Privacy Policy
Privacy is important to us
The Angela Marotta Inho Foundation is committed to protecting the information of our visitors who use our website. We value your trust and handle all information with care.
Angela Marotta Inho Foundation, Inc. ("Company", "we" or “us”) is a Connecticut nonstock corporation recognized as exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Our office is in Wethersfield, CT. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy (the “Policy”).
This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website, www.ami-foundation.com (our "Website"), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This Policy applies to information we collect:
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Through this Website.
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In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and us.
This Policy does not apply to information collected by:
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Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website or through any third party.
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Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.
Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you may choose not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time (see below—Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.
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Children Under the Age of 13
Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information on or through the Website. We do not knowingly request or collect information from any children under 13 years of age without parental consent. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register for any of our events without proper parental consent, make any donations through the Website, or provide any personal information as defined by this Policy. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 years without parental consent, we will promptly delete such information. If you believe we may have received any information from or regarding a child under 13 years of age without parental consent, please contact us at:
30 Clovercrest Rd.
Wethersfield, CT 06109
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
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By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline ("personal information");
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That is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or
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About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.
We collect this information:
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Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, and other tracking technologies.
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From third parties, for example, our third-party service partners, e.g., WIX, Apple Pay. Please note, our third-party service partners and website platform may change from time to time and are not limited to the examples provided herein.
We also collect information from you when you register for any of our events, including:
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Registration information, which may include personal information, such as your name and email address.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website or event registrations may include:
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Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering for our events (including information provided in the event that a liability waiver is required), making donations, or requesting further information about our Company using our Website’s “Contact Us” feature.
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Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us.
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Details of transactions you carry out through our Website. You will be required to provide financial information before providing a donation through our Website. We use third-party partners, WIX Payments, Apple Pay, and Venmo to collect donations. When you provide us with a donation, we will collect personal information from you that may include: your name, address, telephone number, and/or e-mail address so that we can send you a receipt and thank you for your donation. We may also collect limited financial information from our third-party partner to process your donation(s). The third-party partner may also collect and store certain information about you as provided in their privacy policy and subject to their terms and conditions.
We may record and/or photograph events for repurposing in digital e.g. on our Website. This will be for the purpose of promoting services and providing educational resources. We maintain copyright and any other intellectual property in photographs taken and/or in digitized recordings belong to the Company.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
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Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
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Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
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Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
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Speed up your searches.
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Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
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Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.
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Third-Party Use of Cookies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
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How We Use Your Information, Third-Party Partners, and Vendors
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
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To present our Website and its contents to you.
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To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
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To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
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To notify you about changes to our Website or send communications to those who subscribe to our e-mails.
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In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
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For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our events that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
Our Website contains links to third-party websites. This Policy applies only to our website. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other services and websites regardless of if you access them using links from our Website. Accordingly, any personal information you provide to such third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review carefully the legal and privacy notices of all other digital services that you visit.
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Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide as described in this privacy Policy:
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To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
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To a buyer or other successor in interest in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company regarding our Website users is among the assets transferred.
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To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
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For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
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With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
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To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
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To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
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If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
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Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
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Emails and other Information from the Company. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by the Company to promote our organizational updates and events, you can opt out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data, through the “unsubscribe” button in our marketing emails or at any other time by sending us an email stating your request to ami.foundation1210@gmail.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a donation.
Connecticut’s Data Privacy Act and Residents’ Rights
The State of Connecticut’s Data Privacy Act (“DPA”) becomes effective on July 1, 2023. Beginning on this date, Connecticut provides its residents with rights to:
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Confirm whether we process their personal information.
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Access and delete certain personal information.
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Data portability.
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Opt-out of personal data processing for targeted advertising and sales.
As of July 1, 2023, Connecticut also provides its residents with rights to:
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Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information's nature processing purpose.
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Opt-out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
To exercise any of these rights or appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request, please contact the Connecticut Attorney General.
