Assist International - Privacy Policy

General Statement and Disclaimer

Assist International is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Scotts Valley, California. It also has an office in Ripon, California.

Founded in 1990, Assist International is a humanitarian organization dedicated to relieving human suffering around the world by networking the resources in the world with the great human need that exists. We provide assistance and relief supplies such as food and medical equipment to the poor and needy in developing nations. We are also active in building family homes for orphaned and abandoned children, as well as establishing business enterprises to sustain the children's projects. Currently, we are involved in three major efforts: we address critical medical problems in major hospitals around the world, provide medical training seminars to hospital and medical staff, and provide relief and assistance to abandoned and orphaned children throughout the world.

References within this website to any individual, organization, product or service is not meant to imply endorsement by Assist International unless so specifically stated. Assist International assumes no responsibility for consequences resulting from use of the information contained within the website's pages or obtained at linked external sites.

Donor Bill of Rights: PHILANTHROPY is based on voluntary action for the common good. It is a tradition of giving and sharing that is primary to the quality of life. To assure that philanthropy merits the respect and trust of the general public, and that donors and prospective donors can have full confidence in the not-for-profit organizations and causes they are asked to support, we declare that all donors have these rights:

To be informed of the organization's mission, of the way the organization intends to use donated resources, and of its capacity to use donations effectively for their intended purposes.
To be informed of the identity of those serving on the organization's governing board, and to expect the board to exercise prudent judgement in its stewardship responsibilities.
To have access to the organization's most recent financial statements.
To be assured their gifts will be used for the purposes for which they were given.
To receive appropriate acknowledgement and recognition.
To be assured that information about their donations is handled with respect and with confidentiality to the extent provided by law.
To expect that all relationships with individuals representing organizations of interest to the donor will be professional in nature.
To be informed whether those seeking donations are volunteers, employees of the organization or hired solicitors.
To have the opportunity for their names to be deleted from mailing lists that an organization may intend to share.
To feel free to ask questions when making a donation and to receive prompt, truthful and forthright answers.

Assist International strongly believes in these principles and promises to abide by them. Each employee and vendor for Assist International has signed non-disclosure agreements and has employed secure software solutions to ensure that your personal information is kept confidential and safe.

Trademarks & Service Marks of Assist International

Assist International is incorporated in California and has registered. The term "Assist International" is a trademark of the charity. Assist International has also marked "Networking Resources with World Needs." Its Form 990 is readily available on Charity Navigator's website, the most recent of which can be found here.

Assist International Privacy Policy

We are deeply committed to protecting your privacy and take all reasonable steps to protect all data and information supplied to Assist International. We protect your privacy in a variety of ways including using industry accepted security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of data used by our system.

The Assist International Privacy Policy is designed to ensure the safety and accuracy of Internet users' personal information. We do not share any of your personally identifiable information with third parties. We understand the importance of personal information security. We are absolutely committed to personal privacy on the Internet.

Assist International collects data from Internet users including non-personally identifiable information from its site's visitors, IP address of their server and what pages they visited. We use this information to continuously improve our site's functionality. Assist International also collects personally identifiable information, including e-mail addresses from those visitors who opt-in to receive some information from us, give donations, make inquiries, or send in their comments. We use this information to directly respond to visitors' communications. If a customer joins our online marketing program, they typically submit some personally identifiable information to participate in this program.

Assist International collects personally identifiable information from those who register on our website or donate through on online system. Such information includes name, address, and billing information. We use this information only to receive payments for the use in donating footwear around the world. We also may collect information regarding your use of our services. We may use this and your personally identifiable information to compile general information about our visitors and our services so that we may improve the services we offer. We may create reports based on that information to share with our staff, but these reports never contain any personally identifiable information. For example, we might determine from all of our data that there are certain days that are better to send emails as part of an email campaign.

Keeping your personal information secure is a top priority for us. Therefore, Assist International utilizes 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology, the industry's leading data security solutions, and has implemented policies and procedures to ensure the physical and electronic security of data stored by Assist International. Assist International employs permission-based marketing principles: it requires its staff to communicate only to users who affirmatively express an interest in receiving e-mails. Permission to receive e-mails may be granted and taken away; in other words customers may "opt-in" and "opt-out". If a visitor chooses to opt-out, Assist International is required to stop sending messages to that customer. Assist International puts a high value on a visitor's ability to discontinue receiving unwanted e-mail.

Assist International utilizes Cookie technology. A Cookie is information our web site places on the hard disk of your computer so that our web site can recognize who you are when you return to our web site. We use Cookies for purposes of web site traffic analysis such as the time/date of the visit, the time/date of last visit, the page viewed, the referrer, transaction information for eCommerce donation pages, and other data. Assist International tracks click behavior in the e-mails it sends out. This data is used to update specific user-profile information, ascertain the areas of most interest to opt-in e-mail recipients, and to personalize e-mail messages to them.

Assist International does not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease any personal information whether gathered by Assist International itself or received from its partners. When Assist International collects personally identifiable information from opt-in participants in those clients' marketing programs, such information belongs to those respective clients and is subject to their policies on sharing of the end user information.

Assist International is a general audience site. Assist International will not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information from or about anyone under 13. Assist International will make the best effort to assist its staff in complying with privacy laws and adhering to the highest industry standards on privacy.

If you have received unwanted, unsolicited email sent via our system or purporting to be sent via this system, please forward a copy of that email with your comments to assist@assistinternational.org for review.

We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time. We will always post the most current version of this policy on our website.