• About Us
• Programs
• Grants
• Blog

Privacy Policy

Last modified: January 12, 2011

At the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, we recognize that privacy is important. This Privacy
Policy applies to the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelly Foundation website.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or
write to us at:

35 East Wacker Drive
Suite 2600
Chicago, Illinois 60601-2102
(312) 977-2700 phone

Grant Applications and Reporting

This policy does not apply to grant applications and grant reporting tools.

Information we collect and how we use it

To use the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation website, you do not have to register or provide any
personal information to us. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following
types of information:

Information you provide for an email subscription

When you sign up to receive e-mail from Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, we ask you for personal information (such as your name and email address). We use this information to send you email messages about programs and projects of the foundation.

Information you provide – Tell a friend. 

If you choose to use our e-mail-a-friend service to tell a friend about our website and our contacts, we will ask you for your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the website. Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation retains this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.

Information you provide – Sharing toolbar.

If you choose to use our toolbar to share content on social media sites such as Twitter or Facebook, you are sharing your information with ShareThis, the provider of the toolbar. ShareThis’s privacy policy and practices are available here: http://sharethis.com/privacy

Cookies

When you visit the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Website, we may send one or more cookies – a small file containing a string of characters – to your computer or other device that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service, such as tracking user trends. 

Log information

When you access Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation's website, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.

User communications

When you send email or other communications to Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.

Links

Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to monitor aggregated use of our site.

Other sites

This Privacy Policy applies to Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Website only. We do not exercise control over the sites we link to. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.

Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation only processes personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:

• Providing our services;

• Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services; and

• Ensuring the technical functioning of our site.

Children’s online privacy

This site is not intended for children. If you use this site, you are affirming that you are age 13 or older.

Choice/opt-out

When you sign up to receive e-mail from Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, we ask you to provide
personal information. If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was
collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
To opt out of receiving e-mail from Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, visit this Web page:
http://gddf.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=fd48b9524367f9a4e63ff3ee2&id=4627de02a5

If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Privacy
Policy, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other
purposes. We will not collect or use personal information for purposes other than those described in this
Privacy Policy, unless we have obtained your prior consent.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies
or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some site features and services may not function
properly if your cookies are disabled.

Information sharing

Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation only shares personal information with other organizations or individuals in the following limited circumstances:

• We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to:

• satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request,

• detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or 

• protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

If Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will ensure the confidentiality of any personal information involved in such transactions and provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who visited the site or who downloaded a particular publication. Such information does not identify you individually.

Please contact us at the address above for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.

Information security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. We restrict access to personal information to foundation employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or
improve our services. 

Questions and changes to this Privacy Policy

Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes). The version of this Privacy Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date.

If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this website or at the address above.