Privacy Policy

At Tarrant Area Food bank, your privacy is important to us, and we know you care about how your personal information is used and shared. This Privacy Policy, as part of our Terms and Conditions of Use, explains what information we gather about you as a donor, how we use it, and the safeguards we have in place to protect it. 

RIGHT TO PRIVACY

Tarrant Area Food Bank respects the right to privacy of users of our website. We make every reasonable effort to assure user confidentiality.

PROVIDING VISITORS WITH ANONYMOUS ACCESS

You can access our website pages and browse our site without disclosing your personal data. Only aggregated data, such as the number of hits per page, are collected. The collected data are only used for internal purposes and do not provide any personal identifying information. The website does not store information on the accessing computer by the use of cookies or other such related method.

THE SERVICES AND LINKS OF OUR WEB SITE

Our website does not enable our visitors to communicate with other visitors or to post information to be accessed by others. Our website does not include links to commercial third-party providers.

DATA COLLECTION AND PURPOSE SPECIFICATION

Our website will solicit data for specific purposes such as surveys or donor information. The data is collected only on a volunteer basis and requires confirmation from the user. We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organizations. We do not collect, or use, personal data for other than the specific stated purpose. We do not furnish information on our data collection practices to any outside agency.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

We do not knowingly collect personal data directly from children. We take specific steps to protect the privacy of children by making reasonable efforts to ensure that a parent, or other guardian, has authorized the collection of any information about an individual child.

DISCLOSURE AND VISITOR CHOICE

We do not disclose your personal data to our subsidiaries or other organizations.

CONFIDENTIALITY / SECURITY

We give you the option of using a secure transmission method to send us the following types of personal data:

• Primary personal data (such as name and contact details)
• Identifiers (such as credit card details, website password)

We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:

• Unauthorized access
• Improper use or disclosure
• Unauthorized modification
• Unlawful destruction or accidental loss

All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are required to respect the confidentiality of our visitors’ personal data and have signed the Information Technology Departments Policies and Procedures that contain such an obligation.

We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.

MOBILE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• There is no fee from the Tarrant Area Food Bank to receive text messages. Message and data rates may apply – this can be checked with your mobile service provider. Charges are billed and payable to your mobile service provider or deducted from your prepaid account. Consent is not a requirement for purchase.
• Data obtained from you in connection with this SMS service may include your mobile phone number, your carrier’s name and the date, time and content of your messages. We may use this information to contact you and provide the services you request from us. Alerts sent via SMS may not be delivered if the mobile phone is not in range of a transmission site, or if sufficient network capacity is not available at a particular time. Even within a coverage area, factors beyond the control of the wireless operator may interfere with message delivery, including the customer’s equipment, terrain, proximity to buildings, foliage, and weather. Wireless operators do not guarantee message delivery and will not be held liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
• We will not be liable for any delays in the receipt of any SMS message as delivery is subject to effective transmission from your network operator.
• By subscribing to the Tarrant Area Food Bank mobile alerts, the user consents to receive automated text messages to help fight hunger in our community. Recurring messages. Message and data rates may apply.
• If you have any questions, text HELP to the number you received a text message from or contact us at ceo@tafb.org. To stop receiving messages reply STOP.