The Mentoring Partnership of New York takes your privacy seriously. This notice of our privacy policy is intended to help you understand our online information security practices. The policy covers The Mentoring Partnership of New York's treatment of personally identifiable information that it collects when you are on the Mentoring.org and when you use The Mentoring Partnership of New York's referral services.
We use the information we collect about you to help facilitate the volunteeringprocess. 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.
The Mentoring Partnership of New York strongly encourages Nonprofit organizations receiving e-mail addresses from potential Volunteers to adopt privacy standards similar to those of The Mentoring Partnership of New York. You should be aware that each such organization has its own policies regarding collection and use of personal information. The Mentoring Partnership of New York is not responsible for their use of your personal information. Inappropriate use of personal information received from The Mentoring Partnership of New York may jeopardize nonprofit listing on The Mentoring Partnership of New York Mentoring Opportunities database. The Mentoring Partnership of New York 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 The Mentoring Partnership of New York to consult with programs on ways to improve service
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The Mentoring Partnership of New York 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). 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.
The Mentoring Partnership of New York will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone. The Mentoring Partnership of New York will send personally identifiable information about you to other organizations when:
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.
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, The Mentoring Partnership of New York 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.
The Mentoring Partnership of New York 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:
By using our web site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by The Mentoring Partnership of New York 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 what 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.
We appreciate your questions or comments about this privacy policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with the mentoring.org web site. Please e-mail us or send regular mail to The Mentoring Partnership of New York, 122 East 42nd Street, Suite 1520, New York, NY 10168