Atron Foundation Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 01, 2023

Atron Foundation Inc. (“Atron Foundation,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you interact with our nonprofit organization, our website, or any of our services. By using our services, you consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Electronic communication with Atron Foundation indicates your acknowledgement, acceptance, and consent to the collection, use, management, and disclosure of your personal information as set forth in this Policy subject to applicable law. We may revise this Policy periodically at any time, and will let you know of any changes by posting a revised Policy on our website with a new effective date.

Information We Collect

Personal data we collects depends on how you interact with the organization (website browsing, mobile communication, or otherwise) may come directly from you and/or indirectly from third parties that provide data to us. The types of information we may collect include:

• This may include your name, email address, postal address, phone number, and other contact information.
• If you make a donation to Atron Foundation, we may collect information necessary to process your donation, such as your payment information, billing address, and transaction details. Atron Foundation may send mailing, emails of other means of communication to donors. You may opt out of these communications at any time by requesting to be removed from further communications. If you pay using a credit card, we and our third-party payment processor may collect basic information such as credit card number and expiration date.
•  We may collect information about your interactions with our website, browsing history, search history, IP addresses. We use IP addresses to analyze website visitor trends. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. We use this information to improve your online experience, enhance our websites and applications, and engage with community partners.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

• To provide and improve our nonprofit services, including processing donations, sending updates, and responding to inquiries.
• To communicate with you about our programs, events, donations, and other nonprofit-related matters. From time to time, we may use your personal data to send important notices, such as announcements, communications about donations and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies. Uninitiated communication will occur weekly, message and data rates may apply.
• To analyze usage patterns and conduct research to improve our services and website. We collect feedback you provide to us, answers to surveys and questionnaires, and other information we are able to derive or draw inferences about you based on the information we have collected from you directly, through your device, or through third parties, such as research agencies and data companies.
• To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes for example, to satisfy tax or reporting obligations.

Data Sharing

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose your information to third parties in the following circumstances:

• We may engage third parties to act as our service providers and perform certain tasks on our behalf, such as processing or storing data, including personal data, in connection with your satisfaction with our services and communication (such as shipping payment processing).
• Personal data, including mobile information, will not be shared or transferred with third parties or external organizations for marketing purposes or any other circumstances even with consent.
• Service providers are obligated to handle personal data consistent with this Privacy Policy and according to our instructions. We have strict policies in place to prevent unauthorized sharing of your data. They cannot use the personal data we share for their own purposes and must delete or return the personal data once they’ve fulfilled our request.

Your Choices

You have the following rights regarding your personal information for all regions including the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”), as applicable:

•  You can request access to the personal information we hold about you, corrections to inaccurate or incomplete information, and deletion of your personal information, subject to legal obligations.
• You can opt-out of receiving non-essential communications from us. To unsubscribe or opt-out from calls, e-mails, texts, or mail, any time by replying stop or sending an email to info@atronfoundation.org 
  • You may opt out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions located at the bottom of the email. You may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails.
  • If you opt-in to receive text messages from us, you may opt out of receiving further text messages from us by replying STOP in response to a message.

Security

• We employ reasonable security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, destruction or disclosure. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to and improper use of your personal data.
• We protect the security of credit card transactions using a number of measures such as encryption, access controls, network firewalls, and physical security. When we work with other companies to process credit card transactions, those companies also use encryption and other appropriate security measures.

• However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.

Children’s Privacy

• We understands the importance of safeguarding the personal data of children, which we consider to be an individual under the age of 13 or the equivalent age as specified by law (as that term is defined by the U.S. Children’s Privacy Protection Act, or “COPPA”). 
• We does not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal identifying information from a minor under the age of 13 without obtaining all necessary prior consent from a person with parental responsibility (e.g., a parent or guardian) consistent with applicable legal requirements.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our practices, text HELP or please contact us.

Last updated: June 09, 2025