INFORMATION COLLECTION
When you visit our site, we collect some non-identifying basic information. This includes total number of visitors, pages viewed, and other non-identifying information. We use this aggregate information to improve our site and to make your experience on our website as smooth as possible.  We do not collect personally identifiable information from individuals unless they provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly.

We use your mailing address to keep you informed about our work through various mailings. Your phone number is used only to contact you if we need to verify information, and to thank you for your contribution. We do not use your phone number to conduct telephone solicitations. We also do not use for mailing purposes or correspondences any of the honoree email addresses you submit to send email honor cards.

INFORMATION USE
Ethiopia Education Endowment Fund assures you that the identity of all who contact us through this website is kept confidential: we do not rent, sell, or exchange our mailing lists and we always intend to be responsible in our management, truthful in our advertising, and cost-effective in our fund raising.

• We do not share your information with telemarketing centers. We do not use telephone marketing to solicit funds. Your phone number is used only to contact you if we need to verify information and to thank you for your contribution.
• We may disclose to third parties aggregate statistics regarding donations but these statistics do not include any personally identifying information. The information given includes: total number of donors, total amount of donations for specific periods of time, and referring websites. Aggregate information of this kind is used to encourage fundraising partnerships.

LINKS
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we, Ethiopia Education Endowment Fund, have no control over and are not responsible for the contents or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our visitors to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

NOTE TO PARENTS
We are pleased when young people visit EEEF's Web site to learn more about our ministry and the educational needs of Ethiopia's children, youth, and young adults.  Ethiopia Education Endowment Fund does not knowingly solicit data from children nor market to children.

COOKIES
A "cookie" is a small piece of data stored on your computer's hard drive when you visit our Web site. EEEF uses cookies to analyze our Web site's overall traffic patterns and improve our visitors' online experience. We do not use cookies to store or collect any personal information. Many browsers provide an option to block or remove cookies. You can visit our Web site successfully while blocking cookies, but leaving cookies enabled in your browser will help us to improve our site's usability and effectiveness.

LOG FILES
Like most standard website servers, we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track visitor's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are only linked to personally identifiable information when online credit card transactions are conducted (i.e. when donations are made or items are purchased - neither option is available at this time). We do not share individual information gathered though log files with third parties.

NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
We reserve the right to change our policy at any time. If we choose to change our policy or practices, you will be given the option to remove your name from our database.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement so our visitors are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Ethiopia Education Endowment Fund maintains a written policy to discontinue contacting any person upon that person's oral or written request directed to Ethiopia Education Endowment Fund.  If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact our Web Administrator at ebraun@ethioeddow.org, or write us at: