• Clearly and specifically display and describe our organization’s identity on our Web site.
• Employ practices on our Web site that exhibit integrity, honesty, truthfulness, and seek to safeguard the public trust.
• Seek to inspire trust in every online transaction through a system that employs high-level, security technology to protect the donor’s personal information.
• Prominently display the opportunity for donors and friends to have their names removed from any email correspondence that they have subscribed to.
• Protect the interests and privacy of individuals interacting with our Web site.
• Disclose the identity of the organization or provider processing an online transaction.
• Guarantee that the name, logo and likeness of all parties to an online transaction belong to the party and will not be used without express permission.
• Maintain all appropriate governmental and regulatory designations or certifications.
• Provide protection to hold the donor harmless of any problem arising from a transaction conducted through the organization’s Web site.
• Promptly respond to all customer complaints and employ best efforts to fairly resolve all legitimate complaints in a timely fashion.
• Insure contributions are used to support the activities of the organization to which it was donated.
• Insure that legal control of contributions/proceeds from online transactions are transferred directly to the charity or expedited in the fastest possible way.
• Companies providing online services with charities will provide clear and full communication with the charity of all aspects of donor transactions including the accurate and timely transmission of data related to online transactions.
• Stay informed regarding the best methods to insure the ethical, secure and private nature of online e-philanthropy transactions.
• Adhere to the spirit as well as the letter of all applicable laws and regulations, including but not limited to charity solicitation.
• Insure that all services, recognition and other transactions promised on a Web site, in consideration of gift or transaction, will be fulfilled in a timely basis.
• Disclose to the donor the nature of the relationship between the organization processing the gift or transaction and the charity intended to benefit from the gift.
• We do not use "cookies" in order to track or record any donor information. (A cookie is a small amount of information a web site copies to your hard disk. A cookie can help a website identify you on your next visit. For example, your favorite online bookstore can use cookies to store information about your favorite book subjects, and use this information for your future visits).

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