Privacy Policy

Meals on Wheels People respects your privacy choices. If you give us personal information, we will treat it according to the policies below.

For Clients:

Please click here to review our Notice of Privacy Practices. This document describes how Medical Information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information.

For Donors & Website visitors:

Confidentiality

Meals on Wheels People may list the names of donors in newsletters and other periodic publications and may categorize donors by gift amounts unless they request anonymity. All other information concerning donors (including address, names of beneficiaries, gift amounts, and financial information) will be kept strictly confidential unless disclosure is required by law or authorized by a donor.

Security Policy

We utilize Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to protect your personal information.

Your personal information is stored in secure operating environments that are not available to the public. Your personal information is only accessible by employees of our organization who have access to selected databases, which are further protected by ID and password requirements.

Donor Privacy Policy

Meals on Wheels People maintains a strict donor privacy policy. Great care is taken to ensure that donor information is not compromised by unauthorized persons.

Meals on Wheels People follows best practices for securing data. We may share personal information such as your name, postal address, and records of donations with vendors whose data security practices have been vetted and will keep your information private and secure. Examples of vendors include mail houses that help us mail information about our work and services via the U.S. Postal Service. Meals on Wheels People also participates in a marketing service known as a Data Cooperative. Donor information is shared with Data Cooperatives to help nonprofits reach interested supporters while lowering acquisition and mailing costs. These Cooperatives are vetted for privacy practices to ensure donor data is kept safe and secure. To exclude your personal information from our Data Cooperatives, please email us at [email protected].

How Personal Information is Collected

When you opt-in to our email newsletters, we will ask you to provide your email address and indicate what information you would like to receive. We will, on occasion, transmit information to you at the email address you have provided, regarding news pertinent to the subjects in which you indicated an interest. If you do not wish to receive this information from us, you may unsubscribe by following the link at the end of the newsletter.

Our website may ask you to provide personal information. We may require you to provide this information in order to conduct a transaction or so we can provide services. This information may include such things as your name, address, date of birth, phone number, email address, and/or credit card number. The collection of personal information may occur when you make a donation through our website.

Other Information Collected on Our Site

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors interact with our website, including pages viewed, time spent on the site, device and browser type, and general geographic location. This information helps us understand website usage, improve our services, and enhance the user experience. The information collected does not directly identify individual visitors. For more information about how Google collects and processes data, visit Google’s Privacy & Terms.

You may opt out of Google Analytics data collection at any time by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

How We Use Your Personal Information

When you provide personal information to us — such as when making a donation or completing a transaction on our site — that information is used solely to process your request and provide you with our services. We do not create or maintain user accounts directly on our website.

If you have questions about your personal information, wish to update your contact details, or would like to request that your information be removed from our records, please contact us directly:

Phone: 503.736.6325
Email: [email protected]

Your personal information may be used to direct specific news and information to you while using our site, which has been determined to be of interest to you. The personal information, including your email address, provided by you while using this site is not shared with anyone outside of our organization. In addition, Meals on Wheels People does not disclose any personally identifiable information without permission, except when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, such as where disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating Meals on Wheels People Terms of Use or may be causing injury to Meals on Wheels People or another’s rights or property.

Please be aware that when accessing other websites that may have links to our site, such as our corporate partners, personally identifiable information may be collected about you. The information practices of websites linked to the Meals on Wheels People site is not covered by this privacy policy.

Cookies

We will, in certain situations, use cookies to help you obtain the information you have requested. Cookies are a mechanism to remember information about a visitor from one page to another. Web browsers store cookies so that the browser itself can remember some information and then, on request, pass all that information up to the server at one time. These cookies will allow us to personalize your experience on our website, tailoring the content to your interests and needs. Our website requires the use of cookies. Turning off cookies or rejecting a cookie will prevent you from accessing the website.

Your Responsibility Regarding the Use of Our Site

It is your responsibility to use our site for the purpose it was intended; for example, to provide you with information and services pertaining to Meals on Wheels People and to provide an efficient and easy way for you to assist us in our mission. Any use of our site deemed not to be in accordance with the intended purpose is prohibited.