The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for our Web site.

Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. Our ongoing commitment to the protection of your privacy is essential to maintaining the relationship of trust that exists between SmartVolunteer and all of our users, whether they be nonprofit organizations, volunteers, or other visitors to the site. This notice of our privacy policy is intended to help you understand our online information security practices.

Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.

Cookies
Cookies are tiny data files that Web sites commonly write to your hard drive when you visit them so that they can remember you when you visit. We use cookies to save information that will let you quickly and easily return to the site to complete the delivery of a service.

What Information We Collect and How We Use It
This notice applies to all information you submit to SmartVolunteer, whether through the SmartVolunteer Web site or through the Web site of one of our Partners. Please note that we cannot be responsible for the information you submit directly to third parties, including our Partners, who may have their own posted policies regarding the collection and use of your information. We urge you to review the policies of our Partners through whom you may access our services.

The types of personal information ("information") we collect are:

For Volunteers:

• First and Last Name
• Email address
• Phone number
• ZIP code
• Username and Password
• Resume information
• Comments about opportunity

For Nonprofit Organizations or Organizations Eligible for 501c3 Status (“nonprofits”):

• Administrator Information: First and last name, email, telephone number, ZIP code, username and password.
• Organization Information: Name of organization, contact information (including contact title, first and last name, phone, fax, street address and email, mission statement and description of services and web site address.
• Volunteer Opportunity Information: Opportunity title, contact email, description, and location information (either street location or "virtual" designation), required skills, date, and time commitment.

How We Use Information
We use the information we collect about users in order to facilitate the volunteering process and to provide information to you about SmartVolunteer partners and better facilitate the volunteer opportunity. We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Please be aware that, to the extent required to provide our services, you agree to allow your user information to be seen by nonprofit organizations or our Partners, as applicable:

For Volunteers:

If a user indicates interest in a particular volunteer opportunity and provides the requisite information, SmartVolunteer will forward your information to the nonprofit organization that is hosting that opportunity to contact you regarding your potential involvement. While SmartVolunteer encourages these nonprofit organizations to adopt privacy standards similar to its own, SmartVolunteer is not responsible for the privacy practices of these organizations. If you have questions about the privacy policy of those nonprofit organizations or their web sites, please inquire with them directly.

To the extent that you have provided any information to us through our Web site or the web site of one of our partners regarding volunteer opportunities associated with one of our partners, we may share your information with the applicable partner. Each of our Partners has its own policies regarding the collection and use of personal information, and SmartVolunteer is not responsible for their use of your information.

Unless you opt out, your name and email address will be added to the SmartVolunteer email list. The purpose of this is to facilitate communication to our volunteer base.

For Nonprofit Organizations:

If you submit information to us as a nonprofit organization, then, subject to the terms and conditions as a nonprofit member of SmartVolunteer, your information (excluding your EIN number) will be accessible by anyone who accesses SmartVolunteer.

Nonprofits who receive email addresses from potential volunteer signups are strongly encouraged to adopt privacy standards similar to those of SmartVolunteer. Each such organization, however, has its own policies regarding collection and use of personal information and we are not responsible for their use of your information. Inappropriate use of personal information received from SmartVolunteer may jeopardize nonprofit membership with SmartVolunteer. SmartVolunteer reserves the right to determine, in its discretion, what constitutes inappropriate use of this information. For more about a nonprofit organization's policy, please contact them directly using the contact information posted for that organization on our site.

Not A Lead Generation Service

SmartVolunteer is not a lead generation service for freelancers.

 

Links
This site contains links to other sites. Smart Volunteer is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. If you have questions about the privacy policy of those Web sites, please visit them directly.

 

Third-party Access and Use
Occasionally, we hire third-party service providers to help us provide or improve the services we offer you. Sometimes it is necessary for these providers to have access to the information we collect about you. In those cases, we take reasonable steps to ensure that these providers do not use or otherwise disclose any information we collect about you except for the purpose of fulfilling their service obligations to us.

In addition, we share aggregate information about our users with certain third parties. This information shows user activity as a whole rather than on an individual basis and cannot be used to individually identify you. We use aggregated information we collect about users to continue to improve our service to you.

How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information
If you are a nonprofit member, or volunteer with an account, you may access all your personally identifiable Information that we collect and maintain online by simply inputting your username and password where indicated on the website. If you are a nonprofit administrator, you may make any changes or correct factual errors in your administrator, organization and opportunity information 24 hours a day. We use this procedure to better safeguard your Information. You do not need to contact us to access your record or to make any changes. If you have problems changing your organization's Information, please contact nonprofits@smartvolunteer.org.

If you are a volunteer and would like to have your Information deleted from the site, you may do so by contacting volunteers@smartvolunteer.org.

Opting-out of communications
 Users may remove their Information from our database so as not to receive our service or future communications by sending an email to an account that shall be designated for that purpose.

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.

Changes to Policy
SmartVolunteer may change this privacy policy from time to time. If you object to any such changes, your sole recourse shall be to cease using the SmartVolunteer Web site. Continued use of the SmartVolunteer Web site following notice of any such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.

How To Contact Us
We appreciate your questions or comments about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with SmartVolunteer. Please send email to info@smartvolunteer.org.