Privacy Policy

Schoolfundr Data Privacy Commitment 

At Schoolfundr, safeguarding your privacy and data security is our top priority. We never sell any user data - whether from students, parents, donors, or others - to external platforms under any circumstances.

Schoolfundr takes the security of personal data seriously. To read more about our commitment to data privacy, please visit on our data privacy page at https://www.schoolfundr.org/data-privacy.

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Partnerships and Privacy Frameworks

Schoolfundr has partnered with many of the largest school districts and organizations across the United States to become an approved vendor. We value the importance of privacy frameworks and are committed to working with organizations that prioritize data privacy. If your organization has an existing privacy framework in place and you would like to collaborate with us, please reach out to us at privacy@schoolfundr.org.

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Personal Information We Collect

We collect both “Non-Personal Information” about usage of the Site and “Personally Identifiable Information” about Site visitors. Non-Personal Information includes automatically collected information that cannot be used to personally identify you, such as anonymous usage data, general demographic information we may collect, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, preferences you submit and preferences that are generated based on the data you submit and number of clicks. Personally Identifiable Information includes information that Site visitors submit to us that identifies or relates to a specific individual, including registration information submitted by Fundraisers (such as name, email and postal address, telephone number, organization name, campaign information), information submitted by Donors when interacting with Fundraisers (name, email, and other information requested by Fundraisers), and contact information if you contact us with an inquiry (email address, telephone number). We do not collect payment information from Donors; Donors wishing to donate funds to Fundraisers are connected to Stripe, our third-party payment processor, who collects and processes payment information.

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Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Information

We use the information you provide for general commercial purposes such as providing you with the requested products or services, processing payments, communicating with you, responding to customer service requests and inquiries, and administering an online account.  

We use the information you provide for the purposes of analyzing, developing and improving, and maintaining our Site. We use your information to analyze preferences, trends, and statistics, and to help us develop new products and services, and to improve our existing products and service offerings. 

We may also use the information you provide us to notify you of relevant information pertinent to the Site or Services or your registered account with us.

We use your information for security and fraud prevention in order to protect our Site, products and services, and to prevent fraud, theft, and misconduct. 

We use your information to comply with our legal obligations, including reporting requirements, and defend ourselves in legal proceedings, and protect our company and our property, employees, and others through legal proceedings.

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Methods of Collecting Information


We collect information in a variety of ways. We collect information directly from you such as contact information, demographic information, financial information, identifiers, and commercial information. When you access our Site, we collect identifiers, geolocation data, and usage data using tools like browser cookies. We may collect contact information, identifiers, and commercial information from third parties, including other users, service providers, and public authorities. We may collect contact information, identifiers, geolocation data, usage data, commercial information, and audio/visual data from social media platforms and networks that you use in connection with our websites or mobile applications, or that share or allow you to share information with us, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

We combine information we obtain from different sources with publicly available information. For example, we may combine information that we have collected offline with information we collect online. We combine information that we have collected across other third party sites. We combine information across devices, such as computers and mobile devices. We may also combine information we get from a third party with information we already have.

How We Disclose Information With Others

We do not sell, share, or disclose Personal Information about our users and Site visitors except as described in this Privacy Policy. 

We may disclose your information in the following cases:

• We may disclose information with third parties whenever you consent to or direct such sharing.
• We may disclose personal information with vendors and service providers who support the operation of the Site and our business who need access to such information to carry out their work for us (including, for example, web hosting, analytics, payment processing, email delivery, communication, insurance, and customer support services). In some cases, the vendor or service provider may directly collect the information from you on our behalf.
• We may disclose information with professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
• We disclose information with regulatory and government entities including government, administrative, law enforcement and regulatory agencies; tax authorities; corporate registries; and other public agencies or authorities if we think we should in order to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or other legal obligation. This includes cooperating with law enforcement when we think it is appropriate, obtaining legal remedies or limiting our damages, and to enforcing or protecting our contracts, legal rights or the rights of others, including by responding to claims asserted against us.
• We may disclose information with potential investors, purchasers, merger partners, and their advisors in the event we: (i) sell or transfer, or are considering selling or transferring, all or a portion of our business or assets; or (ii) are considering or engaging in any reorganization, conversion, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or disposition of all or any portion of our ownership interest, business or operations.

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Cookies, Analytics, and Other Tracking Technology

Cookies and Tracking Technology

We want you to be aware that certain online tools exist to help us serve and recognize you when you visit our Site. We receive and store certain types of information when you visit our Site. When you access the Site, we (including companies we work with) may place small data files on your computer or other device. These data files may be web beacons, cookies, clear gifs, pixel tags, e-tags, flash cookies, log files, or other local storage provided by your browser or associated applications. These tracking technologies, which are often referred to collectively as cookies, allow us to understand how users navigate to and around our Site, view different pages, access content and request Site. We may use them, for example, to keep track of your preferences and profile information and collect general usage and volume statistical information. If you want to remove or block cookies, you may be able to update your browser settings. You can also find instructions on how to manage cookies on different types of web browsers at www.allaboutcookies.org.

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Third-party Analytics and Advertising

We allow others to provide analytics services and serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet and in mobile applications. These entities may use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers and other technologies to collect information about your use of the Site and other websites and applications, including your IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages or in mobile apps, links clicked and conversion information. We use this information to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand your online activity.‍

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Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers have a “do not track” feature. It lets you tell websites you visit that you do not want them to track your online activity. These features are not yet uniform across browsers. Our Site is thus not currently set up to respond to these signals. For more information on Do Not Track signals, please visit https://allaboutdnt.com/.

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‍Google Analytics

We use analytics services provided by Google Analytics. If you would like more information on how Google uses data when you visit or use our Site, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners. If you would like to opt-out, Google provides an opt-out tool which is available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

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Links to Other Websites

Our Site may include links to other websites or applications whose privacy practices may differ from ours. If you submit personal information to any of those websites or applications, your information is governed by their privacy statements. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy statement of any website you visit.

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Security

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us and have implemented reasonable technical, organization, administrative and physical measures to protect personal information. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security and encourage you to use websites and share information with caution. If we receive instructions using your log-in information we will consider that you have authorized the instructions.

We fully comply with relevant data protection regulations, including the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and other applicable laws.

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This Website is Not Intended for Children

We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act). Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older. If you are a parent or guardian and believe we may have inadvertently collected personal information from your child, please notify us immediately by sending an email to privacy@schoolfundr.org.

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User Rights and Requests

Registered users can update, amend, or delete their information at any time by logging into their account and/or by emailing support@schoolfundr.org.

You can opt out of marketing or advertising emails and newsletters by using the "unsubscribe" link or mechanism noted in communications you receive from us. You may also request to opt out of marketing or promotional emails by contacting us by emailing support@schoolfundr.org or through one of the methods specified in the Contact Us section of this Privacy Policy. If you opt out of receiving marketing messages, you may still receive transactional and service-related emails from us that may be necessary for us to make the Site available to you or respond to your inquiries.

We do not disclose personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

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Processing in the United States

We are based in the United States. If you are using the Sites from outside the United States, please be aware that information we obtain about you will be processed in the United States or in other jurisdictions. By using the Sites or Services, you acknowledge your personal information may be transferred to and processed in jurisdictions outside your own, including the United States, as described in this Privacy Policy. Please be aware that the data protection laws and regulations that apply to your personal information transferred to the United States or other countries may be different from the laws in your country of residence. The United States may not afford the same level of protection as laws in your own country.

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Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please email us at privacy@schoolfundr.org.

You can also write to us at:

Schoolfundr Inc.

925 Payne Ave, Suite B2

Saint Paul, MN 55130

Phone Number: (612) 208-2188

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Updates

From time to time we may change our privacy policies. We will notify you of any material changes to our Privacy Policy as required by law. We will also post an updated copy on the website where this appears. Please check our website periodically for updates.