Privacy Policy

Point Foundation acknowledges the importance of protecting the privacy of all visitors to the Point Foundation website and all scholarship applicants. The information we collect is used to improve the services we offer, to improve our website’s content, security, and user experience, and, with your permission, to contact you with updates to our website or other scholarship and donor information. However, Point Foundation will not distribute, share, sell or rent any information or data obtained on this site or Point Foundation online application website with any other company or marketing group external to Point Foundation’s activities. Nor will Point Foundation distribute, share, sell or rent any information that may be obtained by mail as it relates to the application process for potential Point Scholars with any other company or marketing group external to Point Foundation’s activities.

Point Foundation may provide aggregate statistics about Point Foundation website users, traffic patterns and related site information to reputable third-parties for potential fundraising efforts. Such statistical information will not include personally identifying information, with the exception of personal information of actual Point Scholars (who have been awarded scholarships) whereby permission has been granted by such Point Scholars.

DONOR PRIVACY POLICY

Point Foundation will not share or sell a donor’s personal information with any other company or marketing group external to Point Foundation’s activities, nor send donor solicitation mailings on behalf of other organizations.

SCHOLAR PRIVACY POLICY

Point Foundation will not share or sell a scholar’s personal information with any other company or marketing group external to Point Foundation’s activities without explicit consent by the scholar.

Electronic Communications and SMS Marketing Terms of Service

When you engage with us via the Sites or Services, send emails to us, or otherwise communicate with us via electronic means, you consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by email or by posting notices on our website, through SMS or MMS messages, or through notifications on any mobile and web applications. You acknowledge that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Your use of some features of our Services may include our communicating with you via SMS or other text messages mechanisms (“Messages”). Your participation in these features, including by entering your phone number into the Services, constitutes your prior express written consent to receive Messages from us, either directly or through our service providers, or from our customers and business partners; provided, however, that we are not responsible and carry no liability for text messages, emails, or other electronic notifications sent directly by our customers to you.

You certify, warrant, and represent that the telephone number(s) that you provide to us are your contact numbers and that you are permitted to receive calls or Messages at such telephone numbers. You shall promptly alert us whenever you stop using a particular telephone number. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. 

Your consent includes your express consent for us to send you promotional, marketing, informational, and administrative Messages. You can unsubscribe from further Messages by replying STOP. Further, you acknowledge that your mobile carrier's standard charges and data rates may apply received by you.