Privacy Policy

 

Last Updated: July 1, 2020

By visiting our Website, you are accepting the practices described in our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Website.

The policies below are applicable to the website located at www.mariecolvin.org and any other websites under the control of the Marie Colvin Memorial Foundation (the “Website”), however the Website is accessed and/or used, whether via personal computers, mobile devices, or otherwise, and other interactive features, applications (including mobile applications), or downloads that are operated by the Marie Colvin Memorial Foundation  (“we” and “us”) that are made available by us. Please be advised that the practices described in this Privacy Policy apply only to information gathered online at our Website. They do not apply to information that you may submit to us offline or to websites maintained by other companies or organizations to which we may link.

What Information We Collect

As a general matter, you can browse the Website without submitting your personal information to us. However, there are a number of circumstances in which you may need to provide us with your personal information. The following lists the most common ways in which we collect your personal information.

  • When you sign up to receive e-mail newsletters from us;

  • When you participate in surveys, panels, or research;

  • When you register for and participate in our programs, activities, initiatives, and events;

  • When you request information or assistance;

  • In conjunction with processing your grant applications;

  • In conjunction with your employment inquiries or applications;

  • When you participate with social media accounts involving Foundation properties;

  • When you participate in communities, chat rooms, and other interactive services;

  • In conjunction with any verification of your account information;

  • In conjunction with investigations into any activity that may violate the law or the Website’s terms and conditions;

  • When you communicate with us through the Website;

  • When you provide user-generated content on any part of the Website that permits it; and

  • In conjunction with any other place on the Website where you knowingly volunteer personal information.

When you interact with any Marie Colvin Memorial Foundation  page or account on a social media platform, such as Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, we may also collect the personal information that you make available to us on that page or through that account, including your account ID or “handle.”

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Fonts

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address.

How We Combine Your Information

We may combine information gathered from the Website and information that we have received, gathered, acquired, or stored from other sources, both information collected offline by the Foundation and information received from third parties—including information that currently exists in our files—into a single customer record. We also use and/or combine information that we collect offline or receive from third-party sources (e.g., contact information from government funders or grantor information) to edit, enhance, and/or check the accuracy of your customer record.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we learn from you to help us personalize and continually improve your experience on the Website. We use your Personal and Non-Personal Information in the following ways:

General Uses

  • For editorial purposes;

  • Responding to your inquiries;

  • Sending you information about features on our Website or about the Foundation;

  • Communicating with you about changes to our policies;

  • Personalizing content and experiences on our Website, including providing you with recommendations based on your preferences;

  • Sending you newsletters, mailings, and information about programs, initiatives, activities, and events by e-mail or another medium;

  • Processing your grant application or employment application;

  • Event or program registration;

  • Optimizing or improving our programs, services, and operations;

  • Research and development;

  • Verifying your account and account activities;

  • Detecting, investigating, and preventing activities that may violate our policies or be illegal;

  • Performing statistical, demographic, and marketing analyses of users of the Website and their usage patterns; and

  • Managing our organization

How We Share Your Information

The Marie Colvin Memorial Foundation  adheres to the highest standards of ethical practices in all our operations and is dedicated to protecting the privacy of all visitors to our Website. Except as disclosed below, we don’t sell, barter, give away, rent, or permit anyone outside the Marie Colvin Memorial Foundation  to use or access your personal information and in all cases we only share your personal information where it is in the legitimate interest of furthering the philanthropic aims of the Marie Colvin Memorial Foundation.

We occasionally use independent contractors and third-party agents, affiliates, and partners to perform functions such as marketing, analytics, providing customer service, etc., on our behalf. These entities have access to the personal information needed to perform their functions and are contractually obligated to maintain the confidentiality and security of any personal information collected from the Website. They are restricted from using, selling, distributing, or altering this data in any way other than to provide the requested services to the Marie Colvin Memorial Foundation.

We may also occasionally share your personal information with our organizational and funding partners, grantees, or co-sponsors of our programs, activities, initiatives, and events from time to time. We endeavor to share your personal information only with partners, grantees, and co-sponsors who will respect your personal information. Although our treatment of your personal information is governed by this Privacy Policy, our partner or co-sponsor’s treatment of your personal information will be governed by the partner or co-sponsor’s privacy policy. You may withdraw your consent to our sharing of your personal information with partners and co-sponsors at any time by following the opt-out process described below.

We may also use or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us or the Website; (b) protect and defend our rights or property, the Website, or our users; and (c) act under emergency circumstances to protect the personal safety of us, our affiliates, our agents, or the users of the Website or the public.

Personal Information

The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is a European Regulation concerning the use and processing of personal information. We are committed to processing your information in compliance with the GDPR upon its effectiveness on May 25, 2018.

We will use reasonable efforts to securely process all personal information in line with the rights specified under the GDPR, in particular those related to the following requests:

  • Access to your personal information;

  • Correction of the personal information that we hold;

  • Deletion of your personal information;

  • A restriction of processing of your personal information;

  • Transfer of your personal information to another party; or

  • Objection to processing of your personal information based on the Marie Colvin Memorial Foundation’s legitimate interest (or those of a third party) to use it and there is something about your particular situation that causes you to object to such processing.

We hold your information and use it as described in this Privacy Policy and will use reasonable measures to ensure that your personal information is only transferred to third parties who also maintain at least the standard of protection required under the GDPR.

We consider that Marie Colvin Memorial Foundation has a legitimate interest in collecting and processing your information. The Marie Colvin Memorial Foundation is committed to investing in innovative ideas, visionary individuals, and frontline institutions advancing human dignity around the world and pursuing these aims is not in conflict with your rights. This provides our lawful basis to use your personal information, within the limitations set forth herein.

The Website is published in the United States and is subject to laws of the United States. If you are located in a country outside the United States and voluntarily submit personal information to us, you thereby consent to the general use of such information as provided in this Privacy Policy and to the transfer of that information to, and/or storage of that information in, the United States. The Marie Colvin Memorial Foundation shall not be liable under any circumstances for damages resulting from use of information collected from visitors to the Website.

We reserve the right to modify or amend the terms of this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will mean you accept those changes.

Questions and comments should be directed to info@mariecolvin.org

If you have any questions or requests regarding this policy, if you would like to change your preferences, if you no longer wish to receive e-mail updates from the Marie Colvin Memorial Foundation, or if you believe the Marie Colvin Memorial Foundation has erroneous or incomplete information about you, please send an e-mail to info@mariecolvin.org