Our Commitment to Privacy
MMP Partnership (MMP) takes your privacy seriously. This notice of our privacy policy is intended to help you understand our online information security practices. The policy covers MMP Partnership’s treatment of personally identifiable information that it collects when you are on the massmentors.org and when you use MMP’s referral services. We also ask that you review the site’s Terms of Service.
Also, please read our Children’s Privacy Policy to learn more about how we treat personally identifiable information collected from children.
Information Collection and Use
We collect the following from individual Volunteers:
- First and Last Name
- Email address
- Phone Number
- Address and Zip Code
- The type of opportunity you are interested in
We use the information we collect about you to help facilitate the volunteering process. Programs need this information to begin your application. Please be aware that, to the extent required to provide our services, we share your information with other Volunteers or nonprofit organization partners. If you indicate on our site that you are interested in a particular mentoring opportunity and provide us with your contact information, we will forward your contact information to the organization that is hosting that opportunity so that the organization can contact you regarding your potential involvement.
We collect the following from individual nonprofit organizations:
- Administrator Information: First and last name, email, telephone number, address, and zip code
- Organization Information: Title of organization, address, contact information (including phone, address, and email), EIN/tax identification number, mission statement, and description of services. Web site address, logo, URL, and directions to physical location optional
- Opportunity Information: Name and title of opportunity, date, time, type of opportunity, description of opportunity. Directions and required skills optional
MMP strongly encourages nonprofit organizations receiving e-mail addresses from potential volunteers to adopt privacy standards similar to those of MMP. You should be aware that each such organization has its own policies regarding collection and use of personal information. MMP is not responsible for their use of your personal information. Inappropriate use of personal information received from MMP may jeopardize nonprofit listing on MMP’s mentoring program database. MMP reserves the right to determine, in its discretion, what constitutes inappropriate use of this information. For more about a nonprofit organization’s policy, please contact them directly using the contact information posted for that organization on our site. Information from the nonprofit organizations is used by MMP to consult with programs on ways to improve service.
Use of Cookies
“Cookies” are small files placed on your computer by our site that are used by your browser. Our site uses cookies to speed navigation, keep track of items, and provide you with custom-tailored content. We also use cookies to remember information you gave us so you don’t have to reenter it each time you visit our site. By showing us how and when visitors use our site, cookies also help us see which areas are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to our site are based on the data derived from these cookies, such as total number of visitors and pages viewed. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you wish, you can elect to set your browser to refuse cookies and will still be able to use most of the areas of our web site.
MMP uses cookies for various reasons. We only read cookies written by our site and do not make information gathered by use of cookies available to any outside parties except in aggregate form (see Information Sharing and Disclosure below). We do not use cookies to obtain information on other web sites that you may visit. Cookies may be used to store some information about the parts of our site that you have visited previously. We do this to help you navigate our site more easily or to alert you to related pages on our site that may interest you.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
MMP will not distribute, sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone. MMP will send personally identifiable information about you to other organizations when:
- We have your consent to share the information (as in the Mentoring Opportunities database)
- We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process
- Or we find that your actions on our web sites violate the Terms of Service or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services
We may share aggregate information about our users with certain third parties. This information shows user activity as a whole rather than on an individual basis and cannot be used to individually identify you. We use this information to help our partners and funders better understand our services and also to report on public interest in mentoring.
Linking to Third Party Sites
When you click on links and/or ad banners that take you to third party web sites, you will be subject to the third parties’ privacy policies. While we support the protection of privacy on the Internet, MMP cannot be responsible for the actions of third parties or the content on their web sites. We encourage you to read the posted privacy policy whenever interacting with any web site.
Children’s Privacy
MMP is concerned about the privacy of young children and does not knowingly collect any personal information from any child under 13. Children under 13 may not register for or use any area of our web site that requires personally identifiable information. We suggest that you become involved with your child’s access to the Internet and to our site to ensure that his or her privacy is well protected. To read more about online safety and how to become more involved with your child’s online experience, visit some of these sites:
- SafeSurf’s Internet Lifeguard Seven rules of online safety basics.
- i-SAFE Inc. Incorporates classroom curriculum with community outreach to empower students, teachers, parents, law enforcement, and concerned adults to make the Internet a safer place.
Your Consent
By using our web site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by MMP as outlined herein. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of which information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. Since this privacy policy may change from time to time, you should check back periodically.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Information
You may request the information you submit to us be edited or deleted by sending an email to otaylor@massmentors.org or by contacting us as indicated below.
How to Contact Us
We appreciate your questions or comments about this privacy policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with the massmentors.org web site. Send regular mail to Mass Mentoring Partnership, 75 Kneeland Street, 11th Floor Boston, MA 02111. Attention: Greg Smith, Director of Operations.