IDEAS assures you that the identity of all who contact us through this website is kept confidential: we do not rent, sell, or exchange our mailing lists and we will always strive to be responsible in our management, truthful in our advertising, and cost-effective in our fund raising. We have been developing transformational projects for over 8 years, and are continually working to ensure every dollar is used to its fullest for this purpose. Anything less would violate the trust we keep with you, with the communities we serve and, most importantly, with God.

We are committed to the highest standard of stewardship excellence. We will exert every effort to honor any designation of preference you have stated. In certain circumstances, when a donation cannot be carried out in accordance with your preference, the funds will be used for similar projects approved by the Board of Directors.

As with most other Internet sites, our web servers record the IP address of each visitor to this site. This IP address tells us which domain you visited from (for instance, aol.com), but not your email address or other private and personal information. We use the information we record to help diagnose problems with our servers, to administer this website more effectively, and to gather broad demographic information about what countries and domains our visitors hail from and their behavior on our site.

In some cases our website uses securely encrypted contribution response forms for visitors who choose to use these forms to provide information, request information and make donations. We collect your willingly submitted contact information (such as your email address) and financial information (such as a credit card type, number and expiration date). Contact information from these response forms is used to process donations, provide receipts and other information about IDEAS. The visitor's contact information is also used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary in order to resolve customer service issues or questions. Users may readily opt-out of receiving future communications; see the "opt-out" section below. Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for donations pledged.

OPT-OUT
Our website provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us at the point where we request contact information about the visitor.

This website contains links to other sites. IDEAS is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy without advance notice. Notice of these changes to this policy will be posted to the home-page for this website (http://www.ideasworld.org) for a period of three days.

CONTACTING THE WEBSITE
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, the practices of this website, or your dealings with this website, you can contact:

Anne Coughlin
Communications & Development