The Jed Foundation

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Privacy Policy

Updated as of 3/15/2012

This Privacy Policy describes the type of information The Jed Foundation collects from the Websites (as defined in our Terms of Use) and how that information may be used. This Privacy Policy, together with our Terms of Use, as may be modified from time to time, govern your use of the Websites.

What information does The Jed Foundation collect?
You are not required to provide information, such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, demographic information, or other information, that might reasonably be used to identify you personally (“Personal Information”) to make general use of the Website. The Jed Foundation will only collect Personal Information when it is provided to us in an email, on a registration form or any other forms requesting users to provide Personal Information, in an online survey, or in other similar transmissions. For example, the Websites may offer you registration forms, or other forms that ask users to provide Personal Information.

To help us monitor usage patterns and to help us improve the Websites , we may use certain technologies, including cookies, to gather information that does not reveal your identity (“Generic Information”), such as information about the Internet Protocol address assigned to your computer, the number and frequency of visitors, and the Web pages visited. Generic Information may be used by us or shared with third parties. You can choose not to accept cookies by adjusting your Internet browser settings but, if you choose to do so, certain parts of the Websites may not function properly.

What does The Jed Foundation do with collected information?
We will use Personal Information we collect to contact you or to send you news and information relating to The Jed Foundation, our services, and/or the Websites. Select the unsubscribe option on email updates you receive from The Jed Foundation or one of our sites.

The Jed Foundation may share Generic Information we collect with our affiliates, contractors and other third parties as deemed necessary or desirable in The Jed Foundation’s sole discretion. For example, The Jed Foundation may use Generic Information to help diagnose problems with our server s and to administer the Websites.

The Jed Foundation may disclose Personal Information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on The Jed Foundation or its subsidiaries or affiliates; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Jed Foundation or the users of The Jed Foundation, and (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of The Jed Foundation or the public.

Links to Third Party Sites
The Websites may provide links one or more third party websites. Even if a third party website or the third party is affiliated with The Jed Foundation (through a business partnership or otherwise), The Jed Foundation is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices or the content of such third party websites.

Security
This Jed Foundation makes reasonable efforts to implement commercially reasonable safeguards to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of the Personal Information we obtain from you. Unfortunately, data transmission over the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be secure nor is any security system completely secure. The Jed Foundation does not guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us or provide to us online. We request that you do not send, and The Jed Foundation will not be liable for your sending sensitive or confidential information electronically.

Children Under the Age of 13
The Websites are not directed at children under the age of 13. If The Jed Foundation knows that a user is under the age of 13, we will NOT intentionally:
1. collect online contact information from that user without prior parental consent, except where used to respond directly on a one-time basis to a child’s specific request;
2. collect personally identifiable offline contact information from that user without prior parental consent;
3. give that user the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable information without prior parental consent;
4. distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information of that user without prior parental consent; and
5. entice that user by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information than is needed to participate in the activity.

Access to Your Profile The Jed Foundation gives you the following options for reviewing, changing, or removing your Personal Information from our database in order to stop receiving future communications or to no longer receive our service:

1. You can send email to: info@jedfoundation.org
2. You can send mail to the following postal address:

The Jed Foundation
1140 Broadway, Suite 803
New York, NY 10001

Contacting The Jed Foundation
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with The Jed Foundation, please feel free to contact:

The Jed Foundation
1140 Broadway, Suite 803
New York, NY 10001
info@jedfoundation.org