At AFAO, protecting your privacy is an important part of earning your trust, respecting your dignity, and fulfilling our charitable mission with integrity, transparency, and accountability.
We recognize that individuals, immigrant families, low-income households, volunteers, donors, community partners, and supporters place their confidence in our Organization when they share personal information. We are committed to managing that information responsibly, ethically, and in accordance with applicable law and recognized nonprofit governance practices.
Our Privacy CommitmentAFAO is committed to the following principles:
- We collect only the personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our programs, services, and organizational operations.
- We use personal information only for legitimate charitable, educational, administrative, operational, security, and legal purposes consistent with our mission.
- We do not knowingly sell personal information or use it for unrelated commercial marketing purposes.
- We seek to protect personal information through reasonable administrative, technical, physical, and organizational safeguards.
- We respect applicable privacy rights and respond to privacy-related requests in accordance with applicable law and our organizational procedures.
- We continually review and improve our privacy and information management practices as our Organization evolves and legal, operational, and technological requirements change.
Depending on your relationship with AFAO, we may collect limited personal information to:
- Deliver programs and services;
- Respond to inquiries and requests;
- Process volunteer applications and charitable donations;
- Communicate with participants, volunteers, donors, and community partners;
- Administer organizational operations and maintain appropriate records;
- Improve our Website, services, accessibility, and user experience;
- Comply with applicable legal, financial, grant, audit, tax, and regulatory obligations; and
- Protect the rights, safety, security, property, and legitimate interests of AFAO and the individuals and communities we serve.
We seek to collect and use only the information that is reasonably necessary for these purposes.
Protecting Your InformationProtecting personal information is one of AFAO's organizational responsibilities.
This summary is provided solely for general informational convenience and does not replace the complete Terms of Use. In the event of any inconsistency between this summary and the Full Terms of Use, the Full Terms of Use shall govern.
Access to personal information is limited to authorized individuals with a legitimate organizational need to access such information. We implement reasonable administrative, technical, physical, and organizational safeguards designed to help protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, misuse, or loss.
Although no method of electronic communication, internet transmission, or data storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure, AFAO continually works to strengthen its privacy and information security practices.
Accessibility and InclusionAFAO is committed to serving diverse communities with dignity, fairness, professionalism, and respect.
Where reasonably practicable, we seek to promote accessibility and language access to help individuals understand and benefit from our programs, services, resources, and privacy practices.
Your Privacy RightsDepending on applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including the ability to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information where legally available. California residents may have additional privacy rights under applicable California law.
This SummaryThis Privacy Policy Summary is provided solely for general informational convenience and does not replace the complete Privacy Policy.
In the event of any inconsistency between this Summary and the Full Privacy Policy, the Full Privacy Policy shall govern.
We encourage all users to review our Full Privacy Policy to better understand how AFAO collects, uses, shares, protects, retains, and manages personal information.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy Summary, the Full Privacy Policy, or AFAO's privacy practices, please contact AFAO using the official contact information provided on our Website.