Effective date: 5/26/2022
University of Oklahoma Foundation, Inc. Privacy Policy
When you visit https://www.home.oufoundation.org (the “Website”), you may trust the University of Oklahoma Foundation, Inc. ("us", "we", or "our") with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this Privacy Policy, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it and the choices you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. By using this Website you accept and agree to be bound and abide by this Privacy Policy.
Information Collection and Use
We collect and use several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Website to you and for you.
Types of Data Collected
The following are types of data we collect about you when you use and visit our Website.
While using our Website, you may provide us with certain personally identifiable information that could reasonably be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personal Data may include, but is not limited to: your name, street address, email address, and telephone number. Personal Data may also include credit card information. Personal Data also includes Your employer or organizations that you are a member of, information about your colleagues or those within your organization, your status with an organization, and similar data to the extent you share the same with us. Personal Data, other than credit card information, may be entered into and stored in our secure database. If you enter your credit card information on our Website to make a gift or register for an event online using your credit card information, we enter this information into our secure database which allows us to have a record of your gift history and the ability to issue you a receipt. When the credit card information is passed to the third-party credit card processor it is removed from memory and is not maintained in our records. We use PayPal to process all credit card payments. You acknowledge that any credit card information you provide could pass through and may be stored in servers outside our control. By making a monetary transaction through the Site, you agree to PayPal’s privacy policies and practices. For information on how PayPal uses, stores, maintains and discloses your credit card information, please go to www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.
This refers to data collected automatically as a result of your use of the Website, whether generated by your use of the Website (for example, where you visit on the Website) or as a result of Website infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit). This includes usage metrics, content interactions (including searches, views, downloads, prints, shares, streams, and display or playback details), and user history (including clickstreams and page navigation), content viewed or searched for, page response times, page interaction information, advertising interactions and marketing preferences.
- Cookies and Automated Technologies
Cookies and similar technologies help to facilitate the best possible user experience of the Website as they allow us to recognize you and your user preferences through either a single visit to a Website (a “session cookie”) or over the course of repeated visits (a “persistent cookie”).
Cookies are in addition to other tracking technologies (for example, web beacons, pixels, tags and device identifiers) to recognize you and/or your device(s) on, off, and across the different applications of the website and devices. All such tracking technologies are referred to herein as Cookies for ease of reference. In addition to allowing us to recognize you and your preferences, we use Cookies to gather and log usage data when you use the website, including when you view or click on content, browser type, browser language, perform a search or request, the date and time of your request or use one or more tools offered through the website. We also use Cookies to get information about your IP address, proxy server, operating system, web browser and add-ons, device identifier and features, and/or internet service provider or your mobile carrier. We do not collect location concerning your GPS location.
Although most internet browsers accept cookies and the like by default, you can control these types of technology through your browser settings and similar tools and agree to refuse them altogether.
If you refuse to accept cookies and similar technologies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or smartphone, you may prohibit us from delivering the full capability of the Website and/or prevent the use of certain features and services that require these technologies.
By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you agree to the use of cookies and similar technologies as described above. If you use the Website without changing your browser or device settings to disable cookies and similar technologies, we’ll assume that you consent to our use of the same.
Use of Data
The University of Oklahoma Foundation, Inc. uses the above-referenced data for various purposes including but not limited to:
- To provide and maintain the Website
- To notify you about changes to our Website
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Website when you choose to do so
- To contact you via phone or SMS messaging with any number you have used to contact us in past interactions
- To send you offers, advertising, and marketing materials, including to provide personalized advertising to you
- To provide customer care and support
- To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Website
- To monitor the usage of the Website
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
- To detect and prevent fraud and abuse, as well as to identify and authenticate your access to our Website or to identify and authenticate you before we provide you with certain information
- To provide you with notices about your gift giving history
- To notify you of events sponsored by us
- To fulfill any purpose for which you provide the data
Transfer of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.'
If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Disclosure of Data
Legal Process
The University of Oklahoma Foundation, Inc. may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- To comply with a legal obligation
- To protect and defend the rights or property of The University of Oklahoma Foundation, Inc.
- To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website
- To protect the personal safety of users of the Website or the public
- To protect against legal liability
- To protect the integrity or security of the Website
- To fulfill our obligations to you (if any)
We may use your Personal Data and other information collected to provide you with notice regarding a security incident or data breach, by: (i) sending a message to the email address you provide (as applicable); (ii) posting to a publicly facing page of our website; (iii) through major statewide media; and/or (iv) telephonic means, including calls and/or text messages, even if sent via automated means including automated dialers (standard text and data messaging rates may apply from your carrier). Notices sent by e-mail will be effective when we send the email, notices we provide by posting will be effective upon posting, and notices we provide through telephonic means will be effective when transmitted or dialed. You consent to receiving electronic communications from us relating to any security incident or data breach. It is your responsibility to keep your email address and any other contact information you provide to us current so that we may provide these communications to you.
Service Providers
We may disclose Personal Data that we collect or you provide to contractors, service providers and other third parties we use solely to support our business (such as maintenance, analysis, audit, payments, facilitating and acquiring gift transactions, fraud detection, communication, and credit checks and background checks). These third parties to which we give your Personal Data will have access to your information as reasonably necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes.
Disclosure to Our Sponsors
We may disclose Personal Data and/or other information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy to our sponsors for the purpose of those sponsors reaching out to you to provide you with special marketing and advertising offers provided only to certain of our alumni and donors. These sponsors will have access to your name and contact information only and shall use the same solely to contact you about such offers, which you may opt-out from receiving by contacting the sponsor directly.
Security of Data
We implement security safeguards designed to protect your data. These include using encryption for your data while it is being transmitted between your device or browser and our servers. However, given the nature of communications and information technology, and that the use of the internet has inherent risks, although we regularly monitor for possible vulnerabilities and attack, we cannot warrant or guarantee that information provided to us through the website or stored in our systems or otherwise will be absolutely free from unauthorized intrusion by others, nor can we warrant or guarantee that such data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
Links to Other Sites
Our Website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Children's Privacy
Our Website does not address and is not intended for anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Your Requests and Questions
To make requests with respect to your Personal Data, or if you have questions concerning this policy or our privacy practices, please visit www.home.oufoundation.org/contact. In order to allow us to facilitate your request, you must identify yourself and provide all information reasonably required for us to evaluate your request. We may decline to process requests if cannot verify the requestor’s identity or if we believe complying with the request will jeopardize the privacy of others, violate law or legal requirement or inhibit or prevent our ability to maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our rights, fulfill our obligations or comply with other requests from you. We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your request unless it is excessive, unfounded or unduly burdensome. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Website about the modification, however, you should review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: www.home.oufoundation.org/contact.