Privacy Policy

This policy has been updated on and is effective as of January 13, 2025.

Wichita Habitat for Humanity respects your privacy and preferences. This privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") sets forth the terms under which you share your personal data with Wichita Habitat for Humanity, what information Wichita Habitat for Humanity processes, how Wichita Habitat for Humanity collects and uses your data, and your rights with respect to understanding and modifying how it will be collected and used.

Thank you for supporting the building of homes in partnership with families in need of safe, decent and affordable housing—your generosity is helping transform lives in Sedgwick County.

Principles, Actions, and Beliefs

We will hold in confidence all information concerning donors and prospects, including addresses, names of beneficiaries, nature and value of estates, amounts of provisions or gifts, etc., unless a donor or prospect grants permission to use selective information for purposes of referral, testimonial, example, recognition, or publicity. Donor names are listed in various newsletters and the annual report, unless we are notified specifically about their wish to remain anonymous.

We will not share, sell, rent, or otherwise offer information about donors to other organizations.

We contractually require any person or organization providing services to Wichita Habitat for Humanity, to protect the confidentiality of donor information.

We have procedures in place to limit access to information by only those employees and volunteers who need to know such information in order to fulfill our mission.

We will use our best efforts to comply with the expressed wishes of any donor who does not want their name used in any promotional material, wishes their name removed from solicitation and other mailing lists, or wishes to have their gifts or services by anonymous.

We will collect, use, and share information about our supporters among employees and volunteers only on a need-to-know basis and for the sole purpose of carrying out Wichita Habitat for Humanity's mission.

Website Privacy Policy

We have created this statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. We do not collect personally identifying information when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Providing such information is strictly voluntary. This policy is your guide to how we will handle information we learn about you from your visit to our website.

Advertising

Wichita Habitat for Humanity advertises across the Internet to promote programs to interested visitors and supporters. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on user's past visits to our website. These cookies support third-party vendors, including Google, in showing our ads on sites across the Internet. Visitors can opt out use of cookies by visiting Google's Ads Settings or by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

Use of Links

Throughout our webpages, we provide links to other servers and websites which may contain information of interest to our readers. We take no responsibility for, and exercise no control over, the organizations, views, or accuracy of the information contained on other servers. If you have a link you'd like us to consider adding to our website or if there is a link of concern, please send an email to [email protected].

Use of Text and Images

If you would like to publish information that you find on our website, please contact us or send your request to [email protected].

Reading or Downloading

We collect and store only the following information about you: the name of the domain from which you access the Internet, the date and time you access our site, and the Internet access of the website which you linked to our site. We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.

Online Information and Donations

We may use your contact information to send further information about our organization or to contact you when necessary. You may always opt-out of receiving future emailings; see the Opt Out section.

Credit Card and Billing Information

We value our partners, donors, and customers and take their privacy seriously. When you make a donation or purchase, Wichita Habitat for Humanity asks you for your billing address and credit card (or other financial services information). Wichita Habitat for Humanity uses a third-party banking agent to process your payments via a high-grade and secured socket layer connection (TLS 1.2 using SHA-256 encryption) to a secured server that verifies your credit card/bank information. This is the industry standard in security protocol. They return a unique tracking number only, which cannot be decrypted obtain the payment card information, and Wichita Habitat for Humanity never retains your payment card information.

Only employees who need access to your personal information to perform a specific job are granted access to that information, and Wichita Habitat for Humanity and our banking agent will not share your credit card/bank information with any other third party.

Sensitive Personal Data: We do not collect your "sensitive personal data" (e.g., health or dietary information) unless there is a clear reason for doing so—such as your participation in a sponsored physical event—and then only to the extent such data is required to ensure that we provide appropriate facilities or support to enable you to participate in the event.

Should you support Wichita Habitat for Humanity in a substantial way, we may provide an account manager to help tailor your relationship to us and the information you receive from us to suit your interests. If this is the case, we may collect demographic data where relevant to your relationship with Wichita Habitat for Humanity. If you provide us with information about your health or your family, this may also be recorded so we can communicate with you in a considerate and appropriate manner.

All sensitive personal data is stored on a password-protected system to which only a limited number of relevant staff have access. It is deleted when no longer needed by us, is never shared with third parties, and is available to you at any point should you wish to see it.

Sending us an Email

You also may decide to send us personally identifying information, for example, in an electronic mail message containing a question or comment, or by filling out a web form that provides us with this information. We use personally identifying information from email primarily to respond to your requests. We may forward your email to other employees who are better able to answer your questions. We may also use your email to contact you in the future about our programs that may be of interest.

We will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Providing such information is strictly voluntary. Except as might be required by law, we do not share any information we receive with any outside parties. If you sign up for one of our email lists, we will only send you the kinds of information you have requested. We won’t share your name or email address with any outside parties.

Opt-out or Change Your Contact Information

Donors and volunteers have the opportunity to opt-out of receiving e-mails from us by using the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email. To update your existing contact information, please contact [email protected].

