Online Fundraising Tool Privacy Policy and Your Privacy Rights

March for Babies, Bikers for Babies, Jail and Bail
The March of Dimes uses our Online Fundraising Tool on our March for Babies, Bikers for Babies, and Jail and Bail web sites. The Online Fundraising Tool is intended to help participants maximize their fundraising efforts and the March of Dimes has made every effort to provide an application that is safe and secure.

Collection and Use of Personally Identifiable Information
If you are a participant or team captain, you will be asked to register by providing your first and last name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, the name of your fundraising group (if any), and a user name. We store this registration information to allow you to use the tool effectively -- for example to log on at different times to contact potential sponsors and to keep them informed of the event -- and to allow you and us to keep track of the sponsorships you receive.

If you sponsor someone and make a donation at this site, we will request you to provide your name, address, telephone number and email address.

The information you provide when you register or make a donation is maintained in the March of Dimes' central database and certain information is also sent to the local chapter's database. We use this information to advise users of new online materials, activities and events and to offer users the opportunity to contribute to local and national programs and research initiatives.

The March of Dimes does not contact those people whose names and postal and email addresses may be stored on a participant's page as potential sponsors unless they register as March for Babies, Bikers for Babies or Jail and Bail volunteers or donate to the March of Dimes.

The March of Dimes never shares your email address with any third party without your consent.

Credit card security
If you register as a biker in the Bikers for Babies event or if you sponsor a participant, you may be asked to provide credit card information. The March of Dimes has made every reasonable effort to protect the security of online credit card donations. Please read the section on Payment Information in our Privacy Policy to learn how we process payments you make by credit card.

Cookies and Gifs The March of Dimes uses cookies -- small text files that a website can place in a visitor's browser cache -- and similar technology (such as java script and web beacons or transparent gifs) to allow you to stay logged on to our websites, to permit us to recognize repeat visitors, to facilitate a visitor's use of the site, and to track a visitor's access and use of the site.

We collect data that includes your internet protocol (IP) addresses, the type of browser and operating system you use, the date and time of your visit, and the amount of any donation you make. We also use cookies to collect your sign-up information including the user name that you create when you register for events.

We use a third party to serve ads on our behalf across the Internet. The third party may also collect anonymous information about your visits to our web site by using technology such as web beacons placed on various web pages within our web sites. The third party reports the data it collects back to us and we may link this information to personal information that you have provided to us.

This information allows us to track which other websites have linked visitors to our site, and what pages of our site are used by and are of interest to those visitors, so that we may better advertise our mission, programs and events and improve the design and functionality of our websites and the experience for those who use our sites.

The third party ad server may use information about your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide ads about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and learn how you may opt out of having this information used by the third party, please click here.

March of Dimes General Privacy Policy
A description of the information the March of Dimes collects on our various sites and how we use that information can be found in the March of Dimes Privacy Policy and Your Privacy Rights.

You may contact us to review or correct your personal information and you may opt out of receiving communications from us.

March of Dimes General Privacy Policy and Your Privacy Rights
A description of the information the March of Dimes collects on our various sites and how we use that information can be found in the March of Dimes Privacy Policy and Your Privacy Rights.

California's "Shine the Light" law regulates the sharing of personal information by a company for direct marketing purposes by requiring a company to notify a consumer of its sharing practices or by providing the consumer the opportunity to opt out of having his or her personal information shared with a third party free of charge.

You may contact us to review or correct your personal information and you may opt out of receiving communications from us or having your information shared with third parties here.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy
The March of Dimes reserves the right to change its privacy policies at any time. We will notify you of any changes to this Privacy Policy by posting a notice prominently on the first page of the relevant website.

Effective Date
This Privacy Policy is effective as of December 1, 2008

©2008 March of Dimes Foundation. All rights reserved. The March of Dimes Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation recognized as tax-exempt under Internal Revenue code Section 501(c)(3). Our mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.