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Libraries For Kids International is committed to protecting the privacy, confidentiality, and trust of its donors, subscribers, volunteers, website visitors, partners, supporters, program participants, and all individuals who engage with the organization. We recognize that safeguarding personal information is essential to maintaining public trust and advancing our mission with integrity, transparency, and accountability.
Libraries For Kids International does not sell, rent, trade, or lease personal information to any individual, business, organization, or third party for their own marketing, solicitation, fundraising, advertising, or commercial purposes. Personal information is collected, maintained, and used for purposes related to the organization's mission, operations, donor stewardship, communications, program administration, volunteer management, event administration, website administration, financial management, legal compliance, and organizational advancement.
Personal information may be collected when an individual donates, subscribes to receive communications, completes a contact form, registers for an event, volunteers, participates in a program, requests information, applies for opportunities, responds to surveys, or otherwise interacts with Libraries For Kids International. Information collected may include names, mailing addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, donation information, event registration information, communication preferences, and other information voluntarily provided to the organization.
Records may be maintained in organizational databases, communication platforms, donor management systems, volunteer management systems, website systems, financial records, cloud-based services, and official organizational documents as necessary to support organizational activities and fulfill applicable legal, tax, accounting, audit, governance, insurance, and regulatory obligations. Access to personal information is restricted to authorized individuals who require such information to carry out approved responsibilities on behalf of the organization.
Libraries For Kids International is based in the United States, and information we collect may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States.
Libraries For Kids International may recognize and acknowledge donor support through a Donor Honor Roll, annual reports, publications, impact reports, websites, event materials, newsletters, and other donor recognition opportunities. Unless a donor specifically requests anonymity, recognition may include the donor's name and cumulative giving level or cumulative contribution amount. No personal contact information, payment information, financial account information, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, or other private information will be published without the individual's consent unless required by law.
Donors who wish to remain anonymous may request exclusion from the Donor Honor Roll and all public recognition materials. Libraries For Kids International will make reasonable efforts to honor requests for anonymity and confidentiality.
Libraries For Kids International may communicate with donors, subscribers, volunteers, supporters, program participants, partners, and interested individuals through email newsletters, impact reports, organizational updates, event invitations, fundraising communications, surveys, announcements, and other mission-related correspondence. Individuals may opt out of non-essential communications at any time by using the unsubscribe feature provided in electronic communications or by contacting the organization directly.
Information submitted through website contact forms, subscription forms, volunteer inquiries, partnership requests, grant inquiries, event registrations, surveys, and other online communications is used to respond to requests, provide information, administer programs and events, support organizational operations, strengthen stakeholder engagement, and further the mission of Libraries For Kids International.
The organization's website may utilize cookies, analytics tools, pixels, and similar technologies to enhance website functionality, improve user experience, analyze website performance, understand visitor engagement, strengthen website security, and support organizational communications and fundraising efforts. Information collected through these technologies may include IP addresses, browser types, operating systems, device information, pages visited, referral sources, dates and times of visits, and general website usage patterns. This information is used for operational, analytical, security, reporting, and website improvement purposes and is not sold or shared for commercial marketing purposes. Services embedded in or linked from this site, such as our giving platform and videos, may collect information under their own privacy policies.
Libraries For Kids International may use trusted third-party service providers to support website hosting, analytics, email communications, payment processing, donation administration, event registration, volunteer management, cloud storage, cybersecurity, technology support, data management, and other operational functions. Information shared with such providers is limited to what is reasonably necessary for them to perform services on behalf of the organization. Service providers are expected to maintain appropriate safeguards to protect personal information and comply with applicable privacy and security requirements.
Donations made through Libraries For Kids International's secure payment portals, online giving platforms, peer-to-peer fundraising systems, or other authorized donation channels are processed using service providers and technologies designed to help protect personal information and support the secure administration of charitable contributions. These services collect and use information under their own privacy policies.
Libraries For Kids International retains personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill operational, legal, financial, tax, audit, regulatory, donor stewardship, and organizational requirements. When personal information is no longer required, reasonable efforts will be made to securely destroy, delete, anonymize, or otherwise dispose of such information in accordance with applicable practices and legal obligations.
Individuals may request to review, update, correct, or remove personal information maintained by Libraries For Kids International, subject to legal, regulatory, recordkeeping, financial, and operational requirements. The organization will make reasonable efforts to honor such requests where appropriate and permitted by law. If the data-protection law of the country where you live applies to our handling of your information, you may have rights under that law, such as to access, correct or delete your information, to object to its use, including for marketing, to withdraw your consent, and to complain to that country's data-protection authority. You may exercise those rights as that law provides by contacting us as shown below. Where such a law requires a legal basis for our use of your information, we rely on your consent, on steps you ask us to take, on our legal obligations, or on our legitimate interest in carrying out our charitable mission.
Our website is not directed to children, and Libraries For Kids International does not knowingly collect personal information online from a child under 13, or from an older child where the law that applies to that child requires a parent's or guardian's consent, without that consent. If the organization becomes aware that personal information has been collected from a child in a manner inconsistent with applicable requirements, reasonable efforts will be made to remove such information.
Libraries For Kids International uses administrative, technical, physical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, misuse, alteration, destruction, loss, theft, or compromise. While the organization strives to maintain secure systems and procedures, no method of electronic transmission, internet communication, or electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
In the event of a suspected or confirmed data security incident, Libraries For Kids International will provide notifications as required by applicable laws and regulations.
This Privacy Policy applies to personal information Libraries For Kids International collects through this website and through the online forms, giving, and email services linked from it.
Libraries For Kids International may provide links to third-party websites for the convenience of users. The organization is not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of external websites and encourages users to review the privacy policies of any external sites they visit.
Libraries For Kids International reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy as necessary to reflect changes in organizational practices, technology, legal requirements, regulatory standards, or operational needs while maintaining its commitment to protecting personal information, privacy, and confidentiality. Any updates will be posted on the organization's website and become effective upon publication unless otherwise stated.
Questions regarding this Privacy Policy, and requests about your personal information, may be directed to Libraries For Kids International by email at books@libraries4kids.org or by mail at PO Box 1013, Bluffton, SC 29910.
