Privacy Policy
August 1, 2025
San Diego Foundation is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most meaningful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to San Diego Foundation website properties and governs data collection and usage. By using a San Diego Foundation website property, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of Your Personal Information
The San Diego Fundraising Conference website, a webite property of San Diego Foundation, collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by San Diego Foundation. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by San Diego Foundation for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of San Diego Foundation Web site.
San Diego Foundation encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from San Diego Foundation so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. San Diego Foundation is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of San Diego Foundation and San Diego Foundation family of websites.
Use of Your Personal Information
San Diego Foundation collects and uses your personal information to operate San Diego Fundraising Conference website and deliver the services you have requested. San Diego Foundation also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from San Diego Foundation and its affiliates. San Diego Foundation may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
San Diego Foundation does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. San Diego Foundation may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, San Diego Foundation may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to San Diego Foundation, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
San Diego Foundation keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within San Diego Foundation, in order to determine which of San Diego Foundation’s services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within San Diego Foundation to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
San Diego Fundraising Conference website will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on San Diego Foundation or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of San Diego Foundation; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of San Diego Foundation, or the public.
Use of Web Tracking
San Diego Fundraising Conference website uses tracking, including cookies, to help you personalize your online experience. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of San Diego Foundation services or websites you visit.
SDF Site Usage Information
Information (e.g., log files, cookies, Internet tags, web beacons, etc.) we collect from you through your use of the Site will be used to (a) monitor the operation, technical functions and quality of the Site, (b) compile general statistics regarding use of the Site, and (c) analyze demographic information about the Site’s users. We may also use such information for research or improvements of the Site and the services we offer you. This data is also used by SDF to deliver customized content and advertising to you when your use of the internet indicates that you are interested in a particular subject area.
Security of Your Personal Information
San Diego Foundation secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Third Party Links
The Site may contain links to third party sites on the Internet (“Third Party Sites”). Your use of all third party sites are at your own risk and it is your sole responsibility to evaluate the content and usefulness of the information obtained from third party sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. If you are concerned about the privacy policy of a certain third party, you may contact them directly or visit their individual website to learn more about their individual privacy policies.
Changes to this Statement
San Diego Foundation will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. San Diego Foundation encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how San Diego Foundation is protecting your information.
Contact Information
San Diego Foundation welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that San Diego Foundation has not adhered to this Statement, please contact San Diego Foundation at sdfconference@sdfoundation.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.