors provide standard payment information including, in many circumstances, credit card data. We protect your information in a variety of ways, as described below.

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We use industry standard safeguards to protect your information. Many donors use credit cards for donations. We protect the security of credit card transactions using a number of measures such as encryption, access controls, network firewalls, and physical security. These measures make it extremely difficult for anyone to intercept the credit card information you send to us. When we work with other companies to process credit card transactions, those companies also use encryption and other appropriate security measures.

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We will not sell, share or trade our donors’ personally identifiable information with any other entity, except as described below. In addition, we will not send mailings to our donors on behalf of other organizations, unless a donor has given us specific permission to do so. Friends of the Children has vendors that assist with processing and managing donations and donor data. We give these vendors access to donor data. Our vendors are bound by strict confidentiality rules and are permitted to use donor data only to support Friends of the Children operations.

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In the event that we collect a phone number, the consent we receive will not be shared with third party providers.

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Cookie Usage Policy for Friends of the Children - Portland

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Revised: [08/19/2025]

At Friends of the Children - Portland, we value your privacy and are committed to being transparent about how we collect and use data. This Cookie Policy explains how cookies and similar technologies are used on our website.

Under U.S. state privacy laws, you have the right to:

• Know what cookies are used and why

• Opt out of cookies used for targeted advertising, profiling, or the sale/sharing of personal data

• Withdraw or change your cookie preferences at any time

• Use browser signals like Global Privacy Control (GPC), which we honor where required by law

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1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by our website. They help us distinguish you from other users and improve your experience.

 

2. Types of Cookies Used

• Session cookies – Temporary files that remain on your device only until you close your browser. They cannot access personal data and support website functionality.

• Persistent cookies – Stored on your device until manually deleted or expired. They don’t collect personal or confidential information.

 

3. What information do we collect?

We do not use cookies to collect personal identifiers. Instead, we gather anonymous, aggregated data, such as:

• Your device’s public IP address

• Web page(s) accessed

• Date, time, and duration of your visit

• If we use advertising or social media tools (like Meta/Facebook Pixel), these cookies help measure campaign performance

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4. Purpose of cookies

Cookies help us:

• Optimize content delivery and user interface based on device and browser

• Generate statistics to understand how the site is used, allowing us to enhance its structure and content

• Use Google Analytics (a third-party service) to collect and analyze this anonymous data

5. Opt-out Rights - Browser cookie settings

Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can, at any time:

• Disable cookies entirely

• Configure browser settings to notify you before accepting cookies

• If you choose to block or delete cookies, certain website functions may not work correctly.

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6. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy occasionally. Changes will be published on our website.

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Contact: If you have questions about our cookie policy, please email: info@friendsofthechildren.org

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