Privacy Policy

Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. is committed to the privacy of our online and offline supporters, including online users, donors, and event attendees. Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. operates in accordance with the following privacy policy. By providing Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. with your information online or offline, you consent to the terms of this privacy policy.

Data Collection

When You Make a Donation or Purchase an Event Ticket Online or Offline
When making a donation and/or purchasing an event ticket, you will be asked to provide personally identifiable information necessary to process and service your request. This may include your name, billing and shipping postal addresses, telephone number, e-mail address, and credit card number. When making a donation online, your credit card information will be temporarily stored on a secured server only for as long as necessary to process your payment.

When You Send Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. an E-mail
Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. is pleased to receive e-mails from you. Should you choose to send an e-mail to Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc., your message and e-mail address will be forwarded to the appropriate department within Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. and we will save your e-mail as part of our permanent records. Please be aware that any message, material, ideas, concepts, or other information sent to Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. by e-mail will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary.

When You Sign Up for a Volunteer Activity
When you register to be a Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. volunteer, we may request your phone number in order to contact you for a phone interview. Should you participate further in the volunteer recruitment process, Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. may request that you appear in person for an additional interview and you will be required to complete an application, including your name, postal address, telephone number, e-mail address, and photo ID.

Use of Information

Internal Use
We will use your personally identifiable information in order to respond to your request or process your contribution. Your credit card information will be temporarily stored on a secured server by our Partner Internet Service Provider only for as long as necessary to process your payment, or in the case of check contributions, maintained only long enough to process, verify, or deposit payment, then destroyed.

We may use your information to inform you of events, send you Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. newsletters, request monetary contributions and send you promotions and updates about the Esplanade . Out of respect for your privacy, e-mail recipients may opt out of receiving e-mails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in the e-mail message.

Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. may combine the information you provide us online with other personally identifiable information in order to better serve our website visitors.

Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc.’s website automatically collects some anonymous "non-personally identifiable" aggregate information, which may include visitors' browsers (e.g., Internet Explorer or Firefox), operating systems (e.g., Windows or Macintosh), Internet Service Providers, and other similar information. The information collected is used for statistical purposes to monitor how Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc.'s online visitors navigate our website, allowing us to tailor our website to better accommodate our visitors.

External Use

Third Party Vendors
Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. may engage third-party vendors in order to help us better service our visitors and customers. Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. requires its vendors by contract to maintain the confidentiality and security of Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. information to which they are provided access and restricts the vendors from using the information in any way not expressly authorized by Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. In cases when users leave Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc.’s website to visit one of its vendor’s websites, users are encouraged to become familiar with the privacy statement of each website they visit. 

Links to Other Websites
Users may find content on Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc.’s website that links to the websites and services of our partners, sponsors, or other third parties. In many cases, these links represent cooperative projects, or are established with persons or entities that have a significant connection to or relationship with our website. Although every effort is made to ensure that website referrals are to reputable and relevant sources, Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. does not control the content or links that appear on these websites. In addition, these websites or services, including their content and links, may change. These websites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies, or no policy at all. Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. maintains a policy against the non-consensual collection or sharing of personal information and encourages visitors to review the privacy policies of any websites they visit to ensure their personal information is being protected.

Your Options
We recognize that you may wish to limit the ways in which we contact you and use your information. Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. offers the following options:

Opt out of receiving e-mails
You may opt-out of receiving Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in the e-mail message.

Opt out of receiving postal mailings from Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc.
You may contact us at any time by e-mailing executivedirector@esplanadefriends.org and letting us know that you would not like to be contacted by telephone or mail.

Data Security
Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. does not process any underlying payments facilitated by its website; payments are processed by our partner Internet Payment Service Providers. Financial data you input to consummate a transaction is encrypted using SSL technology and sent to one of our payment partners. For recurring donations your financial and contact data is stored by a payment partner in accordance with industry standards. Only the payment partner has access to your credit card number. We do not have access to your credit card number. Data handled by a payment partner is subject to that payments partner's terms and privacy policy.

Children
Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. takes special care to protect the safety and privacy of children, and does not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any personal data to Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc.. Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. encourages parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s internet usage and help enforce this privacy policy by instructing children to never provide personal data to Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. without their permission. In the event Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. learns they have inadvertently gathered personal information from children under the age of 13, Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. will take reasonable measures to promptly erase such information from Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. records.

Cookies
The Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. website uses cookies (small files that store information on your computer's web browser) to enhance user experience on the website. Cookies are used to perform certain functions such as saving passwords, personal interests and preferences; delivering content specific to these interests and preferences; and analyzing website activity and user behavior on the website. You may set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie and delete any cookies you receive.

Changes to Privacy Policy
Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. reserves the right to modify our policy as needed. A revised policy will apply only to information collected after the date that the new policy is posted.

California Privacy Rights
Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, if you are a California resident and your relationship with Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc. is primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, you may request certain data regarding Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc.’s disclosure, if any, of your personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail message to executivedirector@esplanadefriends.org with "Request for California Privacy Information" in the subject line.

Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this privacy policy or these terms and conditions, please contact:

Friends of the East River Esplanade (60th - 120th Streets), Inc.

E-mail: executivedirector@esplanadefriends.org

Last updated 12/22/2020