Privacy Policy

Our Commitment to Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our home page and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

NewIsraelFund.org Purpose
The main purpose of our Web site is to provide information and services to individuals and to New Israel Fund grantees. Your privacy is important to us and we are committed to protecting it and to making you aware of our online practices regarding the privacy of your information.

The Information We Collect
Our Web site does not automatically collect any individually identifiable information, such as email addresses, from visitors.

We collect personal information when you provide it in the course of interacting with the site. At the New Israel Fund site, you may be able to subscribe to an email newsletter, sign up for direct mail, take part in message boards, participate in polls or surveys, or make a donation. In so doing, you may be asked to provide personally identifiable information such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, or information about your interests and activities.

We also may collect information that is not personally identifiable, such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows '98 or Mac OS) and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink).

How the Information is Used
We may use the information you give us to provide services to you, at your request. We may use it to communicate with you through periodic messages regarding services, events, and other information and notices we believe you may find interesting or useful. We may use it for confirmation of donations, subscriptions, or other actions you take on our site, and for related customer service needs. We use information you provide about others to enable us to send them your greeting cards.

How to be Removed From our Email List
If you have simply entered your email address on our subscription form, and no longer wish to receive the email newsletter, please notify us by email at info@nif.org with “remove” in the subject header and we will remove your name from our e-mail recipient list.

We do not sell, rent, exchange or otherwise share our e-mail lists with external organizations. Any personal information you provide to NewIsraelFund.org will not be disseminated to third parties outside of the organization.

We may use the information that is not personally identifiable to analyze the design and functioning of our site in order to make site improvements. We may use such information in the aggregate to analyze site usage.

We will disclose personally identifiable information when required to do so by law.

Security with Online Donations
NewIsraelFund.org uses appropriate procedures to ensure the security of your personal information and to and protect it from unauthorized access. In particular, when we ask you to enter credit card information, we use the top industry standard security protection, including encryption, SSL transmission connection, and a secure server for information storage. Once your credit card has been processed, your credit card information is not stored on our servers.

Links
We provide links to other Web sites that we believe you will find useful. We ask you to recognize that New Israel Fund is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites.

How to Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please contact our National office at (202) 842-0900 Ext. 278, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Eastern Time, or by sending an email to info@nif.org.