Privacy Policy
Charting Impact is a strategic alliance among the BBB Wise Giving Alliance, GuideStar, USA, Inc. (“GuideStar”, “we” or “us”) and Independent Sector, Inc. (“Independent Sector”). GuideStar operates the website located at the URL www.chartingimpact.org (the “Charting Impact Site”) on behalf of Charting Impact and integrates certain aspects of the Charting Impact Site with the GuideStar website located at www.guidestar.org, as described in greater detail below. GuideStar will share information collected through the Charting Impact Site with BBB Wise Giving Alliance and Independent Sector. BBB Wise Giving Alliance and Independent Sector’s use of such information will be governed by this Privacy Policy.
GuideStar, BBB Wise Giving Alliance and Independent Sector respect the privacy of users of the Charting Impact Site. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you understand what information GuideStar collects through this web site located at http://www.chartingimpact.org (the “Site”) and what we do with that information. This Privacy Policy applies to information collected online through the Charting Impact Site and to information that we collect through surveys to nonprofit organizations (and users who act on their behalf) and to external stakeholders identified by nonprofit organization users. If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at NPOservices@guidestar.org.
BY USING THE CHARTING IMPACT SITE, YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE AND ANY DISPUTES OVER OUR ONLINE PRIVACY PRACTICES IS GOVERNED BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR TERMS OF USE.
THE INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT
The information we gather falls into two categories: (1) nonprofit profile, program and contact information (for example, your organization’s responses to the five questions about the intended impact of your charitable activities) that you voluntarily supply as part of your use of the Charting Impact Site, and (2) information gathered on usage patterns and preferences as users navigate through the Charting Impact Site. In some cases, it is a vendor or affiliate of ours that collects the information on our behalf. Unless otherwise specified, our vendors and affiliates who are acting on our behalf will be subject to the same terms and conditions as those specified in this Privacy Policy.
Nonprofit profile, program information and contact information of nonprofit organization users. You will be asked to complete a basic profile about your nonprofit organization and to answer five questions about the intended impact of your nonprofit organization’s work. As available, basic information in your nonprofit organization’s profile will be pre-populated from GuideStar’s database of nonprofit organizations. This information, together with the information that you share will create a Charting Impact Report (as defined in our TOU Agreement).
In order to create a Charting Impact Report, your organization must be a registered nonprofit organization at www.guidestar.org (the “GuideStar Site”). Registered GuideStar nonprofit organizations and individual users who access the GuideStar Site on such organizations’ behalf, provide certain information about themselves, such as their name, e-mail address and password. GuideStar authenticates this information and grants authenticated users permissions to edit the GuideStar reports and Charting Impact Reports created for their nonprofit organizations.
At the Charting Impact Site, you will have the opportunity to add and to delete the email addresses of other users who work for or are otherwise affiliated with your nonprofit organization that you invite to participate to help complete the Charting Impact Report for your nonprofit organization. In addition, you will be asked to complete a brief survey about how your nonprofit organization currently plans and evaluates its charitable activities. You will also be asked to provide the names and email addresses of three or more external stakeholders (such as board members, major donors, advisors) that you would like us to contact on your nonprofit organization’s behalf as part of a stakeholder review of your organization’s unique Charting Impact Report.
Cookies. To help make the Charting Impact Site more responsive to the needs of our users, we use a standard feature of browser software, called a “cookie,” to assign each visitor a unique, random number, a sort of user ID, if you will, that resides on your computer. The cookie does not actually identify the visitor; it only identifies the computer that a visitor uses to access the Charting Impact Site. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. A cookie cannot read unrelated data off your hard drive. We use cookies to help us tailor the Charting Impact Site to the needs of our users. In addition, we may use cookies to track the pages on the Charting Impact Site visited by our users so that we understand which areas visitors find most useful. You can block or remove cookies by using the settings in your browser.
Browser Level Information and IP Addresses. We automatically collect limited information about your computer configuration when you visit the Charting Impact Site, including the type of browser software you use, the operating system your computer is running, the resolution of your computer monitor, the website that referred you. We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor the Charting Impact Site to the interests of our users, and to measure traffic within the Charting Impact Site. We also may collect your IP address, a numerical address that is used by computers connected to the Internet, to identify your computer so that data (such as the web pages you want to view) can be transmitted to you. We also use IP address information for systems administration and trouble shooting purposes. Your IP address does not tell us who you are.
