Disclaimer

The material presented in this web site is not offered as legal or tax advice. Examples of tax benefits and results of various examples shown are based on the stated IRS Discount Rate and on other assumptions which may not apply to your own situation at the time of your gift.

You are urged to seek the advice of your tax advisor, attorney, and/or financial planner to make certain a contemplated gift fits well into your overall circumstances and planning. For a sample copy of a disclosure statement for a charitable gift annuity click here. Anyone who establishes a charitable gift annuity will be given a personalized disclosure statement prior to their signing an annuity agreement. The University of Connecticut Foundation, Inc., does not issue charitable gift annuities to residents of certain states.

All material is presented solely as educational information and is not a solicitation or offer.

Privacy Notice

Our Commitment

The University of Connecticut Foundation, Inc. (the "Foundation") respects your concern about privacy, and we will strive to protect it at www.foundation.uconn.edu. This privacy policy will tell you how we protect your personal information gathered via this site, and about what choices you have concerning our use of such information. Please read this policy carefully. We will post any changes to it here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose that information to anyone. The Foundation reserves the right to change this website privacy policy without prior notice. Please refer back to this policy regularly.

Online Information Gathering and Use

We gather personally identifiable information about you online if you voluntarily provide us with your personal information, such as when you make a contribution at our site, or communicate on the site by sending us an e-mail. On certain pages on our site, such as in connection with making a contribution online, or if you ask by e-mail for more information about our programs or objectives, you may be asked to provide information such as name, address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address, demographic, and other personal and financial information. We do not gather this more personal information online without your knowing and active permission and participation.

We can obtain your permission to gather before, during or after our site collects your personally identifiable user information. Permission may be granted to us in the donations you make to us or in other forms that you complete online or offline. We may also gather information about you by providing names, addresses, and/or phone numbers that are gathered through the website or from other sources to third party vendors for the purpose of updating that information.

When you visit any Internet site your unique address, called an "IP address", is recorded. The Foundation does not release any information about the collection of this address to any third party other than UConn Foundation-affiliated organizations (such as Convio and Google Analytics) except under court order or to create aggregate statistical reports, detect errors at the web site and for security reasons.

The Foundation also makes use of “cookies” on its website to monitor and analyze website usage. A “cookie” is a piece of data stored on your hard drive which contains information about your visit to our site.

The Foundation uses information you provide online strictly for Foundation and University-related business and to enable proper attribution of your gifts. Except for providing information to third party vendors for updating and marketing purposes as described in this policy and to University affiliated organizations in support of the University's goals and objectives, the Foundation does not sell, trade, rent or otherwise provide any of your personally identifiable information to other organizations.

Donations

Online donations to the Foundation are processed by a third party contractor, Convio. Credit card and other information you provide when making an online donation is provided to Convio for the purpose of processing and recording gifts. The provider has agreed not to use any personally identifiable information it receives in connection with its work for the Foundation in any manner inconsistent with this privacy policy. The provider is charged with protecting this personally identifiable information in accordance with the prevailing industry standards as maintained by the provider and described more fully in its privacy policy. That privacy policy is currently located at Convio Privacy Policy.

Statistics

As do most standard web servers, ours uses log files which include IP addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks in order to analyze trends, administer the site, collect broad demographic information for aggregate use. The Foundation utilizes a third party vendor, Google Analytics, to assist in collecting and analyzing such data. Google’s privacy policy is located at http://www.google.com/privacy.html. We use these statistics to better provide services to the public. We may also use and disclose to third parties aggregated information and statistics regarding donations and contributions to the Foundation.

Disclosure

We may disclose your personally identifiable information to third party representatives with whom we contract to update our files and to University affiliated organizations in support of the University's goals and objectives. We may use any personally identifiable information you disclose to us or in online applications to process your donations or to call, mail and market information about the University or the Foundation to you. We may also publicize your name, year of graduation and your contribution amount in our honor roll of donors, annual report and/or other donor recognition publications, which are publicly available, unless you specifically ask to remain anonymous.

We can obtain your permission to disclose before, during or after our site collects your personally identifiable user information. Permission may be granted to us in the donations you make to us or in other forms that you complete online or offline.

The one exception to this non-disclosure policy is that, although unlikely, the Foundation may be required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide personally identifiable information to the appropriate governmental authorities. In these cases, we will provide this information as and to the extent we have determined that the disclosure of any such information is appropriate.

Links

This site contains links to other sites or services. Please be aware that the Foundation is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. Other companies linked to this site may collect and disclose information about you when you view or click on these sites. We cannot control this collection or disclosure of information. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third party sites or services before providing any of them with your personal information.

The fact that we have made these links available to you is not an endorsement or recommendation to you by the Foundation. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by our website.

Surveys

From time to time our site may request information from users via surveys or other communications. Participation in these is completely voluntary and users therefore may choose whether or not to disclose this information. Requested information may include attitudinal surveys, contact information (name, address, email, phone) and demographic data. This information is collected to monitor and improve the usability and effectiveness of the website and for gauging general opinions about the Foundation and its work.

Security

The Foundation operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our databases, including the system administrations logs, are password protected. The personally identifiable information you provide is stored in a secure location and is used and disclosed only as set forth in this policy. User information is accessible only to designated staff who need the information to perform a specific function or task related to the Foundation’s mission, such as gift recording, assisting and communicating with donors, or providing donors with reports and receipts.

Our online giving page is a secure site, evidenced by the lock icon located on user browser pages. Our systems make it difficult for your information to be stolen or intercepted while it is being transferred over the Internet and while it is stored on our system. However, no encryption system can guarantee perfect security with the Internet.

Information requests

If you have provided us with any personally identifiable information during a prior visit to or use of the Foundation site, you may request that we give you access to such personally identifiable information by sending us an e-mail at contactus@foundation.uconn.edu.

You have the right to review the information and make any corrections to it that are appropriate.

Editing/Deleting/Deactivating Personal Information

If your personally identifiable information changes (such as zip code, phone, email or postal address), or to otherwise ensure your wishes regarding personal information are met, please contact us.

Acceptance of Privacy Policy

By using www.foundation.uconn.edu, you signify your acceptance of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our site. Your continued use of the Foundation site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean that you accept these changes.

Hal C. Reed, JD, CFRE
Assistant Vice President for Planned Giving
The University of Connecticut Foundation, Inc.
Storrs, CT 06269-3206
Telephone: 860.486.6135
Toll-free: 800.269.9965, Extension 6135
Facsimile: 860.486.1615
E-Mail: hreed@foundation.uconn.edu