This is the web site of Northern Indiana Community Foundation.

Our postal address is P.O. Box 807, 800 Main, Rochester, IN 46975.

We can be reached via email at nicf@nicf.org or you can reach us by telephone at 574.223.2227 or 877.432.6423.

Our Commitment to Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our home page and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested. Please note that this policy is subject to change.

The Information We Collect
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Northern Indiana Community Foundation web site. On some pages, you can donate to the foundation or sign up for our electronic newsletter. Following are the types of personal information collected at these pages:

• Name
  
• Organization
  
• Address
  
• E-mail address
  
• Phone number
  
• Phone/fax numbers
  
• Credit/Debit Card Information
  
• [etc.]

When you use the public areas of our web site, you are doing so anonymously.

The Way We Use Information

• We do collect aggregate use information, such as the number of hits per page, for internal and marketing use only; we do not provide your personally identifying information to the public.
  
• We use the information you provide about yourself when conducting a transaction to complete that transaction only. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete your request.
  
• We use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.
  
• Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

Use of Cookies
Northern Indiana Community Foundation may set and access cookies to improve our level of service to our visitors. Cookies are lines of text that are transmitted to your web browser when you click on a site. Your browser stores the information on your hard drive and when you return to that site later, the cookie is transmitted back to the server that originally sent it to you. Cookies provide a way for a server to recall a previous request or registration or to keep track of a transaction in progress so that information does not have to be repeated. You can set your web browser to alert you when you are about to receive a cookie, and at that time you will have to option of refusing the cookie.

Our Commitment to Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Opt-Out
You may ask us to delete any information about you at any time by contacting us at nicf@nicf.org.

How to Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please call us at 574.223.2227 or 877.432.6423 or write to nicf@nicf.org.

Effective 04/01/2007. Please note that this policy is subject to change at any time. Revisions will be effective as of the time they are posted on the site.