Privacy Policy

Last updated: 4/16/2025

This William Penn Foundation Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) is delivered on behalf of The William Penn Foundation, and its affiliates (the “Foundation” or “we”, “our”, “us”) and governs the personal information we collect or receive from or about you when you visit www.williampennfoundation.org (“Website”) and, as applicable, any of our social media pages and online applications that link to this Privacy Policy and in connection with delivering the services to you, whether online or offline (collectively, the “Services”).

The Foundation is committed to protecting your privacy. We provide this Privacy Policy to explain our practices for collecting, sharing and using your personal information and to tell you about the choices you may be able to make regarding the ways in which your information is collected, used and shared. This Privacy Policy does not apply to other third-party services, websites and applications accessed by or through our Services. Accordingly, this Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of any third party, affiliate, or business partner that the Foundation does not own or control. Additionally, social media services may have additional online privacy terms and conditions that may vary from the terms of this Privacy Policy depending on a user’s own personal preferences with that social media service.

Please read our Privacy Policy carefully. By using our Services, you consent, where required, to the use and sharing of the information we collect and receive as described below.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect information, including personal information, about you in various ways and from various sources. For example, you may provide personal information directly to us, we may collect certain information about you automatically through your use of the Services, or we may obtain information about you from other sources.

Information You Provide To Us

When you use the Services, you may, among other activities, subscribe to the Foundation’s mailing lists; register to create a grants portal account; or submit an inquiry or communicate with us. The information that you provide to us and that we collect or receive depends on your relationship with us and your interaction with the Services, but may include name, address, telephone number, email address, or job title.

Information We Collect Automatically

We, our partners, or other vendors or service providers may automatically collect certain information when you visit our Website, open our emails, or otherwise use our Services. Such automatically collected information may include:

  • The type of browser and operating system you are using.
  • Your IP address or mobile device identifier.
  • Unique online identifier or device identifier.
  • The domain name of your internet service provider.
  • The date and time of a visit, information about the content you view and the features you access, the number of links you click within the Website, as well as your activity and behavior on our Services.
  • Location-based information regarding the city, state or country such as that associated with the device you use to access our Services.
  • Information reflecting your preferences, trends and/or behavior while using the Website or our Services.

This personal information may be combined and linked with personal information from other sources. Please see the “Cookies and Online Tracking” section below for additional information.

Information We Obtain From Other Sources

We may also obtain information about you from other sources.  For example, your employer or other person or entity with which you are affiliated may provide us with certain information about you, such as, your name and business contact details in connection with a Grants Portal account. We may also collect information about you via our social media pages, as described in the “Social Media and Other Platforms” section below.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use the information collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy in the following ways:

  • To operate and provide the Services to you, or to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide us with information.
  • To deliver the information, products or services you have requested from us.
  • To market to you and offer other information, products, programs or services that may be of interest.
  • To help us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized experience, including by enabling us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns, store information about your preferences and recognize you when you use our Services.
  • To evaluate your eligibility for certain Services.
  • To improve the design and content of our products and Services, which includes using analytics to develop new products and services.
  • To conduct research and analytics.
  • To enable us to customize your user experience and analyze site usage, including by tracking the Services you have used.
  • To offer you enhanced products, programs, or services.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and the Foundation, including for billing and collection, and as we believe is necessary or appropriate to protect, enforce or defend the legal rights, privacy, safety or property of the Foundation, and its Services, its employees or agents, or other users or to comply with applicable law.
  • To de-identify, aggregate and anonymize Personal Information before we use the data to help us provide better Services to you, including but not limited to, by analyzing the effectiveness of our Services, increasing the accuracy of predictions, improving and adding features to our Services. We may also use such aggregate data for research purposes and make available or share aggregate information such as general user statistics.
  • To communicate with you, including to notify you about changes to our Services.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information, or otherwise at your direction or with your consent.
  • As permitted by law or as we may notify you.

HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

We may share the information we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information, as follows:

  • With our affiliates.
  • With our service providers, business partners and vendors. We may share your information with our service providers, business partners and vendors on which we rely to, for example, assist us in providing the Services to you. These entities may use your information as is necessary or appropriate for the performance of the services they provide to us, or as otherwise contractually permitted.
  • When you request any products or services, we may share your information to the extent necessary to fulfill your request.
  • We will disclose information we collect about you when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request.
  • We may disclose information to third parties if necessary to (i) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; (ii) protect against harm to our Services; (iii) establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, or (iv) protect the rights and property of the Foundation and their respective agents, customers, and others, including to enforce our agreements, policies, and terms of use, or to protect the personal safety of any person.

