Privacy Policy

By participating in any virtual event sponsored or hosted by Falls Foundation or by using the Website, you signify your acceptance of this privacy policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this privacy policy, please do not use the Website or participate in any virtual event sponsored or hosted by Falls Foundation. Your continued participation in any virtual event sponsored or hosted by Falls Foundation or use of the Website following the posting of changes to this privacy policy will mean that you accept those changes.

We collect your personal information to fulfill our contractual obligations, our statutory obligations, and/or the legitimate interests of Falls Foundation, and for other purposes for which Falls Foundation has a lawful basis under applicable privacy laws. We collect the following personal information from you:

• Contact information such as name, email address, mailing address, and phone number

We use this information to:

• Send you requested product or service information
• Respond to customer service requests
• Send you a newsletter
• Respond to your questions and concerns

As a result of grant requests and other correspondence with Falls Foundation, we keep non-financial contact information such as your email address and postal address in a database used by employees, and some contractors and non-profit partners. We collect this information to administer your account and, with your consent, to send you marketing emails that might interest you.

We collect email and postal addresses from a variety of sources, including partner organizations and public records lists. With your consent, we may sometimes share information with our grant partners when it's related to the content of a program or project and we think you'll be interested in the material.

We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy. We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

We will not share any part of your information with any for-profit or commercial organizations. Your email and postal address may be shared with other non-profit organizations. We will ask for your permission before any personal information is shared with third parties. If you change your mind, you will also be given the choice to opt out of sharing your personal information with third parties.

We may provide your personal information to companies that provide services to help us with our business activities, such as event services and grant evaluation and strategic assessment consultation. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• In certain situations, Falls Foundation may be required to disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
• As required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process.
• When we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.
• If Falls Foundation is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Website of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.
• To any other third party with your prior consent to do so.

Where required in the relevant jurisdiction, we will obtain your consent before sending you promotional emails. We will honor your request to stop sending you publications or email newsletters, and this will not affect your grant-related communications. Please email info@falls-foundation.org with such requests, or you can unsubscribe by following the instructions included in each email.

Upon request, Falls Foundation will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. If your personal information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, amend, delete/remove, or deactivate it by emailing info@falls-foundation.org or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below. We will respond to your request to access within 30 days.

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will further retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. Thereafter, we will delete (or otherwise erase, de-identify, or pseudonymize) any such personal information except as required or permitted by applicable law or regulation.

The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Falls Foundation and its partners use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users' movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our website or service.

As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data.

We do not link this automatically collected data to other information we collect about you.

We may partner with a third party to either display advertising on our website or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third-party partner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this site and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. This does not opt you out of being served ads; you will continue to receive generic ads.

Some web browsers may transmit “do-not-track” signals to the websites with which the user communicates, although web browsers incorporate and activate this functionality in different ways, and it is not always clear whether users intend for these signals to be transmitted. There currently is disagreement, including among participants in the leading Internet standards-setting organization, concerning what, if anything, websites should do when they receive such signals. Falls Foundation currently does not take action in response to these signals, but, if and when a standard is established and accepted, we may reassess how to respond to these signals.

Our Site includes links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from those of Falls Foundation. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any website you visit.

Our Website may offer publicly accessible blogs or community forums. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. You can request the removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum by contacting us at info@falls-foundation.org. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.

Our Website may include social media features, such as a Facebook Like button, and widgets, such as a Share or Tweet button, or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

Under age 13. Falls Foundation does not knowingly collect or retain personal information about persons under 13 years of age. Any person who provides their personal information to Falls Foundation via the Website represents that they are 13 years of age or older. The Website does not knowingly solicit or collect personal information online from children under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. If we learn that a child under the age of 13 (or such legally required higher age) has submitted personal information online without parental consent, we will take all reasonable measures to delete such information from our databases and to not use such information for any purpose (except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or others as required or allowed by law). If you become aware of any personal information we have collected from children under 13, please contact us at info@falls-foundation.org.

Users who reside in the UK or in the European Economic Area have certain rights relating to the personal information we hold, in accordance with and subject to applicable privacy laws, to: (i) check whether we hold personal information about you and to access such data; (ii) request the correction of personal information about you that is inaccurate; (iii) have a copy of the personal information we hold about you provided to you or another controller where technically feasible; (iv) request the erasure of your personal information; and (v) request the restriction of processing concerning you. To do so, please send your request to info@falls-foundation.org and write “EU Privacy Rights.”

You may also make a complaint in accordance with applicable privacy laws to a supervisory authority.

The Website is hosted in the United States. If you are visiting the Website from outside the United States, your personal information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States in accordance with this privacy policy and applicable US laws. Please note that data protection and other applicable laws of the United States may not be as comprehensive as those laws or regulations in your country or may otherwise differ from the data protection or consumer protection laws in your country. By using the Site, you consent to the transfer of your information to our facilities as described in this privacy policy.

Falls Foundation is committed to the responsible and ethical use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. We use AI systems responsibly to enhance efficiency, surface insights, and support the work of our staff. We maintain strict oversight, judgment, and accountability at every step. These tools do not replace human decision-making, and all AI-assisted outputs are reviewed and verified before use or publication.

We may update this privacy policy to reflect changes to our information practices and/or applicable law. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by email (sent to the email address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

The use of the Website is free for non-commercial use.

If you are aware of incorrect information on this Website, please send all related information, including a link to the page, to info@falls-foundation.org.

Falls Foundation, Inc.
PO Box 484
New York, NY 10014

Phone: +1 (917) 743-9212

The Foundation is a private, non-profit organization. Request an IRS Form 990-PF by contacting us at the information above.