Diversity Richmond has created this Privacy Policy to explain why we collect particular information and how we will protect your personal privacy within our website. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the website located at the URL diversityrichmond.org.
In order to fully understand your rights we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy. Diversity Richmond reserves the right at any time and without notice to change this Privacy Policy simply by posting such changes on our Site. Any such change will be effective immediately upon posting.
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to Diversity Richmond by sending an email to . Please reference this Privacy Policy in your subject line.
What Information We Collect and How We Use That Information:
Our registration forms, donation forms and surveys require users to give us contact information that may include name, email address, format preference (HTML vs. Text), address, interests, and similar information. We do not request or store sensitive information from our visitors, such as credit card or social security numbers.
Requested contact information is used for purposes described in individual registration forms, donation forms or surveys. All electronic communications from diversityrichmond.org is on an ‘opt-in’ basis and every electronic communication includes a link to ‘opt-out’ of electronic communications from Diversity Richmond.
Third Party Providers:
Diversity Richmond subscribes to services that assist us in collecting the information necessary to send our e-mail newsletter and to process online donations. These services have their own privacy policies. Please visit these services in order to become familiar with these policies.
Constant Contact (For collection and processing of visitor e-mail addresses for opt-in receipt of our newsletter and for online survey processing)
PayPal (For collection and processing of information necessary to complete online donations to Diversity Richmond)
Internet Protocol Address:
We collect an IP address from all visitors to our Site. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Site, analyze trends, track users’ movement, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in order for us to improve the site, and deliver customized, personalized content. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Use of “Cookies”:
Our Site may use cookies to enhance your experience while using our Site. Cookies are pieces of information that some websites transfer to the computer that is browsing that website and are used for record-keeping purposes at many websites. Use of cookies makes Web-surfing easier by performing certain functions such as saving your passwords, your personal preferences regarding your use of the particular website and to make sure you don’t see the same ad repeatedly. Many consider the use of cookies to be an industry standard.
Your browser is probably set to accept cookies. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our Site will not function properly when you view them.
Security:
Information provided to Diversity Richmond for the purposes of subscription to our e-mail newsletter and for online donations is transmitted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. SSL is a proven coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt, or scramble, data before you send it to us. We also protect account information by placing it on a secure portion of our Site that is only accessible by certain qualified employees of Diversity Richmond. Our third-party service providers also protect the security of this data, under the terms of their privacy policies linked above. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information.
Information provided to Diversity Richmond through our general contact forms at diversityrichmond.org and information contained in e-mail messages to is not transmitted using SSL. Visitors should not use these methods to transmit sensitive information.
Other Websites:
Our Site contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another website for which Diversity Richmond has no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may be different than ours.
Contacting the Website:
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, you can contact:
Diversity Richmond
1407 Sherwood Avenue
Richmond, Virginia 23220
(804) 622-4646