USE OF INFORMATION
Charting Impact Reports
In order to fulfill Charting Impact’s goals, which include the provision of greater transparency and accountability to the nonprofit community and the development of a widely accepted standard through which nonprofit organizations can articulate their objectives and measure their progress toward achieving those objectives, nonprofit organizations that create a Charting Impact Report through the Charting Impact Site must provide permission for their Charting Impact Report to display to users of the Charting Impact Site and to be licensed and displayed by other users pursuant to the CCL (as defined in the TOU Agreement). By completing a Charting Impact Report through the Charting Impact Site, you are giving GuideStar the right to publish that report on the Charting Impact Site, to distribute your report to others in PDF file format and to incorporate the underlying information into the GuideStar data of nonprofit organizations subject to the TOU Agreement.
GuideStar will share your Charting Impact Report and the underlying information with BBB Wise Giving Alliance and Independent Sector.
Nonprofit information in the GuideStar database is owned by GuideStar and is subject to the Terms of Use on the GuideStar Site. GuideStar has the right to use nonprofit information collected through the Charting Impact Site to create derivative works, to license this information to other parties.
Contact Information
Users of the Charting Impact Site who wish to enter information on behalf of nonprofit organizations must first be registered users of the GuideStar Site. When you submit your contact information through the GuideStar Site’s registration procedure, we will use such contact information, consistent with the GuideStar Privacy Policy, to contact you about your Charting Impact Report and other programs and activities sponsored by GuideStar. When you submit the e-mail addresses of your stakeholders, we will use that information for the sole purpose of contacting them to provide a review of your Charting Impact Report and performing internal analysis of “connections” or “links” among nonprofit organizations. However, we will not disclose the stakeholders’ name or e-mail address to third parties without their consent.
We may also use anonymous and aggregated data to create statistics and reports for various business purposes, and to aggregate such anonymous data and share it with others for the purpose of furthering the goals of the Charting Impact project; however, such data will not include information that enables such third parties, other than BBB Wise Giving Alliance and Independent Sector, to identify you individually. The contact information compiled in our registration databases will not be shared with any marketing firms without the express consent of the registrant. We may use your contact information to identify which account or IP address user to terminate if we are required to do so by law or if we decide to do so in accordance with our Terms of Use.
Website Usage Information
The website usage information (e.g., log files, cookies, Internet tags, web beacons, etc.) we collect from you will be used to (a) monitor the operation, technical functions and quality of the Charting Impact Site, (b) compile general statistics regarding use of the Site, and (c) analyze demographic information about the Charting Impact Site’s users. We may also use such information for research or improvements of the Charting Impact Site and the services we offer you.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
We do not sell or otherwise share your information you provide to us through registration or other contact information with third parties, other than BBB Wise Giving Alliance and Independent Sector, for marketing, sales or other commercial purposes. We share your information with third parties only in the limited circumstances described below, in which we believe that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to provide the service, legally required or permitted by you.
- We may provide information to our own service providers to help us operate the Charting Impact Site and to provide the services to you that are offered through the Charting Impact Site. This type of sharing may include disclosures to third parties who host the Charting Impact Site, help deliver e-mail updates or otherwise provide back-end services. These providers will only be able to use such information subject to GuideStar’s rights to do so (including pursuant to this Privacy Policy) and only for purposes of performing the services that GuideStar’s contract with them to provide on GuideStar’s behalf.
- We may be required to disclose contact information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information unless we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards.
- Additionally, we may share contact information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Site, or to prevent imminent harm to any person or group of people. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
Search Engines and Other Sites
Search engines and other sites not affiliated with GuideStar, such as archive.org or google.com, may crawl the Charting Imapct Site and make available to the public publicly-available content and postings from the Charting Impact Site.
CHOICE AND ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION
If you participate in the Charting Impact, you will have the opportunity to review the information you have provided us at any time (except, of course, any information that we do not store). If you remove your registration information completely by contacting GuideStar directly, you will not be able to continue using certain services or areas of the Charting Impact Site that require registration. You agree that we may use your information to contact you for customer service, to inform you of important changes or additions to the Site or the services offered over the Charting Impact Site and to send you administrative notices or any communications relevant to your use of the Charting Impact Site.
SECURITY OF INFORMATION
GuideStar is committed to protecting the security of your information transmitted to and from this website and will take reasonable security precautions to help protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won’t be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses, and phone numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. The Charting Impact Site is not directed at children under 13 and we will not knowingly allow anyone under 13 to provide us any personally identifying information; if you are under 13, please do not provide any information about yourself on the Charting Impact Site.
MODIFICATIONS TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
The Web is an evolving medium. If we need to change the Privacy Policy at some point in the future, we will post the changes before they take effect. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of any changes will signify your acceptance of those changes.
TERMS OF USE
Note also that your use of the Charting Impact Site is subject to our Terms of Use Agreement.
