Privacy Policy
Welcome to www.cfgb.org (the “Site”), a website provided and maintained by the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, Inc., a non-profit corporation (“Community Foundation”). The Community Foundation is committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and security of information entrusted to us by donors, officers and staff of our partner nonprofits, and the communities that they serve.
The Community Foundation respects your privacy, and this policy covers the Community Foundation’s disclosure, handling, and use of information collected from you through the Site in the ordinary course of the Community Foundation’s business.
1. Acceptance
Prior to using the Site, or otherwise providing any information to the Community Foundation, you should carefully review and ensure your understanding of this policy. Use of the Site is deemed to be an acceptance of this policy. For purposes of this Section, accessing the Site only to review this policy is not deemed to be use of the Site.
2. Information
In this policy:
- “Analytical Information” means all Non-Personal Information, defined below, obtained through the use of cookies (or other tracking technologies) and server log files (including, but not limited to, (i) your search terms, (ii) your computer’s access date and time, browser, connection speed, internet service provider, language, location, manufacturer, visit details, and operating system, and (iii) whether or not you opened e-mail messages and other electronic communications from the Community Foundation, and if you did, the dates and times they were opened);
- “Collected Information” means all (i) Personal Information, defined below, and (ii) Non-Personal Information, defined below;
- “Non-Personal Information” means all information collected by the Community Foundation, whether electronically or manually, through (i) the Site, (ii) e-mail messages and other electronic communications that you may send to the Community Foundation, and (iii) other sources in the ordinary course of the Community Foundation’s business that is not Personal Information (including, but not limited to, any Analytical Information); and
- “Personal Information” means all information collected by the Community Foundation, whether electronically or manually, through (i) the Site, (ii) e-mail messages and other electronic communications that you may send to the Community Foundation, and (iii) other sources in the ordinary course of the Community Foundation’s business, that relates to an individual and that identifies, or can be used in conjunction with other readily-accessible information to identify, such individual (including, but not limited to, name, e-mail address, physical address, phone number, human resource data from employees, resumes from individuals seeking employment, credit card information, photos, grant application data and scholarship application data.
3. Collected Information
No Collected Information is obtained from you, unless it is voluntarily provided, except for any Collected Information obtained automatically through the Site as set forth in this policy. Regardless of the method used to obtain Collected Information, the Community Foundation will collect and retain Personal Information in its primary and backup files only to the extent that is relevant to the purposes for which it is provided by you, and for the Community Foundation’s other legitimate business purposes (including, but not limited to, marketing). You are responsible for obtaining any required approvals, authorizations, consents, and permissions in connection with any information you provide to the Community Foundation (including, but not limited to, any information relating to a third party).
4. Choice
You may refuse to provide information to the Community Foundation at any time by terminating your use of the Site, or in all other cases not involving use of the Site, by notifying the Community Foundation as set forth in Section 18. If you refuse to provide information when requested to do so by the Community Foundation or the Site, you may not be able to access or enjoy certain products and services of the Community Foundation or the Site.
5. Electronic Communications
You consent to the Community Foundation sending you e-mail messages and other electronic communications: (a) in connection with your use of the Site, (b) in the ordinary course of business, or (c) for any other legitimate business purpose (including, but not limited to, marketing). You can unsubscribe to such e-mail messages or other electronic communications at any time by contacting the Community Foundation as set forth in Section 18 or by following the directions contained in such e-mail messages or other electronic communications. Any request to unsubscribe will be effective promptly upon receipt by the Community Foundation.
6. Analytical Information
When you access the Site, the Community Foundation will collect Analytical Information. Your browser may provide you the ability to decline cookies, as well as the ability to delete already-existing cookies. If you refuse, or delete, previously existing cookies you may not be able to enjoy some features of the Site.
Analytical Information will only be used by the Community Foundation: (a) to record your use of the Site, (b) to diagnose problems with the Site, (c) to improve the Site, and (d) for other legitimate business purposes of the Community Foundation (including, but not limited to, marketing). The Community Foundation will collect Analytical Information directly or through third parties acting on its behalf.