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Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page with a notice that the Policy has been updated on the Website’s home page. If we make material changes regarding how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website’s home page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for and review any changes.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or wish to submit comments regarding either this Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how and when Angela Marotta Inho Foundation, Inc. (“Company”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website (our “Site”) and the choices that you have. This policy forms part of our Privacy Policy.
Introduction – What are Cookies and how are they Used?
The use of cookies and similar tracking technologies (including pixels or clear GIFs, tags, web beacons and Flash objects) is a common Internet practice. Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information that are downloaded to your computer, smartphone, tablet or other mobile device when you visit a website. Tracking technologies may collect information about you and your use of websites (“Sites”) and web applications (“Web Apps”). We have developed this policy to provide general information on cookies and similar tracking technologies which we will refer to as “cookies.”
Cookies are useful in a number of ways, including for the purpose of allowing a Site or Web App you use to recognize your device, keep track of pages visited and even remember your preferences. This information is used for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively and to personalize the user’s experience. Cookies and similar tracking technologies are also used to gather statistical information about how Sites and Web Apps are used in order to continually improve design and functionality and assist with resolving questions regarding Sites and Web Apps.
We will retain personal information collected through cookies for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained. The criteria used to determine our retention periods includes the purpose for which the personal data was collected, whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject and whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).
Cookie Attributes
Cookies set by us and cookies created and set by third-party providers on our behalf are called first-party cookies. Cookies set by third-party providers which are permitted by us, but which are not set on our behalf, are called third-party cookies. Information obtained from a third-party cookie can only be used for the purposes for which we have stated in the applicable contract. There can be first-party and/or third-party cookies within any of the below Categories of Cookies.
Cookies have a duration period. Cookies that expire at the end of a browser session are called “session” cookies. Cookies that are stored longer are called “persistent” cookies. There can be session and/or persistent cookies within any of the below Categories of Cookies.
Categories of Cookies
Below is a list of the types of cookies used on our Site. We classify cookies into the following categories:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for our Site to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. Without these cookies, our Site will not work properly. Examples include setting your privacy preferences, setting your language preferences or logging in a secured area requiring authentication. Strictly necessary cookies may also detect transmission errors or data loss or distribute network traffic across different servers to ensure accessibility.
Performance Cookies
Performance cookies enable us to measure and improve the performance of our Site. These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Site, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often and if they get error messages. These cookies can also be used to make collective inferences based on choices and browsing behavior for marketing research.
Preference Cookies
Preference cookies enable our Site to provide enhanced functionality and personalization by allowing our Site to remember choices you make. These cookies can be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you may have customized as well as pre-filling forms. They may also be used to provide services you requested, such as watching a video.
Managing Cookies
Our website sends cookies (e.g., pieces of code or text placed on your computer by us or third-parties when you browse our Site) to your web browser (if your browser’s preferences allow it) to collect data. Cookie settings can be controlled in your Internet browser to automatically reject some forms of cookies. If you view our Site without changing your cookie settings, you are indicating your consent to receive all cookies from our Site when you are presented with the cookie banner and select “I understand”.
Should you choose to opt out of allowing optional cookies on your device, please note that certain features of our Site depend on cookies and you may not be able to use some of those features, and preferences that are dependent on cookies will be lost. If you choose to delete cookies, any settings and preferences controlled by those cookies, including advertising preferences, are deleted and will need to be recreated.
In addition, if you want to remove existing cookies from your device or block them in the future, you can do this using your browser options. Please bear in mind that deleting and blocking cookies may have an impact on your user experience of our Site.
Third-Party Providers
Our Company works with third-party providers who are contractually obligated to comply with our policies to protect information.
We may contract with a third-party provider to provide support to us through their sites. If you are on our Site and you click a link to one of their sites, you will be presented with a notice that you are continuing to a site that we do not own. The third-party provider is solely responsible for cookies, cookie tracking and your choices for managing cookies on their site. Please refer to their posted privacy policy and terms of use.
When we contract with a third-party provider to manage the content of the information within our Site, the third-party provider is solely responsible for cookies, cookie tracking and your choices for managing cookies.