Privacy Policy

The FCNL Education Fund and the Friends Committee on National Legislation are committed to respecting your privacy and your preferences.

Donor Privacy Policy

In order to increase our base of support, we sometimes exchange the names and postal mailing addresses of a portion of our supporter list with other carefully chosen like-minded organizations. We never sell our lists for any purpose and never share any other donor personal information. 

If you prefer that we do not share your name and postal mailing address, please notify us by filling out our online form, or phone us at 1-800-630-1330. 

You can also write the Development Office at:  

FCNL Education Fund 
245 Second Street NE 
Washington, DC 20002 

This policy applies to all donors, whether you make a gift online or through the postal mail. 

Opt out of sharing your information with like-minded organizations.   

Internet Privacy Policy 

This privacy policy reflects the FCNL Education Fund’s strong commitment to protecting your online privacy and any information you chose to share with us when you visit the website. 

Last Reviewed: Sept. 23, 2024 

Our privacy policy explains: 

A. How we use information you provide 
B. How we protect information you provide 
C. How we analyze web traffic on fcnl.org 
D. How to unsubscribe, opt out, or correct your information 
E. How we notify you about privacy policy changes 
F. How to contact us 

A. How we use information you provide 

It is possible to visit the FCNLEducationFund.org website without leaving any personally identifiable information behind. Information that you may choose to give us includes your name, address, email address, phone number, credit card information, and other information about your interests and preferences. We may obtain information from outside sources and add it to or combine it with the information we collect through this site. We use this information to operate this site and send you news and information about the FCNL Education Fund. We will not sell this information to any third party, under any circumstances. We work closely with allied and like-minded organizations and may disclose selected user information to other organizations for their use in related activities and other purposes. We may also share some of your personal information with the following affiliated groups: 

  • The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) 

  • Affiliated organizations that the FCNL Education Fund coordinates with on some programs 

  • Service Providers –  for example, our database administrators and credit card transaction processor – for the sole purpose of helping us do our work. We may share your personal data with these service providers. These groups do not share your personal information or use it for any purpose other than as instructed by us. 

In addition, with your explicit permission, we pass along certain of your information to the following groups (as is standard practice): 

  • The president, members of Congress, news publications and other sources when you choose to use our email tool to send a message. 

  • With the president, legislators, news publications, and the public when you sign petitions or complete surveys. 

Sharing of Information between the FCNL Education Fund and FCNL 

The FCNL Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) organization that supports research, analysis and education. FCNL is a 501(c)(4) organization and focuses primarily on nonpartisan education and advocacy on national issues such as social and economic justice, peace, and good government. The FCNL Education Fund and FCNL are separate organizations. Both organizations are committed to supporting the democratic system in the United Sates and promoting greater citizen involvement in the political process. When you provide your personal information through the website, FCNLEducationFund.org, we share it with the FCNL. 

Petitions and Surveys 

For petitions and surveys you have signed or completed through the FCNLEducationFund.org website, we treat your name, city, state, and comments as public information, and we may provide compilations of petitions, with your comments, to people such as elected officials or the press. We will not intentionally make your street address publicly available, but we may transmit it to the intended recipient as part of the petition. This is a standard industry practice in such situations. In no such case will we intentionally disclose your email address or phone number, without your permission. We may also make your comments, along with your first name, city and state available to the public online. 

Online Contributions 

To make an online contribution, we ask for your credit card number, CVV, and expiration date in addition to your name, address, and email address. We do not store your credit card number or any other information about your credit card. 

Children’s Information 

We believe every precaution must be taken to protect children online. In accordance with the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we do not knowingly ask children for any information, nor do we knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children. 

B. How we protect information you provide 

The FCNLEducationFund.org uses industry standard security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of the information under our control. User information (although not credit card information) may remain in our database indefinitely. Permission to access your information is granted only to you and persons who need to know that information to provide services to you. Although we make good faith efforts to store information collected by FCNLEducationFund.org in a secure operating environment, we cannot guarantee complete security. 

Links to Other Websites 

This Privacy Policy covers the FCNLEducationFund.org website and any microsites managed and developed by the FCNL Education Fund, which may link to third-party websites. Should you choose to visit those websites, please remember that we are not responsible for their content or privacy policies. We encourage you to read the privacy policies and review the practices of all websites you visit. 

Other Disclosure of Your Information 

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when we have a good-faith belief release is appropriate to comply with the law (e.g., a lawful subpoena), to protect our rights or property, or to protect our donors and supporters from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful conduct, or if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records without delay. 

C. How we analyze web traffic on FCNLEducationFund.org  

Cookies 

FCNLEducationFund.org uses cookies to provide a more user-friendly service to you. The cookie — a tiny text file — does not store passwords, credit card numbers or any type of personally identifiable information whatsoever. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses, or capture your email address or any other personally identifiable information. 

Server Log Files and Other Analysis Tools 

FCNLEducationFund.org logs standard technical information, such as your IP address and the kind of browser you use. We log this information for troubleshooting purposes and to track which pages people visit in order to improve the site. We do not use log files to track a particular individual’s use of fcnl.org. We may also use third-party services, such as Google Analytics, to help us understand traffic patterns and know if there are problems with the site. 

D. How to unsubscribe, opt out, or correct your information 

If you want to unsubscribe from mailing lists or opt out, review, update, or correct your information, you can do so at any time by contacting us through the following methods: 

  • Online: Let us know the type of email you want to unsubscribe from or the changes you want to make to your subscriptions or other information. 

  • By postal mail: Send a letter with your full name and email address to: 
    FCNL Education Fund 
    245 2nd St. NE 
    Washington, DC 20002 

  • By telephone: Call 202-547-6000 (toll-free 800-630-1330) between the hours of 9 am and 5:30 pm Eastern time, Monday through Friday. 

E. How we notify you about privacy policy changes 

We may revise and update this privacy policy if we change our practices, add new site features, or change existing site features. If we make substantive changes, we will post an announcement on our website home page and post the changes on this page. Your use of the FCNLEducationFund.org website and any microsites managed and developed by FCNL Education Fund following such changes constitutes your agreement with regard to information collected from you. We encourage you to visit this page periodically to review our current policy and to contact the FCNL Education Fund staff if you have questions. 

F. How to contact us 

Questions regarding this privacy policy should be sent using this online form or sent via postal mail to: 

FCNL Education Fund 
245 2nd St. NE 
Washington, DC 20002 

For general questions or comments, please complete our online contact form or call 202-547-6000 (toll-free 800-630-1330) between the hours of 9 am and 5:30 pm Eastern time, Monday through Friday.