Friends of the Columbia Gorge Donor Privacy Policy

Friends of the Columbia Gorge is committed to respecting the privacy of its financial and in-kind donors, whether the donation is made online, by mail, or any other method. When you make a financial or in-kind donation, you provide your name and contact information. When you provide Friends with your personal information, we may enter that information into our constituent database and contact you in order to provide you with information, including Friends of the Columbia Gorge news, events and services, or to request voluntary time or monetary contributions to Friends. 

Financial donors provide standard payment information including, in many circumstances, credit card data. Donations made through our website are protected by the latest in SSL encryption. All personal information provided to us is stored in secure databases. We use industry standard safeguards to protect your information. These measures make it difficult for anyone to intercept the credit card information you send to us. We do not store your credit card information. When we work with other companies to process credit card transactions, those companies also use encryption and other appropriate security measures. 

We will not sell, share or trade our donors’ personally identifiable information with any other entity. In addition, we will not send mailings to our donors on behalf of other organizations, unless a donor has given us specific permission to do so. Friends has vendors that assist with processing and managing donations and donor data. We give these vendors access to donor data. Our vendors are bound by strict confidentiality rules and are permitted to use donor data only to support Friends operations.

Donor anonymity will be respected if requested. Please contact us if you would like to review the personal information we have collected from you or to request any corrections. 

Friends adheres to The Donor Bill of Rights produced by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

The Donor Bill of Rights

Philanthropy is based on voluntary action for the common good. It is a tradition of giving and sharing that is primary to the quality of life. To assure that philanthropy merits the respect and trust of the general public, and that donors and prospective donors can have full confidence in the not-for-profit organizations and causes they are asked to support, we declare that all donors have these rights:

I. To be informed of the organization's mission, of the way the organization intends to use donated resources, and of its capacity to use donations effectively for their intended purposes.
II. To be informed of the identity of those serving on the organization's governing board, and to expect the board to exercise prudent judgment in its stewardship responsibilities.
III. To have access to the organization's most recent financial statements.
IV. To be assured their gifts will be used for the purposes for which they were given.
V. To receive appropriate acknowledgement and recognition.
VI. To be assured that information about their donation is handled with respect and with confidentiality to the extent provided by law.
VII. To expect that all relationships with individuals representing organizations of interest to the donor will be professional in nature.
VIII. To be informed whether those seeking donations are volunteers, employees of the organization or hired solicitors.
IX. To have the opportunity for their names to be deleted from mailing lists that an organization may intend to share.
X. To feel free to ask questions when making a donation and to receive prompt, truthful and forthright answers.