7. Security
The Community Foundation will protect Personal Information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, alteration, destruction, and disclosure with all commercially reasonable efforts and as required by all applicable laws, including the New York State SHIELD Act. Certain Personal Information posted by you on the Site may be accessible to the general public, and the Community Foundation is not responsible for protecting such Personal Information from loss, misuse or unauthorized access, alteration, destruction or disclosure. For example, if you participate in a public forum on the Site, any information disclosed by you when doing so may be available to the general public. Also, since no transmission of information over the internet or electronic storage of information is completely secure, it is possible that Collected Information could be lost, misused or accessed, altered, destroyed, or disclosed without authorization, even if the Community Foundation uses such reasonable efforts. In providing information to Community Foundation, you assume the risk that Collected Information could be lost, misused or accessed, altered, destroyed, or disclosed without authorization. Notwithstanding the above, in the event of any breach of the Site involving Personal Information, the Community Foundation will, in accordance with requirements of the New York State SHIELD Act, notify the necessary parties.
8. Use and Transfer of Collected Information
All Collected Information may be used by the Community Foundation for any legitimate business purpose (including, but not limited to, marketing). If the Community Foundation expressly states in this policy or in any other writing that any Collected Information will only be used for a specific purpose, the Community Foundation will only use such Collected Information for such purpose, unless you subsequently consent to its use for any other purpose.
Any Collected Information obtained by Community Foundation, whether or not for a specific purpose, may be transferred to third parties designated by the Community Foundation (including, but not limited to, any vendors of the Community Foundation) for any purposes for which the Community Foundation could use such Collected Information.
The Community Foundation may also at any time, in its sole discretion, disclose and use any Collected Information (including, but not limited to, a computer’s internet protocol addresses), whether or not furnished by you to: (a) comply with any applicable lawful request, (b) protect the rights, property, or legitimate business interests of the Community Foundation or a third party, or (c) transfer such Collected Information to a third party coming to own all, or substantially all, of the Community Foundation’s assets. If Collected Information is so transferred, the Community Foundation will have no further responsibility for such Collected Information.
9. Third-Party Sites
The Site may contain links to, or be accessible from, websites provided by third parties (individually a “Third-Party Site”). Your use of a Third-Party Site will be subject to its terms of use and other provisions, and you are responsible for complying with such terms and other provisions. This policy does not cover the privacy policies or practices of any Third-Party Site, and the Community Foundation is not responsible for any information you submit to, or is otherwise collected by, any Third-Party Site.
10. Access
The Community Foundation does not represent that any Collected Information will be accurate or error-free. Upon written request, the Community Foundation may grant you access to review any Personal Information in its possession, or under its control, solely for the purpose of correcting or deleting Personal Information that is inaccurate or that has been processed in violation of this policy.
11. Children
The Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age. If a parent or legal guardian discovers that their child’s Personal Information has been submitted to the Community Foundation through use of the Site without that parent or legal guardian’s consent, the Community Foundation will use commercially reasonable efforts to remove such Personal Information upon request. To request the removal of such Personal Information, the parent or guardian must contact the Community Foundation as set forth in Section 18, and provide all information requested to assist in identifying the Personal Information to be removed.
12. Applicable Law
This policy shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its principles of conflict of laws. Your use of the Site acts as acknowledgement and agreement that any legal action shall be commenced, and venue shall rest, in the courts of Erie County, New York State.
13. Complaints
Any complaint by you regarding any Collected Information, or otherwise relating to this policy, must first be submitted to the Community Foundation as set forth in Section 18. The Community Foundation must be given a reasonable opportunity, of not less than 30 business days, to investigate and respond to any complaint. Upon completing such investigation, and so responding, the Community Foundation and you must engage in a good faith effort to promptly resolve any remaining aspects of your complaint.
14. Entire Agreement
Except as set forth in this Section, this policy contains the entire agreement, and supersedes all prior oral and written agreements, proposals and understandings, between you and the Community Foundation. If you use the Site or otherwise have business dealings with the Community Foundation, such use or dealings will be subject to this policy, plus any other written agreement between the parties that is applicable thereto. To the extent there is any conflict or inconsistency between any provision of this policy and any provision of such other agreement, this policy shall control.
15. Severability
In the event any provision or part of this policy is found to be invalid or unenforceable, only that particular provision or part so found, and not the entire policy, will be inoperative.
16. Revisions
The Community Foundation may revise any provision of this policy from time to time by posting the revised provision on the Site. Any revision that is posted will take effect immediately.
17. Contact Information
If you have any questions or complaints, desire any additional information, or need to notify the Community Foundation of anything regarding or relating to this policy, please contact the Community Foundation as follows:
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, Inc.
Larkin at Exchange
726 Exchange Street, Suite 525
Buffalo, New York 14210
–or–
communications@cfgb.org
Effective Date: June 2, 2026