Information Collection and Use

United Way for the Greater New Orleans Area (UWGNOA) only gathers personally identifiable data: addresses, zip codes, e-mail addresses, etc. when voluntarily submitted by a donor or the donor’s company’s Human Resources department. This information is used by UWGNOA for the purpose of executing the transaction, and may be used by UWGNOA for other internal purposes. Also, from time to time, UWGNOA may purchase mailing lists from third parties. Except as stated herein, UWGNOA will not disclose, sell, share, trade or rent any personally identifiable data it collects.

The information which UWGNOA automatically gathers, such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to our site and its areas, is used only in the aggregate; very much like television ratings that tell the networks how many people tuned in to a program. This collective data helps us determine how much our visitors use parts of the site, so that we can improve our site to assure that it is as appealing as we can make it for as many of you as possible. We also may provide aggregated statistical “ratings” information, never information about you personally, to our UWGNOA partners about how our visitors, collectively, use UWGNOA.

UWGNOA may from time to time contract with outside vendors to conduct donor interest and satisfaction research. All outside vendors contracting with UWGNOA will sign a non-disclosure agreement stating that personally identifiable data will not be used for any purpose other than for the research project commissioned by UWGNOA. We will also release personally identifiable data about you, if necessary, in order to comply with valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena or court order, and UWGNOA reserves the right to use all information including personally identifiable data at its disposal and to share this information with ISPs and other third parties as necessary to investigate any incident of misuse or abuse of its site, server, or information systems.

Other web sites that you may link to from our site, including our partners’ (business partners and partner agency) web sites, have their own privacy policies. UWGNOA is not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of web sites before providing them with any of your personally identifiable data.

Donors are given the opportunity to remain anonymous. The pledge form has an anonymous check box so users who pledge can keep their names from being used in UWGNOA publications (our Leadership Booklet, for example). E-pledge does not have an anonymous check box at this time, however, one is planned in the near future.

Updating Personal Information / Pledge Correction

If a donor’s personally identifiable data changes or pledge information changes, please contact your company chair with the new information or write to Carol Rogers, United Way for the Greater New Orleans Area, 2515 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70119 or e-mail her at carolr@unitedwaynola.org.

If we change our privacy statement, we will post those changes prominently so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone.