Philanos Website Privacy Policy

By visiting our website (https://philanos.org), you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use this website.

Philanos is committed to maintaining the privacy of its online visitors and donors. At our site, we do not collect personally identifiable information from individuals unless they provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly. This means we do not require you to register or provide information to us in order to view public areas of our site. Philanos only gathers personally identifiable data that is voluntarily submitted by the visitor, such as names, addresses, ZIP/postal codes and e-mail addresses. 

Use of Information: If you provide your contact information to Philanos, you will receive our newsletter and communications about upcoming events. You can always opt out and inform us that you do not want to receive such communications. We do not and will not share, trade or sell your individually identifiable information collected online or offline with other organizations.  

Cookies: “Cookies” are pieces of information that an Internet site transfers to an individual’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies allow a certain Internet site to remember important information that will make your use of the site more convenient. Like most Internet sites, Philanos website uses cookies for a variety of purposes in order to improve your online experience. Use the options in your Internet browser if you do not wish to receive a cookie or if you wish to set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie

Links to Other Sites: Our website provides links to other sites where users can find out more about Philanos affiliates, Philanos partner organizations, Philanos sponsors, and articles and events in philanthropy. Please note that Philanos is not responsible for the information practices of linked sites. We encourage our visitors to be aware when they leave our site that they should read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

Philanos uses Wild Apricot membership management software and you can read their current data policy and protection plan here which includes information on securing online payments.  Wild Apricot uses Affinipay, LLC to process online payments; Affinipay’s privacy policy is here.

Philanos does not offer automatically recurring payment options, therefore, we do not store any credit/debit card payment information. 

Philanos uses Google Drive for internal organizational cloud storage and as a file sharing platform.  Google’s Privacy Policy can be found here.  

Philanos uses a YouTube channel to store recorded webinars and past virtual events for our affiliates.  The YouTube Privacy Guidelines are here.

Privacy Policy Changes: If we update or change our privacy policy, we will post those changes here.

How To Contact Us: You may reach us by writing to Philanos, 4725 Dorsey Hall Drive, Suite A315, Ellicott City, MD 21042