Privacy Policy

Updated: 10/6/2021

Millions of South African children are living in poverty as orphans due to the HIV/AIDS crisis and the remaining effects of apartheid. Access to a quality education for these children continues to be a struggle in an unbalanced system within South Africa. The Love Quilt Project’s mission is to provide warmth, love and educational support to these vulnerable children.

We realize how important privacy is to our supporters. We have implemented the following policy to tell you about your choices regarding the use of your personal information online. This policy describes what types of information we gather about you, how we use it, and your rights to update or correct it.

Information We Collect

We gather certain broad information about web site use including the number of unique visitors, the frequency with which they visit, and the programs and services preferred. We look at the data in summary form, rather than on an individual basis. We gather this information so we can learn how many people visit the site, which pages are the most and least viewed, and to identify which web sites are referring visitors to our sites. The data helps us determine the extent to which our supporters use certain parts of our web site. Thus, we use this information to help us better meet the needs of our supporters.

We accumulate lists for communications and marketing purposes to The Love Quilt Project’s supporters only.  You may ask us to remove you from this list by (1) email: info@TheLoveQuiltProject.org, (2) phone: (703) 244-8499, or (3) write to us at 4250 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22207.

You may be required to provide personal information, including your name, email address, home address, or telephone number. Should you request particular services, you may be asked for additional information such as your billing address, credit card number, and expiration date. For example, we may ask for information so that we can process your donation, sign a petition, or register you for one of our events. We store this information to provide service for your support. This information may also be used to evaluate and improve the services and programs we offer our supporters.

There will also be opportunities for you to provide us with additional information regarding your preferences and interests. This information, however, is not required and is completely optional on your part.

Control of Personal Information:

Opt Out
We also use your support information to send you notices in the mail, by email, or by phone about special supporter updates. If you do not wish to receive these mailings, you can: (1) opt-out of email lists immediately by following the instructions at the bottom of the email, (2) email: info@lovequiltproject.org, (3) phone: (703) 244-8499, or (4) write to us at 4250 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22207.

Editing Your Personal Information
You may edit your personal information—change name and address information, etc.: (1) call us at (703) 244-8499, or (2) write to us at 4250 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22207.

Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of text stored on your computer’s hard drive by a web server. The Love Quilt Project uses session cookies to identify your computer during a particular surfing session, for example when you are visiting our home page. We do not store personal or sensitive information in cookies. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or to deliver viruses to your computer.  Most web browsers provide you the ability to accept or decline cookies, as well as to be warned each time a cookie is being sent.

IP Addresses
The Love Quilt Project collects and analyzes traffic on our web site by keeping track of the IP addresses of visitors. IP addresses are unique numeric identifiers that are assigned to each computer browser accessing the Internet. An IP address, by itself, cannot identify you personally. However, when combined with other information provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), your IP address can be used to identify the computer originating a message.

Third Party Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that The Love Quilt Project is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

Data Security
We take every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line. When our donate form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry – SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon next to the URL in browsers such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just ‘surfing’.

Changes to our Privacy Policy
The Love Quilt Project may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When The Love Quilt Project makes changes to this Policy, you will see the word “updated” and the effective date beneath the Privacy Policy title. The Love Quilt Project encourages you to periodically review this Policy to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

Contacting The Love Quilt Project
If you have questions about this statement or believe that we have not adhered to it, please contact us via the email, address, or phone number immediately below.

Love Quilt Project
4250 N. Glebe Road
Arlington, VA 22207
info@lovequiltproject.org
703.244.8499