PRIVACY POLICY

The protection of your privacy and securing your personal information is one of our highest priorities. Personal privacy concerns govern ECFC’s use and retention of information. The Officers, administrative staff and other ECFC personnel have read, understand, and will abide by this policy.

We may collect the following information submitted to us via our web site:

• Registration information volunteered by equipment donors and requesting families;
• Where there are matches between a donor’s equipment and a requesting family’s need for it, the names, addresses, phone, and e-mail contact information will be provided to the equipment donors and the requesting families;
• The names, addresses, phone and e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail in regard to equipment donations, cash and other contributions, and equipment requests;
• Other miscellaneous information volunteered by web site visitors, not in connection with equipment exchanges or contributions to ECFC.
• Requesting families physicians’ names and diagnoses.
• Personal Information such as requesting families parents’ and children’s’ names, addresses, e-mail addresses, children’  medical conditions, and pertinent physicians needed to submit equipment request forms via the ECFC web site.

We may also collect personal information submitted by persons communicating with us via e-mail or other means regarding the exchange of adaptive equipment, donations to ECFC, or other matters such as information requests pertaining to adaptive equipment, prescribing physicians, equipment repair facilities, other sources of adaptive equipment, possible sources of Government help, etc.  The information collected aside from names, addresses, and e-mail addresses would depend on the nature of the communication.

The information described above is used to better ECFC’s services and mission. Unless authorized by you, it will not be rented, sold, or otherwise provided to third parties for marketing programs or any other reason except as stated below:

1. As required by law, or a reasonably held belief it is so required.

2. To further public safety should the information be needed and pertinent to such furtherance;

3. To facilitate timely notice to recipients of equipment acquired through ECFC of matters that ECFC believes to be in the recipients’ best interest such as notices pertaining to the safety or suitability of equipment.