The Walter Kaitz Foundation produces www.walterkaitz.org Web site ("Web site") to provide you with information about all of its activities including its annual fundraising dinner, supplier diversity workshops, and funded leadership development programs. You may use the Web site to register to receive information about any of its programs.

This Privacy Policy ("policy") explains how information will be used once it is collected from Web site visitors. If material changes are made to the policy, The Walter Kaitz Foundation will post those changes here so that users can maintain awareness of what information is collected, how that information is used, and under what circumstances that information will be disclosed.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions regarding this policy or the practices of the the Walter Kaitz Foundation Web site, please contact:

Walter Kaitz Foundation
25 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Suite 100
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-222-2490
Fax: 202-222-2491
Email: info@walterkaitz.org
Webstie: www.walterkaitz.org

What information, including personally identifiable information, does the Walter Kaitz Foundation collect, when is it collected, and how is it used?
Personally identifiable information ("PII") is that which can be used to contact or identify you. The Walter Kaitz Foundation collects PII from visitors who utilize certain features on the Web site. The PII required to make use of such features will vary but will typically include your first and last name, physical address, and e-mail address.

The Walter Kaitz Foundation uses the PII collected to provide you the services you have requested. The Walter Kaitz Foundation also uses this information to provide you updates about its programs and other industry-related news. In any e-mail communication you receive from us, The Walter Kaitz Foundation will offer you the opportunity to refuse future e-mail communications.

Some PII is automatically collected by the Web server whenever a page or file is requested. It collects:
1. Your IP address.
2. The referring page.
3. The user agent string exposed by your internet browser.
4. The date and time of the request.

This information allows us to measure the number of visitors to the Web site or to particular areas of the site as well as where these visitors are coming from. Taken as a whole, it allows us to make the Web site more useful to visitors. These tracking statistics are not shared with any third parties.

This Web application also collects and tracks some PII. When you first visit the site, a small text file called a "cookie" is placed on your machine. Contained within is an arbitrary unique identifier which allows us to uniquely identify visitors over time. Depending on the circumstances of your visit to the site, the following information could also be collected:
1. Your IP address.
2. The date and time of the visit.
3. The referring page.
4. Any referral or marketing codes.

The collected data allow us to identify how often individuals return to the site, where they are coming from, and what they are responding to. The Walter Kaitz Foundation uses this information to measure the effectiveness of various marketing efforts and to improve user experiences on this Web site. These tracking statistics are not shared with any third parties.
In addition, advertisements may be placed on this Web site. These advertisements track only aggregate numbers — the number of persons who see a given ad and the number of persons who click on a given ad — and do not collect PII. The aggregate numbers are shared with our trusted advertising partners.

With whom may the information be shared?
In connection with your registration of Walter Kaitz Foundation listservs and workshops, The Foundation may share your PII and associated demographic information with third parties affiliated with the both programs, as well as with companies who provide products and services that might be of interest to you. The Walter Kaitz Foundation may also provide advertisers or other partners with anonymous aggregated information about the visitors to our web site to illustrate usage trends and patterns. Third parties with whom The Walter Kaitz Foundation share information will have independent privacy and data collection practices. The Walter Kaitz Foundation has no responsibility or liability for their policies or practices.

In addition, The Walter Kaitz Foundation may disclose information to law enforcement or other government officials if The Walter Kaitz Foundation determine such disclosure to be appropriate, or if The Walter Kaitz Foundation is compelled to disclose it by court order or operation of law.

What kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of my information?
The Walter Kaitz Foundation has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. The servers for the Web site are stored in a physically secure off-site facility. The Walter Kaitz Foundation also restricts access to information on our servers through several user authentication technologies. Only those employees needed to carry out business functions will have access to information about specific web site visitors. The Walter Kaitz Foundation trains each such employee with respect to the Web site's privacy policy, and those violating this policy will be subject to disciplinary action.

Despite these security precautions, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure. While The Walter Kaitz Foundation strives to protect your information, the Foundation cannot warrant the security of any information you transmit.

LAST UPDATED: January 30, 2007