Privacy Policy

All financial transactions on our Site, specifically online donations, are managed through the national Make-A-Wish Foundation^® of America, which is TRUSTe certified, and subject to the privacy policy of the national Make-A-Wish Foundation of America.  All transactions use an encrypted channel, take place on secure servers and occur in real time. No financial data, such as your credit card number, is transferred via a less-secure channel, such as encrypted e-mail, for processing.  Moreover, once your transaction has been completed, your credit card number is not retained.

 

 

When you are making a donation, expressing an interest in referring a wish child, submitting one of our online forms, we ask you for personal contact information, including your name, mailing address, phone number and e-mail address.  We will use this contact information to provide you with information or resources you have requested, such as information about the Foundation, a receipt or a financial report, or we will use your information to contact you to clarify or verify other information, such as an order you placed or a wish child that you have referred.

 

 

When you make a donation or become an active volunteer for the Foundation, we will add your name and contact information to our mailing list.  If you are included on our mailing list, then you may receive news about the Foundation and information on how you can support the organization's mission.  We will never solicit you.  You can choose at any time to opt-out of our mailing list by contacting boston@massri.wish.org.

 

 

If you are on our postal mailing list, we may contact you from time to time to offer you services from third parties that will directly benefit the Foundation.

 

 

The Foundation feels strongly that your personal data should only be seen by you, unless you choose to share it with others.  We will never sell, rent, license or exchange personally identifiable data with a third party without your permission.  Personal contact information is not shared with any organization outside of the Foundation or our national organization, the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, and our agents (reputable companies we use for services, such as shipping Foundation products or sending Foundation mail).  We have contracts to protect your privacy with all of our agents.

 

The Foundation will only disclose personally identifiable data without your permission in the following limited circumstances: (a) if the Foundation is required to do so by law, or (b) if the Foundation has the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to applicable laws or comply with legal process served on the Foundation, or to protect and defend the rights or property of the Foundation or to enforce these terms and policies.

 

 

 

 

You can view and request changes to all the information you have given us, including any mailing lists you may be on, by contacting us one of two ways:

 

 

For each User of our Site, our server automatically recognizes the User’s IP address (no personally identifiable information, such as e-mail addresses, are automatically recognized by our server).  We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Site.  Your IP address may also be used to gather broad demographic information.  Occasionally, we may use session cookies to improve content, provide easier access and understand how visitors use our Site.  Session cookies are also used to support our e-commerce pages.  These cookies persist on your system for the duration of your browser session only.  Our Site does not offer stand-alone or plug-in applications that report individually identifiable information back to us or to any other organization.

 

 

This Site contains links to other Sites, including ones that gather personal contact information.  The Foundation is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Sites.  However, any personal information obtained by us through other Sites is treated as if it was gathered on our Site and our privacy policy applies.

 

 

With respect to children, the Foundation only collects personally identifiable contact information from children who are referring themselves as potential wish children.  We use such information only for the purposes of contacting the child's family to make an assessment of wish eligibility, but we do not share it in any other way or with any other third parties.  We do not give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information on our Site.

 

 

Information collected by the Foundation is stored in secure operating environments that are not available to the public.  All of our employees are dedicated to maintaining and upholding your privacy and security and are aware of our privacy and security policies.  Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed 100% secure.  As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, the Foundation cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk.  Once we receive your transmission, we make our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.

 

 

Our privacy policy is subject to change from time to time.  Any changes to this privacy policy will be posted on this page of our Site, and we will mark the link to our privacy policy from our Internet home page to note the date of any changes, so that you will always know what information we collect online, how we use it, and what choices you have.

 

 

All uses of Make-A-Wish Foundation of America service marks, both registered and common law, must be approved in writing by the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America. Inquiries may be directed to comm@wish.org.

 

 

are registered service marks of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America.

 

The Foundation reserves the right to take action against any use of its service marks that do not conform to the conditions herein, or that infringe any intellectual property or other rights of the Foundation.

 

The works of authorship contained in this Site, including but not limited to all design, text, and images, are owned or licensed by the Foundation and may not be copied, reproduced, transmitted, displayed, performed, distributed, rented, sublicensed, altered, stored by subsequent use, or otherwise used in whole or in part in any manner without our prior written consent, except that you may make such temporary copies in a single computer's RAM and hard drive cache as are necessary to browse the Site, and you may make one permanent printout of each page of the Site (unmodified in form, with a copy of these terms and policies attached) to be used by you for personal and non-commercial uses that do not harm the reputation of the Foundation.

 

Thank you for taking the time to review our Privacy Policy and User Agreement.  The Foundation is very concerned about online privacy and safety.  If you have any questions about these policy statements, the practices of this Site or your dealings with this Site, you can contact:

 

 

Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island

One Bulfinch Place, 2nd Floor

Boston, Massachusetts 02114

617.367.9474