Privacy Policy

Women Building Futures is committed to protecting your privacy. 

This Statement of Privacy applies to the Women Building Futures website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Women Building Futures website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Women Building Futures collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Women Building Futures also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your postal code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Women Building Futures. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Website addresses. This information is used by Women Building Futures for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Women Building Futures Website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Women Building Futures public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Women Building Futures does not read any of your private online communications.

Women Building Futures encourages you to review the privacy statements of Websites you choose to link to from Women Building Futures so that you can understand how those Websites collect, use and share your information. Women Building Futures is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Websites outside of the Women Building Futures and Women Building Futures family of Websites.

Use of your Personal Information

Women Building Futures collects and uses your personal information to operate the Women Building Futures Website and deliver the services you have requested. Women Building Futures also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Women Building Futures and its affiliates. Women Building Futures may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Women Building Futures does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Women Building Futures 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. In addition, Women Building Futures may share data with trusted partners to help us 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 Women Building Futures, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Women Building Futures does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Women Building Futures keeps track of the Websites and pages our customers visit within Women Building Futures, in order to determine what Women Building Futures services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Women Building Futures to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Third parties may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect or receive information from Women Building Futures and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. Users of Women Building Futures website can opt-out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices.

Women Building Futures Websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only 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 Women Building Futures or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Women Building Futures; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Women Building Futures, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Women Building Futures Website 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.

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 Women Building Futures pages, or register with Women Building Futures site or services, a cookie helps Women Building Futures 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 Women Building Futures Website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Women Building Futures features that you customized.

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 Women Building Futures services or Websites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Women Building Futures secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Women Building Futures secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. 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 Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Contact Information

Women Building Futures welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Women Building Futures has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Women Building Futures by visiting our contact page.