Oregon Trail Community Foundation

Oregon Trail Community Foundation respects the privacy concerns of the users of its Internet Sites ("Sites"), and has created this privacy statement to explain what information we gather from your visit to our Sites, and how such information may be used.

Use of Information: As a general policy no personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, or e-mail address, is automatically collected from your visit to Oregon Trail Community Foundation sites. However, certain non-personal information is recorded by the standard operation of Oregon Trail Community Foundation's Internet servers. Information such as the type of browser being used, its operating system, and your IP address is gathered in order to enhance your online experience.

Our Sites' various contact forms may request that you give us contact information (such as your name, mailing and/or e-mail address. Information submitted at the time of registration or submission may be used for marketing and promotional purposes by Oregon Trail Community Foundation. Personally identifiable information is never sold or leased to any third parties.

Our Sites use various order forms for you to request information, products, and services. We collect contact information (such as your name, mailing and/or e-mail address to process your request. The contact information is also used to get in touch with you when necessary.

Oregon Trail Community Foundation may disclose user information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference (either intentionally or unintentionally) with Oregon Trail Community Foundation's rights or property, other Oregon Trail Community Foundation web site users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.

Security: Security for all personally identifiable information is extremely important to us. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Oregon Trail Community Foundation cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

Use of IP Addresses: An IP address is a number that's automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet provider whenever you're surfing the Web. When you requests pages from Oregon Trail Community Foundation Sites, our servers log your IP address. Oregon Trail Community Foundation collects IP addresses for the purposes of system administration and to audit the use of our Site. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that your session will be logged, but you are anonymous to us. We may use your IP addresses in cooperation with your Internet provider to identify you if we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our Terms of Use or to protect our service, Sites, customers, or others.

Links to Other Sites: Oregon Trail Community Foundation is not responsible for the content or practices of third party websites that may be linked to our Sites. Our Sites may also be linked to websites operated by other companies. Visitors to these web sites should refer to each web site's respective privacy policies and practices.

Contact Us: If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of our Sites, or your dealings with our Sites, you can contact:

Oregon Trail Community Foundation, 115 Railway Plaza, Scottsbluff, NE 69361, USA. E-mail us

Information provided by you via general e-mail inquiries to Oregon Trail Community Foundation such as your e-mail address is used only to respond to your inquiries in the ordinary course of business, and is never shared with third parties.

To view educational material on consumer privacy, please see http://www.ftc.gov/ .

Your Acceptance of These Terms: By using Oregon Trail Community Foundation's Sites, you signify your acceptance of the Oregon Trail Community Foundation Online Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Sites. Oregon Trail Community Foundation reserves the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this policy at any time, so visitors are encouraged to review this policy from time to time. Your continued use of the Oregon Trail Community Foundation Sites following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

Last updated July, 2003