The Make-A-Wish Foundation® of America has created this statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: www.wish.org and www.makeawish.org.

Your IP Address and Cookies

For each visitor to our Web site, our Web server automatically recognizes only the visitor's IP address (e-mail addresses are not automatically recognized by our server). We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to gather broad demographic information and is then discarded. Occasionally, we may use cookies to improve content and provide easier access. This technology lets us review which parts of the site are popular and which are not, allowing us to offer future improvements to the site. However, cookies that we generate contain no identifiable information about you, any children that may visit this site, or your computer.

Information from Forms

Our site's forms require users to give us contact information (like their name, phone number, and e-mail address). We use customer contact information from these forms to send users information about the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Users may opt-out of receiving future communicatons or contact us with their concerns about our privacy policy; see the Opting Out section below.

Links to Other Sites

This site contains links to other sites. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of America is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Our Partners

Our Web site (www.wish.org and www.makeawish.org) is hosted by Epoch Internet. No information gathered from users is shared with Epoch Internet.

In the case of on-line donations, on our behalf, CharityWeb provides and manages secure servers to host the transactions and gather pertinent donation information from users. This information is passed directly to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America and its financial institutions and is not used by CharityWeb.

Occasionally the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America offers links to third-party vendors that offer Make-A-Wish Foundation merchandise on-line, via the Web. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of America does not control Web sites maintained by such third-parties. For information on their site policies, including privacy and the way they share information, you must visit their Web sites. In general, contact information returned to us by such third parties is treated as if it had been gathered by us and is given the same consideration.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Specifically, secure servers are used to gather financial information, and encrypted channels are used to transfer this information.

Children

With respect to children, the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America does not collect personally identifiable offline contact information without prior parental consent, nor do we distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information without prior parental consent. We do not give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information on our Web site.

Opting Out

Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor. If you receive communications from us and wish not to, this site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications. Please provide your exact name and address when communicating with us.

Send a letter to:

The Make-A-Wish Foundation® of America

3550 N. Central Ave., Suite 300

Phoenix, AZ 85012

Attention: Direct Response

Copyright

The works of authorship contained in this Website, including but not limited to all design, text and images, are owned or licensed by the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of America and may not be copied, reproduced, transmitted, displayed, performed, distributed, rented, sublicensed, altered, stored by subsequent use or otherwise used in whole or in part in any manner without our prior written consent, except that the user may make such temporarily copies in a single computer's RAM and hard drive cache as are necessary to browse the Web site, and the user may make one permanent printout of each page of the Website (unmodified in form, with a copy of this Site Notice attached) to be used by the user for personal and non-commercial uses which do not harm the reputation of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.