Non-proselytizing Policy

Habitat for Humanity International, Inc. ("Habitat for Humanity") and its affiliated organizations will not proselytize. Nor will HFHI work with entities or individuals who insist on proselytizing as part of their work with HFHI. This means that HFHI will not offer assistance on the expressed or implied condition that people must adhere to or convert to a particular faith or listen and respond to messaging designed to induce conversion to a particular faith.

Questions About Our Policies

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can contact us at: [email protected].

For further information, please contact Wichita Habitat for Humanity at (316) 269-0755.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

If the function is available, when visitors leave comments on the website, we collect the data down in the comments form, and also the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available by clicking here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our website, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one (1) year.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me," your login will persist for two (2) weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one (1) day.

Embedding content from other websites

Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that website.

Analytics

We may directly collect analytics data or use third-party analytics tools to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the website. These tools collect information sent by your browser or mobile device, including the pages you visit and other information that assists us in improving the website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this website, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

What we collect and store

We collect personal information to support our housing programs and to aid you in obtaining such services from our organization. We collect personal information about you from the following sources:

Information that we receive from you on applications or other forms;

Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates or others; and

Information that we receive from personal and employment references.

Our donors will comply with our CRM fundraising and event management software privacy policies and donor information will be collected as necessary to support our mission. You may choose to remain anonymous or opt-out of any information you do not wish to disclose.

While you visit our site, we will also track:

Products you've viewed: we will use this to, for example: show you products you have viewed;

Location, IP address, and browser type: we will use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping;

Shipping address: we will ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order.

We will use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you are browsing our site.

When you purchase from us, we will ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details, and optional account information like username and password. We will use this information for purposes, such as, to:

Send you information about your account and order

Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints

Process payments and prevent fraud

Set up your account for our store

Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes

Improve our store offerings

Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them

If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email, and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for seven (7) years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

We will store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.

Event, Venue, and Organizer Information

If you create, submit, import, save, or publish Event, Venue, or Organizer information, such information is retained in the local database:

Venue information: name, address, city, state, postal code, country, phone, website, geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude)

Organizer information: name, phone, website, email

Event information: description, time, date, cost, website, image

Importing Events, Venues, and Organizers:

All data present within a CSV or ICS file and external URLs (for events, venues, organizers, and tickets)

Import origin data (URL from where events are being imported—such as Eventbrite, MeetUp, other compatible URL sources, and more, which can include similar or same data as listed above)

Ticket information: name, description, cost, type, quantity

Please note that to create new events through the Events submission form, a user must hold a website account on this domain. This information is retained in a local database. It is also possible to create events anonymously, if the website owner has this option enabled. When purchasing tickets, attendee, purchaser, and order information are stored and managed by the respective event website.

API Keys

We make use of certain API keys, in order to provide specific features. These API keys may include the following third-party services: Google Maps, MeetUp, PayPal, Blackbaud, Eventbrite, WordPress, Lightspeed, Ecwid, and more.

Who on our team has access

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us, such as your name and contact information. Our team members have access to this information to help us fulfill our mission.

What we share with others

We may disclose your personal information to the following types of unaffiliated third parties, with your consent:

Financial service providers, such as companies engaged in loan underwriting services; and

Others, such as nonprofit organizations involved in community development, but only for program review, auditing, research, program referrals, and oversight purposes.

Blackbaud and PayPal Policies

We accept donations through Blackbaud and PayPal. When donations a processed, some of your data will be passed to Blackbaud or PayPal, including information required to process or support the donation, such as the donation total and billing information.

Please see the Blackbaud Privacy Policy or PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.

Lightspeed/Ecwid by Lightspeed Policies

We accept payments through Lightspeed. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to Lightspeed, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

Please see the Lightspeed Privacy Policy for more details.

Donations

We collect information about you during the donation process on our website. This information may include, but is not limited to, your name, address, phone number, credit card/payment details, and any other details that might be requested from you for the purpose of processing your donations.

Handling this data allows us to:

Send you important account/donation/service information

Respond to your queries, refund requests, or complaints

Process payments and prevent fraudulent transactions, which we do this on the basis of our legitimate organizational interests

Set up and administer your account, provide technical and donor support, and verify your identity

Additionally, we may also collect the following information:

Your donor comments if you choose to leave them on our website

Cookies which are essential to keep track of your donation history whilst your session is active. This allows you to access your donation receipt without being a registered, logged in user

Account email/password to allow access to your account, if you have one and if this feature is activated

If you choose to create an account with us, your name, address, email, and phone number, which will be used to populate the donation form for future donations — only if this feature is activated

Changes to our Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last updated as of the date written above. It may be updated from time to time, so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to Wichita Habitat for Humanity. If you do not agree to these changes in this update, please review the opt-out procedures and discontinue use of the website. If material changes are made to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by placing a prominent notice on the website.