Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility
top of page

Privacy

Updated July 2023

This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for The Second Wind Foundation and its website secondwind.org.
This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:

​

  • What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used, and with whom it may be shared.

  • What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.

  • The security procedures in place to protect against the misuse of your information.

  • How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

​

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

​

The Second Wind Foundation are the sole owner of the information collected on this website. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contacts from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

​

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, and with your expressed permission.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you new product services, or changes to this privacy policy.

​

Your Access to and Control Over Information

 

You may opt-out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

​

  • See what data we have about you if any.

  • Change/correct any data we have about you.

  • Have us delete any data we have about you.

  • Express any concern you have about our use of your data

 

Security

​

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information, that information is transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. All of your information is kept in secure files.

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If we become aware of a breach of security that might have affected your personal data, we will notify you within 72 hours from that time.

​

Third-Party Companies


We use Outlook for mail. Our website is hosted on Wix.com. Infrequently we use Wix Analytics to help track demographics and other information about our site visitors. We use PayPal and Donorbox.org to collect donations to our organization. Finally, we have incorporated UserWay to improve site accessibility. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

​

We may occasionally employ other third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

  • To facilitate our Service;

  • To provide the Service on our behalf;

  • To perform Service-related activities; or

  • To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

  • ​

We want to inform our Service users that these third parties may have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

​

Cookies

 

We use "cookies" on this site, which is built on Wix's platform. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

​

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site. However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

You can set your browser to delete or not accept cookies, but this may limit your ability to use our Services.  You can set your browser to delete or not accept cookies, but this may limit your ability to use our Services. On this website, you can request to decline all cookies, choose to accept some but not others or accept all cookies using the cookies banner (placed at the bottom of this website). Note, you will not have to do this every time you visit, only the first time when visiting from a particular browser or after you clear cache and cookies in your browser.

​

If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us at

syoung@secondwindfound.org.

​

Links

 

This website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

​

Children’s Privacy

 

Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do the necessary actions.

​

Privacy Policy Updates

 

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

​

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy or if you would like additional information about our policy, you may contact us immediately via email at syoung@secondwindfoundation.org.

bottom of page