<div class="container_title"><h1>Privacy & Security</h1></div><div class="container_content"> </div><pd4ml-page-break><div class="container_title"><h1>Privacy Policy</h1></div><div class="container_content"><strong>PRIVACY POLICY </strong><br /> <br /> This policy was adopted on January 2, 2020.<br /> <br /> The Montana Healthcare Foundation is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. The following will help you understand how we collect, use, and safeguard the personal information you provide. When you visit our website, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.<br /> <br /> If you have questions or concerns about our use of your personal data, please contact MHCF Communications Manager Melinda Buchheit at <a href="melinda.buchheit@mthcf.org">melinda.buchheit@mthcf.org</a>. <br /> <br /> <strong>Information Security:</strong><br /> We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the data you submit to us, both during transmission and once we receive them. However, no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we store these data in a secure and encrypted environment, we cannot guarantee their absolute security.<br /> <br /> <strong>Website Visitors: </strong><br /> We log our website users’ IP addresses (the internet address of a computer) to understand which pages of our website users visit, how long visitors spend there, which files are downloaded, and the type of technology visitors use. We use these data to determine which parts of the sites are of most interest to our audiences and to help ensure our website works well with a wide variety of hardware and software.<br /> <br /> <strong>Email:</strong><br /> When you sign up for our email updates, we ask you to provide basic information, including your name, email, and interest areas. This information is collected so we can send you updates and announcements, as well as targeted information on the topics that you are interested in (grant opportunities, research and analysis, events and convenings). This information is gathered in a secure, encrypted form. You can unsubscribe from our email list at any time by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of every email.<br /> <br /> Our subscribers' information is stored indefinitely on Campaign Monitor’s servers. You can read more about <a href="https://www.campaignmonitor.com/policies/#privacy-policy">Campaign Monitor’s Privacy Policy here</a>. We track the performance of our emails using metrics provided by Campaign Monitor which monitors email opens and interactions (such as link clicks and unsubscribe rates). We do not sell our email lists or share them with other organizations for marketing purposes.<br /> <br /> <strong>Updating Personal Information:</strong><br /> You can update your preferences or unsubscribe by clicking the ‘Preferences’ or ‘Unsubscribe’ links that are included in all emails. You can also update your information or stop receiving emails from us by contacting Melinda Buchheit at <a href="melinda.buchheit@mthcf.org">melinda.buchheit@mthcf.org</a> with your changes. Please note that by unsubscribing you are opting out of receiving any future email blasts from us including newsletters and grant-related updates.<br /> <br /> <strong>Third-Party Sites:</strong><br /> We will not sell your personal information. We do not contract with any advertising or marketing agencies to gather individual or group profile data on our visitors based on personal profiles. We do not target for-profit advertising to visitors.<br /> <br /> <strong>SmartSimple:</strong><br /> When doing business with or applying for a grant from MHCF, we ask you to provide information including your name, address, contact information, and organization and/or company details. This information is gathered in a secure, encrypted form in SmartSimple, our grants management system. This information is collected so we can determine your funding eligibility, incorporate you into our system as a grantee, contact you with reminders and updates, and make grant and services payments. Your contact information will also be collected in our email lists so that we can send you Foundation updates. By providing this information, you agree to receive updates from MHCF.<br /> <br /> The name and email addresses of our subscribers are stored indefinitely on the servers of SmartSimple, on our behalf, to manage our grantees and those we conduct financial interactions with. You can read more about <a href="https://www.smartsimple.com/platform-privacy-policy.html">SmartSimple’s Privacy Policy here</a>. MHCF does not sell our users’ information. MHCF does not share grant proposal information unless we have received approval from our grant applicants to do so. After a grant has been awarded, information about the organization that received the grant, the project name, amount of the grant, and a summary of the project is made public on our website.<br /> <br /> <strong><strong>TERMS OF USE</strong></strong><br /> <br /> This policy was adopted on January 2, 2020.<br /> When you visit our website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use.<br /> <br /> <strong><strong>General Provisions:</strong></strong><br /> We are not liable or responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any information provided on our website. We assume no liability or responsibility for any damages arising from a visitor’s use of, or inability to use, our site. The contents are provided as general information only and are not intended as medical or legal advice. We make no warranty, either express or implied, regarding the completeness, accuracy, or currency of this information or its suitability for any particular purpose. Some of the information or material on this site may be affected by current legislative, regulatory, judicial, or other developments that are not reflected here; you should not rely solely on the information on this site but should confirm that it remains complete and correct before relying upon it.<br /> <br /> In addition, our website may contain links to other websites. Such links are provided for your convenience and are not intended as our endorsement of the organizations operating those sites. We are not responsible for the information those sites contain, nor their privacy practices.<br /> <br /> We may also post material for informational purposes that is prepared by other organizations and individuals not employed by MHCF. We do not necessarily agree with the opinions expressed in such material, and we are not responsible for the completeness, accuracy, or currency of the information. We reserve the right to alter the content of our site and to terminate our site at any time without notice.<br /> <br /> <strong><strong>Trademarks: </strong></strong><br /> The logos displayed on our website are registered and unregistered trademarks of MHCF, our grantees, and others. Your misuse of any of the logos displayed on our website, or any other content on our website, is strictly prohibited. The MHCF logo can be used only by contracted grant recipients and others performing work for hire, and in other cases with our prior authorization. To request to use the MHCF logo, please contact Melinda Buchheit at <a href="melinda.buchheit@mthcf.org">melinda.buchheit@mthcf.org</a>. .<br /> Reuse Permissions MHCF text and files (including reports) may not be uploaded to other websites, newsgroups, or electronic mailing lists without express permission. Instead, other sites are encouraged to link to the web pages that host the text and files. While permission is not required for linking to our site, we do ask that you send a courtesy notice to Melinda Buchheit informing us that a link is being established. We encourage links be made to HTML pages and not directly to file downloads. When we make available for download any data in Excel files, we are not responsible for changes made, accidentally or intentionally, that might result in erroneous information being introduced into those files.<br /> <br /> All rights in photographs, illustrations, artworks, and other graphic materials, whether on the sites or in the documents on the sites, are reserved to the copyright owners (licensors). Prior permission to use, download, reproduce, or reprint any photograph, illustration, artwork, or other graphic material must be obtained from the copyright owner, regardless of the intended use. These images may not be modified in any way.<br /> <br /> Any use of “Montana Healthcare Foundation” or the text or graphic materials contained in this website in any manner to express or imply endorsement, sponsorship, affiliation, or association of the user with or by the MHCF is strictly prohibited. Contact Questions about establishing a link to our site or about reuse permissions can be directed to MHCF Communications Manager Melinda Buchheit at <a href="melinda.buchheit@mthcf.org">melinda.buchheit@mthcf.org</a> or call 406-451-7060.</div>
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