Privacy Policy

At Kantner Foundation, Inc., a Florida not-for-profit corporation (the “Foundation,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”).

This Privacy Policy describes the following:

• The types of information we may collect or that you may provide when you access or use our website, https://kantnerfoundation.org/ (the “Website”), including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through the Website.
• Our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect in this Website and in email, text, and other electronic communications sent through or in connection with this Website.

This Privacy Policy DOES NOT apply to the following:

• Information we collect offline or on any other websites of the Foundation, including websites you may access through this Website.
• Information you provide to or is collected by any third party (see the subsection entitled Third-Party Information Collection under Section 3 of this Privacy Policy).

The Foundation’s websites (other than the Website) and any third parties may have their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to read before providing such websites or third parties with information.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, do not access, register with, or use this Website. By accessing, registering with, or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see Section 9 of this Privacy Policy, Changes to Our Privacy Policy). By continuing to use this Website after we revise this Privacy Policy, you consent to and accept those changes. Please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.

We collect information from and about users of our Website in the following ways:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically when you use the Website.

Information You Provide to Us

When you access, register with, or use this Website, we may ask you to provide the following types of information:

• Personal Information. Information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“Personal Information”).
• Non-Identifying Information. Information that is about you but does not identify you, such as content preferences and search queries.

The information you provide to us includes the following:

• Form Content. Information that you provide by filling in forms on the Website, including information provided at the time of registering to use the Website. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with the Website.
• Correspondences. Records and copies of your correspondence, including email addresses and phone numbers, if you contact us.
• Scholarship Materials. You may also provide information and documents through our Website as part of a scholarship application (collectively, “Scholarship Materials”) for review by the Foundation. Your Scholarship Materials are intended to be accessed only by the Foundation or its designated agents; however, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot guarantee the actions of third parties who may also have access to the Scholarship Materials. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your Scholarship Materials will not be viewed, downloaded, or copied by unauthorized persons.

Automatic Information Collection

When you access, register with, or use the Website, it may use technology to automatically collect the following types of information:

• Usage Details. When you access and use the Website, we may automatically collect certain details of your access to and use of the Website, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data, and the resources that you access and use on or through the Website.
• Device Information. We may collect information about your electronic device and internet connection, including the device’s unique device identifier, IP address, operating system, browser type, mobile network information, and the device’s telephone number.
• Stored Information and Files. The Website may access metadata and other information associated with other files stored on your device. This may include, for example, photographs, audio and video clips, personal contacts, and address book information.
• Location Information. This Website DOES NOT collect real-time information about the location of your device.

If you do not want us to collect any of the information described above, do not access, register with, or use this Website.

Information Collection Technologies

The technologies we use for automatic information collection may include cookies (i.e., a small file placed on your electronic device). It may be possible to refuse to accept cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your electronic device.

Third-Party Information Collection

When you use the Website or its content, certain third parties may use automatic information collection technologies to collect information about you or your device. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information and Scholarship Materials, in the following ways:

• To provide you with the Website, its contents, and any other information that you request from us.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide such information.
• To give you notices about your account.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
• To notify you when Website updates are available.

The usage information we collect helps us improve our Website and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to do the following:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you use the Website.

We may use the information we collect to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual or device, without restriction.

We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or that you provide as follows:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and to use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide such information. For example, if you use the “Sharing” feature in the Website, we may transmit the shared content of that message and your phone or email to the recipient.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.
• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Foundation or other users. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. This Section describes mechanisms we provide for you to control certain uses and disclosures of your Personal Information.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies or block the use of other tracking technologies, some parts of the Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

You can review and change your Personal Information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.

We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you delete your account from the Website, copies of your Personal Information and/or Scholarship Materials may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by the Website. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including Personal Information and Scholarship Materials, is governed by our terms of use.

We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of the Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We recommend choosing a strong password and not sharing it with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet and mobile platforms is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information or Scholarship Materials transmitted through our Website. Any transmission of such information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures we provide.

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time without prior notice to you. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will post the new Privacy Policy on this page after we make the change.

The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at [email protected].