Privacy Policy

‍Last Updated on January 24, 2025

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‍Summary

‍We will never spam you. We will never have direct access to your payment methods without your consent. As part of GDPR compliance, we’ve simplified our Privacy Policy.

Also as part of GDPR compliance, you can now

1) Opt out of all marketing communication at any time from us at furnishingfoundations.org.

2) You may request all the data points we have on you.

3) Ask us to delete all information we have on you.

‍Protecting your private information is our priority.

‍This Statement of Privacy applies to furnishingfoundations.org and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Furnishing Foundations include Furnishing Foundations, Inc. and furnishingfoundations.org. The Furnishing Foundations website is an informational and charitable donation site.

By using the Furnishing Foundations Website you consent to the data practices described in this statement.‍‍

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‍Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, Furnishing Foundations, Inc. may collect personally identifiable information, such as your: If you donate to Furnishing Foundations or purchase Furnishing Foundations' products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. Furnishing Foundations may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you.

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‍We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us.

‍However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site.

These may include:

(a) registering for an account on our Site;

(b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners;

(c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties;

(d) sending us an email message;

(e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when donating, ordering, or purchasing products and services on our Site;

(f) submitting a proposal or contact form;

(g) submitting any type of form on our Site.

(h) speaking with us on a call.

To with, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.‍‍

‍Use of your Personal Information

‍- First and Last Name

- Mailing Address

- Email Address

- Phone Number

- Employer

- Job Title

- Monthly Revenue

- Age

- Gender

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when registering at the Services expressing an interest in obtaining information about us , donations, or our products and services, when participating in activities on the Services or otherwise contacting us.

Publicly Available Personal Information. We collect first name, maiden name, last name, nickname; email addresses; business email; business entity filings, corporate affiliations, business associates; business phone number; phone numbers; current and former address; social media; and other similar data.

‍Personal Information Provided by You. We collect data collected from surveys; financial information (credit card number, purchase history, invoices); and other similar data.

Payment Data. We collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is stored by Stripe and PayPal.

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furnishingfoundations.org collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver products and services or information you have requested.

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furnishingfoundations.org may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Furnishing Foundations and its affiliates.

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Sharing Information with Third Parties; Furnishing Foundations, Inc. does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

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Furnishing Foundations may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. Furnishing Foundations may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Furnishing Foundations, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

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Furnishing Foundations, Inc. may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

(a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Furnishing Foundations or the site;

(b) protect and defend the rights or property of Furnishing Foundations, Rebecca Griffin; and/or

(c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Furnishing foundations, or the public.

(d) when posting videos to YouTube.

Information automatically collected In Short: Some information — such as IP address and/or browser and device characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our Services.

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.

Online Identifiers. We collect devices; tools and protocols, such as IP (Internet Protocol) addresses; cookie identifiers, or others such as the ones used for analytics and marketing; device’s geolocation; and other similar data.

Information collected from other sources In Short: We may collect limited data from public databases, marketing partners, social media platforms, and other outside sources.

We may obtain information about your from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, social media platforms (such as Facebook), as well as from other third parties. Examples of the information we receive from other sources include: social media profile information (your name, gender, birthday, email, current city, state and country, user identification numbers for your contacts, profile picture URL, and any other information that you choose to make public); marketing leads and search results and links, including paid listings (such as sponsored links).

How do we use your information?

To send administrative information to you. We may use your personal information to send you donation requests, product, service and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.

To send you marketing and promotional communications. We and/or our third party marketing partners may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time.

To post testimonials. We post testimonials on our Services that may contain personal information. Prior to posting a testimonial, we will obtain your consent to use your name and testimonial. If you wish to update, or delete your testimonial, please contact us at [email protected] and be sure to include your name, testimonial location, and contact information.

‍To post videos. We post recorded videos from volunteer days on our resources page and youtube channel and other sites that may contain personal information. Prior to posting a video, we will review the video to ensure we limit certain personal information from being released. If you wish to update, or delete your video, please contact us at [email protected] and be sure to include your name, video link, and contact information.

Deliver targeted advertising to you. We may use your information to develop and display content and advertising (and work with third parties who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.

To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services.

For other Business Purposes. We may use your information for other Business Purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Services, products, marketing and your experience. We may use and store this information in aggregated and anonymized form so that it is not associated with individual end users and does not include personal information. We will not use identifiable personal information without your consent.

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Tracking User Behavior

‍Furnishing Foundations may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Furnishing Foundations, in order to determine what Furnishing Foundations services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Furnishing Foundations to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

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Automatically Collected Information

‍Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by furnishingfoundations.org. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Furnishing Foundations website.

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Use of Cookies

‍The furnishingfoundations.org website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

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One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Furnishing Foundations pages, or register with Furnishing Foundations site or services, a cookie helps Furnishing Foundations to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Furnishing Foundations website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Furnishing Foundation features that you customized.

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You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Furnishing Foundation services or websites you visit.

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Security of your Personal Information

‍Furnishing Foundations secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Furnishing Foundations uses the following methods for this purpose:

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

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We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

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Children Under Thirteen

Furnishing Foundations, Inc. does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

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E-mail Communications

‍From time to time, Furnishing Foundations may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Furnishing Foundations or click on a link therein.

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If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Furnishing Foundations, you may opt out of such communications by clicking opt-out.

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Changes to this Statement

‍Furnishing Foundations reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the- SSL Protocol primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page.

Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

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Contact Information

‍Furnishing Foundations welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Furnishing Foundations has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Furnishing Foundations, Inc. at:‍‍

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‍Furnishing Foundations, Inc.

C/O Rebecca Griffin

964 Pampas Dr, Jonesborough, TN 37659

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‍Email Address: [email protected]

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Effective as of January 24, 2025.