In addition, please note that if the Foundation or any of its lines of business is merged, acquired, divested, financed, sold, disposed of or dissolved, including through merger, consolidation, sale or divestiture of assets, the relevant customer database and any information collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy, including personal information we may possess about you, may, in whole or in part, be sold, disposed of, transferred, divested, or otherwise disclosed as part of that transaction or proceeding.

We may also de-identify, aggregate and anonymize Personal Information before we use the data for any purpose, including but not limited to, providing better Services to you by analyzing the effectiveness of our Services, increasing the accuracy of predictions, improving and adding features to our Services. We may also use such aggregate data for research purposes and make available or share aggregate information such as general user statistics.

Cookies and Online Tracking

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We and third-party partners we engage may use cookies (i.e., small text files that are stored on your browser, computer, or mobile device), web beacons, pixel tags, browser analysis tools, server logs and other tracking technologies to automatically collect information, including personal information such as your IP address, from your browser.

Our Website may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be accessed every time you use our Website.

Our Website uses cookies and other tracking technologies for a variety of purposes, including functional and analytics purposes. For example, we, our service providers and other partners we engage use cookies and other tracking technologies:

  • For functional purposes, such as to provide the Website and its content to you.
  • For analytics purposes, such as to provide us with information about which portions of our Website are the most popular, enabling us to see what web pages a user visits and how much time a user spends on each page.
  • To personalize your experience (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to our site, to save your password in password-protected areas, or to tailor content, or product and service offerings to you).

Google Analytics

Our Website may use Google Analytics, a web analytics service offered by Google. You may learn more about Google’s practices with Google Analytics by visiting Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners.

Your Choices:

You can generally manage your cookie preferences through your web browser. Most web browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies and how to disable existing cookies. For more information regarding how to manage your preferences, please consult the information made available by your particular browser or visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

With respect to Google Analytics, you can also view Google’s currently available opt-out options at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout in an effort to opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics.

Please note that if you choose not to accept cookies, you may be unable to use certain features of our Website.

LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES OR OTHER SERVICES

Our Website and some of our Services on which a link to this Privacy Policy appears contain links to third-party websites and services whose privacy practices may be different than ours. We also allow you to connect with other third-party websites and services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites and services, and you should consult the other third-party websites’ and services’ privacy notices in order to better understand their privacy practices.

SOCIAL MEDIA AND OTHER PLATFORMS

You may choose to engage with us on Social Media Platforms. We collect and receive information from you when you interact with our social media pages, accounts or via posts you make on Social Media Platforms.  If you choose to make any of your activities or other content available through a Social Media Platform, including on our pages, or you engage in other activities in connection with a Social Media Platform, your friends and followers on those Social Media Platforms that you have enabled, and potentially the general public, will be able to view those contributions and activities. Please remember that the manner in which Social Media Platforms use, store, and disclose your information is governed by the policies of such third parties. The Foundation is not responsible for the privacy practices or other actions of any Social Media Platform through which we may engage with you.

DATA RETENTION

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and processed, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for your personal information, we will consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and applicable legal requirements.

SECURITY

We have put in place reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to help secure and prevent unauthorized access to the information we collect from and about you. However, no system can be completely secure, and we do not guarantee that unauthorized disclosures and access will not happen. Although we take reasonable measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that your personal information or other information will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our Services are not intended for users under the age of 16, and the Foundation does not knowingly collect information from anyone under the age of 16. No one under the age of 16 is permitted to access or use the Foundation’s Services or to provide the Foundation with personal information. If you are a parent or guardian and believe we have collected information from your child, please contact us at [email protected].

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

This Privacy Policy may be changed by the Foundation at any time and such changes will apply to information we collected from you pursuant to a previous privacy policy. The revised Privacy Policy will be posted on the appropriate portion(s) of our Website and will indicate at the top when it was most recently updated. We encourage you to periodically check back to review this policy so that you know what information we collect, how we use it and with whom we share it.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our practices, please contact us at [email protected].